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by folkrav 1y ago
I’ve read this book exactly once, in my second language (English), 20 something years ago. Guess that makes me worrisome.
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by folkrav 1y ago
Care to explain what was bad about the response?
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by folkrav 1y ago
Certain tasks have deadlines - can you really have one of those without some concept of time? Creating a calendar entry for those doesn’t make any sense to me - they are not events happening at a point in time with a given duration, but thi
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by folkrav 1y ago
I do have a diploma, but it’s not a STEM university degree. I got a technical pre-university diploma in IT, which included a bunch of software engineering classes. I got quite good at most classes that involved programming things, so I trie
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by folkrav 1y ago
Let’s rephrase: is naming a variable typing? As for runtime vs. compile errors - isn’t this just a trade off of interpreted languages?
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by folkrav 1y ago
It would be weak if that was actually mutating the first “a”. That second declaration creates a new variable using the existing name “a”. Rust lets you do the same[1]. [1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch03-01-variabl
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by folkrav 1y ago
It feels like you're suggesting that someone being better off than most in their country necessarily means buying a new laptop is not a large purchase for them. I'd flip it like this: is a single item hitting multiple units of per
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by folkrav 1y ago
Sure, maybe. In the end, what makes an expense big or not is which proportion of their income goes towards it. Most of the rest of the world has (much) lower salaries, and as you pointed out, often higher cost for equipment. Therefore, the
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by folkrav 1y ago
Comparing my problems to other people’s problems don’t make mine go away. A single purchase hitting a unit of percentage or more of anyone’s income is a large purchase regardless of what they’re making. Professionals being expected to shell
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by folkrav 1y ago
Eh, even just “countries that are not the US” would be a correct statement. US tech salaries are just in an entire different ballpark to what most companies outside the US can offer. I’m in Canada, I make good money (as far as Canadian sala
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by folkrav 1y ago
Assuming they have offices at all. My previous employer didn’t even have an office until 6 months after I was hired, and half the employees in the country were at the very minimum a decent 3-4h drive away from the office anyway. I’ve only e
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by folkrav 1y ago
How? Do these 5 companies even operate in the same places? Around here we have DoorDash, Uber Eats, and that’s pretty much it. We have SkipTheDishes, which was present before the other two outside urban areas, but I don’t even bother talkin
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by folkrav 1y ago
I should try and give that book another chance… I couldn’t get past the first couple of chapters, as I found the French (France) translation I had borrowed to be extremely annoying to read as a Quebec French speaker. I’d describe myself as
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by folkrav 1y ago
I like using the term “distributed monolith” for those systems with very tightly coupled microservices.
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by folkrav 1y ago
Canada is unusual in many ways, I’d say hehe. We never separated from the British like the colonies did, so the languages (quebecois French, too!) have kept a lot of British influences. About 2/3 of its relatively small population of 4
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by folkrav 1y ago
“Zee” is getting more popular especially with gen Z (unintended) who were raised with more widespread access to American media, social or otherwise. Like many Commonwealth countries, most of Canada uses “zed”, however.
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by folkrav 1y ago
> Of course that human will likely have another job, but what’s the math of a person who was doing tedium solved by AI and now can do something more productive that AI can’t necessarily do That’s a lot of big assumptions - that the job g
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by folkrav 1y ago
It’s a bit surprising to hear nix described as “not as comprehensive”, considering they’ve basically built a whole OS around it, but I’m curious about your take on this specifically.
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by folkrav 1y ago
> You can't even launch an application or script without CLI. Care to elaborate? I'm not sure I understand what you're saying here.
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by folkrav 1y ago
I fully agree with you - "YMMV" is the one true take. Visual Studio has never been particularly attractive to me, my whole workflow is filled with POSIX tools, and my code mostly runs on Docker and Linux servers. Windows is just a
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by folkrav 1y ago
I do some maintenance myself but not oil changes - mostly from a time/cost perspective, I don’t really wish to go down that road and deal with spills in my driveway, etc. However the oil collection part isn’t particularly hard around h
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by folkrav 2y ago
I'll be honest, to me, it looks like every other luxury brand logo that happens to use a sans-serif font.
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by folkrav 2y ago
Anecdotally, working in profit centres (and being a productive member of said centres) somewhat protected me from large layoffs, but that’s pretty much it. There isn’t much otherwise that ever shielded me (or any of my team members, as a te
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by folkrav 2y ago
The "Repo" link on the very first screen would have brought you to the repo with both the CSS and SCSS.
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by folkrav 2y ago
Ackchyually, Python has pretty strong typing, as far as dynamic languages go.
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by folkrav 2y ago
I don't have perfect pitch, but I basically have a 440Hz sine embedded in my brain which I can use for tuning stuff and figure out the rest through relative pitch. Perfect pitch sounds actually extremely distracting as a listener...
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by folkrav 2y ago
I genuinely don't understand why the concept of the two countries' politics being corrupted is such a wild idea.
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by folkrav 2y ago
Not sure I'd call Korea and its countless cases of political corruption with Chaebol more and more appearing to be basically running the show "not-so-corrupt".
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by folkrav 2y ago
How is it a step in the right direction? If anything, it just sets a precedent - this is how much you should expect to pay in fines for committing atrocities.
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by folkrav 3y ago
https://docs.docker.com/engine/#licensing >The Docker Engine is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE for the full license text. The linked license file is moby's https://github

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