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by lenkite 7mo ago
Same - shell vi mode is critical for intensive terminal sessions.
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by lenkite 7mo ago
Your http client setup is over-complicated. You certainly don't need `.proxy` if you are not using a proxy or if you are using the system default proxy, nor do you need `.authenticator` if you are not doing HTTP authentication. Nor do
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by lenkite 7mo ago
> just verify that X works via tests and documentation. No, its verify that X approach is semantically correct, architecturally makes sense, design is valid and then add tests and documentation. Basically, 80% of the work.
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by lenkite 7mo ago
It would be great if Israel also implemented UN Security Council Resolution 497 (1981) and gave up Golan Heights to Syria, etc. But they won't do that. > confront Hezbollah and risk destruction, or ensure it by doing nothing."
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by lenkite 7mo ago
Your java knowledge is outdated. Java's JDK has a nice, modern HTTP Client https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.net....
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by lenkite 7mo ago
Power infrastructure & hospitals are already being targeted and bombed. Just doesn't make the news.
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by lenkite 7mo ago
A question - Which portion of Microsoft, the multi-headed beast develops pure-native apps now ? Even the Windows 11 Settings app is Javascript. The multi-headed beast has been assimilated by web-tech. They can't code GUI C++ no more
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by lenkite 7mo ago
They generally get the design right after some mistakes and are stabilizing it, when the new UI designers take over and want to re-do it from scratch.
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by lenkite 7mo ago
You can have a <20MiB Graal-compiled binary for a Java project if you use a lean framework like Micronaut. Memory footprint is 5–40 MB RSS.
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by lenkite 7mo ago
They made the problem complexity of Valhalla ~10,000x harder by very strict backward compatibility needs. Project Valhalla can take many human generations and multi-billion man years to finish as a consequence.
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by lenkite 7mo ago
Hey even Go has got effective `FactoryFactory` stuff in a lot of open source projects. They just name it differently.
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by lenkite 7mo ago
What about AI slop causing the Iranian school-children strike ? US military confirmed that they are using AI to identify targets and provide coordinates. Will you ban that because its "politics" ?
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by lenkite 7mo ago
According to CNN, MAGA community gives him a 89% approval rating for starting the War against Iran. That's more than 60 million Americans supporting War.
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by lenkite 7mo ago
I don't mind Scheme - love it. But MMIX is one heck of a convoluted, "fantasy-alien" assembly language that I cannot stand. Gave up reading TAOCP because of it. Knuth should have stuck to pseudo-code or plain C.
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by lenkite 7mo ago
This - since you can live in a rural area with UBI - and you get more time in the day to manage your accommodations, the move to urban housing is not so critical.
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by lenkite 7mo ago
Yes, Original Musk was a good innovator. Alas, his brain has rotted - maybe not in IQ, but in execution and quality as he fossilized into a narcissist.
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by lenkite 7mo ago
It is well known that Tesla went cheapo (in quality) after a while as Elon got greedier
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by lenkite 7mo ago
If AI companies don't break even and continue to remain in 2 digit billions and more growing debt, all these are nice cookies that can be taken away at any time with a 5-10x increase in price.
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by lenkite 7mo ago
Dude, not sure which team are you working in, but across many-many domains - corporate, business and political, people are already delegating full decision making and responsibility to AI. Unless national governments and standards instituti
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by lenkite 7mo ago
Sorry, but I prefer original human streams of thought. I now have a pretty darn good filter for ignoring AI gen text just like a filter for skipping over page ads.
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by lenkite 7mo ago
Good idea, but pipeline would need to be 100m underground
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by lenkite 7mo ago
Lockheed Martin already paid for Trump's ballroom (not a joke) and so needed the guy to start a War as their investment must be repaid a hundred fold. Who cares about American voters ?
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by lenkite 7mo ago
You can perform a legitimate muscle-flex when saying that too.
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by lenkite 7mo ago
He is definitely killing Windows though. Lack of quality of foundational products do not affect share prices until several years are gone. You will only see an effect in 2029-30, users slowly migrate away and license contracts are slowly dr
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by lenkite 7mo ago
Yeah, its strange that Microsoft is not dogfooding its own stuff. Even as an "enterprise" Go developer myself, I would have preferred that Typescript was written in C# - it keeps language ecosystems diverse. And ensures that C# co
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by lenkite 7mo ago
I close my nose and always wrap errors with a sentinel error for public functions/methods so that callers can check with `errors.Is`. And you can always identify the place in the call-stack where the error occurred. I need to start get
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by lenkite 7mo ago
webdev is a special world with people going nuts and creating JS libraries for every color code.
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by lenkite 7mo ago
At-least it isn't your generic, 100th billion, AI generated, samey-samey , yawnfest tailwind website. This site has personality!
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by lenkite 8mo ago
Most of the non-technical but politically-attuned people I know are the ones who are actually concerned about the Apple+Google monopoly. The technical people are the ones who don't care.
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by lenkite 8mo ago
Rust is still more complicated than Swift, but you needn't worry - the Swift team is flexing their muscles hard to ensure that Swift becomes the biggest, most complicated language on Earth and wins the complexity, cognitive burden an

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