jlarocco

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by jlarocco 1y ago
> It’s pretty clear if you check github that Azure’s services and documentation are written by distributed teams with little coordination. We have a saying in-house that the info is all in their docs, but the sentences and paragraphs for
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by jlarocco 1y ago
I'm not doubting that there are malicious third parties distributing them, but Google themselves delivers Chromium that way: https://download-chromium.appspot.com/ It's linked from the main chromium site: https:&
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by jlarocco 1y ago
I wouldn't use it personally, but I could see it being useful for my parents or family. ifuse and rsync works fine for me.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
I work at a company that does CAD data translation (multiple formats into 3D PDF), and a while back we had an internal hackathon where one of the projects added basic support for VR glasses to our desktop app. It was really neat, and there
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by jlarocco 1y ago
> Why can't some Grandma drag and drop some widgets and have a recipe manager with sharing features amongst her friends and family? Because there's no money in it.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
I wonder if there's some kind of gravitational lensing going on. A lot of the galaxies look similar, but in different orientations. https://skyviewer.app/embed?target=186.66721+8.89072&fov=0.2... https:/&#x2
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by jlarocco 1y ago
That's funny... I'm using Firefox, definitely have an ad-blocker, and had no problem.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
I don't really understand the point of it. It seems like a very shallow replacement for skimming (or god forbid reading) the paper, without the benefit of absorbing any of the material yourself. I have the same critique for a lot of A
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Probably because they've had internet on cruises since long before Starlink existed and it's expensive to change. And why bother if people are willing to pay for it?
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by jlarocco 1y ago
TBH I don't have a great understanding of how the PLM systems store CAD data. What you describe sounds about right, though. I think in some cases it really is just the original CAD file, as a binary blob, in a database, with metadata
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by jlarocco 1y ago
I don't think your understanding is correct. In the 60s, 70s, and 80s it was more true, but nowadays Catia, NX, Creo, and the other big CAD systems are monolithic applications with extensions and add-ons (either from the vendor direct
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by jlarocco 1y ago
There doesn't seem to be any PMI, annotations, or views of any kind?
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Yeah, but who can say. It happened with Netscape -> Firefox, so you never know. Just maintaining the code would be difficult enough, and Opera not giving their blessing adds a huge hurdle. No mainstream Linux distro will distribute a b
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Horse poop would be an improvement over some of the stuff on the streets nowadays.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
There's some kind of circular reasoning going on here. Banks are more careful, and that's why they don't deal with certain kinds of transactions. And that's where crypto comes in to "disrupt banks" and &quot
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Nobody's going to waste their time building a browser around leaked source code.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
They'll be devastated when their large group has a gratuity included at the celebration dinner, though.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Yeah, it's really sad what they did to Opera. It was such a great alternative, and they killed it, ran the company into the ground, and then started doing shitty stuff like in that article. I wish they would have open sourced Presto, b
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by jlarocco 1y ago
But sequences already existed in Common Lisp. The "list obsession in other Lisps" is largely people who don't actually use Lisp, IME.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
I feel bad saying I'm happy that they're shutting it down, but it should never have been built into the browser and forced on people. Focus on making a decent browser and let extensions be extensions.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Wow, those two articles are as Kafka-esque as it gets. What a nightmare it must have been for the people caught up in them.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
But you can use `first`, `rest`, etc. in new code. CL and Scheme are stuck with the old names for backward compatibility reasons going back over 60 years. Clojure had a chance to do better because they were starting a new thing. It's
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Coming from Common Lisp, I find both versions are pretty hard to read, and I find Clojure in general difficult to grok. Every example of Clojure I see looks like the author is "code golfing". Why the instistence on such terse, c
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Maybe the decision was recommended by the AI?
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Maybe that's the double edged sword of making the package manager so integrated into the language.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
How stupid. They can fix the problem for good by making notifications opt-in and giving users more control of them. Stupid AI tricks to fleece investors.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Sure, that code fails with a memory fault with (safety 0). But I explicitly recommended testing and debugging with (safety 3) first, and in that case it gets a type-error and doesn't crash. Once the broken `(foo nil)` is fixed and it
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Honestly it's more nuanced than that, and probably not such a big deal. It's kind of like building in Debug mode in other languages. Internally and for testing, use (safety 3). If the code in question doesn't trigger any er
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Because an entire generation of developers and their managers believe the hardware is so fast there's no point trying to optimize the software. Besides, the only thing that matters is getting tickets "done" before the arbitra
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by jlarocco 1y ago
They were using a typed language, so testing was unnnecessary ;-)

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