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871.
by petcat 1y ago
I think it commercialized programming. True democratization didn't really happen until Stallman, GCC, and the GPL.
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by petcat 1y ago
> As part of my ongoing project to reimplement Django’s templating language in Rust, I have been adding support for custom template tags. Cool project, but does the author know about minijinja [1]? [1] https://github.com/
873.
by petcat 1y ago
ai will write posts like these and then it will be ai learning from ai and eventually we won't have any artistic programmers anymore and no experts. we'll just have mundane jobs cobbling together business solutions auto generated
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by petcat 1y ago
Just because support would be removed from current and new versions doesn't mean the old code and tarballs are just going to disappear. Can dust off an old 32 bit kernel whenever you want
875.
by petcat 1y ago
Yeah. Is their developer super human because he...reads the source code?? This should be obvious. Now I would be genuinely worried about what other issues are lurking in their rewrite.
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by petcat 1y ago
Generated AI code is produced quickly, and might work. But there's no art. Nobody on your team wrote that code. There's no ownership, and nobody to ask about it. The lack of knowledge about your own codebase will only go deep
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by petcat 1y ago
> people evading taxes Avoiding taxes. It's different. It was always perfectly legal to travel to another state to buy something expensive and bring it back home. No crimes were committed. It was a loophole that you could buy
878.
by petcat 1y ago
There used to be the "Oregon sales tax loophole" where residents of neighboring states (Washington, California, Idaho) would make large purchases (car) just over the border in Oregon where there was no sales tax. That loophole got
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by petcat 1y ago
Megacorp turf wars. It's silos all the way down.
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by petcat 1y ago
Doesn't cargo just have a subcommand plugin system? Or is fmt actually hard-coded into the cargo code? I prefer the plugin system. I don't like god programs like what the npm monstrosity became.
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by petcat 1y ago
I often encounter people that want to learn a programming language and ask if they should pick Rust as their first language. My answer is universally: NO. Learning a first programming language is hard . And Rust will only make it harder
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by petcat 1y ago
> must not host, share or permit content that encourages use of VPNs to get around age checks. The government has also told the BBC it would be illegal for platforms to do so Holy. Crap. I knew the UK was going off the deep end with the
883.
by petcat 1y ago
> More and more sites (especially adult ones) are now forcing users to upload IDs or selfies to continue. > they might just get enough attention from voters to motivate a change Unfortunately, guaranteeing anonymous internet porno is
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by petcat 1y ago
Politico? We aren't quoting Politico
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by petcat 1y ago
The EU negotiates as a bloc. If the trade deal includes $750 billion in energy purchases and $600 billion in investments, those commitments came from the EU's negotiating mandate, not from separate members acting on their own. Maybe so
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by petcat 1y ago
> US placed a large tax on American consumers The 15% flat tariff (with 0% reciprocal tariff), was only a small part of the agreement. > They'll just ramp up economic production and turn toward China like we're seeing with B
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by petcat 1y ago
Sounds like you're one of the lucky ones. In my experience, remote tech jobs have largely moved to India. It's like pulling teeth at my company to get them to offer a remote job in a NA timezone (US or Canada).
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by petcat 1y ago
Fair enough, but in this case the "theater" seems to have produced tangible, one-sided terms that will impact billions in USA-EU trade. Regardless of whether it's rooted in principle or posturing, the EU still has to live wit
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by petcat 1y ago
> I'm American and kinda stunned how little salience the issue has. Please punish us as much as possible. The EU has already agreed to one of the most lopsided trade deals in history as a result of all of this. It's a business
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by petcat 1y ago
So... what, what? All I said was the natural gas plants freezing is what caused the main problem, not wind turbines.
891.
by petcat 1y ago
Frozen wind turbines was a microscopic part of the problem compared to almost half of the fossil fuel natural gas plants being offline due to severe cold and freeze.
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by petcat 1y ago
Utility-scale wind and solar farmers in Texas receive the same federal tax credits for renewable energy production as everyone else in the country does.
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by petcat 1y ago
Texas also produces the 2nd most renewable energy in the country (wind by far + solar) behind California. That achievement was coordinated by ERCOT. Texas's renewable energy buildout was entirely due to state-level policy and economic
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by petcat 1y ago
It looks great, but, (no offense), that looks like the most uncomfortable home-office seating arrangement of all time. Your legs can't fit under the desk, and the low-back chair looks like it's for show, not sitting. I fear for
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by petcat 1y ago
I understand it's tongue-in-cheek, but you're actually describing a real problem Starbucks and other casual-style restaurants (McDonalds) have in Seattle. The downtown business districts are almost completely overrun by homelessn
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by petcat 1y ago
The problem is that people design their entire development and release lifecyle to be dependent on Github. A lot of times they can't even push code hotfixes to production without it. It's a terrible SPOF for a lot of engineering
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by petcat 1y ago
> GitHub is _easily_ the most unreliable SaaS product. Some of us are stuck using Atlassian and BitBucket and it is by far worse in every way.
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by petcat 1y ago
> Is it rich people intentionally being cruel to everybody else? If you got a $240,000 bonus in the mid-2000s in tech, that very likely means you were living in one of the tech metros (SF, NYC) and you could expect nearly 50% of that to
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by petcat 1y ago
None of those people ever applied for a job at Big Corp where one of the most important aspects is to be able to work well with other people and tactfully navigate the social structure of the company.
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Software flies airplanes. And sometimes software fails (2010)(softwarefreedom.org)
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