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by jmull 2y ago
I think a lot of the confusion is just that it's not what people are used to. e.g., an anytime parameter is checked by the compiler, just a like a parameter of an interface type in a language with interfaces. In either case, if you try
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by jmull 2y ago
Like I said, watch what they do. The narratives people promote are self-serving and often counter-factual. Federal spending went up during our current president's last administration (and down the following administration). It's a
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by jmull 2y ago
You may agree with the incoming anti-DEI policies, but don't let that obscure what's happening here. Previously, federal funding was controlled by congress, and subject to its collective politics, via long-playing out machinations
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by jmull 2y ago
I wonder what could go wrong with constraining federal funding to political ideas the current president personally approves of? "Great" isn't how anyone will describe it once the second-order consequences land. (There won&#x2
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by jmull 2y ago
That's a different issue, is it not? It seems weak argumentation to change the subject any time someone says something you don't like.
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by jmull 2y ago
> Pride in good work and pleasure in having an impact on customers and coworkers is good for you. Sometimes that means making dumb business decisions like sacrificing an evening to a company that doesn't care... Right. The company
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by jmull 2y ago
Does this matter? This is the CIA, which will make any kind of claim, true or false, if it suits their aims. Well, it does signal their aims.
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by jmull 2y ago
That's fine (I've done it). It's just that bootstrap is better at it.
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by jmull 2y ago
> Or should I just reinstall Bootstrap and be done with this. That one. Tailwind gives you tools when you want to control the design, but you’ve got to control the design. When you just want something that looks good and don’t mind that
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by jmull 2y ago
> can you elaborate on " aren't designed for wearing all the time"? Well, they look like sport watches. People can choose the aesthetic they want, but you're sending a message with one that's that opinionated, wh
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by jmull 2y ago
From my perspective -- someone who wants the things a smart watch does -- I can't figure out what a Garmin is for. They don't really do the job of a regular smart watch and aren't designed for wearing all the time, so it beco
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by jmull 2y ago
If results of elections aren't respected then the democracy is already over. Pro-democracy people will want to find ways to strengthen or preserve democracy (or at least limit the damage) in the face of threats to it, not blow it up th
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by jmull 2y ago
> For anyone that honestly believes that, why pack up and go home when Trump wins the election? You're wondering why people who are pro-democracy are respecting the outcome of the election?
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by jmull 2y ago
I think it's pretty clear Hunter Biden has been sleazily profiting from the position of his father. What's missing is Joe Biden's involvement. If your politics are against Joe Biden, I guess you can just kind of imagine that
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by jmull 2y ago
I guess people are unaware of the various malicious rootkits that have cropped up? If you're serious about this stuff binary thinking is a mistake. It's not a question of whether rooting is possible or impossible. It's a ques
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by jmull 2y ago
> There are a ton of products on the market that are vastly more dangerous than computers An irrelevant "whaddabout" argument. It doesn't change that we need security and privacy for our information handling devices, as we
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by jmull 2y ago
> That is perfectly described as imitating the outward appearance of methods one doesn't truly understand. A person could perfectly well understand how radios work, while still constructing bamboo ones to receive messages from spiri
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by jmull 2y ago
Never mind that URLs are identifiers.
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by jmull 2y ago
> Sure, but only after it's fully expanded, Code goes into the compiler. Either compiled code or errors come out. There's no partial expansion step to cause confusion. You're probably referring to something about the flexi
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by jmull 2y ago
I quite liked svelte 4. Svelte 5 might be even better, but I'll probably never find out. I won't touch it if I can help it. No matter how good it is, I'm fairly certain there will be a svelte 6, 5 will be abandoned, and whate
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by jmull 2y ago
I saw that. But I don't think it has bearing on zig comptime. zig generates a compile error when you try to pass a non-conforming type to a generic function that places conditions/restrictions on that type (such as by calling a ce
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by jmull 2y ago
Downstream effects with generating compiler errors is still about the human programmer's ability to reason about the code, and error messages can only reference the identifier names provided. The compiler doesn't do anything you,
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by jmull 2y ago
Whether you consider it a big deal or not is up to you, but with zig's approach you don't have to write/maintain a separate parser, nor worry about whether it's complete enough to process your source files. I don't
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by jmull 2y ago
> being able to reason about functions just from their type signature. This has nothing to do with compile-time execution, though. You can reason about a function from its declaration if it has a clear logical purpose, is well named, and
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by jmull 2y ago
LLM auto-complete is good — it suggests more of what I was going to type, and correctly (or close enough) often enough that it’s useful. Especially in the boilerplate-y languages/code I have to use for $dayjob. Search has been neutral.
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by jmull 2y ago
> the verdict is clear Not to me. I know there's plenty of junk, but if you opt out of the node ecosystem in its entirety, you're essentially opting out of most of javascript development as well, which is a substantial part of
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by jmull 2y ago
I agree about react and nextjs. But the node ecosystem includes essentially everything that touches on javascript, both the bad and the good. I don't think there are very many ecosystems that are guaranteed to have only good stuff. Reg
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by jmull 2y ago
> ...you can use as much or as little of it as you like... Stability as a Feature... No New Features as a Feature... This is the way. Having lived the alternative, I won't consider building anything significant on top of an abstract
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by jmull 2y ago
I agree that Apple Intelligence generally stinks, but I'm not seeing anything actually generally more useful from anyone else. If no one is good enough, does it really matter who's the worst?
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by jmull 2y ago
WordPerfect and WordStar were text-based at the time MacWrite came out as a WYSIWYG word processor. Not to say MacWrite wasn't based on prior work (it was, though not actual products that I know of), but it isn't really comparable

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