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by mrec 7y ago
> In C# when you call a method you have no idea what exceptions can be thrown Well, you have no idea in Java either, given that unchecked exceptions exist. I understand the goal of checked exceptions, I just haven't found much val
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by mrec 7y ago
Isn't that "forcing a developer to handle error conditions" only true of Java-style checked exceptions, though? I'm not aware of any non-JVM languages taking that route, even the very Java-clone-y C#, and thought it wa
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by mrec 7y ago
I'm pretty sure the terms "X-Wing", "Y-Wing" and "TIE Fighter" are never mentioned in A New Hope , yet when when the movie came out everyone knew them.
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by mrec 7y ago
Yes, from what I've seen this is the primary objection (aside from realpolitik considerations i.e. wanting to keep agricultural prices high). Salad has routinely been chlorine-washed in Europe for years, and nobody complains about th
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by mrec 7y ago
I think there used to be an informal expectation that games in the Humble Bundle would be open-sourced if they did well there. (Just the code, not the art assets etc.) https://indiegamebundle.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Hum
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by mrec 7y ago
Well, "careers like banks" have changed a lot since the days of O-levels. Pretty much all the customer-facing stuff has gone, along with much of the more routine (and therefore automatable) back-office work.
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by mrec 7y ago
> Few people vote for the politician who says "I want your house to go down in price" A fair few might go for one who says "I want your kids to be able to afford a place of their own someday", though.
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by mrec 7y ago
Oh, back when Java first came out, Sun themselves were pushing this ("Rewrite it in Java!") line in spades. The hype train was unbelievable back then.
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by mrec 7y ago
Fear of exposure to litigation if someone injured themselves, maybe?
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by mrec 7y ago
Congratulations! You're one of today's lucky 10,000. http://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
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by mrec 7y ago
Storage doesn't have to mean batteries. I'd have thought approaches like pumped hydro [1] could scale pretty well. I vaguely recall a similar story from a couple of years back that basically involved lifting giant concrete blocks.
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by mrec 7y ago
You might like the 2014 SSC post "Burdens" [1]. A sample: > Society got where it is by systematically destroying everything that could have supported him and replacing it with things that required skills he didn’t have. [1]
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by mrec 7y ago
I haven't read TFA because the title alone is horrific enough, but it sounds awfully like a what PG calls a "submarine". http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by mrec 7y ago
> Your argument seems to be that utility should outweigh ethical concerns Not GP, but that seems a bit unfair. Utilitarianism in various flavours is a popular ethical framework; for those who subscribe to it, ethical concerns are prope
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by mrec 7y ago
What are the normal controls for player movement in a VR FPS? The WASD equivalent, I mean.
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by mrec 7y ago
Unclear, I think. I tend to use GitHub stars as bookmarks, which implies interest but not necessarily hearty approval. I don't think you can generalize here; it's like Twitter, where some people use Likes to remember all-time favo
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by mrec 7y ago
It never occurred to me before, but it'd be great for GitHub et al to have a way to leave kudos and thank-you notes. As things stand, the only affordances are for leaving issues and complaints, so it's not surprising that that&#
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by mrec 7y ago
"Roofless" is also a useful term to distinguish people actually sleeping rough from people crashing on friends' couches or in sketchy hostels or maybe squats. It's commonly used in the UK, dunno about elsewhere.
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by mrec 7y ago
> The next breakthrough may be made by someone academically untrained, but you can bet they'll have learned a whole lot of math, computer science, data science, and maybe neuroscience first. I found this sentence particularly intr
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by mrec 7y ago
> work is ongoing to make [implicit arena allocations] a reality. Ooh, interesting; I hadn't heard about that but it makes a lot of sense. Do you happen to have an RFC or issue link? My google-fu is failing me.
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by mrec 7y ago
If you haven't seen the Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group yet, you really should. https://www.horg.com/horg/
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by mrec 7y ago
The article you linked is more than two years old. Is this next-gen search bar still not enabled by default?
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by mrec 7y ago
It'll certainly be weakened, but I don't think it'll necessarily have to be discarded altogether. The need now will be for processes and tools to guarantee the provenance of a video. The technology to fake paper ballots is tr
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by mrec 7y ago
Retro emulators seem to be increasing in popularity lately. I've seen a few articles now covering the "how", but does anyone have pointers to something explaining the "why"? Is it a Zachtronics-style technical chall
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by mrec 7y ago
You're not wrong, but IMHO the proper place for that sort of optimization is inside the dictionary class/module/whatever. It knows why the optimization is there and the conditions under which it makes sense. For application c
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by mrec 7y ago
I think you're losing sight of the original argument I was responding to: that a main reason for spinning off bits of Google as separate Alphabet subsidiaries was to allow job title inflation for the same role . There's only one
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by mrec 7y ago
I'm not sure whether I'm missing your point or you're repeating mine. Caring about job titles for their own sake strikes me as narcissistic.
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by mrec 7y ago
Sure, but GP's argument was about job titles, not about what work you're doing.
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by mrec 7y ago
Careerist people like career progression. I think that's largely orthogonal to smarts or lack thereof. I doubt Einstein cared very much what was on his business card. Patrick Bateman certainly did.
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by mrec 7y ago
I just find the idea that people would pay money to have an insecure network-attached camera pointed at them at home, because picking up a remote control was just too much like hard work, utterly horrifying. This is not how I envisaged th

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