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by le-mark 10mo ago
It’s really hard to understand today the level of hype around Java and OOP in the 90s. The fact Netscape changed the name from Livescript to JavaScript may be an indicator. This was also peak Sun, they were really driving the web in this er
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by le-mark 11mo ago
Let’s all take a moment to remember Nikolas Wirth and Project Oberon and its fpga processor. I learned so much from reading his books. They are very accessible and I recommend them to anyone!
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by le-mark 11mo ago
Consumer grade windows machines have been barely useable, for a decade plus, due to pre installed crap ware. I stopped helping family members long ago. I tell them install Linux and I’ll help you. A few have and have been very happy!
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by le-mark 11mo ago
Note the Mercedes as taxis in Germany are not the high end luxury car imports we are accustomed to seeing in the US. Mercedes makes a lot of more affordable cars for their domestic market we never see here!
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by le-mark 11mo ago
This is an admirable goal but complicated by the inevitable conditional logic around what to do in certain situations. Push the conditions into the sub methods, or keep them in primary method? Thinking about what are testable chunks of logi
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by le-mark 11mo ago
So about 50*364 more years until it’s travelled a light year!
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I’ve read it described as “used future” aesthetic.
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by le-mark 11mo ago
That series strived for realism in that regard, and in using magnetic boots to work in zero gravity; which was admirable. That made the things that were not realistic stand out even more imo. The (unfortunately named) Epstein drive, a drive
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by le-mark 11mo ago
> "just do it, its easy" This is where devops came from. Developers saw admins and said I can do that in code! Every time egotistical, eager to please developers say something is easy, business says ok, do it. This is also wher
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by le-mark 11mo ago
The author went old turkey. That is rough. For me going cold turkey caused massive headaches. I cut out caffeine a decade ago. It was a haphazard affair. I wanted to improve my sleep, so I started limiting my intake by stopping in the after
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by le-mark 11mo ago
Let me help with that APP: The acronym APP in the context of a nurse practitioner stands for Advanced Practice Provider
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by le-mark 11mo ago
I haven’t seen a MD in years. I’ve only seen nurse practitioners, at least 5 years now. Health care in the US is deadly, expensive joke. But Fox and friends tell us how great it is compared to socialist countries! Yay!
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by le-mark 11mo ago
I experimented with some ai generated political spam on YouTube. The reality is a lot of people can’t tell the difference or don’t care. Given the demographic this site selects for, it’s easy to forget how many dumb people there are in the
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by le-mark 11mo ago
> and tcl's string-based nature is just too weird. TCL had the ability dynamically load and call into .so’s which was really powerful. Those who knew, knew.
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by le-mark 11mo ago
Kurt Vonnegut saw this trend emerging back in 1961: https://archive.org/stream/HarrisonBergeron/Harrison%20Berge...
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by le-mark 11mo ago
It would be an easy “A” for a lot of people in the US!
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by le-mark 11mo ago
I find that using C as an intermediate step really helps conceptualize this process. It can be tough to imagine how to represent a language like ruby as C. Essentially you have to start from the point that everything is an object and method
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by le-mark 11mo ago
Will windows be relevant by 2040? I personally don’t think so.
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by le-mark 11mo ago
Is it though? V8 and spider monkey both have jits so performance numbers of the form “wow V8 is vastly faster than any of these other ones!” (similarly for sm). Does that really have any value?
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by le-mark 11mo ago
I had this happen a few times with the official client on Ubuntu back in 2020 or so: My laptop cpu and fan would go crazy and after a while I ran out disk space. I found a .so in the teams install directory was several hundred gigabytes. So
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by le-mark 11mo ago
That wasn’t my first thought. My first thought was; every senior executive everywhere is probably doing the same thing.
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by le-mark 11mo ago
We are witnessing the birth of the age of Rocket Tycoons. Who will be the first to publish this video game?
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by le-mark 11mo ago
The original BSD advanced quite rapidly independent of AT&T Unix and became the basis of many commercial unices. There was a 386 port that lived on as free/open/net bsd and others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by le-mark 11mo ago
I feel this. The last time I was job hunting I started the leetcode grind doing the blind 75 list you can find online. Luckily for me my network came through with a job. I’m currently employed but if I lost this job I don’t know if I could
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by le-mark 11mo ago
> Really good money in it for people who want to learn COBOL though. False, all those jobs were outsource and offshored long ago.
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by le-mark 11mo ago
I’ve witnessed two legacy migration projects, both failed. One was a source translation to Java, this one failed because they didn’t have the expertise to manage production Java applications and pulled the plug. The other was a rewrite tha
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by le-mark 11mo ago
> now wonder if XSLT is implemented by any browser that isn't controlled by Google (or derived from one that is). Edge IE 11 mode is still there for you. Which also supports IE 6+ like it always did, presumably. They didn’t reimplem
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by le-mark 11mo ago
Someone called me a boomer a few months ago and I was deeply offended. I’m gen x. The person was gen z. I was like dude do you not know what a boomer is? They had no idea that baby boomers were the generation born after world war 2. To them
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by le-mark 11mo ago
> The syntax is hard to parse for humans This was my problem as well, the object oriented related syntax is just too much. ML of which caml is a version of, has really tight syntax. The “o” in ocaml ruins it imo.
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by le-mark 11mo ago
And why aren’t the people who “stole” the election being prosecuted by Trumps DOJ and FBI? He had proof remember? I wish liberal media would hammer this point and expose the lie for what it is.

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