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by rackjack 5y ago
It's 3am, you ring a friend, they don't pick up. You ring home, your parents are asleep. "do NOT call a hotline" you remember. Nobody to talk to. Nobody loves you. Worthless piece of human fucking garbage. Better off dea
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by rackjack 5y ago
What kind of people have you been interacting with that your impression of the non-depressed is "they think they own the world"?
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by rackjack 5y ago
I agree. > Years ago, unhappy but not suicidal, I decided to call a suicide hotline. They tried to use a tool for a state of mind they were not in, then got surprised that it wasn't helpful.
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by rackjack 5y ago
Again? > Ah, the eternal cycle of: Microsoft does something bad, then people move to Linux, then they get dragged by Linux's rough new user experience, then they leave Linux, then things are fine for a while, then people mock Linux
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by rackjack 5y ago
Org-mode is Emacs's "killer library" for me.
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by rackjack 5y ago
I think check out =/= use in this case
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by rackjack 5y ago
I look forward to the day we can look back at these "quantum chandeliers" with nostalgia, like we look back on those massive, room-sized mainframes today.
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by rackjack 5y ago
This reminds me of how left-handed boxers generally have an advantage over their opponents.
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by rackjack 5y ago
9 comments and all are about pedantry. I found the article interesting, and I wonder if anybody with more experience could give their 2 cents.
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by rackjack 5y ago
I see, thank you.
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by rackjack 5y ago
Let's all love Lain.
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by rackjack 5y ago
Ok. Sometimes Rust fits good, sometimes it fits bad. If you don't want to deal with that, that's fine. I don't want to deal with memory leaks and stuff, so I use Rust instead of C/C++ when low-level, and I deal with the
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by rackjack 5y ago
Could you explain more? I was mainly thinking of the small creator who might bang out one or two great works over a lifetime when I was considering the 40-50 year lifespan, reduced when going to market. Wouldn't 10 years be too short?
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by rackjack 5y ago
Nobody can answer this question unless you tell us what kind of concepts and libraries you are writing. Sometimes Rust is handcuffs, sometimes it is guardrails, sometimes it is a rollercoaster track. It is impossible to tell without more in
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by rackjack 5y ago
Off topic, but can anybody recommend some books on Eastern Philosophy?
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by rackjack 5y ago
This problem has already been "solved". In drug companies, making new a drug is extremely expensive, but once you have the formula, it is (usually) very cheap to produce. So the government gives the maker of a new drug a patent fo
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by rackjack 5y ago
Can you recall which ones you hit on OpenSUSE? I'm using it now and I'd like to watch out for them.
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by rackjack 5y ago
Yes, that's why I'm excited for them.
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by rackjack 5y ago
I previously stated: > Ah, the eternal cycle of: Microsoft does something bad, then people move to Linux, then they get dragged by Linux's rough new user experience, then they leave Linux, then things are fine for a while, then peop
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by rackjack 5y ago
Tangential, but from my understanding async code can be modelled with algebraic effects. I am excited for when they finally get added to OCaml.
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by rackjack 5y ago
sed actually provides a scripting language, and s/foo/bar is just statement in that language. This surprised me when I first learned about it.
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by rackjack 5y ago
I kind of wish we had near 0% inflation rate like Japan. I understand there are downsides to this, and one of the most concerning ones to me is the need to compete with China for economic dominance, since no other country really comes close
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by rackjack 5y ago
Any specific features that stand out to you?
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by rackjack 5y ago
I wonder how much we need facial expressions for VR communication. You can convey a lot in Source games just by crouching and violently shaking your mouse... plus nobody's trying to blow you up in a work environment (hopefully).
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by rackjack 5y ago
It is C99, which surprised me too. https://stackoverflow.com/a/7487949/11736447
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by rackjack 5y ago
Yeah... deposition seems to be for constructing an argument or proving a position. If you don't have a position to prove, I think it's better to work through the emotions and issues a colleague is facing so work can be done more s
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by rackjack 5y ago
I don't have the same problem with the smell, but maybe if enough people thought it smelled bad everybody else would think to avoid it.
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by rackjack 5y ago
Isn't this inflation also caused by the Federal Reserve printing a lot more money? edit: Wait the TREASURY prints money, not the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve just... greases the wheels of banks, I guess?
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by rackjack 5y ago
same.energy is very interesting. It seems like it could be a good tool to quickly get inspiration.
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by rackjack 5y ago
> Think of chips as microservices. That is an interesting perspective.

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