dkarl

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by dkarl 1y ago
The language might permit it now, but it isn't designed for it. I think if the Go designers had intended for map, filter, et al to replace most for loops, they would have designed a more concise syntax for anonymous functions. Somethin
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by dkarl 1y ago
> The issue is that it was a bit outdated in the choice of _which_ things to choose as the one Go way I agree with this. I feel like Go was a very smart choice to create a new language to be easy and practical and have great tooling, and
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by dkarl 1y ago
What about writing a quick ad-hoc command? Something I would have found useful today, which I would have done in emacs fifteen years ago, was writing a command to parse a file in a log, generate a curl command from it, and copy the command
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by dkarl 1y ago
The same curse emacs suffers from. What is the best sweet spot an editor/IDE has achieved to date? I remember the extremes of the utter unconstrained chaos of Emacs and the rigid ultra-high-boilerplate approach of the Eclipse IDE. Emac
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by dkarl 1y ago
I remember being confused by this word when I was a kid! I was a kid in the eighties and remember reading/hearing things like "what a jerk" and thinking people were way too harsh with it. Maybe I landed too late to learn the
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by dkarl 1y ago
I think you're confusing authenticity with DGAF, because they both look like the opposite of insecurity. Trump and Hilton play a DGAF role on TV, but the very fact that they're putting in the effort means that it isn't authen
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by dkarl 1y ago
Pretending not to care what other people think is the least authentic thing imaginable. Everyone knows that the people obsess about not giving a fuck are the people who are deeply unhappy with how they're perceived and are fantasizing
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by dkarl 1y ago
It's a very specific form of authenticity. It's the authenticity of people who don't make an effort, who don't feel any need to try, who know that people are going to accept them and look up to them no matter how shitty
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by dkarl 1y ago
Code gets written once and read dozens or hundreds of times. Code that can be read sequentially is faster and easier to read than code that requires jumping around.
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by dkarl 1y ago
"Accommodate" means change focus, like your natural lens does when you focus on objects at different distances. Most artificial lenses implanted today have zero ability to change focus. There are newer "accommodative" le
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by dkarl 1y ago
> As both Presbyopia and Cataracts come for us all, it is generally not advisable to do laser eye surgery once the former has set in. I had a conversation with my ophthalmologist about this. She said the same thing. Then I said, I don&#x
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by dkarl 1y ago
> SMILE... is severely more expensive This is the first I've heard of this. In my area it seems comparable in price, within 1.5x the cost of LASIK. Considering how relatively cheap it is (a couple months' rent, or a fraction of
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by dkarl 1y ago
100%. Views don't even cover all the use cases of schema evolution, unless you're willing to duplicate business logic between stored procedures and services, but schema evolution is only the start of it. API versioning gives you a
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by dkarl 1y ago
> And what exactly do you buy yourself? APIs can be evolved much more easily than shared database schemas. Having worked with many instances of each kind of system, I think this outweighs all of the other considerations, and I don't
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by dkarl 1y ago
> The solution is the (hard and slow) work to engage and educate voters. It is indeed hard work, especially if you want to influence people who aren't engaged in politics to vote. I find that people who aren't engaged with poli
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by dkarl 1y ago
Oh, yeah, if you don't specifically train to be a teacher, you won't qualify. I'm just saying that (AFAIK, and from a specifically Texas perspective) most people who intend to be art or music teachers get a BFA. Many of my hi
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by dkarl 1y ago
What do you mean? Music and art teachers typically have BFAs. There are BFA programs designed for teachers, including the pedagogical training that qualifies them for teaching.
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by dkarl 1y ago
Someone graduating with a BFA intending to teach art or music at the K-12 level might be very satisfied with their job prospects and the life it leads to. There are at the very least tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of art an
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by dkarl 1y ago
Isn't it fine if different degrees lead to different job opportunities? A nineteen year old should be able to understand the difference between the job market for a doctor or engineer and the job market for an MFA. We don't need t
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by dkarl 1y ago
NIMBYs actively target this misconception. "New housing is luxury housing." > eventually the price drops happen on the older, smaller homes at the bottom end of the market I'd be interested in how long "eventually&qu
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by dkarl 1y ago
In Scala, I've had excellent luck using LLMs to speed up development when I'm using cats-effect, an effects library. My experience in the past with something like cats-effect has been that there are straightforward things that are
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by dkarl 1y ago
> it always mentions something about how it’s going to be ‘straight to the point’ or give me a ‘no bs version’ That's how you suck up to somebody who doesn't want to see themselves as somebody you can suck up to. How does an LL
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by dkarl 1y ago
This was the story of Amazon in the .com bubble, but buying Amazon in 1999 was not a good deal. Even if you know who the winner is going to be, you can still lose.
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Isn't this entirely to be expected? The people who dominate groups like these are the ones who put the most time and effort into them, and no sane person who appreciates both the value and the limitations of rational thinking is going
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by dkarl 1y ago
I grew up in a hot climate spending a lot of time outdoors, and I was educated about staying hydrated from a young age. Still, like you, when I get symptoms of dehydration, I don't feel any intuitive connection with the need to drink,
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by dkarl 1y ago
Adobe would have killed one product regardless. If they had been allowed to acquire Figma, they might have killed the better one.
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> It’s a pity that the idea of design patterns ended up (after the pattern language craze faded) being almost exclusively associated with the specific patterns named and described in the GoF book That book is the closest we came to estab
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by dkarl 1y ago
I don't think any of the examples in the article contradict the Zen of Python. Even if there's one simplest and clearest way to do it in Python, there's nothing stopping people from using a more complicated solution that they
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Lawyers go through standardized postgraduate training and bar examination. Doctors go through standardized postgraduate training and examination, following by years of residency where they practice under the supervision of fully qualified d
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by dkarl 1y ago
Add me to the list of people who acknowledge the problem but haven't heard any alternative. Every job opening, you encounter people who can talk and act like software engineers, but can't write code. I've been in the business

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