jlg23

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by jlg23 5y ago
>> Who wants an automotive monoculture? > Clearly, the market. If all you can buy is golf pants but you want tough jeans, would you go bottomless or buy the golf pants? Cars I would buy instantly: * a car with an electric engine th
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by jlg23 5y ago
AWD does not automatically imply off-road capabilities, just better/safer handling. The chassis ain't made for loads encountered off-road.
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by jlg23 5y ago
> I don't think unikernels are worth it unless you're running at massive scale. "Worth" what? If deploying a microservice as a unikernel is just 'M-x deploy' (or a click, for mouse users) away, what's t
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by jlg23 5y ago
> I find it more interesting to ask the question "why do people spend so much hobby time writing interesting programs in Rust?". Maybe just as a learning experience or to be able to say "I know $hypedLanguage." Nothin
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by jlg23 5y ago
> The pertinent difference here appears to be a falsified bomb threat and the use of a fighter jet to implicitly threaten the lives of the pilot and crew if they didn't kowtow to the illegal instructions. Different to disallowing re
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by jlg23 5y ago
I've been a unix user for more than 2 decades now and have seen many of projects like these. And I've dismissed all for the simple reason that they don't fix the problem at its roots: getopt et al should be instrumented to pr
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by jlg23 5y ago
3rd way: only store what is absolutely necessary, purge when not required anymore. (And if you are trying to sell me some webmail or photo gallery service, why do you need my shoe size anyway?)
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by jlg23 6y ago
> It should be again like this. OTOH the time of jumpers and dip-switches for configuring hardware state is over; I am not sure I want to give any gaming company any chance to persist not only in some management layer of my computer but
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by jlg23 6y ago
Apparently the answer is in the rule book as well (from the WP article): "The set had rules for two different games, anti-monopolist and a monopolist. The anti-monopolist rules reward all during wealth creation while the monopolist rul
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by jlg23 6y ago
So that I can again drop the link that busts the "8 bits per byte"-myth ;) http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_by_b...
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by jlg23 6y ago
Or it's the place in history of a man who provided a tool that allowed dissemination of "heretic" ideas, thus enabling reformation.
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by jlg23 6y ago
Some certification of genericity required for all future device purchases by publicly funded institutions, for example.
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by jlg23 6y ago
> If you can (data is not sensible), you can update the fixtures with data from prod. Just make sure all devs use the same days from prod, then. I once was consulting for a dysfunctional team and everyone having different test data drawn
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by jlg23 6y ago
> even though negative amounts of physical things don't make sense. I beg to differ, just today, on the road, accelerating by some negative amount made a lot of sense.
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by jlg23 6y ago
The article explicitly states that is comparing against other prototypes of massless storage, and that energy density is 20% of lithium ion batteries. It then goes on to explain why they still think it is a breakthrough.
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by jlg23 6y ago
> I know this is meant as a joke, but I just use this to once again note that Perl actually had a very common linter/pretty printer way before it became all the rage (perltidy/perlcritic). And all great perl hackers deliver re
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by jlg23 6y ago
I know, I still have my black belt in perl somewhere. The one-liner is readable, too. Throw in some needless array-referencing-and-dereferencing so people can rightfully consider perl a write-only language...
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by jlg23 6y ago
If you interviewed for a perl job, you'd probably be disqualified for writing code that is too readable ;)
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by jlg23 6y ago
> Surely the correct answer is "use some established third party library that does this exact task well". Probably faster, better battle tested against weird input, localised etc etc than anything you can come up with by yourse
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by jlg23 6y ago
+1. Even when being told (for money!) to do the right thing most pay the consultant fee but don't act. True story: A friend was pentesting a large company network in Germany, wrote his report and got paid. Years later, when being hired
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by jlg23 6y ago
> I love the concept, wish I had a reason to use Forth, but also I'm not and never have been a hardware High level & easy: chat bots. I have implemented a forth interpreter in several bots I wrote (admins only, for obvious reas
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by jlg23 6y ago
apparently there is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_tube#Vacuum_tubes_in_th...
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by jlg23 6y ago
> I'm not sure I understand why someone in their IDE would be lost, you can't read README.md and see the file structure in your IDE? Of course one can see the files. But I rarely deal with "files" in my IDE, I deal wi
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by jlg23 6y ago
This will help people browsing code in github, but folks browsing code in their IDE will most likely be lost, as the documentation you advice to put into "README.md"s should, IMHO, be in the module/package documentation in th
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by jlg23 6y ago
> I have never found anyone who found 0-based indexing natural or intuitive. It is pretty intuitive when thinking about natural numbers as steps along a path. Then, zero is the number that means "you are already there".
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by jlg23 6y ago
My $0.02 advice for dealing with toxic FOSS users: "You already got more than you paid for, closing this ticket for violation of basic human interaction protocols."
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by jlg23 6y ago
Absolutely not. But neither do I want any tech that becomes successful to be automatically be controlled by some somehow elected instance. So, for this specific case: OK, Twitter, got you. We happen to be on the same side, but your reaction
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by jlg23 6y ago
> Until someone can grow cash crops, vertical isn't gonna make a dent [...] I image that countries with very little agriculturally usable land are watching this closely. Reducing dependency on imported food is probably in every nati
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by jlg23 6y ago
> The problem is I'd rather make a medium size changes to a simple system than a minor change to a complex system. Spending one hour thinking to make a one-line change might not feel productive if one is used to just hacking away, b
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by jlg23 6y ago
Speed has always mattered, though I agree we are light-years away from optimization levels once considered standard. OTOH, so are we WRT complexity of applications. Amazon is not going to change software development per se, but at least at

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