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by karatestomp 6y ago
Yeah, I'm thinking about trialing FreeBSD for both that and having better man pages (Linux's are so incredibly bad). OpenBSD seems even nicer but I also like having, you know, software and drivers that Just Work™, which already
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by karatestomp 6y ago
No, it's that the message of "black lives matter" is intended as a reminder to a society that acts like it has forgotten this or doesn't give it enough consideration. "All lives matter" as a rebuttal to it is
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by karatestomp 6y ago
> The only purpose of sudo is to protect you from yourself, that is, to avoid messing up your system by mistake. This is one reason I increasingly don't like the normal Linux distro "system packages, plus everything else unde
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by karatestomp 6y ago
"All lives matter" as a rebuttal or reminder is about as useful as "LOL it's not actually free you forgot about taxes" when someone mentions "free" healthcare. Everyone already knew that. Context is alway
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by karatestomp 6y ago
> It's structural and systemic, so for the first time a lot of of white progressives are discovering that we're part of the problem. Saying "I don't see colour" is suddenly the wrong thing to say. For a long time
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by karatestomp 6y ago
It's less "need" and "does the same thing but far more efficiently and can't rot because a machine makes sure it's correct". I like letting my tools do stuff for me. If a tool can go look up what arguments
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by karatestomp 6y ago
> I wonder how this small bubble will be seen in 500 years How much do you know about the movers & shakers in steel production in AD 1520 Toledo? Same, but spice trade merchant-empires in Italy? How many people know more than like 5
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by karatestomp 6y ago
TypeScript is better at documenting intent for other developers (where "other developers" includes your future self) than either tests or comments/readmes. It just about entirely takes care of the "what" so comments
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by karatestomp 6y ago
What you're usually gaining with a graph database: a query language designed primarily for operating on graphs, and a design tuned to be very efficient at some subset of queries one might want to make against graphs. They're typ
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by karatestomp 6y ago
One of the best things about TypeScript is that it compiles to very normal-looking JS. Its compilation step is almost entirely just stripping out type data, by design. I went through coffeescript pain before and like many didn’t expect to e
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by karatestomp 6y ago
The solutions are spending lots of money or sending your kids to relatives during the day—often older ones, who are precisely the ones we don’t want around kids who’ve been out and about.
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Having people read the symbols to me is much, much smoother than trying to decipher them myself. They read it to me in English. The writing is in super-compact squiggle-squiggle. I prefer English. [EDIT] for math-heavy content in particular
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Just like IceWeasel on Debian. Can use the code, can't (necessarily) use the name.
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by karatestomp 6y ago
> Stop on! Not sure if typo or joke about out-of-order message processing in distributed systems. > just to easy to just slip And maybe also about the impossibility of exactly-once message delivery?
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by karatestomp 6y ago
I'd kinda prefer it then, too. If it's short and I'm just scripting stuff up it's probably mostly calls to existing code (libraries) so almost all the static typing would do is tell me when I'm screwing up and give
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by karatestomp 6y ago
The only real models we have to base our “normal” on for the post-depression post-WWII, modern postindustrial society are the Greatest and Silent generations. It’s not like the Boomers broke with long-standing tradition. What they inherited
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Yeah, every time I job hunt it’s 10x the enterprise Java opportunities (don’t really want those) versus Ruby, Go, and even native mobile. I don’t have .net in my work history but gather it’s similar for that. Between them they’re a huge p
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by karatestomp 6y ago
> * Your code should be reliable and high quality enough that you can refactor it fast and without headaches. I have lived situations where a change in one part of the application was creating bugs somewhere completely different. I'
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Way taller, no furniture. Bet that’s a lot of why it looks so much better. RVs have low ceilings and are packed with cabinets and couches and such. This is empty.
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Some of that might just be sloppy development but I have a feeling that part of it's the SDK's fault. It's a weird mix of being too abstract to let you take tight control of performance but not abstract enough that I ever f
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Bertrand Russell, in one of his more political books (I forget which—maybe New Hopes for a Changing World ?) points out how odd it is that we now consider the notion that people would inherit titles & positions obviously silly and ca
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Write apps for Garmin watches, especially supporting ones a generation or two old and on the lower end. Welcome to the world of removing code to shave a couple KB off the space the code itself takes up in memory so you can use it for data.
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by karatestomp 6y ago
I'd hope they care at least some. Little kids love to eat dog/cat food and treats, and it's hard to keep them out of it. At least enough to make sure it's not, like, full of lead or something.
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Yeah, that works great for terminal programs as long as you leave everything running somewhere and there are even ways to kinda do what I want in the browser using groups of bookmarks as "sessions", it's just everything els
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by karatestomp 6y ago
> You would expect a big software company like Google to know better, but you'd be mistaken. I don't think it qualifies as speculation anymore to assert that Google has something really broken about it, organizationally, that k
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by karatestomp 6y ago
That, and there's a lot of "folk knowledge" around how to do things that the docs ignore. The cleanest and most efficient (or even just non-broken) way to do even basic shit is often to ignore how the docs say to do it and us
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Wild guess: the web client it includes is most of that. Even if it cleans up the instance of it after, the code itself is still sitting in memory, and that may be quite large. It also seems to include a JSON parser, which might be a bit lar
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by karatestomp 6y ago
I remember 2 being harder plastic and 1 being the more rubbery one. Though I could well be wrong. Sold all that stuff years ago except three or four of the bigger ones, which my kids play with.
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by karatestomp 6y ago
I'm getting ready to move toward something like that, but with VMs for each sort of work or task I'm doing. My reasons: 1) I'm leaving Mac hardware for "pro"-tier computing because their gear's swung way back
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by karatestomp 6y ago
And then pretty soon the plugins are in one or more scripting languages (probably JavaScript) and your scripting subsystem is 100x the size of all of dwm.

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