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by ljm 3y ago
What I was getting at is that it seems to depend on the compiler to know the difference between preflight and inflight because the calling convention is identical. I personally don't think it's intuitive that function calls using
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by ljm 3y ago
Given that it's built as a whole language, I'm curious about the choice to make no obvious distinction between 'preflight' and 'inflight' functions. It's not obvious at a glance that you can only call infl
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by ljm 3y ago
The capitalist idea of voting with your wallet doesn't really work that way, it's throwing away the power of collective bargaining and instead leaving every man for himself, which would be an instant race to the bottom. The worker
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by ljm 3y ago
Google simply saw where Microsoft failed in their Embrace, Extend, Extinguish strategy and figured out a way to do it better. By all accounts, Chrome has a bigger stranglehold on the web than IE ever did, and if you don't use Chrome yo
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by ljm 3y ago
I notice this pattern often appears as a result of taking rubocop’s default settings as gospel. It pretty much forces you into pointless abstraction by saying a method should be less than 5 lines, or a class less than 100, or whatever, even
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by ljm 3y ago
It should already have a published series of shelf-help books by that point
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by ljm 3y ago
I was hoping for a bit more of a payoff. Like, if the gif was broken, why did the grammarly extension trigger it reliably?
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by ljm 3y ago
In the UK you can register whatever limited liability company you like on Companies House without any formal process except handling tax accounts (or sometimes VAT). No proof required at all for this, you’ll only need it to set up a company
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by ljm 3y ago
Only now is GH redesigning the UI to be fluid-width everywhere. And GitHub actions were basically sharing the infra of Azure Pipelines.
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by ljm 3y ago
That’s the thing. Can’t do it. Unless it was released on physical media. I really wanted to watch it again considering severance s2 has been in limbo for ages.
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by ljm 3y ago
There was a TV show starring JK Simmons called Counterpoint. I was able to watch it at one point but now it is completely unavailable in the UK. Can’t even buy the series! Despite subscribing to the Showtime channel on Amazon Prime, I canno
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by ljm 3y ago
I use emacs, but chrome/firefox are a bit finicky about where you can set a breakpoint. (Most people I know just use console.log - print debugging works all the time but I like having a repl)
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by ljm 3y ago
The author calls a hoodie a shirt. I’m not sure I trust their opinion on the fit and comfort of database-branded apparel.
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by ljm 3y ago
Prettier’s biggest win is that it automates 99% of style complaints away and practically eliminates most classes of nitpicking. But, as well as the issue with line noise, it also encourages patterns that I think detract from code comprehens
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by ljm 3y ago
Could you still call code open source (in line with the repo’s license) if the code is gated behind a login, or even a paid subscription? IIRC GitHub is already rate limited to slow down excessive cloning or API usage.
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by ljm 3y ago
I would love it if emacs had a decent acme equivalent. You can get part way there, but there are definitely times where I’d like the flexibility of it. It’d be a lot smoother for me than setting up, say, hydra and memorising a whole list of
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by ljm 3y ago
Moreover, what if the tyrant has the support of the people and that support is drawn rather plainly down political lines? What if, then, the 2nd amendment is actually used to defend the tyrant? At best the 2nd amendment will just lead to
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by ljm 3y ago
Google fought against Microsoft’s EEE strategy until they could do it themselves. Enter Chrome.
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by ljm 3y ago
Given it's Microsoft we're talking about, it's more likely they use it to find new and novel ways to shove Edge, OneDrive, Teams and Bing down your throat whenever you use any of their products.
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by ljm 3y ago
Plus, he succeeded in making HN the most boring forum ever. 8 out of 10 posts are about LLMs.
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by ljm 3y ago
I'd actually find that quite disappointing. If you can generate practically infinite variations of a show using AI, it completely eliminates scarcity and makes the result meaningless. It's not even unique to AI really. The whole g
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by ljm 3y ago
I feel like the novelty will wear off sooner or later. I certainly got bored of doing "X but as Y" pretty fast.
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by ljm 3y ago
Everything is temporary, a legacy makes it slightly less. Brings an element of continuity to our existence as people learn or are inspired by the impressions other people leave behind.
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by ljm 3y ago
I wonder how much of this is because of PHP's legacy. For a long, long time, most articles and tutorials on PHP contained glaring examples of SQL injection, not to mention the whole thing with `mysql_string` and `mysql_real_escape_st
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by ljm 3y ago
No, no offense at all. I welcome it, actually. Can do a lot more with constructive critique than pure praise. I'm honoured someone found it worthy to submit, but I do know that elixir has been an easy hype topic here. Not sure the rest
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by ljm 3y ago
You seem to be making the case that there is a systematic exploitation of a group of people we refer to as incels. Nobody is exploiting those people. They're exploiting themselves.
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by ljm 3y ago
They're not wrong that it is rooted in misogyny, considering that you don't really use 'whore' or 'ho' with positive connotations. Not to mention that terms like thot are more likely to be found in incel commun
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by ljm 3y ago
Author here... I wasn't the one who posted this article to HN and upvoted it. Hell, I don't even have analytics on my website, so I had no idea. You can't really blame me for sharing my thoughts. But yeah, static typing in so
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by ljm 3y ago
I mean, I agree as much in that OOP in its classical Alan Kay definition has little to nothing in common with what we currently call OOP. Erlang definitely has more in common with Smalltalk and even Lisp in terms of its architecture and als
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by ljm 3y ago
Yeah, the example is Rails-specific but Ruby is full of methods that mutate existing state. Most of the time they're marked with `!` at the end, but not always.

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