mikebenfield

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by mikebenfield 4y ago
> Did you ever check out a book from the school library? Uh, yeah. All the time actually.
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
Given the scale of wasteful packaging and other materials people dispose of without a thought, a DVD seems like basically nothing.
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
"Terminal level" doesn't mean the highest level.
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
But the alternative isn’t none at all. The alternative is putting them somewhere better.
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
You weren’t worried about traffic when people built who knows how many thousands of single family homes many miles from anything people might actually want to go to, making traffic in many US cities a complete disaster. And now that people
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
Most of us understand this perfectly well. But there’s not a lot we can do about it.
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
Rust supports reference counting, but it’s a stretch to say it encourages it. I don’t use Rc or Arc all that often.
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
You're literally the one who made the analogy of "open source" to trademarks, and now you're trying to shoot down my explanation of why your analogy doesn't work by saying trademark status is irrelevant... Good grie
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
The comparison to "free lunch" doesn't really make sense. The phrase "free lunch" has been used for what it transparently means since forever. Nobody used the term "open source" before it was deliberately
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
> Apparently recursion takes up more memory space than nested for loops Recursion uses space on the call stack. The concern is not so much that you'll be using more memory, it's that the call stack has a fixed size and you migh
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
I don't understand why you think this is a good counterexample. Google is still trademarked. If I make a search engine and say, "You can use my search engine to Google things," I'm probably in the wrong both legally and
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
But "open source" is also a made up name, just like Cheerios. Nobody was using the term "open source" before it was deliberately created in Palo Alto. The fact that you thought you knew what it meant without being given
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
"Open source" is not a term that developed naturally through normal language development. It's a term of art specifically created to have a particular meaning. Your argument is roughly equivalent to this one: "I can call
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
The "dogmatic definition" of open source is what has been used for decades. Applying it to something that doesn't meet that definition invites confusion. If a project wants to do something different, and develop an "open
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
They are definitely not doing much hiring.
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
But they also laid off plenty of young and new people...
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
Here's one of the things that honestly surprised me about the Python 2 -> 3 debacle. I witnessed people in 2020 starting new Python projects and deliberately choosing Python 2. For no real reason. They were fully aware that Python 3
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
This certainly doesn’t appear to be designed to spite Republicans. It appears to be a legitimate attempt to reduce gun violence (even if you don’t believe it will be effective), which is a serious problem in the US. Contrast that with the t
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
Like what? Name some. What things are done by liberals just to spite Republicans?
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
Actually, yes, there seems to be. The Republican political playbook seems to be mostly getting their based riled up about meaningless culture war nonsense. Here they can present themselves as fighting to get lazy liberal remote government w
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
> I won't watch videos on a certain topic or from a specific channel for a few weeks and then Youtube thinks I never want to see it ever again For me it's kind of the converse issue. I watch 2 or 3 videos on a topic and then Yo
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
Normally the tools people use don’t dictate the license they must use for their code.
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
Since that feature isn’t available on an actual board, it would really hamper your development as a player to use it when playing online.
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
There are two big factors that make housing in a given area expensive. Yes, one is that a lot of people want to live there. That one's inevitable though. Some places are more desirable to live than others. I don't want to live in
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
Branch prediction is pretty fundamental to CPU performance; unless we want much slower CPUs it’s necessary. Although it’s interesting to think about how software could help with branch prediction, the simple answer about the kernel thing is
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
Honestly I think we’ve already gone really far in this direction, maybe too far. Short term, commitment-free relationships are the norm. Alternative relationship structures like polyamory are pretty common and generate little controversy. D
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
If at any point your setup was configured so that emails sent at odd hours bothered you, that’s on you. Email was always meant to be asynchronous. The sender should never have to wonder if it’s a good time for you.
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
This is a remarkably bad idea. No, the differences between students will definitely not “average out” at this scale. And how do you expect to handle poorly performing schools as a whole? Do you not expect the quality of teachers there to ju
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
In my experience the kind of simple interview you describe is vulnerable to BS artists. For all their flaws, the common coding challenge kind of interview at least gives you concrete evidence about whether the candidate can solve a technica
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
There are plenty of very difficult old games, but Super Mario 3 is definitely not one of them.

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