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by cies 2y ago
While I'd say Haskell is great (in general). I do have some reservations with using it as a intro lang, because the type system is almost a language of it's own. So you have two learn two things at the same time. In LISPs you prog
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by cies 2y ago
I've been advocating the use of a LISP in the feedback committee of a local CS school I'm in... Some start the course with quite strong JS/Java/C#/Python skills, and some have zero exposure to programming. A LISP wo
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by cies 2y ago
no, I was reacting to user "tomp" (his message is now flagged). I'm actually saying that saying women here is good, as it is special and you want a title to peek curiosity, right?
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by cies 2y ago
i do my best. but one of the meanings of "man" is "person". or we should a it decided by politics that we dont use this word in this sense. these things are happening. that's okay. and some will resist, which is a
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by cies 2y ago
I think user "tomp" means that "a one man team" basically means "one person team" in English (and many other languages). Saying "one woman" is shifting the attention to the fact that the one person de
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by cies 2y ago
There is a whole market for chessboards that are not actually useful. I prefer the official sizes/shapes.
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by cies 2y ago
I use this tool daily. And this while I use IntelliJ as well! There are several git-related things I prefer to do in IntelliJ, like: fixing merge conflicts (I love the magic wand) and reviewing complex changes. But otherwise I prefer the co
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by cies 2y ago
In Zig you have to handle the case malloc does not succeed.
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by cies 2y ago
Just look at the job market: how many programmers work in SaaS now compared to 2000?
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by cies 2y ago
> LLM-generated code that people have submitted to open source projects I work on Are you sure it was people? Maybe the AI learned how to make PRs, or is learning how to do so by using your project as a test bed.
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by cies 2y ago
> ChatGPT was only just released in 2022. Bitcoin was released in what year? I still cannot use it for payments. No-code solutions exist since when? And still programmers work... I dont think all hyped techs are fads. For instance: we us
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by cies 2y ago
I'm not 100% sure about this. But with ERV (opposed to HRVs), iirc, also the moist of the air is transferred to the incoming air. The moist contains a lot of the energy.
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by cies 2y ago
Good questions. We need to be careful in deed when picking a fundament.
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by cies 2y ago
What worked for me was doing two/three days of juice fast first. During this time you clear the colon. Once "empty" it is much easier to maintain the fast. I usually the water fast for two/three days, and then do one day
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by cies 2y ago
Indeed. Police usually get fired (w/ or w/o benefits). Or put on paid leave. I think police should be held to a higher standard than the public: their training and their power (monopoly on violence) warrants that. Something else:
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by cies 2y ago
It's not that different. Whatsapp controls nearly everything: servers, clients, protocol. Matrix has open protocols, several implementation of the clients/servers, and people can start their own server node. In the comparison to T
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by cies 2y ago
The reason for the initial development of "the internet" as we know it, basically TCP/IP, was know as the Department of Defense (DoD) model because the research and development were funded by the United States Department of D
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by cies 2y ago
So is it getting better, or getting worse? The title is quite alarming, but looking at the comments here it seems the number is growing... So it's more like a moment for celebration :) "This year half of teenagers globally can r
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by cies 2y ago
Can it run Cubase? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlspnqVcJho
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by cies 2y ago
> Write everything in plain JavaScript. If you are one programmer it may work, but many of us work in teams. JS is horrible for that as you need a lot of discipline (which often does not carry over well from team to team) in order to wri
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by cies 2y ago
It's a race: brighter lights and tainted glass. Looks really cool. Give privacy to the driver of such vehicle, while allowing them to see the road. Good for them. But other road users: bikes, pedestrians, old car drivers... They suffer
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by cies 2y ago
So fad and "artistic statement" may be quite closely related. Quite possibly every popular artistic statement is a fad. The opposite is clearly not true (some fads are silly plastic toys).
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by cies 2y ago
I hate ORMs, as you still need to break out to SQL regularly: why bother? I'd go with Kotlin/SqlDelight or Rust/sqlx (or even jOOQ) these days to avoid having to deal with the overhead of an ORM.
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by cies 2y ago
> "Strongly typed" is not a well defined term True. But it has boundaries. Strongly typed cannot be used for langs with implicit nulls. You need to do better than stock C, C++, Java or Go to be able to use the term. Rust, Elm,
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by cies 2y ago
> The lack of type checking makes every single gem and rails update extremely dangerous in ways that are incredibly difficult to predict. This. I found a typed-Ruby in Kotlin (OO-core with lots of FP niceties; code even looks similar to
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by cies 2y ago
> Low code initially works quite well until you hit the limits of the low-code framework. If you just need a throw-away proof of concept, or a personal utility, or the like, low-code solutions can be quite efficient. The same I'd sa
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by cies 2y ago
Hasn't JS caught up with jQuery mostly? * x-platform (that was a big thing in jQuery in the beginning): solved in JS * DOM selection (not as elegant w/o some aliassing, but still): solved in JS * making XHR: solved in JS * buildin
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by cies 2y ago
React does very little. You still need other libs to go with it before you can compare the set of them to Angular.
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by cies 2y ago
My answer: Something not JS, or even TS. So it has to compile to JS or WASM or both. Rust is cool. Dioxus looks really promising. https://dioxuslabs.com/ Elm is great. Actually quite mature in my experience. (Sure there are
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by cies 2y ago
I wonder how this works with https://github.com/typedclojure/typedclojure

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