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by pxc 1y ago
For me, well-written books are an enjoyable way to learn, and I'll admit I'm partial to that! But of course you can learn in whatever way you like. Books are just a convenient example to point to as an indicator of how implementer
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by pxc 1y ago
If you read through the Big Red Book¹ or its counterpart for Kotlin², it's quite explicit about the goals with these techniques for managing effects, and goes over rewriting imperative code to manage state in a "pure" way. I
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by pxc 1y ago
Microsoft's tooling for customizing images amounts to several gigabytes to download and install just to get started. The Windows approach is based on a mix of relatively limited offline modifications and automating clicks and keystroke
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by pxc 1y ago
Yes. It's been a few years since I regularly used Handbrake, but I remember thinking of it as very simple, especially with its presets-based workflow. I was used to stuff like various CLI tools, mkvmerge and its GUI, and avidemux at th
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by pxc 1y ago
Making custom Windows install media is insanely painful, even from Windows. I went through the process of creating non-interactive install media for Windows once, and was astonished at how awful it is compared to building custom Linux live
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by pxc 1y ago
The freedom of users of accessibility software is more important than ever. Blind people in my family rely on proprietary software for dealing with visual impairments. It's painful and offensive how exploitative these tools often are.
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by pxc 1y ago
The primary reason you yourself gave was a view of "immigration issues" that is detached from the reality that Democrats have continually increased funding for CBP and ICE and increased militarization of the border with every sing
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by pxc 1y ago
J/w: what direction does it seem to you that Democrats want? At least judging by its elected officials and internal leaders, it seems like a pretty directionless party to me.
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by pxc 1y ago
This hitting the front page made me do a web search review what's going on with MinIO, and... turns out it's still 100% F/OSS, released under the AGPLv3. This is absolutely not comparable to something like OpenTofu, OpenBao,
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by pxc 1y ago
If everyone else genuinely loved Teams, I could stomach using it even though I hate it. But regardless of what anyone says about it, it seems the rest of the company also hates it— it's a ghost town. There's no sense of community
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by pxc 1y ago
Companies that use Microsoft for one thing invariably use it for another, and then another, and then another, because they're "already paying for it". Their business model has always been like this. Microsoft Office usage is
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by pxc 1y ago
I'm not a Rubyist really, but I started using it at work a few weeks ago for a very small script. I'm not allergic to RTFM, so I picked up the canonical reference book on Ruby and occasionally visit the official docs for the langu
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by pxc 1y ago
> I beg to differ. [...] Why do you not call puts with its objects name? In the first place, I'd say what you're asking for goes beyond "everything is an object". But I think your questions can be answered in a way th
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by pxc 1y ago
That's Intel-only, and will be of increasingly little use when Apple stops releasing Intel builds of new releases of macOS.
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by pxc 1y ago
maybe the normal desktop Linux experience in 1996
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by pxc 1y ago
> pare down products and features macOS has way too many products but far too few features. In terms of feature-completeness, it's already crippled. What OS features can macOS afford to lose?
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by pxc 1y ago
Fully supported Linux + proper suspend-to-RAM are the two things I want out of Apple Silicon and may never quite get. Better online low power states are fine, but I want suspend-to-RAM and suspend-then-hibernate. If I close my laptop for a
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by pxc 1y ago
It sounds like an investigation was quite reasonable, and then it cleared him before charges were pressed. Seems pretty good!
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by pxc 1y ago
I'm in the same age cohort. Obama's candidacy and election gave me hope. Obama's presidency disgusted me and disillusioned me.
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by pxc 1y ago
I don't care one way or another. I'm not a JS developer. I'm just struck by a reaction that seems quite extreme, and very visible dogpiling.
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by pxc 1y ago
At least in the thread linked here, it seems like his maintainership over the project is legitimate, which makes it wrong to characterize him as "forcing" his ways on anyone.
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by pxc 1y ago
It definitely feels a bit strange and potentially alarming, but after reading through that whole thread he ultimately seems like a sincere person doing work that he thinks matters, now getting dogpiled for it.
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by pxc 1y ago
`docker machine` was deprecated in favor of Docker Desktop in order to funnel people towards paid licenses. But there's no real reason Docker on non-Linux should need a GUI.
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by pxc 1y ago
You're tangled up in misapplied abstractions. Stop doing math and jump on gravel in bare feet.
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by pxc 1y ago
What is the ranking supposed to reflect, exactly? Quality of education? If the programs have the same instructors, same facilities, same curricula, etc., why would we expect a small change to admission criteria to affect rankings of the pro
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by pxc 1y ago
It depends on where you drop it. Dropping phones on pavement is easy mode. One mistake over coarse gravel and you're pretty fucked even without much height.
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by pxc 1y ago
Why should free software projects bend over backwards to support obscure proprietary platforms? Sounds absurd to me
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by pxc 1y ago
If I deliver a letter to a friend's house, that doesn't make me a mailman. But even setting that aside, I could have simply written "not a designer by training" or "not a designer by trade" or "not a profe
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by pxc 1y ago
The proposition for me is whether to take a class or two on this in the course of pursuing a graduate degree in CS. I'm not considering a career in HCI research. > It's literally one of the trendiest things in design Ask a pers
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by pxc 1y ago
I had a logic textbook in college where all the proofs were just prose with very little notation. It was okay . But it felt like it took a lot more effort to process than denser, more specialized notation!

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