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by mtrower 4y ago
??? Showing up not looking like this, can also cause you to not get hired. Discrimination on non-performance factors is real on all sides of the fence. Anyway this isn’t the point; the point was that it’s sad you need to hide your age usi
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by mtrower 5y ago
The one I bought from them 4 or 5 years ago is great. Same with the water boiler. But I made sure to purchase models that are still made in Japan —- not all of their models are. I bought them off Amazon, do sourcing isn’t difficult, but som
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by mtrower 5y ago
> If only we could feel their suffering the way they do, I don't think we could be unhappy for a day in our lives. So essentially you argue that “it could be worse”? This doesn’t seem materially different to me than “it could be be
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by mtrower 5y ago
Yes, automated test suites are great! I don’t know that they need all the things some people stuff into them, but the idea is a useful one. If you take my comment in the context of REPL-driven development, it’s going to seem tangential at
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by mtrower 5y ago
> If Lisp had been used instead of JavaScript, it might have been equally popular today. I personally would have preferred that actually. And how close we came... and yet so far =( https://brendaneich.com/2008/04&#x2
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by mtrower 5y ago
Why not both? Are the two concepts somehow incompatible? A REPL is a (very) powerful tool for testing, probing, inspecting (etc) code; but it is only one tool. It should be a part of your IDE (if you go for such things), not replace it.
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by mtrower 5y ago
> When you pass a value to a function, is it by value or by reference? Who knows? Value. Value, value, always value. However, it seems that maybe you don't understand exactly what the value is that you're passing. > Noti
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by mtrower 5y ago
... hear back from upstream that your fix, developed against version X (that you pinned and use), does not apply to HEAD. Pull HEAD and realize there have been major changes which conflict with your platform, use case, or any number of you
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by mtrower 5y ago
On the hardware side, sure, it would be great to have cutting-edge tech. Money is a factor. Realistically, my hardware is good enough for my present needs. On the software side, I am absolutely aware of what is available. File operations
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by mtrower 5y ago
Solaris (commercial and open-source derivatives), freebsd, openbsd, at least a dozen linux distros (from debian to things like gentoo, sourcemage, LFS...), MacOS, Windows... a handful of "toy" OSes... I've run a lot of differ
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by mtrower 5y ago
What? Windows 10 isn’t particularly slow on my i7-4770K. You’re telling me that the i5-1135G7 (which benchmarks faster) is going to perform worse than my 8 year old CPU in general OS use?
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by mtrower 5y ago
Telemarketers. =)
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by mtrower 5y ago
> So, let us perhaps say, instead: democracy is theory that the extremely-online elites and activists know what they want, and that the common people deserve to get it good and hard. Holding a (small time) elected leadership position, th
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by mtrower 5y ago
My Pentium from 1996 had a 133mhz processor and 8Mb of onboard EDO RAM (you could upgrade, but that’s what it came with). A 1994 machine would have been weaker, but still much stronger than PS hardware. The PS was a specialized machine tho
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by mtrower 5y ago
Nah, a lot of things from that era (including filmography) just look better on the era-appropriate display hardware. CRTs have totally different properties and design considerations; trying to display content made for CRT, on LCD, often jus
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by mtrower 5y ago
Sure —- in situations where time is critical, for example, fast, suboptimal decisions can be more effective than slow, optimized decisions. So having something general drilled into your head can, in those cases, be preferable.
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by mtrower 5y ago
No wait, he has something here. Not about who is better; that’s irrelevant. But, on “rules”. What’s being discussed here are “best practice” rules —- strategies of social construct that are sometimes smarter to bend or break, or maybe can b
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by mtrower 5y ago
tmux and screen both have online shortcut “cheat sheet” displays, fyi.
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by mtrower 5y ago
> Here's a test: how many of those icons can you correctly identify without reading the accompanying explanation? Well, funny thing --- the explanations on TFA are all in a language I can't read, so the words that "work ju
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by mtrower 5y ago
In addition to what others have posted, it matters if you ever expect to read or modify the source. Assuming my capability requirements are met, I’m going to prefer a program written in a language that I’m comfortable with (such as C or li
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by mtrower 6y ago
As an aside, “New-POS” was an accurate moniker in more ways than one...
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by mtrower 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism You seem to be speaking of communism, not socialism. > The motivating force behind socialism is envy. Nobody is a
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by mtrower 6y ago
Yes? Unless these things are being used as status symbols, or the person in question is actively attempting to destroy the environment, there must be some other benefit. Indeed, I certainly don't consider environmental cost to be a &q
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by mtrower 6y ago
Cancel culture really isn’t about what you think of yourself. It’s about what others think of you.
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by mtrower 6y ago
...excuse me? There’s no call for that. Why come to a discussion forum if you don’t actually want to talk? Furthermore, the answer is not “no” —- I acknowledged that your usage may be acceptable, not that mine isn’t. I explicitly stated
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by mtrower 6y ago
What else would you call a person born and raised in those countries, if not Russian or Chinese? Are descendants of Irish immigrants to America not American? Perhaps language is used differently in our respective circles. If you're b
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by mtrower 6y ago
I’m pretty sure from context that when he says “white people” he’s referring to the general American public - not Janet Yellen.
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by mtrower 6y ago
That would seem to be a category error. One of those is race, two of those are nationality. Whether or not that’s a good idea depends on context. When you’re talking about matters of race, invoking race night make sense. When talking matte
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by mtrower 6y ago
That's seriously a large part of it.
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by mtrower 6y ago
> You can have fast, efficient JS. You know... this is true. I know this is true, because we had JS 20+ years ago on Pentium processors. It's possible to write JS that doesn't require multiple cores on a 2019 Ryzen... But t

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