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by legends2k 3y ago
> one will never get to be the latter part without going through a phase where they are doing the first. The parent comment doesn't contest this. I think it's about the throwaway code author being valued more than the other.
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by legends2k 3y ago
All languages have quirks. It's the degree of WTF-ness and how much they affect majority of its users that it becomes popular as a WTF-y language. The more the users the more chances of this too. Personally I find Python to be ergonom
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by legends2k 3y ago
Totally respect this viewpoint. I think the parent comment is about the shame of having a powerful device that could be programmed but is locked down only because the manufacturer thought so: an iPad can do a lot more but isn't allowe
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by legends2k 3y ago
References?
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by legends2k 3y ago
That's a shame; I thought it was one of the nice features of LuaJIT. In fact it built its own intermediate tools needed to build LuaJIT dist.
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by legends2k 3y ago
I've never needed to build LuaJIT as a git repo. Just download the tarball and did: make and make install; all I have is GNU make and GCC. Am I missing something?
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by legends2k 3y ago
Though you've no interest in space exploration you qualify to pass judgement on how inflated a space exploration related post, how?
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by legends2k 3y ago
Technically no one has landed in the crater ridden South pole on the dark side of the moon. Scientifically it's useful to course these uncharted parts of the moon both for water/ice and mineral composition. I don't see how p
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by legends2k 3y ago
South pole is unexplored and no one has ever landed there, manned or unmanned. Exploring the unexplored isn't science?
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by legends2k 3y ago
I think people who reach for an IDE are deep down spoiled brats who need everything on a platter.
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by legends2k 3y ago
It's just in the flowchart, not in code.
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by legends2k 3y ago
Nice, simple article. I'd have been nicer if you could justify the design of using scripting in this ray tracer. It only does create, save and delete image which is also a wrapper around equivalent C++ functions. It feels like using
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by legends2k 3y ago
That's due to the Perl culture. Their FAQs and man pages were top class due to the kind of programmers who write Perl; funny, pithy and quirky.
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by legends2k 3y ago
Depends on who you ask. Physically the rock-pusher job is harder. Mentally the architect's. I'd say pay comes in based on demand. Do we have more brainy folks or brawny folks?
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by legends2k 3y ago
That'd increase the package disk footprint by a large value since there are many languages supported by Emacs by default.
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by legends2k 3y ago
True, I've seen this with many projects in general (even outside software), the quality goes down as the quantity (of people involved) increases.
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by legends2k 3y ago
True, I've seen this with my projects in general (even outside software), the quality goes down as the quantity (of people involved) increases.
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by legends2k 3y ago
I hear you. The only way I could get around trying to learn Emacs was to stop and actually use it as my daily driver (making a pact with myself not to use another editor for 15 days). Given "normal" editor keys (cursor keys, pag
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by legends2k 3y ago
I hear you. The only way I could get around trying to learn Emacs was to stop and actually use it as my daily driver (making a pact with myself not to use another editor for 15 days). Given "normal" editor keys (CUE) work out of
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by legends2k 3y ago
This! I'm happy that Emacs isn't the greatest editor or the most-used/-popular; it needn't compete with say VSCode or vim. There's a decent, loyal user base, importantly not the free-loading, entitled kind who wate
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by legends2k 3y ago
You and the developers you know don't encompass all of humanity.
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by legends2k 3y ago
I've written DirectShow filters around 17 years back for WindowsMobile (not Windows Phone) so I've a decent understanding of codecs and containers. Formats like mkv or codecs like HEVC didn't exist back then but the concept o
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by legends2k 3y ago
Torrents aren't illegal inherently; the content downloaded are often copyright violations, yes, but using torrenting protocol itself isn't illegal. Most Linux distributions provide a torrent option to download their OS image file
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by legends2k 3y ago
Surprisingly no one has mentioned nullboard ( https://nullboard.io/preview ) yet. Just a single file JSON to carry around the entire board.
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by legends2k 3y ago
I think the difference is the user's type: if a programmer is looking for code, sans any learning interest, then ChatGPT is hands down the optimal choice; just get a solution, do copy-pasta and move on. If one is looking to learn, the
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by legends2k 3y ago
I think the difference is the user's type: if a programmer is looking for code, sans any learning interest, then ChatGPT is handsdown the optimal choice; just get an solution, do copy-pasta and move who. If one is looking to learn, th
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by legends2k 3y ago
In India, at least South India, it's considered unlucky to give or receive anything through the door threshold; either party goes to the other side and hands over (food, money, bag, etc.).
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by legends2k 4y ago
Nice to see Blender team being thanked as major contributors for Gitea :)
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by legends2k 4y ago
Where can I learn about _Advanced Conversational Techniques_?

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