crabbone

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by crabbone 6mo ago
The West started to forget how to code a long time before AI. At first, it was the work visas to bring programmers in, then it was outsourcing. At this point, I'm not even sure if AI is doing more harm than good in this department as
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by crabbone 6mo ago
Smart watches, in general, have a better GPS antenna. I tried running using just my phone's GPS and it's all over the place, completely unusable for that task (it showed me crossing walls, canals, running in circles where I went
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by crabbone 6mo ago
I run every day. Started doing it for multiple reasons, some of them being health. The watch tells me my pulse, speed, cadence, calories burned. I doubt the numbers are very accurate, but they are consistent, and, probably, not too far o
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by crabbone 6mo ago
Can learn? -- I'm sure! Will they learn without any "encouragement"? -- Absolutely not. There are millions of people struggling to get on a diet, to quit smoking, to stop doom-scrolling their choice of social media. Most of
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by crabbone 6mo ago
This fails with a sizeable portion of adults... and you expect children to somehow understand delayed gratification? To force themselves ? Have you ever met an actual child? Just a week ago mine found and devoured a pack of cookies that
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by crabbone 6mo ago
Children don't do anything beside simple and pleasing activities unless forced to. Studying is hard, not immediately rewarding and boring. No child likes to study, some are just more pliable. > Kids are naturally curious This curi
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by crabbone 6mo ago
Being a parent, I ask myself this question: is it worth it to struggle to get my child to try for better grades? And I don't have a definitive answer. The reasons to doubt are perfectly known: meritocracy is on a decline in the Wester
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by crabbone 6mo ago
As someone who worked for a while and still works in HPC, my impression from this field as compared to eg. programming in finance sector or programming for storage sector is that... HPC is so backwards and far behind, it's really amazi
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by crabbone 6mo ago
> Agents have changed how we think about source control, file systems, and persisting state. Developers and agents are generating more code than ever — more code will be written over the next 5 years than in all of programming history —
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by crabbone 6mo ago
My impression from GitHub was always that it was nice to have someone else host Git repositories for free, and that the "added value" (the Web view, the user management, the CI, the Wiki) were all made by dilettantes: poor quality
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by crabbone 6mo ago
Agile is like communism. Whenever something bad happens to people who practice agile, the explanation is that they did agile wrong, had they being doing the true agile, the problem would've been totally avoided. In reality, agile doesn
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by crabbone 6mo ago
This debate didn't start with C. Compilers existed pretty much since Algol, and the debate was there too. There were also similar arguments made about certain other mechanisms that programmers expected to become obsolete over time, but
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by crabbone 6mo ago
Yeah. We have an AI reviewer. Just now I had a PR where I didn't normalize paths in some configuration and then compared them. I.e. let's say the configuration had file = /foo/bar/ and then my code would do
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by crabbone 1y ago
Absolutely. This is also a typical approach from the chefs I know: they don't care about precision in most recipes (eg. dishes like soups, or pasta, or salads...), but then sometimes there are dishes where precision is absolutely cruci
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by crabbone 1y ago
The big events that shatter everything to smithereens aren't that common or really dangerous: most of the time you can lose something, revert and move on from such an event. The real unmitigated danger of unchecked push to production i
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by crabbone 1y ago
Yeah... The article doesn't even attempt to answer the question in its title. It's just a watered down Intro to Mathematics 101.
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by crabbone 1y ago
Oh, you opened a can of worms... In terms of user experience Android is garbage. It forces on you features you cannot remove unless you break into the system (which is kinda illegal or, at a minimum, voids your warranty). Stuff like "d
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by crabbone 1y ago
Yeah... this seems like it would fit the bill nicely. At least, this is the way I'd translate it if I had to. Just didn't think about it.
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by crabbone 1y ago
Close but not the same. In Russian, the expression implies an "upgrade", a failed attempt at improving something that either doesn't require improvement or cannot be improved in this particular way. This would be a typical ex
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by crabbone 1y ago
The way I understand parent is that such a type would be too broad. The bigger problem is that the type system expressed through hints in Python is not the type system Python is actually using. It's not even an approximation. You can e
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by crabbone 1y ago
Same nonsense repeated over and over again... There aren't dynamic languages. It's not a thing. The static types aren't what you think they are... You just don't know what you are saying and your conclusion is just a wor
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by crabbone 1y ago
We kind of already have groups in Gnus... I even messaged one group, like twice in my life.
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by crabbone 1y ago
Sort of. There's Org for Vim users :)
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by crabbone 1y ago
The problem is that DOM is absolutely inadequate for describing page layout, and even less so for Web applications. Incremental changes to DOM were meant to make it more suitable for this goal, but having inherently bad foundation didn&#x27
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by crabbone 1y ago
Again and again, the most important question is "why?" not "how?". Python isn't made to be fast. If you wanted a language that can go fast, you needed to build it into the language from the start: give developers to
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by crabbone 1y ago
Oh, so we are launching attacks on personality now? Well. To start with: you aren't an admin at all, and you don't even understand the work admins do. Why are you getting into an argument that is clearly above your abilities? And,
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by crabbone 1y ago
Then you are sort of saying: I expect Node.js implementation to be bad... why do you need a bad solution if a good one is within hand's reach? In other words: Node.js doesn't do anything better, but, actually does some things wors
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by crabbone 1y ago
But you are asking the developer to make these restrictions... Node.js is the user-space program, controlled by developers. Ops shouldn't (need to) deal with it.
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by crabbone 1y ago
Nope, they don't add. They confuse. From administrator perspective, it sucks when the same conceptual configuration can be performed in many different places using different configuration languages, governed by different upgrade polici
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by crabbone 1y ago
OK, I'll bite. Do you think Node.js implementation is aware of DNS search path? (My guess would be that it's unaware with 90% certainty). If you don't know what DNS search path is, here's my informal explanation: your ap

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