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by flukus 6y ago
There were plenty of near misses too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accident...
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by flukus 6y ago
Something that stood out to with recent shutdowns/WFH was the amount of people that rely on work for a social life. It seems many people just carry their school habits into the professional world and study/socialize morphs into wo
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by flukus 6y ago
On the other side of the Tasman they're pretty common due to summer storms. In Queensland having candles ready when we sat down for dinner was an almost daily occurrence some months, the PC and just about everything else would be turne
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by flukus 6y ago
Very often that's ok if you can choose when the outages occur. With most you can because outages tend to be for regular maintenance and upgrades far more often than hardware failures. A small geographically concentrated company only ne
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by flukus 6y ago
> Yet Slack has massively more adoption than any previous chat app Maybe just, by virtue of there being more internet users these days. But you're underestimating just how ubiquitous IRC was, it was near universal. Sure there was no
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by flukus 6y ago
> My IntelliJ IDE is easily 100 times more functional than early text editors. Maybe more than text editors, but I doubt it's even twice as functional as eclipse circa 2005. As slow and bloated as it was for it's time it had al
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by flukus 6y ago
> I think Cobol programmers get $60k in Austin, which is about $20k a year less than the lowest paid Java developer gets in the area On top of that they tend to be stodgy old corporate companies that developers hate, where you have to we
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by flukus 6y ago
> I think you hit on something here with the irregular size of the buttons, probably moreso than the icons. This would also explain why other icon based UI's like the tool palette in gimp don't seem to suffer from the same prob
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by flukus 6y ago
A little while ago I discovered snaps can be slow even when you're not using them. I had the fun of trying to log into an online job interview and couldn't because snapd was hogging the CPU doing god knows what. Restarted and the
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by flukus 6y ago
> However it can prevent people with "different views" from evangelizing effectively. I really don't think it does, it just drives them to spaces where you don't personally see them and these spaces typically reinforc
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by flukus 6y ago
>I've considered solutions, and I believe forcing people to reply before they are allowed to downvote would help I think old school sequential forums were actually much better, outside specific niches they're harder to find the
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by flukus 6y ago
Every TOS update and every windows update (probably also unasked for) means it's a never ending task to stay on top of things, the only winning move is not to play.
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by flukus 6y ago
> the workaround for this is to declare the local variables as parameters that are not passed (and separate them with four spaces) - cannot return array from a function. Does anyone know the history of this? It sounds like something that
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by flukus 6y ago
> it’s a lot easier to have people in a room and hash it out IME it isn't because they aren't an environment conducive to informed debate. It's easy to get everyone in the room to agree, but as soon as you get out and chec
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by flukus 6y ago
> It breaks autofill from a browser password manager extension That is the benefit, just not for the user. The companies that started this trend were generally single sign-on providers that want you to sign in to everything with their ac
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by flukus 6y ago
> Nobody cares what anyone wears at home we're talking comfort at work. Comfort is independent of location, the only difference is that at home we prioritize comfort and that translates to not wearing suits. > And again, a suit i
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by flukus 6y ago
> if you can't feel comfortable in a suit and assume therefore it's impossible to for anyone to be comfortable in one, I don't think you can't be comfortable, I just think they're less comfortable. No one spends
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by flukus 6y ago
> Why don't we have a single language so that we can do cross platform development We do, we have dozens of them, C, C++, java, ruby, python, c# to name a few. We have at least a half dozen cross platform GUI toolkits to go with the
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by flukus 6y ago
Fixed, the former is correct, the latter I think is a bashism that may not work. Unfortunately I plucked that from a project in a very broken state. > I can't see how your example relates to static or dynamic typing, though. Because
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by flukus 6y ago
What makes something a dedicated office though? The only two things I can think of would be a phone line (not so much these days) and maybe being somewhat separated/distanced from the rest of the bedrooms and maybe near the front door.
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by flukus 6y ago
And here's a makefile implementation with a statically typed language: #run test and output to a .testresult file when the test is modified %.testresult: %.test $< > $@ 2>&1 #depends on a .testresult file for
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by flukus 6y ago
Understandability here is more of an umbrella term for the system as a whole, cyclomatic complexity is generally only useful for much more isolated chunks of code. Reducing CC can also make the the system as a whole less understandable, mov
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by flukus 6y ago
> For example, allowing passing around dicts/maps/json (and possibly other data structures) would already be a massive improvement. It is allowed, you can pass around data in whatever encoding you desire. Not many do though bec
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by flukus 6y ago
Some of awks stengths are iterative development, pattern matching and integration with other tools. A databases strengths are data consistency, concurrency (multiple readers/writers), transactions, efficiency. So the problem itself is
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by flukus 6y ago
> I'd love to see a movement away from youtube I have seen that, particularly in history channel circles were the content get demonetized for things like saying Hitler, many of them band together and publish to youtube last or not a
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by flukus 6y ago
A lot will depend on the area and church, but many organize social/community events that are non-religious in nature, including book clubs. There's a good chance they're looking for volunteers for a wide variety of things too
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by flukus 6y ago
Java has been one of the few that are more stable but I get the impression that's coming to an end. The support lifetime for the current LTS will finish 4 years earlier than Java 8 (according to wikipedia: https://en.wikiped
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by flukus 6y ago
A meat gauge connected to the thermometer on the lid then. This whole attitude to cooking is also weird. Cooking is in large part experimenting, seeing what works and what doesn't, learning and iterating. Sometimes the results will be
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by flukus 6y ago
Not just unity unfortunately. .net core LTS is 3 years, Firefox "extended support" is 12 months, some random library from cargo/npm/nuget probably not at all. "Long Term" is becoming a meaningless buzzword. Com
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by flukus 6y ago
Even without the psychology, advertisers aren't charities giving money away as many people seem to believe, they want a return on their investment and that return comes from users giving them money. Manipulating you into giving them mo

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