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by nirvdrum 5y ago
Yes. Switching from Android is difficult as well. But, I disagree it's always been like this. When I buy software directly from the developer/publisher, I often can get a license that works on both Windows and macOS (or can get a
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by nirvdrum 5y ago
You may stick with Apple because you like all of these policy decisions. Many stick with Apple because changing is so difficult. You lose iMessage, have to move your pictures out of iCloud, and repurchase your accumulated app library. The m
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by nirvdrum 5y ago
I've never been a union member, but I've certainly worked with several people I would call "dead weight." Sometimes they've even earned more than me whether through better negotiation or better at office politics. I
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by nirvdrum 5y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by unions being tied to your job. I certainly don't know the intricacies of every union out there, but the ones I'm aware of take care of their members when laid off. The union members in my family
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by nirvdrum 5y ago
> The idea that no one was expected to own cell phones so they didn’t enrich our lives is clearly false. It's not like everyone in the 70s was walking around completely depressed waiting for some breakthrough in computing technology
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by nirvdrum 5y ago
I agree. It's a bit odd that I just learned generics were added. I expect minor bumps in language versions to be uneventful. Additionally, I expect a language to essentially never introduce breaking changes, so semantic versioning isn&
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by nirvdrum 5y ago
I come across way too many commit messages that exist solely to drive some sort of connected tool (CI, CD, issue tracker, etc.) or have some arbitrary character cut-off, so the messages are borderline cryptic. Add the typical back-and-forth
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by nirvdrum 5y ago
While they're looking for some features from Crystal, the point of adding some of this stuff is to have it without the expensive port to another language or platform. Crystal lacks metaprogramming, which would be hugely disruptive for
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by nirvdrum 5y ago
You're bringing in character flaws into something that doesn't require them. Nothing is to be lost by treating the vials as live samples and having the appropriate experts deal with them. On the other hand, if you decide that ther
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by nirvdrum 5y ago
The transitive dependency chain should be part of your evaluation of a library. Frameworks are special cases, for sure. But if you’re adding a dependency and it adds 10,000 new entries to your lock file, that should be taken into considerat
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by nirvdrum 5y ago
I run a Linux workstation, but keep a Windows laptop. I find the MacBook Pro keyboards have too low travel distance and that aggravates RSI (I have an early Intel model that has an amazing keyboard, but is practically useless). Most of the
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by nirvdrum 5y ago
With NNTP, I could access the entire archive and it's separate from my email account. As far as I know, Discourse notifications only start from the date you subscribe, which makes it fine for new conversations, but isn't terribly
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by nirvdrum 5y ago
Reddit certainly has its flaws. I suppose I've been fortunate that most of the sub-reddits I'm interested in have pretty good members. There's invariably always a jerk or two. I've run into that on Discourse, too. I supp
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by nirvdrum 5y ago
I really miss NNTP. I appreciate that spam was a huge problem, but it was really nice being able to discover and subscribe to a large number of topics and navigate them all from the same tool. And there was innovation in the client space. R
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by nirvdrum 5y ago
Oracle has a Java AOT compiler as part of the GraalVM. They call the feature native images [1]. It's not quite the same thing as configuring functionality in the JVM to see what speeds things up, but I think it'd give a good idea
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by nirvdrum 5y ago
It's nice that they offer a free commercial-use license, but you wouldn't be compelled to lie about your usage otherwise. Their commercial license is perpetual use at a fairly affordable price; you could just pay for it. Or not us
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by nirvdrum 5y ago
Price and feature availability had a lot to do with it. Up until Ryzen came out, a 4 core CPU was the largest core count available in an Intel "consumer" CPU. I had a 6 core Ivy Bridge CPU at one point (i7-4930k) and it cost me ~$
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by nirvdrum 5y ago
I was a bit surprised by the solution in the article and then again when I saw a load of supporting comments. I have really debilitating pain in my hands and wrists and as far as I can tell, it started with the first MBP I had using chiclet
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by nirvdrum 5y ago
Could you please elaborate? To me, it looks like the article posits using boolean flags instead of enums is a code legibility issue, not a performance matter. There may still be good reason to reject a large PR such as the one you described
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by nirvdrum 5y ago
Yes, I need to trust the VPN provider and that's a trade I'm willing to make. My ISP has my name, address, DOB, and my SSN. My VPN provider has none of those things. TLS solves part of the problem with ISP snooping, sure. The ISP
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by nirvdrum 5y ago
My NAS runs in my house. While I do have a VPN to connect when away, I don't particularly care for my ISP seeing all my traffic or being tracked by the entire web. I use Mullvad to try to achieve some semblance of privacy.
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by nirvdrum 5y ago
I've recently switched from PIA to Mullvad for similar reasons. I do wish Mullvad had a plan with a larger device limit. With PIA, I could cover my household with a single plan. Mullvad's five device limit is insufficient. Maintai
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by nirvdrum 5y ago
I'd imagine Jekyll's main audience is GitHub Pages and it seems to be used quite widely there. I get what you're saying, but I don't think Jekyll needs to compete with every single site generator on every feature. Gatsby
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by nirvdrum 5y ago
That's fair. Having to set up a Ruby installation to run a utility just isn't fun. Especially when the expectation is that you don't use the system-provided Ruby. You're supposed to go use a Ruby version manager and set
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by nirvdrum 5y ago
Closely related, I wish we had a better way of saying a library or product is now feature-complete. We use recent commit activity as a proxy of viability, but all of that churn could just as easily be an indication of immaturity. It's
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by nirvdrum 5y ago
Yes. I don't recall which version support was added in, but a recent Windows 10 release build using WSL 2 can coexist with both VirtualBox and VMware Workstation.
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by nirvdrum 5y ago
> Yet for all our efforts, local development remained brittle. Any number of seemingly innocuous changes could render a local environment useless and, worse still, require hours of valuable development time to recover. Mysterious breakag
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by nirvdrum 5y ago
Multi-device access, browser integration, mobile platform integration, and sharing with spouse or team members. I know there are solutions to some of those based on some variant of KeePass, but using something like Bitwarden is very easy. B
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by nirvdrum 5y ago
I think this is one of the biggest issues with SaaS. I appreciate that a stable revenue source is necessary for ongoing development, but UX decisions are much harder to evaluate. If I purchase a desktop application and opt not to upgrade, t
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by nirvdrum 5y ago
I've been waiting for the print version before diving in, so I'm excited to see it's now available. For what it's worth, I'd be willing to spend more money on an all-format package. I need to hold a book in my hand

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