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by fsloth 3y ago
Lambda-the-cs-concept is ofc beautiful. Lambda-the-c++-language-feature is not. The purpose of programming languages in an industrial context is to make implementations of programs simple. When they utilize complex abstractions, the abstrac
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by fsloth 3y ago
Strong disagree. It’s not about the syntax, it’s about understanding the resource management model lambdas add on top of the existing mess. There is no good reason to use lambdas except parametrization of stl algorithms. Don’t use them as p
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by fsloth 3y ago
Ouch, my condolences.
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by fsloth 3y ago
'"C++ is abandonware, just switch to a modern language" narrative.' I think this narrative is still valid. For the love of god, if you don't need to use C++ for a greenfield project, don't. I say this as a pers
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by fsloth 3y ago
Let the holy wars begin. "Lambda capture" sounds like "my favourite way to juggle chainsaws". The correct answer to "I don't like lambda syntax..." is not "learn lambda syntax" but "do not
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by fsloth 3y ago
I think you need to define what is a complicated code base here. Visual Studio works fine for millions of lines but I am sure the difference in experience can vary wildly.
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by fsloth 3y ago
"get any senior dev to move away from using references instead of const pointers." ... "the reader has no idea whether the argument will be modified or not without reading the header file." It sounds like the problem is
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by fsloth 3y ago
Exact geographic measurements where the high technology of 18th century. Each society uses the highest precision measurements available to them. Also, plate tectonics were scifi fantasy until 1950's. The definition has been updated a
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by fsloth 3y ago
”Private equity” in general may just mean some familys wealth -that may be managed in some unified manner. I don’t think you can outlaw buying stuff in the genral sense. Ofc there is specific legsilation to defend the market at large from m
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by fsloth 3y ago
The point is not simple. It’s the most perfect summary of the biggest problems in software engineering ever written. There are rare papers that are worth investing time. This is one of those.
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by fsloth 3y ago
Agree! It’s importance can be grasped only once a person has spent some time in organizations with non-trivial amount of software to maintain. After that reading it is like discovering Newton’s law of gravitation. It’a an abstract model tha
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by fsloth 3y ago
In general house is a big investment. If someone is already familiar with construction then DIY is probably fine. But if not … I would like to know the rationale for not hiring an architect. I’m sure there are many who will draw a bog-sta
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by fsloth 3y ago
I think it's quite common pragmatic patterns have multiple names and parallel theoretical frameworks within to understand them. "A monad" is just a name to the applied pattern. There is nothing called "monad" in C++
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by fsloth 3y ago
"do programmers in other languages use 'railway' style error handling." I use that in C++. Basically I define a templated return type that can be parametrized using the return type T and the specific enumeration definini
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by fsloth 3y ago
"The first is situations where you need to handle specific, well defined and anticipated errors right at the point at which they occur" Barring system level errors can you give an example of an error state that's not like tha
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by fsloth 3y ago
Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship by George Dyson. A mindblowing vision and project of a vehicle that would offer the capability to truck TONS of stuff as far as, say Saturn, or offer speedy travel to Mars. Born in the n
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by fsloth 3y ago
It's excellent. The quality of DoE demolishes by example the flimsy narrative in Harari's books. I like Sapiens from the point of view of being a lens about specific things in human condition - our capability to take imaginary thi
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by fsloth 3y ago
Yep. For example Winston Churchill lamented deeply the loss of India and considered Gandhi an annoyance. Another reason was that the American system of rule based relations instituted after second world war meant former colonial masters cou
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by fsloth 3y ago
You say “modern” but we could say “western” as well. There is a well documented gradient in attitudes of elites to autocracy as a style of leadership between Europe and Asia. I.e as Alexander the Great moved east, he took up to the local in
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by fsloth 3y ago
Please unflag this.
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by fsloth 3y ago
There’s the historical pattern of German imperialism as well, where the sovereignty of peoples and lands between Germany and Russia does not exist. The historical smell is not good. “There is nothing of concern east of Germany except Russia
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by fsloth 3y ago
Yes. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/12/21/europe/russia-navalny-poi... But could be warning as well, ofc. The point is, we don’t know. Whatever the outcome, it’s a show of force.
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by fsloth 3y ago
It’s really easy to be in a state of denial to anybody. Health issues especially. It’s not a character flaw, just common human nature. It’s really damn hard to perceive your own positin objectively.
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by fsloth 3y ago
Exactly. It’s a newtonian game where an action creates a counter action. “You take off one of our field agents, we take off one of your. You return our agent to us, we probably return your agent to you” I have no idea of the recruitment poo
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by fsloth 3y ago
”especially when we didnt know if it would be applicable to anything in their future career.” Wow, you made architectural decisions based partly on optimizing the employees career development? Kudos! I’m not sure how common actually investi
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by fsloth 3y ago
That's a really curious perception of time. I consider everything as old as my kids spanking new. My oldest is 16. I wonder what causes this (except me being old, but still, I thought this even when my oldest 4 as well).
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by fsloth 3y ago
"we went with the latest version of our boring server side rendering library that the rest of the app used." Boring tools are the best thing ever . What did you use?
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by fsloth 3y ago
If carbonic acid has not been found before in space then this is an actual discovery. It dies not suffice to reason about something to prove it’s existence, you also must actually do the leg work of proving it. This is the main differen
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by fsloth 3y ago
GPT-4 is really great at transferring concepts between domains. That's one the reasons why GPT when it works, feels magical. SVG art does not need to be in it's training set, as long as it knows how to present geometric concep
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by fsloth 3y ago
I don't think anyone claims this is an iterative linear measure, rather than a step function. SVG can present arbitrarily complex graphics. The underlying display tech supports what ever fidelity GPT will eventually mature into. Has GP

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