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by gyulai 10mo ago
So, the advantages of physical media are much touted these days, but all the actual physical media we have are yesteryear's technology, and each come with their own unique problems, plus there is the problem of waste. Why isn't a
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by gyulai 11mo ago
> Here's someone trying [...] don't complain when someone tries doing exactly that. From this site, we have no indication that any actual person is putting any kind of good-faith effort towards trying any actual thing. Al
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by gyulai 11mo ago
I think, the lesson learned from › Python v. R ‹ is that people prefer doing data science in a general purpose language that is also okay-ish for data science over a language that's purpose-built for data science but suffers from dis
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by gyulai 11mo ago
Reminds me of a comment I wrote just recently: » I think that anyone who is technically sufficiently well-versed, is going to avoid that hellscape like the plague. So then, who is the actual audience for this stuff? My guess would be: the o
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by gyulai 11mo ago
Thanks!
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by gyulai 11mo ago
I was very much the kind of student who didn't perform well under exam-taking pressure. For marked work that I did outside of school, it was straight-As for me. For written exams performed under time pressure and oral examinations (a
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by gyulai 11mo ago
The thing where Void really stands out in my opinion is "hackability" and providing an inviting on-ramp for making certain kinds of customizations that would be intimidating in terms of their complexity in other distros. -- I don
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by gyulai 11mo ago
I'm a huge fan of Void as well. Surprised it didn't get a mention in the article. I didn't even realize that runit had an existence outside of Void.
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by gyulai 11mo ago
There's no need to welcome me to war. I'm not in one, despite the fact that the powers that be are hellbent on getting me (and everyone else) into one.
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by gyulai 11mo ago
> sustain conflict ...this turn of phrase in relation to goal-setting really makes you think twice.
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by gyulai 1y ago
Profits as a measurement of success, at this point, seems like a meme from yesteryear. The left is perfectly happy to burn money to save the environment, feed the poor, educate the stupid, whatever. The right has joined the money-burning p
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by gyulai 1y ago
> What's better? I've semi-recently gone down the TV platforms rabbit hole again, and my overall impression is that they're all horrible. I ended up grabbing a 6-year-old mini PC I had lying around in the basement and a &g
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by gyulai 1y ago
Kind of funny, these mutually escalating accusations of being a member of an out-of-touch elite. All it takes for BYOD to become difficult is having to handle personally identifiable information under the rules of the GDPR, or having some k
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by gyulai 1y ago
You mention IDEs besides VS Code, Linux, and ricing as “green flags”. Those are not proxies for “being a good programmer” and they are not proxies for “being enthusiastic about programming”. They're just selecting for programmers who
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by gyulai 1y ago
That seems pretty opinionated, and by building a monoculture, persons with high openness to experience likely won't be drawn to your workplace, and you're also leaving on the table the potential that comes from diversity (a loaded
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by gyulai 1y ago
If I correctly catch the drift of your argument, you're saying “engineering is objective”, so there is such a thing as a right and wrong choice in any given situation. ...well, to the extent that that's true, the word “taste” is
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by gyulai 1y ago
Lecturing on "good taste" is a huge red flag for narcissism. "Taste" implies subjectivity. Pairing it with "good" is presupposing something along the lines of "my subjective evaluation of things is super
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by gyulai 1y ago
So, there I was in 2016. It had been 13 years since I had last entertained the desire to learn a new programming language (I had landed on Python, back then). The serious contenders were Go, Nim, and Rust. I landed on Nim back then, thin
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by gyulai 1y ago
I disagree on the "taste" aspect: I don't think it's valuable to take that into account in the slightest. A lot of the time, technical interviews and take-home exercises turn into 100 iterations of "Do you prefer v
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by gyulai 1y ago
...the amout of code we've been writing has increased with the progress of technology, just comparing what it was like to write desktop UIs with Delphi in the 90s versus the amount of code it takes for an equivalent app in 2025. Low-c
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by gyulai 1y ago
> Qt and VCL/FireMonkey are pretty much alive, as 3rd party .NET like Avalonia and Uno. Last time I looked into Uno, it seemed to me more like a mobile-first play (similar to Flutter), but maybe I missed something there. Qt is still
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by gyulai 1y ago
> Have there been any other signals of waning investment into Windows? Wasn't there a story some while back about them crawling the web for PWAs and putting them on the Microsoft Store (or is it Windows store?) to make it into less
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by gyulai 2y ago
It usually doesn't have this charitable "no user left behind" character, though. Their shenanigans include "Let's inject advertising in between people's e-mails and turn everyone's OS into a billboard. W
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by gyulai 2y ago
Microsoft's choices can easily be understood under the following frame: They essentially think of everyone they (supposedly) serve as stupid. Thinking that the need to learn a bunch of keywords in a foreign language is a serious stumb
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by gyulai 2y ago
What makes it really funny is that the joke was lost on Microsoft in the mid 90s when you might program macros for MS Office in a version of BASIC that actually did get its keywords translated.
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by gyulai 2y ago
> .. lets me use the computer. ...except when it's decided to shove an update down your throat, in which case it won't even let you log in until it's done.
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by gyulai 3y ago
> My question is how does it get to that point? Putting salespeople in between engineers and clients, and giving them perverse incentives to say "yes" to everything the client asks, and no incentive at all to try to understand
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by gyulai 3y ago
Sorry about that. I saw the title, didn't know what CRDT meant, and clicked through to the document specifically to find out, not particularly wanting to read the article. I was then scan-reading and missed it. I must say in my defe
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by gyulai 3y ago
Just a nitpick / editorial suggestion: The acronym "CRDT" is not extremely common, and never defined in the document. Such things trigger my obsessive personality streak hard and maybe others' too. Thankfully, Wikiped
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by gyulai 3y ago
I do not at all think that, if government wasn't in the business of setting those standards, the standards would turn out lower. Reputation would follow the institutions, and graduating from an institution that set lows standards would

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