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by porcoda 3y ago
This is why the web (and computing in general) is the way it is today: everything prioritizes what businesses and developers want, and the desires/needs of the people who actually use it are considered afterthoughts and annoying incon
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by porcoda 3y ago
Native speaker, and title confused me even being familiar with the whole owned/pwned thing. I clicked on the article simply because I was curious why being a 4chan-using sole proprietor would be at all interesting.
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by porcoda 3y ago
It’s a bit above the National average according to: https://drugabusestatistics.org/drug-overdose-deaths/ Assuming 900000 people in San Francisco, the national average would say about 190/yr. One every 10hrs woul
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by porcoda 4y ago
Option types are from ML, not rust. ML predates rust by about 40+ years.
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by porcoda 4y ago
Yes. I have just 2 of these managed networks : AT&T Wi-Fi Passpoint and attwifi. It could be that they’ll switch auto join back on if I move somewhere that they’re visible. Edit: just out of curiosity I rebooted to see if that would
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by porcoda 4y ago
It’s been 30 minutes and they’re still off for me. I’ll check again later.
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by porcoda 4y ago
> they cannot have “automatically join” disabled They can on my AT&T iOS 16.4 device. I was able to disable auto-join on the two AT&T ones. I didn't need to delete a network to enable the "done" button from the e
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by porcoda 4y ago
Seems odd to me to group places like NY and SF together solely based on the second derivative of their population. If one has bounced back and restarted growth, while the other continues to shrink, just less rapidly, you can’t say they’re
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by porcoda 4y ago
This has been the story of Apple apps outside MacOS forever: they appear to always do the absolute minimum to claim support, and you end up with a super clunky windows app that is terrible. I doubt they’d do much better using electron: I th
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by porcoda 4y ago
Depends on the domain you’re going to work in. Nobody understands all major CS domains in depth - you typically specialize and dive deep in the relevant area. It’s like any other field: no physicist knows all major areas of physics, no m
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by porcoda 4y ago
I’m not using it at all. Until I can run it locally and guarantee my interactions with it are entirely private and under my control, I won’t touch it or related services. I’m constantly surprised to see people who talk so much about priva
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by porcoda 4y ago
Your notion of “common things” may not be universal. In the sciences where Python is extremely popular, many common things are quite computationally demanding and feel the slowness of Python quite acutely and the slowdown certainly does ma
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by porcoda 4y ago
It has always been user hostile since the days of pop-over ads, pop-under ads, obnoxious browser toolbars that were basically malware, etc. It seems like since around the year 2000 it’s been a nonstop fight between people who want to extra
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by porcoda 4y ago
We could just get rid of comments on videos altogether. The benefit of squelching the mechanism scammers and trolls have available to them seems to greatly outweigh whatever is lost by just getting rid of comments.
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by porcoda 4y ago
A surprising number of non-fiction books these days are unbearable to read since I find the authors often use them as a thinly disguised autobiography masquerading as a book about a specific topic. I recently read an astrophysics book that
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by porcoda 4y ago
I’d normally say Javascript, but that world seems to be a little over saturated with people, which causes contention for available jobs. If you go the C#/.NET route (or even Java) you’ll be set up for common “enterprise” jobs that app
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by porcoda 4y ago
The placement of the national labs in DOE is mostly a historical artifact of the time they were born. They cover most sciences these days and it isn’t uncommon to hear people with DOE jokingly refer to it as the “department of everything”.
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by porcoda 4y ago
There isn’t any external pressure to give people an incentive to do better. Until that arrives, we’re stuck in this crap software local minimum. I’m hoping such pressure arrives in the form of legal or regulatory stuff, even if it chills t
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by porcoda 4y ago
You might be interested in Guy Steele’s talk “It’s time for a new old language”. He talks about similar notations and the problem of inventing new ones (although most of his talk is about things other than BNF-like notations : he just talk
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by porcoda 4y ago
You fixated on what I said was the secondary reason, and repeated in a rephrased way what I said was the primary reason - economics/cost. Given that users rarely get to make the choice, I’m not sure we have evidence saying people actua
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by porcoda 4y ago
> the performance of a well written UI in a modern browser out-performs a native desktop application in every category of sped, usability and presentation for most usual use cases This definitely needs evidence to back it up since my per
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by porcoda 4y ago
Even more reason to be skeptical about the title here. “Anonymous comment on rumor site” is hardly a basis for a factual title…
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by porcoda 4y ago
Who said it’s interpreted?
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by porcoda 4y ago
I often see posts that I know are going to be full of comments that will just irritate me, so hiding the post is the easiest way to not accidentally wander into a sea of comments that I’d rather not see.
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by porcoda 4y ago
It's not a question of what one can do that the other can't. They can both achieve the same thing (they both map to CIL after all). It's usually a question of ergonomics - how much work do you want to put in to achieve the
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by porcoda 4y ago
To some degree it’s immaturity of the field as a whole. I think that we accepted some pretty negative behavior as normal and many people still echo it in the way they act if they want to come across as a Smart and Successful Tech Person.
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by porcoda 4y ago
Exactly. The single biggest hurdle for me using some open source tools written with newer languages is the ridiculous dependency surface due to a preference for package repositories over curated “batteries included” bundled libraries. I w
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by porcoda 4y ago
Ownership isn’t a matter of physical existence or duration of some physical property.
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by porcoda 4y ago
"Colour" is oversimplifying it a bit. We're usually concerned with the distribution of light received with respect to wavelength. In the case of distance, it's not just that "it's red", but that the enti
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by porcoda 4y ago
... I didn't say it was for random pointer lookups. That's the pathological case that was the primary reason the Cray X-MT (formerly Tera MTA) was invented. As I said, when you have pointers with some regularity (hence my refere

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