prerok

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by prerok 1y ago
In C we had to resort to tricks like precompiled headers to get any sort of sensible compilation and it still lasted a minute for a decent library. C++ was/is even worse what with generation of all the templated code and then through t
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by prerok 1y ago
Not even mentioning that you cannot change the headlight by yourself.
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by prerok 1y ago
Did you mean it was decent in the past? I think the GP's statement was that there are almost no decent newspapers anymore, which I think nobody would disagree with.
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by prerok 1y ago
I'm not getting the reference. Did you mean wallfacer?
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by prerok 1y ago
Nah, not needed. Let's just go straight to Mars. Real men test in production. /s
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by prerok 1y ago
You would have to have these skills as you become senior engineer anyway. I have never heard these tasks to be referred to as managing people.
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by prerok 1y ago
I would not call these managerial skills: these are skills of lead engineers. Management does not really look at the code, right?
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by prerok 1y ago
You mean like an authorship coop? Might work, but the main problem is authors' self importance. Not a single author I know of would opt for it. They are all just impoverished millionares. For less narcissistic authors it may well work,
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by prerok 1y ago
I think part-time is indeed the only option and has been for a long long time. The e-books only shortly promised a disruption until it fell apart. As you say, partly due to advertising, but partly also due to being no editor. Editors can be
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by prerok 1y ago
I would say we don't know that yet. Comparing the current state of LLMs to what they can lead to or what they might enable later on is like comparing early machine prototypes to what we have today. I can also 100% tell you that the far
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by prerok 1y ago
But... the machine that plants seeds also takes away the livelihood to a bunch of folks. I mean, in my country, we were an agrarian society 100 years ago. I don't have the actual stats but it was close to 90% agrarian. Now, it's a
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by prerok 1y ago
Really? I found them reenabled after the next update. I just gave up and switched to Linux a year ago.
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by prerok 1y ago
Exactly this. We've entered an era where you pay for the product and you are still the product. Disgusting.
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by prerok 1y ago
Yeah, it takes some work. I did that about a year ago. Super happy. All games through Steam work, for gog some require some tinkering but it's not too bad. Do note what others have said about mods and some publishers' multiplayer
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by prerok 1y ago
To be honest, I think KDE is a better alternative to transition to from Windows. Maybe it's just personal preference but I could also never really get the hang of Gnome.
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by prerok 1y ago
Genuinely curious... why do you see the need to back up git? Even if I don't want to push to a server, I use a different disk or USB as an additional remote in git and push to that. Although I do that only for financial data, so only d
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by prerok 1y ago
I am happy you were able to solve it. One of my friends had exactly this problem, but he just died the next day :( Sorry to have the need to have shared this, but at least it's been on my mind every time I hear someone take their cast
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by prerok 1y ago
Well, I for the count of one, didn't think it bad, but thought provoking. We're all immigrants, when you get deep into it (speaking from Europe, where we usurped previously native folk some 1500 years ago), and we all came from Af
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by prerok 1y ago
While I agree with you on most points, that is not why Pluto is not a planet. The reason is that it was observed "too soon" because of its interaction with Neptune's orbit. Once we realized there were plenty of such objects i
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by prerok 1y ago
Out of bounds exception is ok to crash the program. User input error is not ok to crash the program. I could go into many more examples but I hope I am understood. I think these hard-coded definition of ranges at compile time are causes of
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by prerok 1y ago
Sorry? That's not possible...
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by prerok 1y ago
Funny :) It still results in overflow and while you are right that it's UB by the standard, it's still pretty certain what will happen on a particular platform with a particular compiler :)
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by prerok 1y ago
Also, I would be very interested to learn the case for hard requirement for a range. In almost all the cases I have seen it eventually breaks out of confinement. So, it has to be handled sensibly. And, again, in my experience, if it's
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by prerok 1y ago
Exactly, but how do you catch the exception? One exception catch to catch them all, or do you have to distinguish the types? And yes... error handle on the input and you'd be fine. How would you write code that is cognizant enough to c
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by prerok 1y ago
I found Pascal more readable as a budding programmer. Later on, C's ability to just get out of the way to program what I wanted trumped the Pascal's verbosity and opinionatedness. I admit that the terseness of the syntax of C can
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by prerok 1y ago
I would argue that was one of the reasons why those languages lost. I distinctly remember arguments for functions working on array of 10. Oh, you want array of 12? Copy-paste the function to make it array of 12. What a load of BS. It took P
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by prerok 1y ago
Exactly this. Fails at runtime. Consider rather a different example: say the programmer thought the age were constrained to 110 years. Now, as soon as a person is aged 111, the program crashes. Stupid mistake by a programmer assumption turn
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by prerok 1y ago
Strong typing does not obviate the need for unit tests. It just obviates the need for the simplest ones about passing incorrect types. These are now being obviated anyway due to typecheck static analyses being added to most commonly used un
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by prerok 1y ago
Could not agree more. It's perfectly ok to not use a software pattern if it's not useful. It's ok to duplicate code if you know it will likely diverge in the future. Small and simple is the way.
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by prerok 1y ago
Windows 10 is great. It finally made me to switch to Linux with KDE. Couldn't be happier.

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