memefrog

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by memefrog 3y ago
I just explained why that is not true. Repeatedly asserting the truth of disproven allegations makes you just look desperate.
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by memefrog 3y ago
Everyone is different. Thus everyone is treated differently. > You just justify it by tortured logic based on your traditional superstitions. Why are the American left so obsessed with religion? You seem to think it is the basis for al
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by memefrog 3y ago
The time when ESR was a universally accepted member of it, given he literally invented the term. The time when he was a leader of it for many years. All time right up until a couple of years ago when entryists performed a hostile takeover
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by memefrog 3y ago
I don't give a shit what languages CAN do in theory. I care what languages DO do. And all languages (that aren't research projects like agda) provide escape hatches here. Even Haskell. >Again, linters only get you so far You
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by memefrog 3y ago
Were you in the trenches in WW1? If not, how can you say it was difficult?
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by memefrog 3y ago
Okay? How is this relevant to the discussion? We're not talking about 'bigotry'.
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by memefrog 3y ago
It's not really Rust's compiler that 'optimises lazy sequences'. It's LLVM, which notices that the code emitted happens to be able to be optimised down, if you run it for a really, really long time with some very
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by memefrog 3y ago
I don't want it to be anything. Free software is what it is. People work on what they want to work on. Some people make software for others to use. Most, I think, make software for themselves to use. Then you have people making co
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by memefrog 3y ago
The overlap is large enough for GIMP and Krita and Inkscape and dozens of other free software tools to exist. There's overlap between competent C programmers and accountants (GNUCash, ledger, hledger), and between competent C programm
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by memefrog 3y ago
> i actually agree with this sentiment quite strongly. part of the reason gender identity and dysphoria, queerness, and fluid gender roles are so despised by conservatives and religious fellows, especially when it comes to masculinity, i
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by memefrog 3y ago
The question was which job required more skill. And the answer is very clearly: the architect's.
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by memefrog 3y ago
Yes, the work takes more skills. It is not 'functionally gatekept'.
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by memefrog 3y ago
No they don't. They earn more because their jobs are in more demand and there their skills are in lower supply.
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by memefrog 3y ago
There is such a thing as low-skill labour. Nobody said 'no skill required'. The term is low-skill. Of the people I have met that do manual labouring jobs, I know many people could do those jobs if they got fit and learnt to do t
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by memefrog 3y ago
Not everything is made for the web. Most software in use today is not. You live in a bubble.
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by memefrog 3y ago
Ah so we need three or four additional language features to do it, and PhDs in category theory. ...or you could accept that not every language needs to be a Haskell clone, and there is more than one good way to design a language. Choices h
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by memefrog 3y ago
RAII uses destructors. Destructors are a language feature that is even more ad-hoc than errdefer. Instead of writing general-purpose functions, you need special functions for construction and destruction. That's bad design. errdefer
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by memefrog 3y ago
>Unwrap and fromJust can be disallowed if need be, they are "unsafe" convenience functions whose use can and should be tracked. And with the same sort of third-party tools you use to 'track' those and ensure they&#x27
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by memefrog 3y ago
A large number of C programmers can write code at that level. But over the many, many years that this supposed problem has existed, not one has stepped up to do it. Many other problems have been solved with open source software, many of t
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by memefrog 3y ago
>The language is literally designed I think that is a matter of some debate.
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by memefrog 3y ago
C23 is a bad standard with a massive pile of misfeatures. The only reason there even is a C23 is that a bunch of C++ people have infiltrated the committee in an attempt to force changes into C23. For example, the guy whose website is '
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by memefrog 3y ago
Well I don't see it, and I have ublock origin. That's the only thing that could be hiding it.
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by memefrog 3y ago
If that's such an important feature, feel free to add it.
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by memefrog 3y ago
Real Hi-Fi companies like Sennheiser and Bose make far more money than people selling gold HDMI cables. And they've been making much more money for decades and will continue to make money for decades. Grifters don't win in the lo
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by memefrog 3y ago
Wait, wait, wait... Behind? If you'd asked me, I'd have said that's why open source always seems to be a step ahead! You're under no obligation to do things 'right', and worse is better. But free software means
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by memefrog 3y ago
He won a landslide victory.
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by memefrog 3y ago
Google Maps just isn't a map. I wonder if the people that work on it have ever looked at actual maps before. You have to zoom in almost to the maximum setting to see street names, and even then they often don't show up. Real ma
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by memefrog 3y ago
Why would you not have ublock origin installed?
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by memefrog 3y ago
Every single sentiment expressed in this article has been expressed before. I agree with all of it, but there really isn't anything original here. This is the received wisdom on readability. I am sure when I scroll down there will be
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by memefrog 3y ago
Loup Valliant's main project is monocypher. It is typically distributed as one C file and one H file. It provides a relatively small interface by being well-scoped and well-designed. Nowhere does he say that you should have 100 small

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