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by catchclose8919 4y ago
How does this compare with Thunderbird?
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
That's a long and thorough list of all I hate about software development and hope to fix (at least a bit of it)...
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
...you're not joking, right? jeeezus
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
...god, my eyes ...why is everything CL plagued by such horrible design choices (hyperspec, Lisp-IDEs... all!) - why such ugly colors, ugly typography, bad contrasts, ugly logos, ugly diagrams, ugly supporting graphics?! I know that even
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
> what is the multi-universe equivalent of this discussion Probably it's a smeared out infinity of quasy-equal probability arising... and the people that see multi-universe as a "real thing" in that multiple classical univ
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
...or you just take the wave function as the real-reality, and in this reality a "chaotic system" is one with even macroscopic position probabilities "smeared out" too uniformly have any one be "classically-real&quo
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
Also > DO will simply pass my complaint on to the spammer Again, as a DO customer I want to be able to see any complains fired against me. Point in plus for them from the perspective of a potential customer. ...you seem to misunderstan
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
Shrug. So anyway, since most of us use 3rd party services to send emails, using DO is perfectly fine. Whatever. (And if the extra profit they get from hosting spammers results in slightly lower prices for me then I'm glad to profit. It
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
...no comparison with Flutter or at least remarks of what would also apply to it?
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
Uhm, you just sounded like an add for DO here: "DO won't randomly shut down your account because they guess you might be doing something fishy like spamming" ...and don't tell me you don't get "spam" f
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
Tip: buy large balcony plants (ideally w/ ceramic pots), use plausibly insecure fence attachments, have fun :) On a more serious note, you could probably get convicted for smth like involuntary manslaughter in most countries, and the p
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
...lots of stressed new parent are inches-away-from-killing stressed. I imagine that in places like the US with prevalent gun ownership the regular punch-some-annoying-coworker-or-bystander-in-the-face can easily turn into something else. L
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
> a type system that could describe and enforce numerical stability traits Wow, that sounds cool! have your reasearched if anyone has done anything in this are? how would you even start to approach the problem? Do you think it has any ch
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
Only thing "interesting" to me there would be the automatic differentiation bugs ...but is there any argument as to them being the fault of the language, instead of just poor engineering from the library developers' part? I
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
It's a mess... there is no convergence on package managers or anything and everything sucks. Node/nvm at least was forced to fix its s by how bad it originally was. In Python everything sort of almost works good enough for each us
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
"You don't really understand something until you can explain it to a computer!" / "If you can "explain" something to a computer then you've understood it, you don't need anyone else's con
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
That's eye opening - to know that effective altruism and the whole movement exists, the article itself is the opposite of right of course. Next time I am to donate time or money to charity I will instead choose to invest in in improvi
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
...you're mixing a straw man with a red-herring with a couple non-sequiturs ...then dumping a Marx quote at the end. Congrats for creating an argument that is un-atackable because it blocks attempts of rational criticism by means of in
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
> Forests, and even whales, are potentially renewable resources. The whole focus on sustainable and renewable is a really broken way of thinking... Nothing needs to be either sustainable or renewable! (And nothing actually is, in a l
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
...to this day, I still can't wrap my head on how PHP even got to exist in a world where Perl was already filling the web niche just fine. Also, if they wouldn't have made it too-weird-for-math-and-physics people, Perl would&#x2
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
Basically all you mentioned above can be done in modern Python. Unfortunately I've seen it done... and God, the results are horrible, in Python. "Wait did calling this method just change the class of the object the method was on
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
> If we can do that in Python, I've been in my cave for too long^^ ...practically speaking you're kind of right, you (almost) can't. In theory one can use `sys.excepthook` to start the python interactive debugger on error
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
Which CL "interactive development" feature can't you get with either a jupyter notebook or ipython + autoreload enables? With a smart editor like VSCode or Spyder you also get visual variable inspections, history of executed
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
How does it compare with "Writing An Interpreter In Go"? ( https://interpreterbook.com/ )
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
Or you can design the system generally enough and solidly enough in preserving useful invariants that adding wobbly windows to it would be "trivial", and testing it would not even be worth it! Decades ago a Linux window manager
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
> For every wacky feature or option someone wants, that has to be built, maintained, tested. No, it doesn't. We seem to have forgotten that there are more general ways to think about software and engineering and math and the world.
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
How does this compare to BentoML ( https://www.bentoml.com/ )?
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
Authoritarian regimes benefit from cultivating fear of death and disease in their people, it makes them more manageable... Similar to not allowing regular people to own guns etc. etc. Once you become willing to die, to let others die if nee
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
...the Chinese seem to ignore the global play here: as Covid is endemic in the rest of the world and variants will keep emerging just like they do for common cold (it's basically just a new addition to the bundle of viruses that give
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
"working" ? ...as in just pushing some deaths a few months in the future while being extremely inconvenient for everything and everyone and damaging to the global economy to an extent that might be more than the price of those liv

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