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by knorker 3y ago
How can you work with people who buy phones made by slaves? Or people who eat meat? > How do you try to weave a social fabric with that? How do you do it without it? The only solution given your rules is "if everyone just thought ex
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by knorker 3y ago
> To expect some kind of neutral zone is to make the world dead of life. You call this hate filled divisive mutual nazi-calling "life"? Neutral zones disappearing is exactly what's causing society to tear itself apart.
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by knorker 3y ago
Like specifically what I just mentioned: the official FAQ. And repeatedly from Pike, core documentation, and other core developers.
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by knorker 3y ago
Not sure what your question is. "Insist in what way": starts with things like the Go FAQ having a question called "Why does Go not have exceptions?". The answer does elaborate, so it's not like they're lying, e
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by knorker 3y ago
> I thought one difference was that a panic in a goroutine kills the whole process Only if not caught. But in any case this still means that you need to write exception safe code, because you don't know if the function you call will
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by knorker 3y ago
The simplest example is that you're probably writing this function: func Foo() error { m.Lock() defer m.Unlock() return fooWithLockHeld() } But your less experienced colleague was told by Rob Pike himself
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by knorker 3y ago
I think two big failures were: 1. Nil pointers (two types of them, even!). We knew better even then. 2. Insisting that the language doesn't have exceptions, when it does. User code must be exception safe, yet basically never use except
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by knorker 3y ago
> An opinion being minority has no reflection on whether or not it is correct. I entirely agree. But if you find yourself in the minority, then I encourage you to objectively consider what's more likely: Are you right, or are most o
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by knorker 3y ago
>> What's your evidence or supporting research? > We didn't need it. It was based on a-priori knowledge. Well, you may hold these truths to be self-evident, but that's hardly an argument. And since you say "It&#
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by knorker 3y ago
> The psychology portion isn't subjective What's your evidence or supporting research? > things are easier to scan if the more important part is first You skipped the step where "most important" is defined. > &q
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by knorker 3y ago
Sorry, yeah I should have clarified that. For the purposes of the topic at hand, "CL" is "commit".
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by knorker 3y ago
This seems super subjective, while being written as if it's not. I find this way WAY harder to read/scan, and very much prefer Google's standard: https://google.github.io/eng-practices/review/develop
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by knorker 3y ago
The best thing about GNU Radio is that you can connect boxes without really understanding them, or the math behind them. There are many howtos and YouTube videos you can watch, and start picking up a little here and there. It doesn't h
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by knorker 3y ago
Ugh. Yeah "unique query syntax" is not a feature. I suspect this whole thing may be GPT generated buzzword bullshit.
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by knorker 3y ago
Another one: dinosaurs existed on the other side of the galaxy. The galaxy has revolved about half a revolution since then.
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by knorker 3y ago
My memory says that win3.1 came on just 7 floppies. Did you install from 5.25 floppies?
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by knorker 3y ago
I used MySQL before foreign key support. It was a nightmare. The article seems to basically be saying "but it's hard!". Well, I'd rather put down the extra effort so that I don't have corrupt data. You know what&#x2
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by knorker 3y ago
These days I have less time, and more obligations and side projects than time. Doesn't hurt to ask, though. :-)
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by knorker 3y ago
Can't be more specific without doxing myself, I'm afraid. There are non language ways to make things safer, sure. Take C++, one can do things other than RAII to avoid resource leaks, and it'll be a good pattern. But RAII is r
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by knorker 3y ago
Yup. I feel that I left plenty of space for this use of case in my comment. But as for team knowledge of C++, that's temporary. In the long run, because of the avoidance of many bugs, it may save time. But there are also no silver bull
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by knorker 3y ago
I guess the field I was imagining was greener than that. But yes. In many cases you can just interface to the C libraries. But cross language coding has never been perfect, and yes, sometimes it's better to continue using the same lang
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by knorker 3y ago
> it's easy to visually confirm everything is cleaned up. Yes and no. It's easy to not make a mistake in a function. It's basically impossible to not make this mistake in 1'000 functions. Especially as code evolves ov
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by knorker 3y ago
C++20 improves the situation, though. https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/format/format But yes, in a world where Rust exists, I don't see a need for C or C++ for greenfield.
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by knorker 3y ago
As another commenter pointed out, AWS only started supporting multiple MFAs last year. Ugh, but yeah Paypal… that's why I'm still on SMS (SIM hijackable) and TOTP (phishable) with them.
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by knorker 3y ago
That's great news. Thanks!
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by knorker 3y ago
I find anything that doesn't support U2F keys annoying. It doesn't add any friction when the computer just says "push the USB key", since it's a yubikey nano that's always plugged into the computer. What REALLY
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by knorker 3y ago
I've been using GPG for about as long, and I've had problems with it. They've used some cipher, was it IDEA, than then got removed. So then I had to hunt down years old versions in order to be able to extract my old backups.
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by knorker 3y ago
Oh. I found it very defensive and aggressive. Putting scare quotes around what I said, calling what I said "ridiculous", and seems to have taken critique of the Go language personally by saying that the Go language designers bette
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by knorker 3y ago
I think he matters, for computer history. I never aimed to have him care what I say, though.
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by knorker 3y ago
Well, that's your opinion. You seem to have gotten a bit emotional about this, so I don't think this'll go anywhere.

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