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by jimbob45 1y ago
Apple is too expensive and going the same way. Apple would have had near 100% OS market share if they’d have tossed their hardware restrictions.
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by jimbob45 1y ago
Oh then it’s dead. LibreOffice never Just Works™. Ideological changes like this only work if they’re painless for the hoi polloi.
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What about invisible Unicode characters?
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by jimbob45 1y ago
Wouldn’t be hard to do. Just alternate tabs and spaces and no one would ever know or care to check.
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A bit like how Office was THE program in the late 90s and in the 2000s before Google Docs really started taking off. This is wishful thinking. Google Docs is only hovering around 10% market share.
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by jimbob45 1y ago
The addition of a safety design is a shift in our milestones for v0.1, and you can see the difference here. Both of these are fundamental parts of v0.1, and will take long enough that the earliest date for v0.1 is pushed out to the end of
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by jimbob45 1y ago
I suspect the committee agrees with you. I think they’ve anticipated a competitor coming to kill C++ for two decades now and see themselves as keeping C++ on life support for those who need it. It’s shameful that there’s no good successor t
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by jimbob45 1y ago
The dangerous behavior should be opt-in, not opt-out. I appreciate that C gives you all of these neat footguns but they need to be hidden to find for only those who need them. Stuff like implicitness being the default for functions, int wra
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by jimbob45 1y ago
That exact exercise filled a quarter of my workday today.
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Tribal knowledge and company familiarity should justify the employer in offering raises to keep the employee around. Hiring someone new almost assuredly costs more in both the front-end and the back-end.
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by jimbob45 1y ago
I've always questioned why we should add 100KB of JavaScript to a page before writing a single line of real code. Developer productivity, theoretically. Although some of these frameworks don’t help with that for me personally.
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I’m to believe cultured meat wouldn’t also hit a VC lottery ticket? Or the right mRNA vaccine?
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by jimbob45 1y ago
Surely developer productivity and maintainability have increased from the ObjC days, no? Swift criticisms aside, it certainly allows access to more ergonomic high-level coding patterns.
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There’s really very little objectivity in the study of English writing. It would make sense that teachers would gravitate to the only real objective part of their discipline - citations - in a desperate attempt to be able to reliably test s
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by jimbob45 1y ago
This CS2 is entirely unplayable now due to hackers. I’m told Valorant isn’t much better. There’s probably just no solution unless you design your game to not benefit from hacking (e.g. Hearthstone, MTG)
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by jimbob45 1y ago
There’s just no way for the abominations that are HTML, JS, and CSS to be used in an accessible and maintainable way. It’s absurd that we haven’t moved on to better technologies in the browser or at least enabled alternatives (I weep for Si
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by jimbob45 1y ago
In fairness, Pokémon is perhaps the worst case in game design difficulty. You have an audience insisting on 3D characters and animations for 400+ (or however many now) Pokémon, each necessitating ~6 animations for unique attacks, 5+ status
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by jimbob45 1y ago
Let’s call a spade a spade. Nintendo litigates worse than any other company and they never drop prices. I can look the other way because they’re otherwise very good to their customers but they do have genuine faults.
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Turned off how? Like a Chinese firewall kind of thing? Are you not able to simply VPN around the block?
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That’s going to be a tough sell to any company. At some point, this is less of a charity and more of a failing company.
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China has a highly unique language for foreigners to acclimate to. While I salute the effort for and commitment to higher education, I’m not sure this will bring the boon they’re hoping for. I would have suggested that they create a high-qu
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by jimbob45 1y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/comments/1jzzanf/a... Wow, you’re more right than I thought. Ford is way higher than I would have thought too.
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Every single business that has a need for SWEs will obligate their SWEs to use AI coding assistants by the end of 2026, if not by the end of 2025. If businesses mandated speed like that, then we’d all have been forced to use emacs decades
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by jimbob45 1y ago
What? No. I’m telling you that attacking that other poster isn’t going to change the reality of the situation. If you take no successful action, then his solution will come to pass anyway.
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by jimbob45 1y ago
You’re barking up the wrong tree. If South Korea doesn’t turn things around, it’s logical that they get reabsorbed back into North Korea and then women have to deal with that. Choosing to ignore that reality isn’t going to make it go away.
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Is that weighted for individual car popularity? Because couldn’t you put three push cars in your lineup that you don’t realistically expect to sell and be fine?
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Is AI going to be meaningfully different from vanilla Google searching though? The difference is a free extra clicks to yield mostly the same level of results.
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by jimbob45 1y ago
Reddit has stickied posts at the top of each thread. Well-moderated subreddits use them to great effect. Badly moderated subreddits just shadowban everything that doesn’t match with the mods’ politics.
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The act of coding preserves your skills for that all-important verification step. No coding and the whole system falls apart.
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by jimbob45 2y ago
What you’re saying is broadly true but my understanding is that the Thai government is dysfunctional in an Emperor Nero sort of way.

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