rcoveson

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by rcoveson 4y ago
What does "Notepad-accessible" mean? Surely you're not referring to notepad.exe in a sentence beginning with "I'm going to sound like Richard Stallman"?
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by rcoveson 4y ago
Warming that has occurred in the past is not disputed here.
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by rcoveson 4y ago
> What percentage of C and C++ programmers do you think really understand all the rules regarding integer types in C? Who cares? You could ask the same question about operator precedence, and the answer to both is similar: If it's u
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by rcoveson 4y ago
The author makes it clear from the first paragraph that they're not trying to argue with the strong case for unsigned integers; they'd rather argue against the novice's case. I'd say that in this contest betweeen the aut
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by rcoveson 4y ago
> This change I feel is one of the least objectionable, IMHO. The point of the paragraph seems to be that Mathilda read kind of stuffy old books, and fed her imagination with them. If the namedropped authors aren't well known by tod
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by rcoveson 4y ago
I think there are two major problems. There's a legal+technical+cultural problem where people aren't purchasing immutable copies of books or other media anymore, instead they're purchasing a complicated license that grants ac
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by rcoveson 4y ago
> We could have unsigned integers but we're choosing not to because on the whole their disadvantages outweigh their advantages. You (collectively) have this wrong; C, C++, C#, Rust, Go, et al. have it right. As long as we're ju
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by rcoveson 4y ago
> Gosling: For me as a language designer, which I don't really count myself as these days, what "simple" really ended up meaning was could I expect J. Random Developer to hold the spec in his head. That definition says tha
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by rcoveson 4y ago
The idea that we should "seek out those other forms" is a huge retreat from the statement: > I'm fine with companies making a profit (I think). But I want them taxed in a way that removes their control over the bulk of the
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by rcoveson 4y ago
Just making sure: You've propose that the state should control the bulk of resource allocation decisions?
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by rcoveson 4y ago
With your philosophy that literally reduces engineering to “does it make any profit at all true or false”, I would hope that you would confine yourself to the lifestyle industry.
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by rcoveson 4y ago
> ...is if it works enough to keep going up and the the right. Right, because that's a one-bit truth value, not a scalar. The slope doesn't matter, it just has to be positive. Everything is so simple! There's no such thing
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by rcoveson 4y ago
Kind of sad but funny to imagine like two or three nerds who got banned because they had messed with their kernel page fault readahead settings which just so happened to fault a sentinel page.
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by rcoveson 4y ago
"To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human." I'll keep my gut reactions, thank you very much. They protect me from phishing and other, higher-profile charlatans.
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by rcoveson 4y ago
Explain to me how a reasonable discussion could possibly proceed after throwing out a link to "Naive Realism". I won't defend my own comments. They're basically snark, boiling down to "religion bad reason good"
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by rcoveson 4y ago
To each their own, I guess. I can't (or just won't) change my visceral reaction to hearing about how somebody brought a corporate censor into their network. It's not "1984", it just makes me, personally, slightly sa
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by rcoveson 4y ago
Unfortunately we at SonicWall can't disclose exactly what we're protecting you from, or we wouldn't really be protecting you from it, would we? We even had internal discussions about whether or not spelling out the words &q
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by rcoveson 4y ago
From the perspective of somebody that believes in (literal) books full of things that are--in whole or in part--fabrications, of course realism looks naïve. This flamewar is ancient and tired, like your dwindling religion of doomsday cult
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by rcoveson 4y ago
That's like Jeff Bezos saying "one-click shopping and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of efficiency". In the metaphorical "body" of human "contemplation of truth&q
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by rcoveson 4y ago
This is a joke, right? Sure the DMV/DLD sucks, but is a Facebook support line to some minimum wage call center really going to suck less?
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by rcoveson 4y ago
I'm always thrown when people write "an SQL parser". I'll bet roughly half this crowd is the opposite and cringe when they read "a SQL parser".
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by rcoveson 4y ago
No! Gah! You're doing it again! I'm not being aggressive, I'm being harassed by somebody who keeps telling me what I "know"! Why do you insist on talking to me like this instead of just taking me at my word? > ..
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by rcoveson 4y ago
So you feel as though William MacAskill has been the "public face" of EA for the past couple years. That's possible, though it would make a little more sense if you had said one quarter of that time period, since his book was
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by rcoveson 4y ago
Where does this view of EA come from? Hatchet jobs written by TIMES and its ilk? Twitter personalities like Elon Musk who have so much social gravity that people perceive them as the spokesmen of anything they mention that you hadn't h
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by rcoveson 4y ago
> The worst thing about being smart is how easy it is to talk yourself into believing just about anything. After all, you make really good arguments. How smart you are has nothing to do with it. If you're motivated enough to believe
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by rcoveson 4y ago
> The web has tracking everywhere and often uses a lot of CPU, memory, battery, and bandwidth. The alternative to using something like Discord on the web is not a well-optimized desktop app that is somehow more respectful w.r.t. tracking
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by rcoveson 4y ago
The author's account is about as anonymous as Lemony Snicket is pseudonymous. Technically, but not practically. Don't get me wrong, I don't dislike this person. It's not a "boycott". I'd just prefer not to
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by rcoveson 4y ago
I'm not defeding the "feelings" of the company. I'm pointing out unprofessional behavior encouraged by a culture of oversharing. Journalists and other outside observers can and should write about corporate incompetence w
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by rcoveson 4y ago
Popular opinion of the decade: Social media is vile. Why are we live-tooting (ugh) our client's private disasters? The indiscretion is staggering. This account casts its author in as bad a light as it does their client. I wouldn't
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by rcoveson 4y ago
> Without the knowledge of [Practical Vim], you're too limited to approach efficient (imperative) editing. Are you the publisher or something? What a weird thing to say. I haven't read it, so I guess I'll go back to using

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