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by jlg23 4y ago
Yes, with -Wall it triggers a warning, but the warning is a false positive because assignment is indeed the intention.
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by jlg23 4y ago
Depending on where you are and what/when you work you might not be able to "just go outside" at that specific time.
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by jlg23 4y ago
> If you stop using jargon then people assume you don't know what you're talking about. This affect is real. Your precieved credibility goes way down when you stop speaking in jargon. So let them learn it the hard way. If peopl
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by jlg23 4y ago
A cursory reading gives the impression he expresses the ideas behind Sartre's "The Transcendence of the Ego"[1], which I consider one of the most influential texts I read as a teenager. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by jlg23 4y ago
> I think the main reason we don’t hear more about just how goddamn efficient a bowl of lentils and rice is, or oatmeal, is because it’s not sexy. I consider food that can be mass-produced in those 71% of the world's surface that ca
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by jlg23 4y ago
You can replay live traffic. Though I usually do that already in testing.
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by jlg23 4y ago
>> "Use set -o errexit" > Only if it doesn't matter that the script fails non-gracefully. Some scripts are better to either have explicit error handling code, or simply never fail. Then handle those errors explicitly
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by jlg23 4y ago
> Absurdity. $180k per headset delivered? Did they mean $21.88mm?! I don't know the details of the deal, but assuming it contains a clause "you cannot sell it to anyone else without our approval" it might be a realistic pr
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by jlg23 4y ago
> I wonder if discrimination based on handedness is unlawful anywhere. Most probably. But I think judges would agree that this is a "discrimination" not in the social or political sense but as a rather scientific method to dete
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by jlg23 4y ago
My $0.02: At least me, as a tax payer, would like to be able to say "yes, please give to to free riders". I already paid for my problem to be solved and I did so, because the solution was worth the price. That's where my math
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by jlg23 4y ago
> Reading terms like "static site generator", "content management system", "templates", "analytics" or "deployment" gives me an instant headache, Only until you want to automate some of t
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by jlg23 4y ago
> Donating itself is also fraught, however.[...] That again is a problem the receiver of a donation has to take care of as they'll have to pay for the disposal of actual garbage. When I was donating my library before traveling for a
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by jlg23 4y ago
> I'm not sure how to fix it. We have a lot of people who are afraid to get their hands dirty, designing the things that are supposed to be the future of our civilization. That's a real problem. I think "garbage" disp
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by jlg23 4y ago
"Over analysis" here means by the opponent: If you chose the optimal move, thousands have done so before, so has your opponent. By doing something non-perfect, you enter territory where your opponent does not already have the tree
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by jlg23 4y ago
I have yet to find a use-case where I really want a lisp-1 over a lisp-2. Though I'd really love to see some production code that exploits the single namespace.
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by jlg23 4y ago
Awesome, thanks for the link. I'll probably use that as a response whenever someone complains about compilation/setup being too complicated - the compilation instructions on page 4 should give them a proper baseline ;)
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by jlg23 4y ago
See moonchild's response for the why, here is the how: (funcall (if (< 1 0) #'+ #'*) 42 100) Edit: this is actually a pretty famous interview question for lisp jobs: write a program that is valid in CL and in scheme but
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by jlg23 4y ago
Yes, I think the parent comment was referring to the need to either check in the HTML or have it generated server side: "define a CI task that uses Emacs to export to HTML".
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by jlg23 4y ago
We can, but we prefer to use way cheaper and faster methods because before the "ancestral" building is finished, with our modern methods, we have built, used, torn down and rebuilt several times.
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by jlg23 4y ago
From the article: > Since it was installed in your home directory - no need to change any permissions. No sudo required. Although I'd argue sudo vs no-sudo-but-in-your-home-directory is the same difference. Local exploits are trivia
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by jlg23 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_(dairy_product)
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by jlg23 4y ago
This post is about "database cursors" and "keyset pagination". In practice, these terms refer to the same thing, one seen bottom-up the other seen top-down. Implementation-wise, one saves the state of the cursor in the p
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by jlg23 4y ago
My development environment is FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Linux; I am deploying to non-linux unixes only. 99% of the patches I have to do to build systems are one-liners that explicitly spell out what syntactic sugar the newest feature of gmake&#x
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by jlg23 4y ago
I've heavily relied on GNUMake myself in a commercial project. But when I encounter a software that does require a GNUMake >= a specific version and on top bash instead of Posix SH, I must be quite desperate to install this just to
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by jlg23 4y ago
> Engineers working in IDEs tend to have a different idea about what constitutes readable code than ones working in basic editors. I do like beautiful punch card layouts, too. But I'd still not hire someone who uses punch cards to w
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by jlg23 4y ago
No, that is not incorrect; but there also is much more.
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by jlg23 4y ago
bwahaha. what a gem; thank you! "To justify this emotional outbreak potentially insulting to unknown persons, I will write a lot of text. Those not comfortable with toxic language should pretend this is a religious text." I'm
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by jlg23 4y ago
No problems finding it in Belem 6 years ago. +1 on the "a little sip" - but I think that's true for any alcoholic beverage one drinks for yet another effect than the ones induced by alcohol (e.g. Absinthe).
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by jlg23 4y ago
> If you're running earnestly, I would argue that the hardest thing about a SOC2 is ensuring that you stick to your guns on approaches that work for you and not adding cruft that you don't care about. If you let the latter happ
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by jlg23 4y ago
Except for that silence speaks loudly in some circumstances.

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