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We'd have to exclude them, otherwise it just raises the question of how the machine was installed originally. And if that was done using some complicated automated setup, the cost and complexity of the setup draws the result down. Assu
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An end user variant of this might be counting total key strokes/mouse clicks to install Linux on any machine, including all the disgusting BIOS/UEFI fiddling to enable USB boot, disabling SecureBoot, and anything else necessary. W
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by l0b0 3y ago
I've used Eclipse, Emacs, IDEA, jEdit, NetBeans, Vim (still do in a pinch), and VS Code for coding, and IDEA fits me much better than any of the others. Sane defaults, quickly getting up and running, intuitive and easily configurable k
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by l0b0 3y ago
I got into web accessibility early in my career, and would've probably done a lot more work there if anyone anywhere had given two shits. Trying to prioritise even basic stuff like alt text or keyboard shortcuts for the most important
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> Our CEO loves it. Of course, it probably saves them thousands in support salaries. Of course, it's a little harder to quantify how much it's costing them in lost goodwill and sales, but who cares about the long term,
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by l0b0 3y ago
I mentioned Extreme Programming in a meeting recently, and nobody had even heard of it. :(
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Absolutely. Most comments here seem to take the title at face value. Based on how low companies are willing to go to in the support space, it won't be at all surprising when all of them move to some form of ChatGPT-enabled crapbot, s
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by l0b0 3y ago
The empty string, right? That'd only be appropriate.
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by l0b0 3y ago
OP, don't you mean "Most people" rather than "Few people" in the first paragraph?
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by l0b0 3y ago
The less-than-wildly popular posts are where the gold is. The 1000+ voted posts are usually not very interesting (but probably rage-inducing to some part of the community, for sure), but looking through a few hundred posts with a couple ten
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by l0b0 3y ago
I agree, but I'm afraid the downvotes are inevitable. SO for a long time had by a very long shot the best signal-to-noise ratio of any free-as-in-beer Q&A channel. Basically any live comms channels (IRC, Matrix, and so on) disincen
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by l0b0 3y ago
Yeah, as a big unit testing proponent I'd still definitely say they are not a silver bullet. They simply have a good cost-to-confidence-in-code ratio. So do static types, or type annotated code with strict validation.
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by l0b0 3y ago
Reminds me of CERN Linux, which was downstream of RHEL when I was there. It took several years to certify all the CERN software on a new release, which surely must've cost the org many more years of cumulative developer productivity.
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by l0b0 3y ago
Yeah, I updated the comment based on that. I guess you'd have to formulate it very specifically to get an interesting answer.
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Is there a smallest uncomputable number? Or maybe that's not a well-formed question? Simplest uncomputable number? Simplest algorithm which produces uncomputable numbers? Confused now.
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by l0b0 3y ago
It sounds like you're saying we should all use Linux From Scratch. Or are you saying that Nix is somehow equally bad as Terraform? Because as a user of both, that's ridiculous.
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by l0b0 3y ago
Sometimes the medium itself is thought-terminating, like IRC and all its offspring (including Matrix): - It's basically impossible to have more than one productive discussion going at any time. - There's no threading (or threading
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by l0b0 3y ago
Isn't the biggest red flag of any privacy policy the ubiquitous "We can change this any way and any time we like, and you have no useful recourse."?
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by l0b0 3y ago
Absolutely. Passion and trust → swearing and quality.
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"Archivist"?
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Suggested: Achievement for excessively locking conversations[1] [1] https://github.com/Flet/rejected-github-profile-achievements...
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by l0b0 3y ago
Self-award time: - Procrastinator for at least one vague memory of some high-faluting idea which never went anywhere beyond creating the repo. - Monkey Wrench was sort of inevitable back when working without feature branches. - Patient Skel
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by l0b0 3y ago
https://paperless.blog - mostly programming, mostly "here's something neat which might be useful to others".
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Intel >> AMD >> Nvidia for GPU driver stability and Linux compatibility (source: used all three on different machines for everything including gaming). Of course, if you require some specific GPU feature or amount of RAM, that p
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by l0b0 3y ago
> It makes writing the happy path slower, but is writing the happy path _programming?_ Most managers and even some programmers seem to think so. Build the thing with no quality control, ship it, deal with the fallout, repeat. Bad
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Bringing a non-trivial code base up to even half-decent standards can be a monumental task, and because such code bases are inherently overly complex and risky to change there's only so much you can do without breaking production const
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by l0b0 3y ago
Two more: - Fuzz testing: randomising inputs to validate the mapping to expected outputs. - Mutation testing: changing code (`+` to `-`, `raise Foo` to `return`, etc.) to complement and validate the coverage metric.
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by l0b0 3y ago
Yep. Obviously this is a thought experiment , and the site did tell users to take the problem as stated very literally. So I basically went with two simple rules: - Would anyone call it a vehicle? - Is it in the park?
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Same - I used the simple "rule" that basically everything that's in the park and used to carry people or goods is a "vehicle" at least by some people's standard. But you can fly a plane across the globe witho
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> Someone whose incentives are tightly aligned with the business is going to solve the actual problem and simply and effectively as possible. On average, and depending on skill. Incentives are hugely important (probably the most import

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