mtrower

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by mtrower 4y ago
> people that learned what “clean code” is from a blog post or a Tweet or (most likely of all) another YouTuber Or, you know, college. Though I can only speak of my local tech college, not full blown university. I don't bear them
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by mtrower 4y ago
If your area of expertise is putting out a general purpose shape area compute library, then maybe. If your purpose is elsewhere and this code is a tool to accomplish that --- not so much. Not everything needs to be fully general. Write t
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by mtrower 4y ago
> All he does fits in registers and maybe cache. Well yes, that's.. actually the point. Indirectly, anyway anyway. > I mean, Python is slow as an old dog, yet it gets most of the ML fun. Python driving some UI and logic, with a
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by mtrower 4y ago
> There is a time and a place for performant code but it's not the only metric we need to take into consideration. Of course not. But then, nobody is really complaining about apps they think are fast enough. The problem is, when s
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by mtrower 4y ago
> If they are a normal business admin they are very replaceable. So you don't have to make life easy for them unless they can justify the cost of doing so. That is a mentality which is too horrifiying to find proper words to describ
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by mtrower 4y ago
Don't forget your electricity costs, A/C costs, hardware maintenance costs... these are often overlooked, but are not nothing. You've added permanent recurring expenses to avoid your one-time developer fee. Yes, sometimes th
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by mtrower 4y ago
What defines a codebase as realistic, exactly? There are many, many programs out there doing various things in various ways.
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by mtrower 4y ago
You know, I started on some concrete examples for you, but I had to stop and back up. Really? You can't think of any examples yourself? The modern web is absolute hell to use if you aren't on modern hardware. Try it sometime
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by mtrower 4y ago
> the whole world is comprised of the 99% of cases where shaving off that millisecond buys you absolutely nothing Who was talking about a single millisecond here? I notice, broadly, two types of people who engage in these arguments. 1&gt
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by mtrower 4y ago
Quite often the issue isn't 400ms vs 100ms, it's literally seconds vs single-digit ms. > The problem is capitalism and/or human nature. Fundamentally, yes.
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by mtrower 4y ago
> It doesn't help that in movies you see much of the same. so if those suburbs are not representative, then what is? Well, I do think that Hollywood is biased towards certain demographics. > but modern suburbs are not that. i can
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by mtrower 4y ago
Okay, yeah, since your alternative is not owning a car, paying for grocery delivery is going to be cheaper than owning a car if that's literally the only reason you might own one. I concede. > They also don’t deliver them in a car,
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by mtrower 4y ago
Perhaps in very densely populated areas. Do you have a similar plan for the midwest?
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by mtrower 4y ago
> yes, but why is that? because people chose it that way and cars supported it. The country is a hell of a lot older than the automobile, and much development occurred before it. It's spread out in general because we had a lot of l
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by mtrower 4y ago
JFS is pretty damn old[1] as is ext2. > I'm not sure what kind of '166' you have. But you're probably running at least a modern webbrowser as IE 4 is no longer suitable in this day & age. Most sites didn't ev
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by mtrower 4y ago
Original SimCity would let you play off you failed the copy protection, but would Chuck disasters at you left and right. Downright sadistic tbh.
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by mtrower 4y ago
Wat. My 166 slows down just from the filesystem itself. I explicitly run jfs, as it is particularly light on cpu. (I believe ext2 is also an option, but you lose journaling). Not calling you a liar, just very surprised to hear such a repor
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by mtrower 4y ago
> any interesting places to go to were to far away to even reach conveniently by bike. Isn't this just a result of the country being more spread out in general? For this reason, cars are obviously useful. And because people have t
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by mtrower 4y ago
> When I’m doing a big shop I just get it delivered to my door. Costs from $2-$10AUD. That... adds up quickly. And delivery services have other problems, such as actually getting the items you want. This may not be a problem for you;
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by mtrower 4y ago
> In walkable places, you can just walk down and get that day's groceries as needed, or maybe you do it on your way home from your walkable job, etc. It's more flexible, fresher, requires less mass consumption, less packaging,
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by mtrower 4y ago
This is how you get children who never grow up able to take care of themselves. All of those things you're so worried about children doing? To the extent they happen at all, you're just pushing those things off until they'r
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by mtrower 4y ago
Could you expound upon this? Specifically, why cars are bad for personal independence, but bicycles are just fine?
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by mtrower 4y ago
Until you want to do things like bring groceries home (more than you can carry in your two hands), or something novel like, say, building materials. People do do those sorts of things, you know. Or are you telling me that day to day life i
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by mtrower 4y ago
I don't know, I used to make similar sorts of treks daily, but on county highways (speed limit 55). No sidewalks. Uneven sides with drops. I just gave cars berth, and wandered into the ditch when necessary. So the ground is uneven;
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by mtrower 4y ago
All well and good until you're on the reverse end of the stick. It cuts both ways. Sometimes CPS is direly necessary. Sometimes it's just harassment.
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by mtrower 4y ago
Is it that the percentage of accidents resulting in fatality has increased, or that the raw number of accidents has gone up overall? Is it just a simple function of more cars on the road, and the compounding effects of such?
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by mtrower 4y ago
>> active shooter drills >What the fuck Took the words right out of my mouth...
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by mtrower 4y ago
What do you mean, they don’t follow the same patterns?
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by mtrower 4y ago
> Here's another futile one, you, yes, you, really need to make backups and replicate time-snapshots off-site. Yeah, but... you know... I'm like, busy and stuff. And realistically it'll never happen to me anyway.
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by mtrower 4y ago
Meanwhile, I've had a package marked as delivered that never actually showed up. eBay wouldn't help me. USPS wouldn't help me without info from the seller. Seller never gave me the correct info that I requested, nor follow

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