morningsam

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by morningsam 2y ago
I think they meant "unified" here in the same sense in which BusyBox is unified, i.e. several things you'd normally use different tools for combined into one executable/project. They're not trying to invent any new
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by morningsam 2y ago
These arguments aren't very convincing IMHO. Using SNS as an example when it's neither micro nor a library but a service (and a huge abstraction over native push notifications, whereas most micro-libraries provide simple utilities
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by morningsam 2y ago
I'm a bit confused: Can this static information system be used for run-of-the-mill static type checking as well or not? And if so, does a static type checker for this language exist or is one in the works?
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by morningsam 2y ago
That study got retracted. The professor responsible explained he was on medication that put him into a manic state and impaired his judgement. https://retractionwatch.com/2014/07/18/the-camel-doesnt-have...
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by morningsam 2y ago
I meant specifically that you can quickly see all your custom scripts (and only them) by tab-completing comma itself. Of course aliases have regular tab completion in bash as well.
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by morningsam 2y ago
An alternative method for avoiding collisions in PATH is to use really long executable names that are unlikely to be used by other executables and then have shorter aliases for them in your bashrc. The aliases won't affect executables
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by morningsam 2y ago
Same thing in LessWrong post form from back in April: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40242939
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by morningsam 2y ago
As usual with these kinds of things, European standards bodies to the rescue [1]: >Euro NCAP – Europe’s leading automotive safety industry body – has stated that from 2026 new guidance will be introduced over physical buttons and touchsc
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by morningsam 2y ago
I don't know if TrueUp incorporates this data, but https://data.indeed.com/ shows the number of software dev postings in the US has started to plateau at a level roughly matching the early-COVID crash (Spring 2020), wh
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by morningsam 2y ago
The article made it sound like it's commonplace. Thank you for this perspective.
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by morningsam 3y ago
I don't know how it works in other countries, but at least in Germany, the judiciary essentially provides this service: When you have your will notarized, they will offer to send a copy to the district court who will keep it safe until
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by morningsam 3y ago
I find that even when type hints are made "mandatory" using Mypy's strict mode, having a dynamically typed language underneath that allows you to cheat using Any or cast() where necessary makes writing Python feel much less c
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by morningsam 3y ago
You're right, but on the other hand, I like that they mentioned DisplayPort as a viable alternative that doesn't suffer from the problem at hand. Not too thrilled about the exact phrasing, describing DP as "the likely best op
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by morningsam 3y ago
Yeah, that really off-putting mixture of slavish subservience, patronizing familiarity, and appeasing corpo-speak should give it away immediately to anyone who has read their share of LLM output.
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by morningsam 3y ago
What I don't like about rich is that, dependencies and all, its installed size comes out to around 20 MB. 9 MB of that is due to its dependency on pygments for syntax highlighting, which a lot of people probably don't even want&#x
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by morningsam 3y ago
"Coding" meant something different back then, didn't it? The enumeration on p. 2 has it listed as an activity distinct from "programming".
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by morningsam 3y ago
There have been other instances in which exit fees, which is what this amounts to, were considered anticompetitive, e.g. [1] (although this was settled so there is no ruling). Google itself has started to waive egress costs for GCP customer
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by morningsam 3y ago
That's making three assumptions: 1) That everyone has something they're really talented at, 2) that they'd want to do that thing if they found out what is is, and 3) that the time, money and effort to do so would pay off comp
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by morningsam 3y ago
>It's just refactoring the codebase a bit, reorganizing it, making it cleaner and more structured Famous last words.
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by morningsam 3y ago
Great, thanks!
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by morningsam 3y ago
It says on his bio page that he was "blacklisted" from working. Does anyone know what exactly he's talking about there?
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by morningsam 3y ago
Rule of thumb from my anecdotal experience: If the dentist's office looks all fancy and feng-shui, they're usually the kind that does pointless work (which is where the money for the fancy office comes from). You can't turn t
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by morningsam 3y ago
I'm sure all of us working with distributed systems have had this exact idea at least once, good to see someone actually did it.
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by morningsam 3y ago
How is the GitHub check performed? I seem to get false positives where your tool reports that a project with that name exists on GitHub, but using GitHub's search I can only find projects that have the name as part of theirs. E.g. &quo