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by optymizer 2y ago
It's not that I don't want memory safety or that I feel superior - what I want is to write the fastest possible portable code. That's what C does, and nothing more. Memory management, array bounds checking and a bunch of othe
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by optymizer 2y ago
imo anything beyond Array<Something> should usually be aliased to help with readability. Array<Ptr<(Int, String) -> Bool>> Should be: Array<OnClickCallback> Applying that to C code keeps the insane decls in check,
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by optymizer 3y ago
I like Affinity products. They replaced all my photoshop/illustrator needs for webdev and it was so easy to switch. The fixed license cost was great too. Now I'm worried that the typical scenario is going to unfold where Canva mak
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by optymizer 3y ago
This is great news and hopefully with time there will be a definitive cure. I found out about CF when we did genetic testing for family planning. It turned out me and my spouse were carriers of the gene. They said about 25% chance that the
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by optymizer 3y ago
I don't do this for one reason - I cannot hold others to a high bar if most of my code is half-assed. I usually write my best code to show others it's possible to write good code and ship on time, with exceptions of course (and I
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by optymizer 3y ago
We're probably in the same age group. I used to write simple games and graphics apps in Turbo Pascal in high school. Later on I used Delphi to write "business apps". To me, there isn't that much difference between Pascal
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by optymizer 3y ago
I'd like to share my experience. I've lost 50lbs twice in the past decade and I'm currently losing them again. Hopefully the third time is a charm. What's different now is that I've done a lot of self-reflection. I
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by optymizer 3y ago
I didnt see ads on my main account, but a few times they played ads on my kids profiles on Chromecast, which was puzzling.
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by optymizer 3y ago
I never bought into ethical questions. It's trained on publicly available data as far as I understand. What's the most unethical thing it can do? My experience is limited. I got it to berate me with a jailbreak. I asked it to do s
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by optymizer 3y ago
I found that you can use the 'leaks' command to replace vlgrind memcheck
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by optymizer 3y ago
I agree, but I also classify some of these as "learn them once and you're all set". Maybe it takes you a month the first time around and a week the 10th time around. First product suffers, the other products not so much. Now
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by optymizer 3y ago
Truly ridiculous. When one of these cars is behind me, I get a shadow _in front_ of my car, that's how bright their lights are (my headlights are clean).
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by optymizer 3y ago
The effects and animations remind me of the cool window effects in Gnome/KDE, back when they were first made available, like the window burning down completely when closing. Cute, sometimes very cute, but ultimately distracting and onl
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by optymizer 3y ago
"The service will exist" Bull.shit. I call bullshit. Will it exist after the company goes bankrupt? What an idiotic thing to say to people. It's one thing to have a company do this, but to argue that an entire industry will m
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by optymizer 3y ago
It has survived by changing the narrative and getting people to buy the stories. It was going to replace money, but then it didn't because the network slowed down to the point where it was unusable. Nobody was going to wait 30 min for
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by optymizer 3y ago
HM hired someone they knew or recruiter was just sourcing candidates and didn't have visibility into the pipeline.
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by optymizer 3y ago
This is the right attitude. If highly qualified applicants start avoiding companies that ghost, ghosting will stop.
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by optymizer 3y ago
I sincerey hope nobody reads this and thinks "I should start ghosting too". We want less ghosting in this process, not more.
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by optymizer 3y ago
Interesting. Anecdotally, I think I saw plenty of 6ft captains on my way out of the airplane.
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by optymizer 3y ago
How is it an 'existential risk'? Its body of knowledge is publicly available, no?
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by optymizer 3y ago
Because shell command injection and process spawning time are not always acceptable side-effects.
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by optymizer 3y ago
The sole point of a business existing is to make a profit. If it doesn't make a profit it dies. A business essentially acts in its own self interest through its employees. Proof of that is that if an employee hurts profits, the busines
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by optymizer 3y ago
> CEO salaries should be understood in relationship to the resources that they control Why?
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by optymizer 3y ago
10-15 years ago, the MySQL cli has was far more user friendly than PostgreSQL. I don't remember the specifics, but I found postgres pedantic and lacking shortcuts that made life easier. That said I liked PHP too.
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by optymizer 3y ago
I swear if I see one more "int* x, y" example I will flip a keyboard. This isn't the 90s anymore. Everyone and their mother knows about this one pitfall, repeated for decades by people who have yet to read the memo that we no
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by optymizer 3y ago
I'll take the time to reply to both of you, because you seem to have opposing views. I think such a debate is largely unproductive. Like anything else, types have value (ha) and successfully capitalizing on that value depends on the co
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by optymizer 3y ago
Sure, if you want to define eugenics strictly in terms of selecting for features, but I think there's a difference between "selecting for A" vs "selecting for !B", with the latter not limiting the existence of A, C,
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by optymizer 3y ago
I find it interesting that people in this thread seem to have absolute certainty that "types good" is true, while to me those two words together are largely non-sensical, just like "bytes good" wouldn't make much se
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by optymizer 3y ago
We did prenatal tests to ensure that the IVF process we went through actually prevented our CF-genes from combining and causing the fetus to have CF. Also we knew very early there was no Down syndrome. Unlike eugenics, where otherwise perfe
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by optymizer 3y ago
Having written a few toy compilers for C, to me D is the most elegant of the C families of languages. For example, consider the versatility of the '.' operator. It does pointer dereference, static field access and class/names

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