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by ketralnis 2y ago
For something user facing sure but trying to debug why _sometimes_ my grep job hangs with large data dumps because my popen3 didn't know to consume from stderr because of your whimsicle message would be pretty rage inducing
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by ketralnis 2y ago
I love the fancy modern type systems and all of the superpowers that they give you. But this is an area that I feel isn't adequately explored. If you call a function that calls a function that has side effects, or that closes the file
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by ketralnis 2y ago
The video description is > All credits to FX. I do not own any rights. Appropriate
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by ketralnis 2y ago
It's incrementally better for them to be making $20 instead of $10, sure. But it's worse for the world for that to be footed by the tax payer instead of by the trillion dollar company that they work for. In effect the tax payers a
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by ketralnis 2y ago
I know so many developers (including me) that build this very thing. There's clearly demand for it, but no incentive for any large services to integrate their stuff into it when they can demand that you go directly to them :(
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by ketralnis 2y ago
A: yeah we're hurting you but if we didn't, B & C would B: yeah we're hurting you but if we didn't, A & C would C: yeah we're hurting you but if we didn't, A & B would I guess it’s nobody’s fault th
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by ketralnis 2y ago
> with the intention of having kids You're not disagreeing with the GP
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by ketralnis 2y ago
VBDOS, Visual Basic for MS-DOS, was incredible at quickly whipping together a TUI. The tool itself was a pretty slick TUI but I used it for writing all sorts of TUI tools for everything from doing my homework for me to editing game config f
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by ketralnis 2y ago
Rust is not as complicated as the opening graphic indicates. I usually see this meme from less experienced people but I'm frankly surprised to see it from somebody that's capable of writing a compiler in rust .
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by ketralnis 2y ago
Time comes for us all
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by ketralnis 2y ago
Things that can influence stall speed include weight, power, center of gravity, flaps/landing gear configuration, and more. Why? Well, stall speed isn't a real thing. There isn't a speed at which you stall, that's not
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by ketralnis 3y ago
The average age of me is up there :) I mean to say that any 3d programming being "retro" makes me feel old
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by ketralnis 3y ago
min(you, the website)
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by ketralnis 3y ago
There's something aging about "If you like retro programming & want to learn more about the early days of 3D games..."
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by ketralnis 3y ago
> predating LLM revolution So? It's not about LLMs?
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by ketralnis 3y ago
As someone who lives in an area with plenty of high-density residential buildings, I can attest that I love it and I wish there were more American cities that were an option for my lifestyle.
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by ketralnis 3y ago
I'm sure this will have no effect on the price of this famously expensive product
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by ketralnis 3y ago
Shrug, you can read the book and find out
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by ketralnis 3y ago
John McWhorter has a book about this called The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language in which he's extremely skeptical of Sapir-Worf, particularly the sort of stoner linguistics "what if we're all, like
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by ketralnis 3y ago
I haven't read this case but much of the time that courts are deciding weird looking statements like "this person didn't cheat at this video game" or "Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto" it's in defamati
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by ketralnis 3y ago
Okay but money laundering is https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1956
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A Study on the Coﬀee Spilling Phenomenon in the Low Impulse Regime(fermatslibrary.com)
4 points by ketralnis 3y ago|2 comments
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by ketralnis 3y ago
> White space in variable names is a bad idea. In many contexts yes but as a blanket statement no. Calca allows whitespace in names and it is a delight to write as a result
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by ketralnis 3y ago
I learned C on this compiler. Very fond memories
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by ketralnis 3y ago
Also "strings but moreso". e.g. in TCL and bash everything is actually a string even if you can contextually treat it like an integer.
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by ketralnis 3y ago
And yet humans figure it out sometimes
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by ketralnis 3y ago
Be better and misunderstand less often?
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by ketralnis 3y ago
I mean sure it's "everybody" but renaming Edge to Edge: AI Browser ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.... ) is more over the top than most.
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by ketralnis 3y ago
I agree and it's certainly their perogative and one should respect it. That said, how are people using this to generate any income at all? Printing out and selling mazes? How big can that market be?
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by ketralnis 3y ago
Or COBOL on COGS http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM

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