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by donatj 2y ago
I know people who love having specific apps for everything, but I generally find them a much worse user experience than the browser. Can't select/copy text. Sometimes if it's a terrible developer you can't paste. Can&#x2
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by donatj 2y ago
Xfinity sent me a new cable modem this week. Came with zero instructions for set up, just a QR code. Scanned the QR code and it took me to install an app. I begrudgingly installed it. The app had me hit next a few times before scanning a di
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by donatj 2y ago
Huh, I've suddenly been getting calls from recruiters for the first time since COVID, so I have no clue what is going on with the market.
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by donatj 2y ago
I've always been very uncomfortable with the S3 API becoming a defacto protocol, and this shows why.
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by donatj 2y ago
I think you are mistaken. If meat industry disappeared, I don't believe the leather industry would exist on any sort of comparable scale. People would not be raising cows and devoting fields to feed and the whole chain of events that g
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by donatj 2y ago
I've had trouble with cheap bonded leather, but never with real full leather.
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by donatj 2y ago
Practically speaking, I'd be more upset if we continued to kill animals and just threw their skin out rather than using it. If you're going to kill something, you really should to the best of your ability use every part of that an
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by donatj 2y ago
I have painful memories the days of trying to get NDISwrapper working so I could use the Windows XP driver for my 2005 Dell Latitude in Ubuntu. I am guessing wrapping Windows drivers isn't really a thing anymore? I guess my naive quest
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by donatj 2y ago
Check back in a couple years ;)
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by donatj 2y ago
These are all so fun and exciting to me. The kinds of things I dreamed of back in the late 1990s world of extensive browser plugins. There is a port of PHP to WebAssembly a lot of tools are using for interactive playgrounds. I myself compil
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by donatj 2y ago
Depends on your definition of interesting? I find improving established code of far more interest and reward than greenfield. Coming to understand what a person was thinking while building something is fascinating. My updates are tangible l
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by donatj 2y ago
I bought a pretty early Kobo like 10+ years ago and found myself very underwhelmed with the software situation. I sold it and went back to my kindle. Maybe it's time to take a second look. The hacker in me's interest is piqued. Fr
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by donatj 2y ago
Was given the task to build a simple calculator app as a project for a Java class I took in college. No parens or anything like that, nothing nearly so fancy. Classic desk calculator where you set the infix operation to apply to the previou
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by donatj 2y ago
To me, much of this just gives away a lack of experience. Have you never hit a bug because an object mutated unexpectedly? Please do keep this in mind when you do, and spend hours of your life trying to hunt it down. When you've done t
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by donatj 2y ago
> Notice the subtle difference? Dropping those get prefixes for the access methods has significant benefits. Let's think about it: What value was added by the prefix? Correct, none! Methods and functions do something rather than
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by donatj 2y ago
> Patching ClearType is unfortunately not as straightforward as it should have been. In an ideal world, you just change the sampling kernel your rasterizer uses to match the subpixel layout (with perceptual corrections) and you’re done.
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by donatj 2y ago
Seems to me like it would have been more "Go" to simply export all functions starting with a capital letter in the main package, as exporting works normally in the language, only resorting to the compiler directive when you need t
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by donatj 2y ago
After reading the article top to bottom I still had to come to the comments to find out what the "for $10,000" was about. It's the payout for a bug bounty.
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by donatj 2y ago
Do these businesses really even need to exist? They themselves are a racket. They're just overhead. Why can't my wife just cut hair out of our kitchen? Here at least it's illegal. I have no doubt she would have steady repeat
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by donatj 2y ago
I disagree 100%, there is a big difference in quality between a haircut from an experienced stylist and your cousin Vinny. People right now go to fancy expensive salons when they could get a $15 haircut. I think people would certainly pay m
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by donatj 2y ago
My wife cut hair professionally for twenty years. Between COVID, the birth our first child and going back to school she stopped. Now she wants to go back part time to make some extra money, but her license expired and that means she has to
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by donatj 2y ago
I want to love Pop!_OS but every single time I install it, I do something that completely breaks X within the first couple boots. I don't know what I'm doing but I've had this happen across multiple machines. Never had the
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by donatj 2y ago
Every time I have tried to learn assembly, I've gotten frustrated with an overwhelming urge to try and automate it. I end up having to talk myself down like "no, we're here to learn, not to create another language"
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by donatj 2y ago
> Most programming should be done long before a single line of code is written This is the only point I strongly disagree with. I have been doing this for twenty years now and every time we've gone into something with a STRONG plan
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by donatj 2y ago
Probably a decade ago at this point, a friend got the first publicly available Oculus Rift development kit. We all wanted to try it, so a bunch of us gathered in his attic to give it a go. We were playing this tech demo where you would swin
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by donatj 2y ago
Oh man, I have kind of hunkered down and not interviewed anywhere since the start of COVID. I had not even thought about how AI might affect things let alone people not being in office. Last time I interviewed I spent about half of it stand
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by donatj 2y ago
I'd do it similar to how Go does it. Zig is heavily influenced by Go to begin with.
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by donatj 2y ago
Honest question. If you remove religious and spiritual aspects and come at it from a place of pure reason, does it really matter? What is pain but a chemical signal something is wrong?
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by donatj 2y ago
It's easier and safer to use a VPN than it is to meet a man in a dark alley for some dollars.
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by donatj 2y ago
I wrote a similar maybe hacky script using `git blame` on every file. In our main application, we still have a couple lines from the initial commit in 2011.

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