jlarocco

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by jlarocco 3y ago
And you have to wonder if they're screwing up something this simple, what else are they screwing up?
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by jlarocco 3y ago
> All three companies sued the city, maintaining that the law would hurt delivery workers more than help them. Assuming that is really the premise of the lawsuit, could it be thrown out because the drivers aren't employees, and ther
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by jlarocco 3y ago
> What frustrates me is that there's still significant resistance to not destroying our own home... It's really not a big deal - humans will adapt to deal with the changes, or they'll go extinct and something else will evo
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by jlarocco 3y ago
I wonder if this case was a setup for a lawsuit against OpenAI? Given the marketing and the way Microsoft and Google were tripping over themselves to "catch up", the impression in the media and to the general public is that chat b
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by jlarocco 3y ago
Not sure why people are hating so hard on your site, but I liked the effect, and it didn't cause any problems for me.
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by jlarocco 3y ago
POSIX is the standard for Unix, not for C.
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by jlarocco 3y ago
> My point is that most jobs are simple CRUD app jobs or positioning divs on a screen... It's really not "most jobs." Although I do agree that a CS or software engineering degree is overkill for that type of stuff. Also,
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by jlarocco 3y ago
I don't know if that's the best argument. People used lead for pipes, drinking glasses, and other things for thousands of years before realizing the negative effects.
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by jlarocco 3y ago
A few years ago I picked up "Music By Computer"[1] from a used book store, and it's fascinating. Published in 1969, it's a collection of papers from the 60s about music and sound processing on the machines back then, an
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by jlarocco 3y ago
The only way to stop this from happening in the long term is to educate users that companies are spying on them, and tell them about the tools to prevent it. Depending on site owners and spyware companies, like Facebook, to solve the proble
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by jlarocco 3y ago
> 1. I don't know what kind of world you live in to think that USD 3500 is "less than one week of a developer salary for most companies." I think you really just mean FAANG (or whatever the current acronym is) or potential
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by jlarocco 3y ago
$3500 is less than one week of a developer salary for most companies. It woudn't pay a month's rent for most commercial office space. It's a lower cost of entry than almost any other industry I can think of. A cargo van wit
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by jlarocco 3y ago
Sure, but the article isn't about audio apps or drawing with a graphics tablet; it's about typing delay in terminal emulators. I have to agree with the OP here. I've used urxvt almost every day for years (I remember using it
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by jlarocco 4y ago
I'd rather just have a real person or go it alone. Maybe I'm too old or too anti-social, but using an AR or VR for those things seems kind of sad and depressing to me.
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by jlarocco 4y ago
> I can’t imagine wanting any AR company myself; Glad I'm not the only one. I don't see the appeal at all.
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by jlarocco 4y ago
And what's the problem gating it behind a human?
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by jlarocco 4y ago
Technically you're right, but is it worth the trouble for groceries?
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by jlarocco 4y ago
Reverting my settings changes isn't "making things easy for me"; it makes things more difficult, because I have to go back and change them again, and again, and again after every upgrade, sometimes after every update. Arbitra
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by jlarocco 4y ago
Having used OSX for ~10 years, I can say Apple isn't much better. Both systems treat the user like an idiot, just in different ways. You'll see what I mean when the OSX updates start undoing changes you've made to settings a
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by jlarocco 4y ago
I've had good luck using Python with COM. It has some rough edges, but it works well enough, and can even tab complete methods and accessors in the REPL. Here's an old example working with Catia: https://gist.github.co
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by jlarocco 4y ago
> The investors however were insulated from much of the cost overruns. The American way.
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by jlarocco 4y ago
> "Grow everything yourself and never interact with society" doesn't seem like a very fulfilling life to me. It sounds like a great life to me... but not very realistic in this day and age.
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by jlarocco 4y ago
It's cool that Arm64 chips are catching up in speed, but the software support has been there for a long time. When I bought my Raspberry Pi several years back, I was able to comfortably develop using Emacs, gcc, and SBCL Common Lisp -
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by jlarocco 4y ago
They'll tow you. Hell, they may tow you even if you pay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfTcZbOmLl0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJg9m0eOjsM https://wgntv.com/news/wgn-investi
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by jlarocco 4y ago
As a long time Linux user I have mixed feelings about that. I'm not really against it, but I don't use KDE or Gnome (or any of the others in your list) and it concerns me that people might start thinking of those as "being Li
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by jlarocco 4y ago
Respectfully disagree - I can see it having a big impact. It cuts their office space requirements roughly in half, which could mean reduced rent, more teams in the same amount of space (real estate runway), or potentially leasing out the e
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by jlarocco 4y ago
Yeah, I totally agree. I only use Lisp as a hobby so I stick to the free implementations, but if I made money with it I definitely wouldn't mind paying for LispWorks or Allegro. An $8k license fee really isn't that much for enterp
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by jlarocco 4y ago
I'm curious if you'd share examples. I think I'd sum up the last 10 years as the web and mobile ecosystems doing a mediocre job trying to catch up to where native apps were 20 years ago. My overall development experience wri
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by jlarocco 4y ago
I can't speak for the OP, but I've felt this way too, and for me it's because I feel that while most industries are changing for the better, software development seems unusually short sited in chasing new stuff. Most industr
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by jlarocco 4y ago
As cool as that is, I'm more interested in seeing how far inland the waves would go.

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