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by deckard1 3y ago
> Cupertino is ... a lot of hour drives away from everything? London or Tokyo it is not. > Maybe they live in a "shitbox fixer", maybe they don't. I was being rather generous at $2M on a $300k salary. Let's just as
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by deckard1 3y ago
> Initially, Lisp-style languages had linked lists as the primary data type, but vectors were early added The Achilles' heel of every Lisp is dealing with any data structure that isn't a linked list. I'm talking aref, setf
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by deckard1 3y ago
you don't actually believe that "work together" crap do you? You realize you're dangling a job over their head, right? There is a power imbalance. You'll never see "work together" in an interview because y
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by deckard1 3y ago
ah, yes. The American Dream of living in a 50 year old shitbox fixer that costs $2M in the suburbs of Cupertino. If you can make that much remote out in Nebraska then sure, fine. There are people doing a lot worse. But when doing much bette
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by deckard1 3y ago
yes. If GraphQL is anything it's absolutely batteries not included. When people speak of tooling they are almost certainly talking about Apollo. I think you could probably find a similar analog in the SOAP XML days. There were lots of
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by deckard1 3y ago
you're really going to be in for a shock once you get your law degree. Good luck with that.
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by deckard1 3y ago
> Nobody's telling you not to drive to an office every day. reminds me of this meme that was going around Facebook during the last US election. It was an image of a line at a store like Target. The caption was something like "y
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by deckard1 3y ago
My dad got a letter from our ISP saying someone was "hacking" a certain site. He asked me about it and I sheepishly denied it. The site that reported me was the owner of hax0r.com (or .org? Cannot remember) and various other stupi
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by deckard1 3y ago
I was finally coming around to systemd. Then they broke my laptop. https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/25269 I'm still livid at this Luca guy gaslighting people on the "correct" behavior
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by deckard1 3y ago
it's worst of both worlds because types are not free. There is a certain amount of energy and effort and maintenance that you must put into type annotations. Before you reach the point of return on that investment you have to plow thro
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by deckard1 3y ago
Types are ultimately a contract. If your code was not originally designed with these contracts in mind and then you introduce a system that actually promotes ad hoc interfaces (TypeScript or any structurally typed system) then what you ge
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by deckard1 3y ago
> The curse of guest languages. Every language lives under the iron fist of libc and the C ABI.
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by deckard1 3y ago
"old code runs fine" is a poor benchmark for how well a language holds up over time. All x86 code still runs fine. Perl 5 is from, I think, 1994. It's still maintained and in development. Most C code from the '80s would
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by deckard1 3y ago
Plex has the annoying habit of stalling indefinitely for me. I don't know what it's doing. I believe it's transcoding so that it can "burn" in the subtitles, but I have no clue. I've mostly given up on it. I us
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by deckard1 3y ago
they always use text that is ideally sized in mock-ups but completely falls over when real data is used in a responsive web app. My favorite is when design adds data to a mock-up that we don't actually have. My company is, admittedly
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by deckard1 3y ago
Digg is still around. So is Slashdot. For some definition of "still around." > The energy is better spent getting Reddit to improve their official app imho The market forces of a site like Reddit (or most web sites, frankly) ar
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by deckard1 3y ago
Forth.
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by deckard1 3y ago
systemd supports "suspend-then-hibernate" which I think works now. That said, systemd fucked the hell out of this feature and then the devs started gaslighting people about it[0][1]. That was on top of the fact that their "fi
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by deckard1 3y ago
and without GPUs, mind you. And a lot of that trickery probably came down to: let's write everything in assembly. Fruity Loops was absurdly fast in the early 2000s and was written in Delphi and assembly, IIRC. In 2023 DAWs should not
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by deckard1 3y ago
10 years ago? As in 2013? Did you mean 40 years ago? Almost every car? On a scale of 1 to 10 billion, how high are you right now?
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by deckard1 3y ago
one alt-social crumbling from throwing rocks at another alt-social This is peak Web 5.0 right here.
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by deckard1 3y ago
If I have access to the physical device and the SD card/USB drive in order to pull off an attack that secure boot prevents, then why wouldn't I just take the whole damn device and swap it with my own? Presumably the network/g
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by deckard1 3y ago
People that don't know what BuzzFeed News is definitely do not know what ProPublica is. This thread is rather shocking to me.
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by deckard1 3y ago
We are in the selling shovels to the paranoid neurotic upper/middle class that is dependent on tech for their livelihood phase. A new form of the hustle culture. Think about it this way. When the true revolution arrives, you will not
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by deckard1 3y ago
I feel this is closely related to the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. There is an unearned trust you have granted ChatGPT. Maybe it's because the broad outline appears correct and is stated in a confident manner. This may be how good bullshi
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by deckard1 3y ago
Smartphones only cheapened photography in an additional manner. Which is why you get Instagram filled with pictures of food. It's the internet combined with the nearly free cost of digital. But digital cameras for the everyday person e
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by deckard1 3y ago
Coincidentally, Amoeba records put out a really interesting episode of What's In My Bag? today with Seal[1]. At the end (I linked the timestamp) he starts talking about perceived value of owning an album vs. the digital ether. Really w
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by deckard1 3y ago
Reminds me of how I nuked my first Linux drive. I was using the cthugha[1] music visualizer app. You had to pass in a CD-ROM device as well as a DSP device (long before ALSA existed). Instead of the DSP I probably passed in my hard drive. W
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by deckard1 3y ago
That's amazing. The writing reminds me of Aqua Teen Hunger Force
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by deckard1 3y ago
> not know what to do with empty space every PM everywhere. They simply cannot leave good enough alone. Eventually every site A/B tests its way until it becomes Reddit mobile site. No one asked for carousels but sites continue to us

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