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by gyulai 3y ago
"researchforteachers dot org dot uk" sounds like it might be an interesting organization that I'd like to know more about, but the domain root is just a login mask. Does anyone have details on who is behind and what else the
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by gyulai 3y ago
> I'm really curious what the current definition of "minimalistic" is. Things like cutting off content that overruns the screen size, without giving any indication that this has happened, and also hiding scrollbars, so as
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by gyulai 3y ago
> important stuff, that a lot of people rely on, and for which there will be severe consequences if it is built wrong. Sure, if you're working on medical devices or software controllers for devices in vehicles or nuclear reactors or
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by gyulai 3y ago
I had to choose a VCS for a project a year ago. At that point jujutsu looked extremely promising but immature. It's great to see that so much progress has been made. I can't wait to give it another go, the next time I get to ch
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by gyulai 3y ago
$235K sounds about right. With regard to the legal fees they'll burn through for their humorous "trademark".
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by gyulai 3y ago
Is that just because F# is a typed language? My personal experience has been that it's a pain to implement this as soon as you have strong typing and try to avoid "unsafe" casts. For example, in modern Java, if you have some
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by gyulai 3y ago
> [...] It's not typically considered a benefit[...] ...see sibling comment, where the commenter does seem to imply they rather like it.
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by gyulai 3y ago
It's not so much about the size of the codebase, it's more about the tradeoff of how much code there is, versus how much intrinsic/real complexity. By "real" complexity, I mean to exclude complexity for complexity&#
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by gyulai 3y ago
Who has time to write documentation? As the software evolves, the documentation will need changing. Who has time to write unit tests? As the modules evolve, the unit tests will need updating. Why do any of these things? A well-written p
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by gyulai 3y ago
> What you and most other developers don't realize is that[...] Generalizations like this are just so bad. My biggest beef with design/"product" folk in the tech world is this thing that many of them do, where they j
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by gyulai 3y ago
I quite like layered dependency structures. I even have a lua codebase where I've linearized the sourcecode files into a particular order. The layout looks like this: 01_foo/ 03_foo.lua 04_bar.lua 15_whateve
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by gyulai 3y ago
The converse is also true: If someone likes to be without phone, couldn't they go literally anywhere on the planet, and just choose to leave their phone at home without that place they're going to officially encouraging them to do
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by gyulai 3y ago
Okay, that's an interesting data point that I genuinely didn't know about; thanks for posting. But my original argument still debunks PBS's claim that sorting and free market economics is somehow the problem. I still feel lik
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by gyulai 3y ago
> Collected plastics in Germany are usually not recycled, [...] ...well, I use the term "recycle" very loosely. If it's disposed of responsibly, then fair enough. That presumably includes burning, as long as you do it in
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by gyulai 3y ago
Well, the PBS article, first of all, is extremely poorly written. How can you write that plastic is "indestructible" and that it "breaks down" into microplastics that enter our bodies, in the same sentence, and not spot
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by gyulai 3y ago
FWIW, I'm under the impression (while not being an expert), that plastics actually have pretty good recyclability and just suffer an "image problem" for reasons unrelated to the actual physical properties of the material. --
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by gyulai 3y ago
The advantages that initially motivated cassettes over vinyl back when cassettes were invented are basically still valid, for example that you can't have a vinyl-based "walkman", and that they're economical to record ont
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by gyulai 3y ago
Tape cassettes, as it happens, are actually hip again. They make cassette players now for a modern tech stack, with bluetooth etc. Bandcamp is full of artists selling tape, and sales of audio cassette tapes have been up year-on-year every
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by gyulai 3y ago
I'm going to assume that, not being an Intel processor, it won't have Intel Management Engine. So where does this device land privacy-wise? Can this device safely be recommended for highly privacy-focused people who might otherw
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by gyulai 3y ago
> performs the same/better under Linux ...yeah, I was wondering that too. This seems like a job for a Gentoo system, compiled from the ground up with "-march=native". Would love to know how that would turn out performanc
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by gyulai 3y ago
Vaguely related, since a lot of people here are mentioning assembly as a first programming language for learners: Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming" and its associated fictitious "MMIX" processor ("MIX&q
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by gyulai 3y ago
I disagree. If you gave the service away for free and allowed people to be anonymous, there would be no private data that needed managing. In the 90s, a major proportion of websites on the internet had forums like that, which people set up
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by gyulai 4y ago
> It is somewhat strange then that enterprise linux is not more common, you get stability and configurability. Subjectively, I am under the impression that, in the enterprise desktop space, Linux is a more serious competitor to Windows t
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by gyulai 4y ago
I really love the economics behind Java and how Java is being run as a business that's also a core infrastructure. -- I'm saying this, sounding like a naive fanboy, in the hope that someone will point out the facts that I've
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by gyulai 4y ago
By liberal, I mean free-market liberalism (like FDP in Germany). I'm European. It didn't occur to me that people in the U.S. would misunderstand and think "liberal" means "left". Is that the miscommunication
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by gyulai 4y ago
> It might, if economics was a settled science. But a lot has changed in the last 50 years, and half-century old intuitions are actually less than useful by this point and have the real possibility of leading us down paths of ruin. Also,
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by gyulai 4y ago
Wow, this is increadibly weak stuff. A left-leaning newspaper reports on the liberal-leaning WEF, airing the complains of an anonymous group of employees, some of them not even current employees. > Klaus has been at the helm of the WE
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by gyulai 4y ago
I've been looking for a tech stack to replace latex for decades now. As a very recent development, the combination of pandoc+weasyprint (plus a little bit of homebrewed pandoc filter magic) has now become good enough for my needs, and
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by gyulai 4y ago
I was trying to make a very subtle point in a very condensed way. The initial claim was "statement about openness makes Microsoft an outlier". My counterclaim was "statement is meaningless". Why am I saying that? Beca
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by gyulai 4y ago
...okay, so other companies had a bad time attempting that particular union-busting tactic, resulting in reputational damage (and fines?) Maybe Microsoft learned from this that the odds of success are low. Maybe labour got better at organ

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