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by donatj 1y ago
At my first job, our most senior developer and my mentor was huge on Flex and instant it was going to be the next big thing. At the time I thought it was inflexible to style and felt very non-native. To be fair, it had its moment, moreso in
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by donatj 1y ago
It really annoys me that Microsoft brought in new composers. You're so insistent on "owning" the music you give up on a major part of what made the game what it is today.
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by donatj 1y ago
I'm kind of relieved to see that it calls out to the native git binary. There is a popular pure-Go git implementation that is in my experience very slow.
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by donatj 1y ago
It hurts my heart so badly that when you read a post of such vintage the outward facing links are almost certainly all broken. We've lost so much.
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by donatj 1y ago
Mind you, Microsoft already had an earlier very capable XML spreadsheet format that was much easier to parse, SpreadsheetML. Back in the early 2000's I wrote readers and writers for it and made pretty heavy use of the format at my job
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by donatj 1y ago
This undervalues how much it depends on context, how and where you ride. Cycling is varied. My casual rides to the shop on my beach cruiser in my sleepy little town? Both my wheels could come off and I'd probably be fine. I'm rare
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by donatj 1y ago
If the last decade is proof of anything, legislation is far too fluid to be a reliable source of any sort of protection for anything. We need real protections , that don't and can't change with the winds of political power.
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by donatj 1y ago
I absolutely agree, and would like to add I feel like the ergonomics of the new interface are just very awkward and almost leaky. Buffered and unbuffered IO should just be entirely separately things, and separate interfaces. Then as you men
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by donatj 1y ago
It's was very old, it was one of their first Thinderbolt 3 docks. I think I got it in like 2019
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by donatj 1y ago
I attended Amazon Re:Invent a number of years ago and one of the keynote speakers was talking about providing medical information to law enforcement - the theory being that if they know you suffer from schizophrenia, for instance, the polic
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by donatj 1y ago
Yes! lol I'd have just used WiFi if I was only getting 320kbps wired lol
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by donatj 1y ago
Anything in particular you're replacing them with generally? I heard a story about replacing COBOL with JavaScript ... and my skin still crawls thinking about it.
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by donatj 1y ago
I had my own decent into madness this spring. I slowly replaced my home network piece by piece trying to find the bottleneck that was causing my gigabit internet to top out at ~300kbps in my office on the other side of the house from the mo
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by donatj 1y ago
I disagreed with this post, but it getting flagged is silly. It caused a TON of actually interesting conversation and debate despite the initial disgust it caused everyone, including myself.
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by donatj 1y ago
Until there is some agreed upon open solution I don't have to pay for every month in perpetuity, and can script against as easily as reading a file from my local file system, I'll take files.
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by donatj 1y ago
Neat, I was actually looking for something like this a few months ago to help automate part of a workflow. Be kind of nice if this also worked as a library rather than having all the workings in internal where they can't be called. Unr
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by donatj 1y ago
Windows 11 not working on otherwise perfectly good PCs I imagine is at least a small part of it. I've got an 8-core Ryzen system I think from 2016 that's still very powerful and more than good enough for my needs, but Microsoft is
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by donatj 1y ago
Knowing magnesium burns as brightly as it does and is so difficult to put out once lit, having done both as a kid, I'd always just assumed magnesium was the name of the paint color or something - not what it was really made out of. As
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by donatj 1y ago
Primaries are primarily voted in by crazies. Regular people have lives and jobs.
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by donatj 1y ago
I can show you my fried HP DE100C audio player, but that's all I've got. I understand being skeptical.
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by donatj 1y ago
I am a huge skeptic in general, but when I was 18 some twenty+ years ago I was sitting in my parents living room during a thunderstorm watching out the back window. This blaringly loud blindingly bright ball of white light just meandered sl
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by donatj 1y ago
The title change lead to a bit of an unexpected jolt, I assumed I'd clicked on the wrong link. I'm not sure where that falls on the guidelines though given the circumstances.
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by donatj 1y ago
A fiber is a colored function. It's a different color than an async function, but it's not blindly swapable for a regular function.
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by donatj 1y ago
I have read much about Fibers since they were introduced and have never come up with a real use case. All the examples I find are like the trivial ones here where it just feels like instead of jamming a bunch of code into a single messy fun
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by donatj 1y ago
One of the best interview questions I ever received, I was asked to explain how something I liked worked in detail. Could be literally anything, just break it down step by step. I was told I could use the whiteboard but didn't have to.
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by donatj 1y ago
How do you feel about art that changes over time? Temporal pieces. Plays that were only ever to be performed once?
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by donatj 1y ago
Talk about strawman, it's literally "I paid for something I don't like, there should be a law!" And you're comparing it to poison gas
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by donatj 1y ago
I feel... uneasy about the idea. Are games art? If so, are you comfortable telling artists what types of art they can create? I know not everyone is going to agree with me here but it feels like a slippery slope.
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by donatj 1y ago
We had a project in an old but perfectly serviceable framework. The application was working fine, we just wanted some basic regular maintenance, and corporate decided we should outsource it as we didn't have a lot of time between us. W
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by donatj 1y ago
This is some old internet style shenanigans powered by modern technology. I am here for it. I want more of this.

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