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by flukus 7y ago
One example would be anything called a "validation framework", hand rolled or as a library. They add so much complication for something easily handled by a validate function and a bunch of linear if statements in the "not cle
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by flukus 7y ago
I meant xorg and wayland but I just tried everything. Currently on wayland stellaris and EU4 won't start for me, I didn't even know stellaris was broken until now, that was one of the better working ones. On xorg they will all sta
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by flukus 7y ago
Do places actually offer fixed term contracts now? Last time I was looking at contracts I was stuck between recruiters/employers demanding an ABN and the ATO saying I wasn't eligible. The ATO were right because the work has to be
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by flukus 7y ago
IME it's about time spent maintaining code rather than an age/experience thing, devs that flock like locusts from green field to green field will never learn, devs that maintain "clever" code will learn pretty quickly.
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by flukus 7y ago
It's been pretty consistently broken support. I've run into lot's of things like CK2 only working on xorg, HOI4 only working on x11 (or the other way around), Imperator not working unless you install some c++ runtime lib, EU4
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by flukus 7y ago
> it always takes 'em yonks an' it's not In written form that's incredibly hard to parse, especially when you've just written a lexer for a very similar file format (space separated, sometimes quotes, sometimes q
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by flukus 7y ago
> First one typically translates to something between "I have a completely unfounded illusion of understanding" and "I have no clue but don't dare to say it" You didn't mentions the industry so maybe you&#x2
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by flukus 7y ago
I'll be that guy ;) In vim/unix you can run this command (keybinding not included but simple enough): :'<,'>%!awk 'BEGIN {ORS=" "} {print "\" $1 "\"," } As for a unifi
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by flukus 7y ago
> You'll find many of these companies in rural regions. In so much of the developed world we're becoming more and more politically split along urban/rural lines, is this the case in Germany is does their distributed indust
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by flukus 7y ago
> Here's the thing: these arguments all too commonly focus on subjective notions of "simplicity", and toy examples divorced from actual common practise, and or solid comparable benchmarks. I think your missing the point of
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by flukus 7y ago
Yes it's somewhat subjective, but other languages for the use case usually contain a lot more abstractions. They're more complex languages but they might enable less complex solutions to the problem at hand. > IMX, you're
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by flukus 7y ago
If anything I'd turn the question around and ask if younger devs were more resistant to adopting older technology. It certainly seems that way when we have tools like electron are popoular because it allowa them to stick with the javas
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by flukus 7y ago
> I feel like the fine grained low level control is exactly the reason they chose C in the first place That's not the only reason, there is also simplicity, static typing and performance. If you favor the later two for whatever reas
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by flukus 7y ago
> e.g. it will automatically reshuffle your structs to get rid of excess padding This is just more complexity as well. It introduces surprising behavior that can burn you when creating interfaces or serializing and forces the developer t
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by flukus 7y ago
Support for reader view would be better than any of those options.
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by flukus 7y ago
Electrons don't rotate around the nucleus in the same way that planets go around stars, that's a simplification for high school text books. Supermassive black holes don't keep galaxies together either, galaxies rotate around
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by flukus 7y ago
> Though if they really dug that much tunnel under a city in such a short time, maybe there's an actual innovation in a better way to make subway tunnels? Or maybe tunneling speed simply isn't the bottleneck so no one ever trie
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by flukus 7y ago
This is exactly the sort of thing governments are good at. Previous successes are things like railway gauges, power connectors, power voltages, measurement units, etc. This is the sort of thing that allows the free market to work efficientl
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by flukus 7y ago
Imagine what we could do with just a 1% export tariff and funneling that money into renewable energy sources. At 10% we could invest in renewable energy projects in other parts of the world.
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by flukus 7y ago
Brian Herberts books, the Game of Thrones final and from what I've heard the last Star Wars movie all have their detractors but personally I'm thankful for at least giving closure to the overall story arc. It might not be good but
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by flukus 7y ago
I think you're ignoring the Soviet Unions contribution to the war. Even if America lost all 3 carriers you'd still have Manchuria and Korea failing to the soviets and the imminent threat of an invasion to the home islands, which e
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by flukus 7y ago
I wonder what the breakdown is on overall effectiveness, sometimes you can get some very perverse results. Kamikaze attacks for instance resulted in less pilots killed per damage dealt than traditional attacks even though attacks were 100%
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by flukus 7y ago
I'd like to enforce a rule that if it has wheels then you obviously can't carry it and it's not a carry on.
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by flukus 7y ago
> The tab bar is by far the ugliest one of all current browsers, at least on macOS. It's horrible on all platforms ;) . The way tabs are handled is by far my biggest complaint, you can't fit as many tabs in as with chrome and s
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by flukus 7y ago
> - Simple "records" : GNU Recutils format ( https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/ ) Wow thanks for this recommendation. I've got a few things lying around that I've been using awk/bash
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by flukus 7y ago
> Something CK2-like ("sim RPG"?) had already been my hypothetical mobile game concept long before I even discovered (and immediately fell for) CK2: Macromanaging a player character that is basically just another NPC existing i
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by flukus 7y ago
It's a single incident, have you got any evidence of a trend? Considering the next conservative government cut funding to the CSIRO, particularly in climate science areas is there any evidence that it's about the report itself or
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by flukus 7y ago
Not to mention the dependencies. Most of the "dependencies" of bash scripts are widely used unix tools or other scripts which are generally fairly stable. The python I've been exposed to (I don't know how typical this is
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by flukus 7y ago
> The debate was called for by opposition parties after evidence came to light that a paper critical of carbon emissions trading was being suppressed This is disappointing but it's not climate change censorship, it's ETS (as a
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by flukus 7y ago
Security from malicious programs or exploits, accidentally altering system files and other device users. We used to be able to trust intentionally installed programs not to exfiltrate data. It's sad that we still can't.

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