jlarocco

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by jlarocco 1y ago
More anecdata that commercial software is garbage, especially if it's targetting consumers. I'll stick with open source. It may not be perfect, but at least I can improve it when it's doing something silly like checking for
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Meh. If a person can't be responsible while driving, then I don't really care what the consequences are for them; they shouldn't be on the road. In fact, I hope it does make life difficult for them - maybe they'll think
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by jlarocco 2y ago
Sorry, but I don't agree that static typing is a replacement for unit tests. I can see static languages having fewer unit tests, but it's not going to eliminate them.
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by jlarocco 2y ago
Having worked at a fully remote company before (and during) COVID, I'm surprised so many companies have stuck with it for so long. IME, remote work works best when everybody in the company buys into it and there's an effort to mak
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by jlarocco 2y ago
> I need to sit down and manually exercise codepaths Isn't that exactly what unit tests are for?
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by jlarocco 2y ago
But he doesn't need Canadian, only not from the USA.
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by jlarocco 2y ago
Same here. I think they look kinda neat, but I can't read them to save my life.
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by jlarocco 2y ago
It's funny to hear people in the comments here talk about XML in the past tense. I know it's passé in the web dev world, but in my work we still work with XML all the time. We even have work in our queue to add support for new da
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by jlarocco 2y ago
> I guess I'm just one of the old-fashioned folks who think that just because something was difficult to write, it shouldn't be difficult to read. Code clarity wins over brevity in my book any day. I treat template metaprogramm
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by jlarocco 2y ago
In Common Lisp, at least, it's pretty typical for the compiler or interpretter to have packages for interacting with its internals. For example, `sb-c`, `sb-vm`, and `sb-ext` packages in SBCL; and the `ccl` package with Clozure Common
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by jlarocco 2y ago
I don't know the general political disagreements, but I personally don't want WebUSB and think it's a garbage idea. The browser can already access the USB devices it needs through normal OS interfaces (the keyboard and mouse
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by jlarocco 2y ago
That changes the situation a little bit, but could a bluetooth mesh network of lamppost mounted traffic counters work just as well? Without the hassle of giving them all direct internet connections? I've been playing with bluetooth and
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by jlarocco 2y ago
I'm curious what coordinate system they're using and how the math worked a little more. I guess technically they could use latitude and longitude projected all the way out to the moon, but that would be pretty hard to use.
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by jlarocco 2y ago
Why mobile connectivity instead of Bluetooth? As an end user, I prefer my devices use Bluetooth and a hub device like a phone or laptop, rather than each one have a direct mobile connection.
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by jlarocco 2y ago
I don't see why it's at all surprising. Each iteration of the outter loop restuls in the smallest element moving into `A[i]`. And then the first `i` iterations of the inner loop are just wasting time.
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by jlarocco 2y ago
There's also "eww" that comes with Emacs. IME it's usually good enough for reading docs and stuff like that.
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by jlarocco 2y ago
How else would you name a lake?
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by jlarocco 2y ago
As a software engineer, a PhD doesn't seem worth it. It's a lot of work and time, and most companies don't particularly need PhDs. Maybe a PhD gets a boost in pay starting out, but 5 years of experience cancels out most of th
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by jlarocco 2y ago
That was a sarcastic joke comment.
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by jlarocco 2y ago
I wonder if that will that change when America owns Greenland /s
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by jlarocco 2y ago
Too bad they didn't use their namesake: https://mercurylang.org/ Would honestly be a lot more interesting than Haskell.
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by jlarocco 2y ago
Could be worse. I worked for a company that wouldn't pay for Slack, but mandated we use it. Incredibly frustrating to search for something, see that people have discussed and answered it before, but not be able to read it.
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by jlarocco 2y ago
As funny as this may be, it's kind of depressing what it says about technology and the future. It seems we're heading towards a future where companies and scammers/spammers use AI bots to get more money for themselves, while
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by jlarocco 2y ago
It's possible insurance prices were rising specifically for them - because they had a lot of claims, for example - and not necessarily for everybody.
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by jlarocco 2y ago
The best part is that there are people so gullible to fall for things like this. These are the people clicking internet advertisements and funding the web.
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by jlarocco 2y ago
I wouldn't say it's a "myth". My experience is a lot more like the OP's than what you describe. A few job sites, like WorkDay, have mangled my PDF resume every time I upload it. Like the OP, I've had to massa
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by jlarocco 2y ago
Everybody is different, but for the people I know with tattoos picking an artist and having them create a design based on their input was a big part of getting their tattoos. At the end of the day, if that's not a big part of it for ot
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by jlarocco 2y ago
Which makes an AI generated tattoo even more perplexing.
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by jlarocco 2y ago
> The real issue being why Autodesk was allowed to basically buy most of its main competitors in the 3D/CAD authoring tool space without any push back from government agencies. That's not even remotely true. There's Dassa
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by jlarocco 2y ago
It's a shame vendor specific software like this is necessary. I wonder why setting DPI and stuff like that were never added to the standards so the baseline drivers can use them?

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