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by dbrueck 4y ago
> my mind would be reeling with the possibilities Right?? When I was about 14 or so I got ahold of my very first modem - a 300bps acoustic coupler; that beast must have weighed 20 pounds. I don't know what I was expecting when we co
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by dbrueck 4y ago
Agreed - our company's app isn't a game but is built on top of UE4, and nearly all of our code is in Python and it's never the bottleneck, not by a mile.
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No need to overcomplicate it: we ignore it because it's not that common. I mean, for every one person that dies in a car accident in the U.S., 16 die from heart disease and look at how good we are (collectively) at not really tacklin
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Citing the cost of an Apple product doesn't really add weight to your point. :)
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https://svelte.dev/tutorial/basics - easy to get started with but really powerful for complex stuff too For layout, don't use any CSS framework, but instead refer to https://css-tricks.com/snippets
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> can detect that an expression cannot be modified Can you give some examples? I use Python a lot and it's absurdly dynamic. I've sometimes wondered if there'd be some way to let me as the programmer say "dynamicness
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No idea if I'm typical or an outlier, but I have a couple of syntax highlighting plugins, NLKNguyen/papercolor-theme, a vim rc file with my favorite keybindings (e.g. faster navigation among splits), and a python file with some he
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by dbrueck 4y ago
Earlier, 'woke' described a person who is alert to injustice, but now it describes a person who wants everyone to know that they are alert to injustice.
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"proportionally to" != "strictly equal to"
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The incentive structure for an above average programmer is usually somewhat broken, though stock options can theoretically patch this up some. The way to get maximum return on your above-average output is to go into business for yourself.
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> The overwhelming majority of people who have ever lived are now lost to history. Are they not worthy of salvation? Of course! But twice in your comment you seem to be pushing back against points I didn't make. :) > Christians b
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Ah, thank you. I read an English translation [1] of the proceedings of the Council of Carthage (397AD) and it seemed to forbid it, but looking at it again, it seemed to forbid trying to give the eucharist to corpses (I'm not really sur
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A little more detail: for Christians, baptism is considered to be a requirement to enter the kingdom of God (per John 3:5), but obviously most people throughout the history of the world never get that opportunity. This creates a problem bec
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by dbrueck 4y ago
Not really. It's true that KJV is the default for English speakers, but less than half of the church's members are native English speakers. Even among those that speak English, many study the NIV and ESV, for example. It's
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From a technical perspective, that's more or less baked into HLS: these are just discrete files being served over HTTP, so you can save the files to disk along with the manifest file and you have the content. In practice, there is a li
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Great article, thank you! Minor nit about footnote #10 (the very bad network failure mode): it really depends on where the bottleneck is and how the client has been implemented to react - there's a huge spectrum of client implementatio
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by dbrueck 4y ago
Well said!
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> I was arguing in a discussion that ArrayList was *always better* Tsk tsk. A critical rule for flame wars that also applies to mere discussions among common folk is that you should avoid using absolute terms, as it gives your opponent
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I've been using a spreadsheet for about 20 years and occasionally I'll be curious enough to try something else but I always come back to the humble spreadsheet, plus a script to massage the CSV export from my bank. Though it'
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Most dictionaries (at least from a cursory Googling) disagree with you: "prevent from continuing to receive funds." "to stop providing money for something" "To stop the flow of funds to" "to withdraw finan
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So sorry to hear that. Hang in there! I know I'm just some rando on the internet, but if you need a listening ear, shoot me a note, as I'd be more than happy to chat - sometimes just talking things over with someone has really hel
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Well done, on the taking time off - future you will thank you for that.
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Here's some newer articles about recent and even ongoing sketchy behavior by Exxon: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/18/exxon-te... https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04&
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> This doesn't seem like compelling evidence without diving into why Fair enough, but not only is a company pushing us towards renewable energy better than a company resisting that better in the abstract, the real issue is the speci
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Honestly, most companies have a net positive impact in the world, and if you live in a first world country and are interested in improving the world, one of the most effective ways to do that is make a lot of money and give a lot of it to
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> I guess just because I'm critical of Tesla? No, it's because the ESG stuff seems more about virtue signaling than doing actual good, and the fact that that one main list includes oil companies but excludes Tesla is really
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I'm guessing the post is differentiating modern black people in the U.S. vs Africa? I don't really know. But I'm not sure I understand your comment of "African blacks weren't slaves" - plenty of African blacks
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IANAL and don't care either way, but it's based on 1.1 of the Apache license, and it also has 'All rights reserved' text in it [1] so I'm not sure I understand the problem. [1] https://www.apache.org&#x2F
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Try Svelte, it's amazing! I never consciously made a decision to stop using jQuery, but after moving to frameworks like Svelte, there's just not a need for it most of the time (it's been years since I last added jQuery to a p
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jQuery was great in its time and still has some places where it can be a good tool for the job, but it isn't used less now because people like writing the longer form of Javascript; it's used less now because for many projects peo

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