ilyt

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1. 601.▲
   by ilyt 3y ago

   I now have 2 machines that are older than 13 years (one 2007, other 2010 install) and just dist-upgrade every 2 years. Ships of Theseus, both of them, everything replaced at some point. Started with Mandrake (now Mandriva), Red Hat 6 (NOT R
2. 602.▲
   by ilyt 3y ago

   > Ironic that today it is the dependable system. Still flexible enough for development, but I guess priorities have changed. Testing is pretty stable for something named "testing" and unstable is remarkably stable for something
3. 603.▲
   by ilyt 3y ago

   Nobody said it was good missile.
4. 604.▲
   by ilyt 3y ago

   That seems like something that would eventually cause problem once someone just takes the software already designed and paid for and slaps it onto missile with longer range...
5. 605.▲
   by ilyt 3y ago

   You will leak memory when you disable it. However, you might not care (app running too short), or you might turn it off only temporarily (say time-critical section you don't want to be interrupted by GC).
6. 606.▲
   by ilyt 3y ago

   Well, it is a bit easier if you have no stdlib to speak of
7. 607.▲
   by ilyt 3y ago

   But Java absolutely had versions that broke old code
8. 608.▲
   by ilyt 3y ago

   I don't see any language advantages of Go if you know C# or Java already. On the other side we use it for ops because new hire, regardless of what language they know, can learn it in a week or two and produce not-shit code and don&#x27
9. 609.▲
   by ilyt 3y ago

   I'd like to see sum types and some better way to deal with error verbosity.
10. 610.▲
    by ilyt 3y ago

    I do hope they will eventually introduce sum types and better way of handling errors, but keeping the old code just work is frankly more important on the grander scale.
11. 611.▲
    by ilyt 3y ago

    Perl does something similar; use v5.24 at start of the file will make it work as if the version of Perl was 5.24, and it works on per-file basics, not only per module
12. 612.▲
    by ilyt 3y ago

    In this case it appears it would've worked just fine
13. 613.▲
    by ilyt 3y ago

    I found out that asking people that got "nothing to hide so neither should you" to mount a video stream from their bedroom shuts them up right quick.
14. 614.▲
    by ilyt 3y ago

    Wouldn't be surprised if that was next Outlook feature. Cue someone making some horrible error because some crucial information didn't survive ChatGPT->ChatGPT round-trip
15. 615.▲
    by ilyt 3y ago

    > I have this terrible feeling that somewhere down the line we're going to get a generation of people who assumed the computer is a 1:1 mapping of Python -- a friend who teaches CS for a major university explained that they're
16. 616.▲
    by ilyt 3y ago

    I'd wager also yes. > As long as it isn't a bottleneck in common software, a few shifts/masks/add/integer multiply or whatever, are very quick on modern cpus. Often 1-cycle. If not >1 such instructions in para
17. 617.▲
    by ilyt 3y ago

    I don't hear that. I hear constant low tone in both ears with only high one bouncing around (i.e the ear where high is is perceiving low one even if it is not there)
18. 618.▲
    by ilyt 3y ago

    Same for me, just hearing the high tone bouncing around Here is better video for that illusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMMsK9rjBWo I've heard of an effect where brain synthesises lower tone from the higher har
19. 619.▲
    by ilyt 3y ago

    This is a better demonstration of octave illusion, I had no clue wtf the article meant until I listened to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMMsK9rjBWo But I heard the lower tone in the middle of my head and higher ton
20. 620.▲
    by ilyt 3y ago

    It's pretty much "if your success depends on luck you still have to show up and start rolling the dice"
21. 621.▲
    by ilyt 3y ago

    Or, in rare cases where someone gets to billion dollars and says "okay it is enough": The opportunity is no longer there and world changed enough for advice to be near-useless.
22. 622.▲
    by ilyt 3y ago

    > Ted killed himself in prison a few months ago. What benefit could society have gained if someone had heard him out and took some measures to help the environment? Most people won't ask that question, because they have the intellec
23. 623.▲
    by ilyt 3y ago

    I think that's only when you actually cheated/lied/used loopholes to get where you are. I'm not losing my senior engineer job because I tell some soon-to-be junior engineers how to be good at the job. Neither will say an
24. 624.▲
    by ilyt 3y ago

    > 1) How can you be in an "executive job at a FAANG" and not know this is how the VC model works? I'd imagine by doing actually useful job there
25. 625.▲
    by ilyt 3y ago

    I don't think you know what those companies do...
26. 626.▲
    by ilyt 3y ago

    > "I'm okay, the bull is not" presents Dad with a mystery, delays the onset of anger, and likely lowers the peak of anger, as the fun of unravelling an interesting and unique mystery probably takes up some of that mental e
27. 627.▲
    by ilyt 3y ago

    Uh, you know phones can be rooted since the smartphone revolution, right ?
28. 628.▲
    by ilyt 3y ago

    Your mobile internet is behind NAT and your WiFI router would need port redir to point external traffic to the phone inside the LAN anyway. So even if you can run it at port 80 you can't really do that without NAT or tunnel somewhere a
29. 629.▲
    by ilyt 3y ago

    But the option is there, rooting. As long as that is reasonably available I don't really see problem. Of course the seven hells of apple ecosystem is another matter You can argue all you want about what the normal joe shmoe should be
30. 630.▲
    by ilyt 3y ago

    I mean conclusion seems simple here, raise minimal wages. Preferably by area too, if minimum wage doesn't allow to subside in reasonable commuting distance it means it is too low. > Social benefits like food stamps allow individuals