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by fivea 4y ago
> Imagining boatloads of complexity involved with the blinking cursors according to markets, profiles and geographic locations and whatever else really doesn't make it sound any better at all. These basic everyday requirements are o
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by fivea 4y ago
> Dan Luu also elsewhere makes the argument that most of the impactful engineering work done in large companies is performed by a small percentage of the engineering group. The keyword "impactful engineering" needs some clarifi
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by fivea 4y ago
> When you have engineers working into the wee hours of the morning because you don’t want a cursor to blink on a text field, (...) You're grossly misrepresenting the problems being faced and what forces engineers to work into the w
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by fivea 4y ago
> But you find a few 1,000 people online with bad experiences (...) and assume you have a complete picture but you're only looking through a pinhole of information returned with biased search results. Oh I know a good story. I know
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by fivea 4y ago
> But above all, "pseudoscience" is something different and is certainly not the right word to describe this issue of terminology. The definition of pseudoscience is "a collection of beliefs or practices mistakenly regarde
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by fivea 4y ago
> I generally hate this type of thing: retry mechanisms are a lazy band-aid that can mask real problems. They can, but beyond the old "it broke once it deployed" obvious pattern, 9 out of 10 times retries only sidestep basic nu
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by fivea 4y ago
GitLab, Travis, circleci, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, etc etc etc In fact, I cannot come up with a single CICD service which fails at this, except GitHub.
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by fivea 4y ago
> This is why UI is hard. Is it though?. I mean, pretty much all mainstream CICD services do this right out of the box. GitLab does this so well it's even totally transparent and never an issue. How come GitHub actions, which succ
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by fivea 4y ago
> A fork implies that the projects are going diverge, ...which is exactly what you're doing when you branch off a release branch and start applying your own commits with no plan to merge them back to mainline. > which it seems th
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by fivea 5y ago
> Until now, I think Twitter's not-so-slight political lean has been viewed as detrimental to the company (and public discourse). Can you point out what is, in your personal opinion, the best example you have of Twitter's &quot
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by fivea 5y ago
> Look for monitors which advertise thunderbolt and a charging wattage. I have no idea what led you to believe that someone searching for monitors that charge MacBook pros with thunderbolt did not checked if the monitor charged MacBook p
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by fivea 5y ago
> PhD is not schooling. It's a research job. You get paid to do a PhD. No not really. A PhD student at most receives a scholarship, and currently at least in Europe has to undergo a curricular part comprised of a dozen or so courses
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by fivea 5y ago
>>I don't know what you need to be huffing to consider a master student at the final stages "untrained". I don't know what could possibly lead you to believe that someone just starting off his master's thesis
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by fivea 5y ago
> If you use a laptop with an external monitor, a better idea is to get a premium monitor which handles charging, video, and data transfer of USB devices connected to the monitor for you. I made this mistake, and I ended up with a grossl
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by fivea 5y ago
> EDIT: It looks like SQLightning got adopted and has been worked on by the SQLite team under the name LumoSQL. I see none of your claims being supported by your link. It seems LumoSQL is just an umbrella term that refers to a bunch of p
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by fivea 5y ago
I think you are discussing different things, and in the process missing the whole point. It's one thing for an object to be immutable throughout is life cycle. That's immaterial to this discussion. It's an entirely different
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by fivea 5y ago
One outstanding example is not much in the way of a proof. A masters thesis is a few month's work from an untrained student going through an idea that's already being explored by the school's research group. A PhD typically i
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by fivea 5y ago
> Const means the object cannot be altered via the const reference, but can be altered by mutable reference to the same object. Given that this discussion is already going deep into the implementation level, isn't it possible to fla
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by fivea 5y ago
> no, `const` means you can't modify the data through that `const` variable (excepting shenanigans), not that it's immutable. But that's the whole point, isn't it? I mean the selling point of these lifetime annotation
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by fivea 5y ago
> For example, if we have a const Car , we can reach into it to grab a (non-const) Engine through which we can modify things. Isn't that already deep within undefined behavior territory? That hardly is an adequate example, given th
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by fivea 5y ago
> C++ doesn't have a concept of immutable data, or data not shared by another thread, which is part of the challenge. Does it really need it, though? In the real world C++ apps already use higher-level constructs to handle this sort
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by fivea 5y ago
> Precisely. New functions can be written to treat all pre-existing memory as immutable, and we can be confident that that data won't change. Isn't that the point of const?
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by fivea 5y ago
> Vale solves this by isolating threads' memory from each other (except in the case of mutexes or Seamless Concurrency). Given the whole point of threads is concurrency while sharing a memory space, and given we already have semanti
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by fivea 5y ago
> Ironically, I wish they would publish it as HTML broken down by chapter and section. I wish there was an EPUB version of the document. Do PDFs support reflowable content?
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by fivea 5y ago
> What's the problem with moderation? The OP mentioned a bunch of problems spawning from the platform's lack of moderation, among which there's spam and scams.
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by fivea 5y ago
> There are not alway 86400s in 1 day. Midnight is not a whole number of multiples of 86400 after Jan 1st 1970. Isn't that an issue with the format you want to convert UNIX time to ? I mean, UNIX time is quite clearly and unambigu
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by fivea 5y ago
> Naw that would make way too much sense. Instead, unix time ticks backwards 1 second to sync up with UTC: Doesn't that mean that UNIX time is in fact a stopwatch, but to express it in UTC you need to factor in UTC's quirks su
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by fivea 5y ago
> (...) but I don't get how this is related to what you quoted or any other part of GP's comment. If you read about the topic you'll soon discover that Meta/Facebook has been systematically imposing demands for prefer
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by fivea 5y ago
> maybe for very predictable workloads. Predictability has nothing to do with it. Volume is the key factor, specially its impact on cost. > arrogant of you to say adopters haven’t done their homework Those who mindlessly advocate la
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by fivea 5y ago
> Data centers are a hard sell in general because they don't really provide too much benefit to a community. The Netherlands is already the home of some FANGs (AWS has a few edge locations in Amsterdam) and dominant hosting provider

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