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by jlarocco 2y ago
With a few exceptions (like APL), I've always found it pretty easy to read code in most languages, as long as I understood the paradigm, and the original author made at least a tiny effort to use sensible naming. Imperative languages o
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by jlarocco 2y ago
I was thinking the same thing. The average person has a job and income. What's the average for a person taking extended time off?
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by jlarocco 2y ago
Meh, if I need that much detail I'll just read the function. And a function returning one of three types sounds like a TERRIBLE idea.
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by jlarocco 2y ago
I'm sure a lot of people here have much better examples, but I wrote some basic regular expression and finite automata algorithms in Haskell a long time ago: https://github.com/jl2/Compiler-Algorithm-Code/tree
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by jlarocco 2y ago
It's kind of crazy how half-assed and terrible the web app competitors to Office are. It's been 30 years, and Office 95 was objectively better and more full featured than Google Docs in 2024. Even Microsoft Works would blow Googl
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by jlarocco 2y ago
Sure, but iOS has to listen for them and do... something... when they see a "Find my iPhone" beacon. TBH I think it's very unlikely, but it's entirely possible they could add a flag to those beacon messages suggesting ot
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by jlarocco 2y ago
I know this is off on a tangent, but I recently signed up for LWN and it's well worth the price. The articles and news items alone are worth it, but the archive is just amazing.
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by jlarocco 2y ago
> Robustly to what? Not executing user input strings? IMO, this is like making human names illegal because people with certain accents or native languages may struggle to pronounce them. Our government officials are so stupid it's a
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by jlarocco 2y ago
I'm fully aware, just pointing out that C++ is particularly afflicted with backward compatibility issues; far more than other languages. "The Design and Evolution of C++" gives the impression that even back in the 80s, major
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by jlarocco 2y ago
Having an inconsistent, special case way of doing something in the name of backwards compatibility is the defining characteristic of C++.
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I agree, and IIRC, Garmin has a warning and disclaimer in their documentation stating the HR isn't guaranteed to be accurate, and it's easy to see in a graph that it's using a moving average. I still use mine a lot, because I
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by jlarocco 2y ago
> My gut feeling is there are still the same number of jobs for C++ today as there were in the 90s. It's just that they're hard to find because the total number of programming jobs has exploded. The reason you can't see th
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by jlarocco 2y ago
With the current job market, I'm surprised so many took it. Some people in my Linkedin network have been searching for tech and developer jobs for over 6 months. If it were me I would have stayed while I kept looking. It's alway
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by jlarocco 2y ago
https://lwn.net/Articles/812767/ https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/64bit-time I'm continually impressed by Debian. My Debian systems are pretty boring, so maybe it's to be expec
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by jlarocco 2y ago
Honestly, I don't remember it being a problem when I was younger, but after taking a few years off and getting back to it, it's been an issue. I wasn't having much luck finding the cause until a coworker recommended new shoes
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by jlarocco 2y ago
I'm convinced you don't need it, but my shin splints disagree, and I'm happy to buy new shoes after 300-500 miles.
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by jlarocco 2y ago
I'm not sure they mean "LLM based AI". To me it looks like they automated some boilerplate legal forms and marketted it as "AI" to capitalize on the hype.
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by jlarocco 2y ago
> I wouldn’t serve 30 days in jail for a billion dollars. I certainly would. $1 billion is well into "never work again" territory, and lots of people spend much more time in jail than that, have far fewer resources waiting for
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by jlarocco 2y ago
> There isn’t a single intellectually honest harm associated with the majority of app telemetry and for almost all ad data collection. Like go ahead and name one. The harm is the privacy violation. App telemetry needs to be "opt-in
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by jlarocco 2y ago
There is fundamentally a difference between corporations and the government, but it's still a cognitive dissonance. These aren't the laws of physics - we chose to have different rules for the government and corporations in this
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by jlarocco 2y ago
The cognitive dissonance is in the voters and users. Even right here on HN, where most people understand the issue, you'll see conversations and arguments in favor of letting companies vacuum up as much data and user info as they want
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by jlarocco 2y ago
I feel like that's a big part of it. I love the idea of spending tax money on R&D, but what would we accomplish on the moon at this point? Seems better to spend on telescopes and space stations until we have firm plans for what to
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by jlarocco 2y ago
> This is a sign that the software has grown to become its own operating system. They also have to add their own version control… remote editing, etc. Not really, though most of the commercial CAD systems are comparable in size to an ope
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by jlarocco 2y ago
As cool as OpenSCAD is, it's just one way of writing code to work with CAD. The commercial CAD systems all have APIs to do the same kind of stuff, but they also have sophisticated UIs on top to make them easier to use visually. NX eve
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by jlarocco 2y ago
I'm glad to hear it. The phone on my camera is good enough for snapshots, but it's fun to take out a real camera. The image quality is a lot better, the controls are better, and it's fun to focus on just taking pictures. It&
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by jlarocco 2y ago
This is a neat idea. Generally, though, third party libraries are the biggest problem I've had building Qt apps on different platforms. Qt itself "just works," but getting arbitrary open source libraries building on OSX and
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by jlarocco 2y ago
I agree. The project I work on right now has some major performance issues, and I'd LOVE if it were just a few bad inner loops that we could re-write. Instead it's more like death by a million cuts with the end result being a p
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by jlarocco 2y ago
I feel like that's a poor interpretation of what happened. Corporations and businesses don't inherently have rights - they only have them because we've granted them certain rights, and we already put limits on them. We do
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It’s really disappointing that they even had this, and is a perfect example of Mozilla selling out users to Google, as if it weren’t obvious before. Really no reason to use Firefox over Chromium or Safari as far as I can see. I’ve had good
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by jlarocco 2y ago
The problem with Mozzilla is that they don’t just fund development, they have control of it and they receive almost all funding from a direct competitor with a horrible privacy record. I trust FSF, Debian, Linux Foundation, etc. not to viol

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