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by dajt 10mo ago
Where is the upside here? An alu plant probably provided more jobs and produced something of actual utility. This is burning power for no benefit to society. It's burning less power than before, but it's not producing anything of
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by dajt 10mo ago
I assume uploading to arXiv doesn't count as having published a peer reviewed journal article, which is a problem for professionals. For example, for me to progress in my current job I either need a doctorate or to have published a num
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by dajt 10mo ago
This is a massive pain at my work, same as I'm sure most other comments are saying. I use Platform.IO for firmware development and can't build my firmware unless I hotspot my phone. I would say that's a PIO bug unless there i
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by dajt 1y ago
You won't. I tried uv the other day. But I'm too old to want to run a child process just to draw a prompt. I should know what git branch I'm in, and if I don't it's a simple command away.
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by dajt 1y ago
That does look pretty good. I wouldn't bother with the time but I like the rest of it.
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by dajt 1y ago
For most of my nearly 40 years in work I had PS1='$ ' and PS2='> '. A few years ago I progressed to having the current directory in there. The thought of running a child process to create my prompt every time I hit en
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by dajt 3y ago
I used Scintilla as the editing component for a JavaScript IDE about 20 years ago, was good.
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by dajt 3y ago
Proper nerd chic, that site. Love it!
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by dajt 3y ago
I really doubt that. Java is complicated enough that it's not beginner friendly even if you don't have to write the class to put main into. Given these are still methods of classes this JEP seems pointless to me. Not having to wri
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by dajt 3y ago
LOL. I have been programming for over 30 years on all sorts of systems and the Pandas DataFrame API is completely beyond me. Just trying to get a cell value seems way more difficult than it should be. Same with xarray datasets. I just loade
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by dajt 3y ago
Exactly! I've been around long enough to experience that series of events from top to bottom. That's the weird thing about this business. There's always a new generation saying 'this is dumb, we should do it differently&
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by dajt 3y ago
And web rings to proudly be part of :)
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by dajt 3y ago
I hate making tools rather than models but I know tools is the hobby for many people and enjoy watching other people make them on YouTube. I agree, being able to harden steel or anneal copper or cut threads is awesome :) I love having the m
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by dajt 3y ago
It's about 1/11 scale of the real one, so the next size up from what Blondiehacks is building, and a bit more complicated and detailed. But essentially the same thing, a steam loco that runs on coal & water and works just like
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by dajt 3y ago
I do 'model engineering' which is mostly metalwork, and it's about the same. You end up with something tangible but it really hurts when you make a mistake many hours into a part and have to scrap it and start again. Especial
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by dajt 3y ago
Well, we are on HN. We have to make allowances.
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by dajt 3y ago
That was it. You had to organise amongst yourselves who was editing which program, and there was no version code control other than anything you could come up with using manual copies. It was primitive. I was using an Amiga at home and had
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by dajt 3y ago
In the early 90s we ported our COBOL software from the Wang VS to various typs of UNIX by purchasing and extending a Wang VS runtime emulator. Then I wrote a terminal emulator for Windows 3.1 that would parse the forms sent down by the runt
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by dajt 3y ago
My first jobs in the late 80s/early 90s were COBOL programming. At my second one I finally convinced the management to put me onto the tools team who wrote the code generators for the '4GL'. One of the things I did was write
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by dajt 3y ago
Someone has to do those jobs, but what offends people is the extent to which that class keep giving themselves more all the time, and exponentially more than what happens to the rest of us. All jobs are important, not just the C suite. They
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by dajt 3y ago
Most people don't get paid out to the end of their contract if they're let go early, or not that I've seen and if you're let go for ineptitude why should they? This is just different rules for the rich. I'm sure he&
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by dajt 3y ago
Only until they figure out how to make Severance a reality. I'm sure the C suite would love that to bits.
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by dajt 3y ago
How did you inject the machine code into a running program on anything near a modern architecture? Unless you had your own OS, wouldn't code segments be RO and data segments not executable? I don't know enough about any processor
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by dajt 3y ago
I agree. I've managed 14 letters but it's not enough fun - every letter takes too much effort and there's no sense of dominos falling yet. I assume there is some tipping point but it feels too far off. Maybe this is why I can
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by dajt 3y ago
This drove me mad when I had to do introductory maths at uni. Maths as written did seem pretty sloppy and not at all like a programming language whose expressions I could parse as I expected. Obv most simple algebra looks about as you'
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by dajt 3y ago
Yep, this stuff is maddening.
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by dajt 3y ago
We always think that will be the outcome, but it never is. Except for one particularly bad small system I managed to replace with a slightly less bad one!
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by dajt 3y ago
Prefacing this with the fact my office is essentially a farm, so quite nice surroundings, and also only a 10 minute drive away from home in a regional town, so there's no awful commute involved. It's still not the same - I was par
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by dajt 3y ago
In addition to how many distractions there are now - youtube & stream services, and much better games than in the 80s, the barrier to entry is so much higher. I had a C64 and only the docs that came with it, until I eventually found a c
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by dajt 3y ago
30+ years ago I was programming for companies doing business software - ERP etc, and there were very few 'hackers' in the ranks. These guys and gals must have enjoyed programming at some point but I guess the software was so borin

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