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by mdpye 5y ago
I think the actual observation of the article is that many booleans are guards for the presence (or validity) of a value, and that modelling those as Optionals binds the result of the guard and the applicable value in a way which can preven
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by mdpye 5y ago
That it includes almost every possible feature ever posited in a language? /jk, sort of It's kind of a double edged sword...
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by mdpye 5y ago
Oh, then today I learned! I didn't realise they were different. Just looked it up in a "plain English dictionary of law" and the distinction seems subtle but important. Rather than "with the intention of depriving the ow
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by mdpye 5y ago
It is actually true, in the UK at least the legal definition of theft includes the deprivation of the owner of the property in question. The copyright lobby hedge the term as "copyright theft" (i.e. not actual theft) in order to
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by mdpye 5y ago
You have to be explicit about the context if you've chosen to dump the implicit bundle of context. "comprehension categories category theory" 5/5 I'd hardly say it's 2 to 10 minutes extra work, especially for s
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by mdpye 5y ago
> I've never clicked on an internet ad. Me neither, but marketing is significantly about awareness, not just the clicks. If you've seen it, it is at some level "in you", and the brand has (fractionally) been built. I
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by mdpye 5y ago
Meh, it's fine. In general, I find that vim in more productive most of the time (now I have a language server, before, wouldn't ever consider it!) The fluid and consistent (java is only a portion of what I write at work) editing e
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by mdpye 6y ago
#tag is a hash, followed by a tag, together constituting a hashtag: lit. A tag denoted (in a snippet of plain text) by its preceding hash symbol :) # alone lacks the tag to make it a hashtag...
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by mdpye 6y ago
I hadn't realised it til now, but I do the same. It's a really great way to get started, because it tends to coincide with not having yet gained a broad range of responsibilities pulling you in different directions. You become a d
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by mdpye 6y ago
It happens at first. But point to the docs you wrote. Politely, but firmly, every time. People actually prefer being empowered to do it themselves, so they will pick it up, it just not our default when we're unsure.
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by mdpye 6y ago
Hah, a passage about an historic gun duel over the use of a punctuation mark, and yet the author refers to the # glyph as "hashtag" with no irony whatsoever :(
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Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBSD 13’s close call(arstechnica.com)
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by mdpye 6y ago
I try to let the expectations for the interview be set by the expectations they will find when they start. It's useful to know what you're looking for when you go out in to the market...
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by mdpye 6y ago
How modular is the keyboard? I can see a replacement sat next to the case in the photo, but is the layout cut in to the case? If you can make an alternative case with an (e.g.) 12x5 1u grid layout keyboard that lets me put my thumbs to use
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Ubuntu Linux Running on M1 Macs(arstechnica.com)
1 points by mdpye 6y ago|0 comments
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by mdpye 6y ago
I believe it's also Option-Space on a Mac, which one my old colleagues would manage fairly regularly while typing at speed...
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by mdpye 6y ago
Citations please. Not because I think you're definitely fear mongering, but because real evidence would be important to see.
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by mdpye 6y ago
Did you also notice that there's no such thing as jaywalking in the UK? I had to be told so many times on visiting the US to start to internalise it! Here, you cross where and when it's safe. Busy roads have crossings, because o
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by mdpye 6y ago
> Door button is a safety feature. Door handle would be inherently less safe because easier to forcefully open and easier to break in such way that it opens itself. Really? I've seen plenty of button less ones. The door switch is
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by mdpye 6y ago
> Rotate the radiation stuff instead? Probably too complex. I don't know why this isn't more common, my family's early 90s microwave didn't have a rotating base. It wasn't an expensive model. It was very easy to
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by mdpye 6y ago
Perhaps they can cut personal sponsorship deals, as they'll be getting so much more airtime in future /jk
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by mdpye 6y ago
Giving a good experience with poor connectivity means the clients need to be able to reason about updates to the domain model and potential conflicts. At this point they need to reason about almost as much as the server. Search for "of
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by mdpye 6y ago
In a typical London grocery store (not supermarket) there will be anything between 2 and 7 varieties of fresh chilli, plus 2 or more sweet peppers and probably just one bag of "chilli flakes" of unspecified origin...
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by mdpye 6y ago
Hah, I had a similar conversation with a taxi driver in Bolivia. What is most important for road safety, IMO is predictability . Everyone sharing a common expectation of what will happen next. The crazy-chaotic driving in a lot of countrie
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by mdpye 6y ago
I'll raise you the houndstooth, which ironically, being 40% ortho linear doesn't have jagged edges in spite of the name. Sadly it doesn't look like they're currently available, but it was pretty good value too. +100 on
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by mdpye 6y ago
I found the exact opposite for ortholinears. It took zero time to adjust, and within a day I was actually touchtyping using the properly assigned keys for every letter, something I'd tried many times over the years, but always found su
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by mdpye 6y ago
Big respect for what you've achieved. I worked on a prototype for a couple of months which would have been a partial competitor to CK. We went with CRDTs because it was quicker to get something simple and reliable off the ground to dem
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by mdpye 6y ago
From the article you link: > They sanction funds for sex reassignment surgery in order to fit all of their citizens > into the category of either male or female without any grey area for those who are homosexual > or transgender. S
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by mdpye 6y ago
Having worked a little with both, my impression is that OT can get very complex in implementation edge cases. CRDTs are incredibly difficult to design, but if you successfully design one which can model your features, implementation is pret
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by mdpye 6y ago
I'll charitably assume that you're missing a comma and the crow-kid is called Karen. And if you aren't, I'll ask you to take your mysogynist slurs elsewhere.

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