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by gravypod 5y ago
> I guess one can work around the lack of dynamic linking in a language like Go on the package manager and/or distro level (though some established distros and package management ecosystems, which I very much hope will not go away,
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> Exceptions are a transparent and clean way to handle exceptional events. I'd sum up this argument as: Exceptions are syntax sugar that allow callers of a function to ignore the error cases of something they are calling and depend
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(Opinions are my own) > Also, their "no exceptions" rule only applied to work involving their legacy code. The reasons for not using exceptions are outlined in this post: https://abseil.io/tips/76 absl::St
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> It's got to be any package maintainer's worst nightmare. Is this really a problem in most modern package management systems and build systems? I think Nix is a great example of handling this gracefully by just tracking the in
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> unlike everybody else, they actually have the combination of wisdom, skills, and discipline to not fall into this trap I'm constantly reminded of the NPC in Half Life 1 who says something like "Take me with you, I'm the
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I find both https://nullprogram.com/ and https://christine.website/ to be very pleasant to read.
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For certain distro + hardware it will certainly be. In my opinion, the Steam Deck is going to bring many new desktop users to the table. If Valve has brought their usual polish it will be Linux that 99% of people don't know is backed b
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Another body of research on a similar topic: https://research.google/pubs/pub46921/
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I'm not really sure why this post has downvotes. docker-compose dramatically lowers the barrier for setting up a single machine with multiple services (your service, db, etc). For a similar experience you do the same with AWS RDS or eq
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Is there anything like lastpass that has TOTP + password remote backup that has a chrome plugin and an android application? I'm getting to the point where I'd love to switch off.
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EmbarkStudios is full of some great engineers. They're also very supportive of open source software they use (in my experience). Glad to see the amazing leaps in progress they're making.
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Some more great information in this same space: https://www.accursedfarms.com/videos/dead-game-news A less legally sound argument for why games as a service shouldn't be allowed: https://www.youtube.com
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> That's... not a single major flood event. The worst flood in recent US history only managed ~$30 billion in ~2011 dollars, and many of the more pedestrian "major flood events" are managing to cost somewhere around $1-10
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If you filed to become a non-profit could people "donate" their engineering time as a tax write off? If you find out the legality of something like this and make it easy to do that could inspire a lot of collaboration on the proje
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This looks great but I wish it had some of the features that NaSC [0] has. It's a really amazing tool but it's awfully crashy to the point where it's barely usable. That being said being able to say `solve(... = 512 MiB)` and
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ECS is less about access patterns (relationships and queries) and more about efficient storage. Games care about page faults still so making your tight loop execute quickly on many smaller pieces of data and "do the right thing" i
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My favorite answer to this question: https://youtu.be/-UKEPd2ipEk Good code follows some base set of standards, works, and can be updated/replaced/rewriten easily (simple to understand scope).
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> Why should the government give you money to pay off your debt when for less administrative burden they could drop money out of a plane instead? Well, for one, I don't think the recovery rate of money thrown out of a plane will be
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> Here's a proposal: let's have the federal government bail out all credit card debt. Would you support it? I haven't read any studies done on the effect that this could have but if it was: 1) researched and 2) financially
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> And considering only bailing out student loans without a provision for reimbursing students with similar backgrounds that didnt finance college or did but paid off loans early is incredulous. There is no reason the solution to the pric
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How does "I don't buy the idea that this is a crisis. Is it bad that some people have high home loan balances? Yes. But is it so bad that it's a crisis? I don't see why." sound around 2008? The problem isn't th
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That's the one plus but, unfortunately, our CS program didn't have a stats requirement so many of the students didn't even learn about this in college :)
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Throughout highschool I was told by many adults that the internet wasn't an "accurate source for information" and "don't believe what you read online" etc. I obviously ignored them. I was also told multiple tim
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> Sure, but you can't seriously fault the college for not declaring "Our $LiberalArtsMajor majors are usually unemployed." Why not? We expect homeopathic medications to include "Not an FDA approved treatment for X&quo
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Every college I've researched claims that their graduates, on average, make $XXX,XXX/year. That number is usually enough to pay back their tuition. Unfortunately, what they don't tell you, is that is very bimodal.
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> While Peters point of view may be seen as dated and chauvinistic A way to un-chauvinistic this point: I'm a male and I'd love it if I could get married to a women and have their income alone support a lifestyle with a house,
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> Your CI will pay the time penalty during git clone instead of npm ci. Things like GitLab's CI runners will do a single clone then do `fetch`, `checkout`, and `clean` to checkout your repo. Git repo size isn't a huge bottlenec
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> Generally if you are barfing meg's of data to screen you're prolly doing something wrong... (You prolly wanna be using less?) Why? Many commands I've run have produced a lot of log output in my day.
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> What I don't understand is why dependency download isn't a separate task you do before compilation. FIRST you download all the dependencies to stabilize that, then you build the code. This is what bazel does. It also offers a
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> You can't detect all breaking changes automatically. A field can subtly shift semantics on an API level, yet that breaks a workflow for some downstream consumer somewhere. That is what aip.dev helps with. Following these style gui

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