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by procaryote 7mo ago
This is why I use wired for longer calls or video conferences. I've tried so many wireless in-ear things and all of them are more sensitive to surrounding noise and I have to repeat myself more due to dropouts or spotty quality. It&#x2
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by procaryote 7mo ago
The options were never ASCII or unicode though. Before unicode we had ASCII + lots of different incompatible encodings that relied on metadata to be properly rendered. That's what unicode fixed Besides I like being able to put things l
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by procaryote 7mo ago
Adding lots of code for the common case to support consumers of the code not recompiling for some uncommon potential future corner-cases seems like a bad deal. Recompiling isn't that hard usually.
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by procaryote 7mo ago
Yeah, I feel singletons are mostly a result of people learning globals are bad and wanting to pretend their global isn't a global. A bit like how java people insisted on making naive getFoo() and setFoo() to pretend that was different
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by procaryote 7mo ago
It was a mess back then though. Unicode fixed that.
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by procaryote 7mo ago
You're still relying on sites fulfilling what they promise in a world where facebook has been blatantly violating gdpr from day one and enforcement just isn't happening Set your browser to block 3rd party cookies, add privacy badg
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by procaryote 7mo ago
This is a useful tip! but also... who has a dir with 777 permissions? Is that something people do nowadays?
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by procaryote 7mo ago
check further down this discussion for immediately downvoted comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47191837 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47191619 Post anything negative about rust, or anythi
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by procaryote 7mo ago
> You may have never written a memory bug in your life, but I have, and that renders me completely incompetent. This feels overly binary. Memory management bugs is just one class of bugs, and there have been many other bugs leading to se
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by procaryote 7mo ago
Arguably, calling it a key while insisting it's a non-sensitive ID was a mistake to start with Changing the semantics of existing non-key keys, making them actually keys is horrendous
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by procaryote 8mo ago
> Because walking away from it all isn't the right answer. Why? Because we leave behind all those people addicted to it. Don't start drinking or smoking, because with this logic you'll have a really hard time quitting
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by procaryote 8mo ago
Hydrogen ions are edible, although usually dissolved in water. Hydrogen ions existed before oxygen or water
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by procaryote 8mo ago
It's a staple food in some cultures. It needs preprocessing, but people have been doing that for a while
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by procaryote 8mo ago
You can build a mergetool ( https://git-scm.com/docs/git-mergetool )
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by procaryote 8mo ago
One fundamental deal-breaking problem with structure aware version control is that your vcs now needs to know all the versions of all the languages you're writing in. It gets non-trivial fast.
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by procaryote 8mo ago
Markdown is readable as plain text, that's kind of the point of it There's also a pretty large jump between "I can ask the system to open this link in the default browser" and "I have built my own link handling in a
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by procaryote 8mo ago
And even if they reserved a core, that would be a waste of a perfectly good core
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by procaryote 8mo ago
Second gen butterfly keyboard broke a lot too. And then there was the no-esc touch bar, and the removal of inverted-T arrow keys... It took a few years of no good mac laptops before they backpedalled enough to get back to where they started
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by procaryote 8mo ago
I wanted to love berkeley db; it was available everywhere, seemed simple, was fast when tested. In practice it never worked well though, with pretty frequent corruption under load, and license confusion from oracle. It has a lot of features
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by procaryote 8mo ago
A lower tech version would be to pick a very long recovery passphrase, cut it in two or three and give it to two or three friends. It doesn't give you N out of M, but it will be good enough for a lot of real world scenarios
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by procaryote 8mo ago
OVH is awful. The UI is slow and buggy, operations often fail and you need slow contact with support. Worse, closing an OVH account is very hard. Every domain you host there they sign you up to several services, and you need to manually dis
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by procaryote 8mo ago
An AR-glass assistant is very different from the metaverse Zuck blew tens of billions on, which was a shittier version of Second Life in VR, with a side of blockchain He wasn't early with a good thing; he was unfathomably disconnected
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by procaryote 9mo ago
Even if the code might not end up requiring it, if you write it with the assumption that bytes are 8 bits, it's good to document that with a static assert so someone porting things knows there will be dragons It's a pretty neat wa
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by procaryote 9mo ago
Arguably, 1993's C has survived better than 1993's C++.
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by procaryote 9mo ago
How do you mean? You can at least do things like typedef struct foo foo; and somewhere else struct foo { … }
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by procaryote 9mo ago
The article makes it sound like this is inevitable, and the only choice you have is A: participate and have a chance to not be part of a perpetual underclass B: for moral reasons, don't participate, be part of the underclass I kinda wo
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by procaryote 9mo ago
Also, those things are horrible. You pay in money, and in sanity, and in productivity
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by procaryote 9mo ago
One reason might be that microservice foundations tend to become frameworks rather than building blocks. Auth is a building block you can slot into your system and the shape of the hole isn't all that complex. A framework is something
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by procaryote 9mo ago
There's a lot wrong with Javascript's Date, but the fact that it's an object is is not really in the top 10. Would it have been nice if the Date object had been immutable? Sure, but the fact that changing the mutable object d
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by procaryote 9mo ago
Why would you give up just because something is NP hard if there are good algorithms to approximate a solution, and an approximate but good solution is useful?

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