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by pdpi 2y ago
Don’t know about the rest of the series, but Clean Code isn’t merely a waste of time, it’s worse — it’s actually a net negative, and lies at the root of a number of problems related to incidental complexity.
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by pdpi 2y ago
If you’re deploying Java applications, container size isn’t exactly your first priority anyhow, and this is O(n) additional space. If image size is a concern, I imagine a native binary using GraalVM would’ve been a better way out anyhow, an
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by pdpi 2y ago
That’s not an in-memory cache either. AIUI it’s storing those artefacts to disk
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by pdpi 2y ago
Apple likes their platforms locked down tight. Arguably this has benefits for the users both in terms of privacy/security and in terms of UX, but it does definitely come with a bunch of costs (not least of which the 30% cut from the Ap
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by pdpi 2y ago
Immediate mode here is relevant in terms of the api style, not the rendering strategy. From the README: > A common misunderstanding is to mistake immediate mode GUI for immediate mode rendering, which usually implies hammering your drive
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by pdpi 2y ago
It's "dune" as in a pile of sand, not "Dune" as in the novel.
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by pdpi 2y ago
Insofar as one of the defining characteristics of art is the constraints you impose upon yourself, one of the fundamental constraints of making an art piece out of something functional is that you should either preserve its usability, or br
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by pdpi 2y ago
One thing that fascinates me about Rust is how, in many ways, the language has become easier over time, because a significant share of the "new" features is shaped like "made an existing construct work across more contexts an
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by pdpi 2y ago
Prime numbers are one of the distinguishing features of number theory, which means they also show up all over the place in anything related to discrete mathematics, which in turn means they show up all over the place in computer science. A
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by pdpi 2y ago
> Specifically regarding credit card security, it’s not really my problem is it? It’s the bank’s problem. Replace "problem" with "legal liability" and you're probably right. It's still very much your problem
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by pdpi 2y ago
Yes, that's precisely what I mean. It might or might not be a bad bet, but the Sandy Hook families are just as entitled to take that bet as anybody else. The idea that it's farcical to entertain any offer that doesn't involve
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by pdpi 2y ago
I don't know what it is. It's an investment, it carries risks with it. That said, if I were one of the Sandy Hook families, turning Infowars into a gun safety site would hold more value than any money you could pay me. Classic cas
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by pdpi 2y ago
That might or might not be true. If Infowars is _that_ worthless without Jones, then _any_ offer is a farce and the whole auction is pointless.
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by pdpi 2y ago
Put simply, the internet is wrong. FUAC's offer was all cash. The Onion offered less cash, but offered other incentives (AIUI, a share of whatever revenue they make from Infowars in the future). Saying that The Onion's bid was low
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by pdpi 2y ago
> This is an NES emulator that is built in Rust, and it uses Rust because I wanted to learn Rust Arguably, in this scenario, learning rust is the "business need" and the NES emulator is the tool :) But yeah, exactly. A blockcha
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by pdpi 2y ago
Given how much of the motivation behind this is licencing issues with Qualcomm, I imagine one big challenge is designing around not infringing on Qualcomm's patents.
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by pdpi 2y ago
The PCB has plenty of space for an M.2 slot (and, in fact, the PCB has pads for the connector and mounting holes, and is appropriately silk screened). The case design is just not designed for user serviceability, so having the slot would no
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by pdpi 2y ago
It's a good thing it's not a DMCA takedown notice, then. They reported itch.io for phishing.
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by pdpi 2y ago
Sounds like a pretty straightforward case of tortious interference, actually.
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by pdpi 2y ago
As general rule, I find that sort of thing to be an over-reaction, but submitting a complaint for phishing instead of a plain old DMCA takedown does warrant it.
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by pdpi 2y ago
I find that businesses that bill themselves as ${TOOL}-users instead of ${PROBLEM}-solvers are, as a general rule, problematic. I couldn't possibly care any less whether a product is built on AI or a clever switch statement or a bazill
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by pdpi 2y ago
When I was there, the experience here would've been more like "you see some comms on Workplace saying this thing went live". For a small number of people, it would look like "It's your oncall week, and you unexpecte
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by pdpi 2y ago
I've been using Sublime Merge for exactly this purpose since around when it was first launched.
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by pdpi 2y ago
Disregard that comment. I misread "rate" in GP's comment as "date". Yeah, they just plain didn't record the rate the trade was made at.
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by pdpi 2y ago
Makes sense. Phone cameras are great at what they do, but are absolutely neutered in terms of the degree of control they afford you. If you want to make an artistic statement in photography, your hands are tied. A standalone digital camera
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by pdpi 2y ago
The iPhone photo of the mountain has a really nicely balanced dynamic range. The Canon one has blown out highlights where the clouds meet the peaks, and really dark shadows with almost no discernible detail. From a purely technical point
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by pdpi 2y ago
In between that and people not understanding the difference between % and pp, I avoid using percentages at all unless I have to.
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by pdpi 2y ago
IIRC they did record the date, yes. What they _didn't_ store was historical exchange rates.
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by pdpi 2y ago
There were "bugs", yes. There were also fundamental design flaws. One of the things the Post Office did was sell travel money, but the whole system was never really designed for ForEx operations, so it didn't keep track of ex
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by pdpi 2y ago
1 / 8 * 3600 * 24 * 30 = 324000 so that 1GBit/s server could conceivably get 324TB of traffic per month "for free". It obviously won't, but even a tenth of data is more than the data included with the 10G link.

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