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by callc 11mo ago
You shouldn’t need a library to do this simple operation. I’m guessing the go language design went too far into “simplicity” at the expense of reasonableness. For example, we can make a “simpler” language by not supporting multiplication, j
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by callc 11mo ago
Freedom and protecting tech illiterate people are not mutually exclusive. Our right to choose install software on our own devices should not be encroached because over-trusting elderly follower scammers instructions. We can protect people l
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by callc 11mo ago
I too owe had my love for programming captured through project Euler. I am immensely grateful to my maths prof who introduced me to it. I also love looking back at my old PE code and having absolutely no idea what it doing. No comments, no
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by callc 11mo ago
Unionization
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by callc 11mo ago
Sounds like you have something to hide! /s
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by callc 1y ago
Both regulation and an actually healthy free market are important. Both have pros and cons Regulation sucks at directing productions of goods and setting prices, distributing these tasks to the people generally works better. The free market
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by callc 1y ago
Us nerds *really* need to come together in creating a publicly owned browser (non chromium) Surely among us devs, as we realize app stores increasingly hostile, that the open web is worth fighting for, and that we have the numbers to build
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by callc 1y ago
All the more reason to call out bullshit in real life Value truth and honesty. Call out lies for what they are. This is the way to get sanity both for ourselves and for society as a whole
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by callc 1y ago
I had a “wtf” moment when using Go around panic() and recover() I was so surprised by the design choice to need to put recover in in deferred function calls. It’s crazy to smush together the error handling and normal execution code.
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by callc 1y ago
Or maybe a prime example of healthy capitalism! /s
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by callc 1y ago
I’m in this boat. I’m voting with my wallet. All the power to the people who love their Teslas, you do you.
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by callc 1y ago
Just finished a tiny little project to automatically raise my standing desk at night: https://calvinlc.com/p/2025/10/12/standing-desk-arduino.html Nice to call it feature complete and move on!
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by callc 1y ago
> The problem isn't that the technology is new and exciting and people are getting carried away, the problem is the technology. Hard disagree. Technology is a tool. Tools don’t do anything without a human in the loop, even if to ini
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by callc 1y ago
The agile manifesto is far from a set of ethics that if you disagree with you can’t help but sound like the bad guy. For example, try disagreeing with the statement “SWEs should take reasonable effort to protect user data”
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by callc 1y ago
Whoa, really? That is diabolical. Can you provide more info?
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by callc 1y ago
I guess so, and that definitely is the healthier option! That’s what I’ve been doing for close to 15 years. The only way you can exist on the modern world is to accept the TOS and crap that a small number of companies are in control over. S
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by callc 1y ago
Let me offer a different opinion. Facebook is a massive part of social media. Billions of users. It is apart of society in its sheer size. A society decided “we want to make this better” and acted appropriately. I think it’s a noble pursuit
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by callc 1y ago
I installed Windows 11 on a very old laptop for a family member that failed the hardware requirements. Just use the ISO and Rufus. Make me lose respect even more for Microsoft, to think of all the wasted resources and money people thought t
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by callc 1y ago
Regardless of the reasons why, the fact is python works well enough. There are many things I wish python, or a language like python, could improve on. Yet despite all my wishes, and choosing Rust/Go more often recently, Python still wo
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by callc 1y ago
The dexterity, ultra precise motor control, and senses of the human hands are the bottleneck. That’s my guess at least. Seems like a fundamentally hard engineering problem. Evolution is mighty impressive!
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by callc 1y ago
Basic human decency. Just as the author says: “Publishing someone’s photo online, without their consent, without another strong justification, just because they happen to be in view of one’s camera lens, feels wrong to me.” It doesn’t fall
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by callc 1y ago
Physical sharing is inherently limited. You can only share with some many friends, burn so many CD copies. Purely digital files are so cheap to copy that cost is negligible. Recreating “physical share” functionality in digital space takes w
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by callc 1y ago
I recently had a similar experience using Libby for the first time. An absolutely incredible piece of software. If anyone here on HN works on it, you deserve to be proud of your work.
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by callc 1y ago
> The only effect this is going to have is accelerating the offshoring of jobs through more hiring in India, Europe and Canada, which is a net loss for the US. I’m honestly tired of hearing the argument “if we do X then business will mov
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by callc 1y ago
I looked in the tech specs and found no mAh listed. Just video playback time. I find that incredibly sus. Does anyone know it? Was it in announcement video?
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by callc 1y ago
Almost. Having access to the internet requires a device, or public computer if available. A just society would at least maintain ability to interact with all government services through in-person and through post office. Universal access.
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by callc 1y ago
> I don't care about competition, I care about the best product. Competition is how you get to the best product. Lack of competition leads to malaise of product improvements as the market dominators are owning the space and happily
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by callc 1y ago
Since most every transaction is digitalized, checking banking app is the same as looking in your wallet. Any limitations to access to banking is serious f**ed. Makes me want to use cash.
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by callc 1y ago
I was away from my regular desktop dev PC for multiple months recently and only used a crappy laptop for dev work. I got used to it pretty quickly. This makes me remember so many years ago starting to program on a dual core plastic MacBook.
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by callc 1y ago
I was going to respond to this part of GP but along the lines of communication being (mostly?) not a crime in an of itself. Committing crimes in the physical world is still illegal. I just want to make that clear, governments don’t need com

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