braveo

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by braveo 10y ago
Thankfully, that's not how programs work, so your analogy doesn't really apply.
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by braveo 10y ago
And yet, we don't continue calling a sysadmin turned programmer a sysadmin, so why would you insist that we call a programmer who turns sysadmin a programmer? It doesn't really matter where they came from, or what's involved
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by braveo 10y ago
Because it has nothing to do with the original compression. Think of it like this. If you compress and distribute someone's wavy hand-cam pirating of a movie, the poor experience isn't due to the compression, but the way the move
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by braveo 10y ago
I'm not going to play that game, if you can't think of an example of a dynamic language that's syntactically correct but fails at runtime due to name lookup issues, that's on you, but it doesn't change the validity
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by braveo 10y ago
sure it is, you can have syntactically correct programs that do the wrong thing because of name lookup. That name lookup is ambiguous.
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by braveo 10y ago
near is not the same thing as impossible. I told this story before, but I once read an article about a police officer who said it was impossible for another person to have logged into an account because it was password protected, when we kn
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by braveo 10y ago
> The fact that police can't access your data without your permission is a technical reason, not a legal reason. Warrants say the police can search your home. Everything in your home. The data on the machines in your home. If a poli
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by braveo 10y ago
That's not how that works. It's one thing if you're converting from one compressed format to another, or recompressing an already compressed file. It's another to simply grab the pixels off of screen and compress those.
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by braveo 10y ago
That's not programming, that's devops. I think we can all agree that the more we automate deployments and the like, the better, but when people talk about automating "programming", they are absolute not talking about a
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by braveo 10y ago
The difference is the ability to follow through with the threat. If someone sends you a mail, they have your address. If someone does it over twitter, they probably don't know where you live. Are we going to throw 5 year olds in jail
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by braveo 10y ago
> If we agree that the files are definitely on the system [snip] then prosecute him and be done with it. Anything else is either a fishing expedition or we don't all agree that the files are definitely on the system... in which cas
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by braveo 10y ago
We as a society went to war with companies over how much time they can require of us. Nowadays companies can only require us to work roughly 23% of the hours in a week. 50% is 84 hours/week, we as a society have already deemed the dif
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by braveo 10y ago
I remember reading about a case where a porn star actually showed up to a trial of her own volition and showed the judge her license to prove she was over 18 when she did the film. Had she not responded when the guys lawyers contacted her,
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by braveo 10y ago
years ago I read an article by Bruce Schneider in which he said he doesn't put a password on his home wifi. Anyone who wants to connect to it can. His argument was that if someone downloaded illegal materials like cp and his network w
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by braveo 10y ago
It's a bad analogy, the police don't need your permission to gain access to your home. It'd be akin to the police coming across a written document in rot13 and jailing you indefinitely until you show them how to decrypt it. W
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by braveo 10y ago
I actually tried out Catch last night and dumped it almost immediately for the exact same reason. I was blown away by how slow it was compared to the rest of my (admittedly small) program in terms of build times. I found using boost was a
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by braveo 10y ago
There is absolutely a rational difference between 30 and 50%.
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by braveo 10y ago
You're only 1/2 way away from slave labor at that point. And when you factor in other taxes, you pay more than 50%, it's too much. And if I choose not to pay those taxes, my freedom is taken away, so don't tell me the sl
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by braveo 10y ago
The hell we don't, they made a documentary about it years and years ago. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092007/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
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by braveo 10y ago
I think it's an issue of being good enough for the types of things we do now. If it got astronomically better, it would enable things that we flat out can't even consider doing nowadays.
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by braveo 10y ago
ASP.Net Web Controls was an attempt at bringing the desktop technologies like MFC to the web, and it was a horrible horrible idea. The worst part is that everything else about the original ASP.Net was mostly really good ... but Web Controls
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by braveo 10y ago
yeah, I'm always amazed at the people who claim they looked at code they wrote 6 months ago and think it's horrible. I've looked at code I wrote 2-3 years ago, and upon examination thought to myself "that's fairly r
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by braveo 10y ago
I would jump away from Linode in a heartbeat if I found something comparable. The article mentioned dataloss with Linode... I experienced the same problem. Well, technically the data was there, but there was a corruption problem and the dis
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by braveo 10y ago
It's pretty common in the world of emulators, it's just that a lot of people don't care and choose not to use the plugins for it (I'm one of those people).
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by braveo 10y ago
You misunderstand me, I think it's folly to have different behaviors based upon debug and release builds. And they'll argue until they're blue in the face why it's a good "compromise", but it would have been be
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by braveo 10y ago
Their approach to overflow, for one.
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by braveo 10y ago
You mean the way they defend some of the numerics in rust? yeah, totally have never seen that...
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by braveo 10y ago
And Virtual Boy :)
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by braveo 10y ago
I thought it was going to be 60fps on the Switch, did that change?
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by braveo 10y ago
Me too, but mostly for the lack of load times. I remember the move TO optical and I've hated load times ever since.

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