eloisius

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by eloisius 4y ago
There’s nothing wrong with it, per se, but it is more to maintain, and it’s a confusing indirection to downstream users that need to pry into your code to debug something. Ruby has its own problems, but I like that the modules are independe
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by eloisius 4y ago
That’s what I described as the facade module approach.
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by eloisius 4y ago
Namespaces are great but Python’s module system being coupled to file system structure kinda sucks. You either have overly-granular modules with manageable files, or you end up with multi-thousand line files that present a reasonable module
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by eloisius 4y ago
Because if royalties are function of licensing volume, it makes no difference who you choose. If more people ditched Spotify for Apple Music, they’d start getting more favorable rates with record labels. If you really wanted to help artists
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by eloisius 4y ago
That higher royalty isn’t because of altruism. It’s probably a factor of licensing volume.
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by eloisius 4y ago
> However, I can't help but feel you should never have been forced to take (and presumably pay for) that class I felt the same way, so I dropped out of school and started looking for someone who would hire me without a degree. I reg
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by eloisius 4y ago
Group work is terrible, but project-based ability assessment is much better than multiple-choice tests. I quit school before graduating, so maybe I’m not the best example, but I had one instructor that noticed a few of us were bored out of
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by eloisius 4y ago
Prison means you’re going away for a while. Jail means you’re awaiting trial or have a minor sentence to serve for something like failing to pay a fine, vandalism, etc. Jail is also usually operated locally by a city or county while prison
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by eloisius 4y ago
I agree with your ethos, but I don't share your optimism. If the state wants to enforce networking firewalls along national boundaries, no technological solution will save us in general. As a resourceful techie with the right know-how
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by eloisius 4y ago
I was saying the ISO 3166 is absurd, not the .tw TLD. ISO 3166 is absurd because it tacitly acknowledges that Taiwan is an independent state because it has its own record, but then parenthetically asserts that it's a province of China.
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by eloisius 4y ago
Good luck, spectrum is highly regulated in every country I can think of. If national governments don’t want you networking across borders, you’re definitely not going to be broadcasting long range radio transmissions that way. In fact, it’s
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by eloisius 4y ago
Linking a TLD's fate to ISO-3166 is already perilous for Taiwan. According to that standard, Taiwan's name is "Taiwan (Province of China)"[1]. Seems odd for one province to have it's own country-level record, while
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by eloisius 4y ago
I look this post up and re-read it every now and then. Not it 100% fits my real-world experience, but has definitely fit some cases to a T. https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths > Creators and fanatics are both g
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by eloisius 4y ago
But you're still SOL if you want to use an ad blocker, right?
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by eloisius 4y ago
What if the driver actually became a taxi driver so that he could embed himself into the company's hiring process, gave dozens of fair, yet informal candidate reviews, spent years gaining everyone's confidence, all specifically so
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by eloisius 4y ago
The candidate would assume the taxi driver was powerless. I really think you’re reading too much into this. Op didn’t say they gave him veto power over their hiring process. It’s a good asshole test. Imagine some asshole was feeling importa
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by eloisius 4y ago
Syncthing. Amazing tool. I keep media and documents syncted between two computers and a Pi home server. I want to add an "untrusted" VPS to the mix, but haven't done it yet. The only weak link is my iPhone. Luckily, one of th
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by eloisius 5y ago
Sounds like you really have an axe to grind all over this thread. I dare venture that you haven't been following the situation here that closely either. I'm in Taipei right now and have lived here for almost the entire pandemic. T
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by eloisius 5y ago
It depends on what kind of commit messages your team writes, and how much "churn" a line of code gets with style changes, whitespace, etc. It requires making smaller, focused commits so the comment is directly relevant to the chan
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by eloisius 5y ago
That sucks and I know it doesn’t help fix your current situation, but I’ve found it useful to include more context and long comments in commit messages than code comments. If your team knows how to use git blame for archeology, the informat
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by eloisius 5y ago
I think there's a niche to expand here. Not necessarily GNOME, but GTK or Qt apps in general. A lot of developers, myself included, started working during the post web 2.0 era, and have done almost exclusively web development. A lot of
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by eloisius 5y ago
I've been trying it out since your comment, and I have to say it's not bad. I don't love the look of KDE-ecosystem apps, but I'm warming up to them more and more.
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by eloisius 5y ago
One of those people is me. I don’t take the time to determine whether it’s ‘legitimate marketing.’ I would never ever sign up for a marketing email, even if I am a customer of the company that sends them. Until companies stop dumping every
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by eloisius 5y ago
Regardless of whether you support or oppose this kind of content, there are perfectly good reasons search for it and share it. This whole "don't talk about it, don't look at it" strategy that tech companies are taking is
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by eloisius 5y ago
A car can accelerate through the intersection much easier than a cyclist can remount and accelerate from a full stop. Cars are also not in the same danger of being killed by a distracted driver rear-ending them. Cyclists are up higher, can
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by eloisius 5y ago
Of course cyclists expect drivers to expect us to stop. The entire point of treating it like a yield is that we only proceed when a car is not about to go. Most cyclists treat every car like it’s actively trying to kill them, so “running a
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by eloisius 5y ago
Because when you have good visibility and momentum, it’s much safer to get through and away from an intersection than to come to a stop, put your foot down, and get moving again. The traffic laws are made for automobiles, but it’s great to
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by eloisius 5y ago
I used Nautilus for a little while and ran into all of these same issues. Since I use i3 and not Gnome, I decided to replace it with another file manager rather than deal with the headache. I’m using xfe. It had the power user oriented feat
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by eloisius 5y ago
There may be good content on medium, but more often than not I'm frustrated by long-winded, less accurate retellings of official documentation. I think it might be because of the monetization. People have an incentive to write shallow
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by eloisius 5y ago
> I swear. What happened here? Like why do things feel sluggish than software over 20 years ago? I just can't wrap my mind around it. We have SSDs and infinite CPU and RAM now compared to those days, yet there is always this feeling

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