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by rewmie 3y ago
> I don't say this to gloat. I say this as an example of how badly wrong things are. I think it's a global phenomenon. I own an apartment in an European country and I also saw my neighbors selling theirs for 2 or 3 times what I
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by rewmie 3y ago
> The supply crunch is caused by wealthy Canadians owning multiple homes Is it, though? I mean, that would drive up demand, but what happened to supply? If your hypothesis had any basis, wouldn't real estate developers rush to profi
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by rewmie 3y ago
> This is a problem created by multiple governments over various parties, and at this point I don't see an exit that isn't enormously painful. Isn't Canada's housing problem caused by a supply crunch? Other than the C
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Just because many companies behave poorly does not mean there is not a code of reciprocal obligation between workers and companies. What code are you talking about? Either you're referring to worker protection laws or collective b
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by rewmie 3y ago
> And that is a reason to turn yourself into indispensable cog, not the best replaceable there is. For centuries, organizations have been adjusting themselves to ensure that all employees are as easily replaceable as they could possibly
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by rewmie 3y ago
> (...) but in a LOT of companies leaving with no notice puts everybody (...) in a crazy bad spot. Do you think gratuitously firing employees doesn't leave them in a bad spot? How come that a family needing to pay rent and make ends
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by rewmie 3y ago
> It's a somewhat common pattern in C (...) C++ isn't C, though.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I think in the specific case of security issues, more bugs have been fixed by upgrading dynamic dependencies than introduced. That's just your personal assertion, which is entirely baseless and unsubstantiated. It's ok to hav
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I think this is a great entrypoint into the static/dynamic argument and I'd love to argue with some people about it. I don't think it is. You start from an irrational and unsubstantiated belief that ignores any of the ba
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by rewmie 3y ago
> He/she is mentioning that an obtained client can always be hacked, no matter what, and the reader of the original comment may not realize that. That pointless remark misses the whole point. Even though ideally an attack vector wou
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Almost any workplace is like that if (...) Most people aren't that fortunate. There are good reasons why the word "job" is not synonymous with "fun".
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by rewmie 3y ago
> The constructor of std::string is constexpr in C++20. If I recall correctly, from C++20 onward all member functions of std::string are constexpr.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I find that there's no use case for a constexpr std::string. Maybe I'm just not imaginative enough. Putting together strings through string interpolation involving somewhat expensive operations is a common usecase. Given the
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by rewmie 3y ago
> They had discovered that you could clear a string under MSVC by `memset()`ing over it. Why was that? Was it too problematic to just call std::string::clear ?
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by rewmie 3y ago
> but it would definitely be an escalation of the conflict. How do you escalate a conflict where you're being invaded and the invader not only denies your right to exist but also is adamant in committing genocide to remove you even
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Hacker News is going to nitpick at the bold claim of the title instead of focusing on the fact that (...) ...that the claims are somewhere between false and cherry-picked?
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by rewmie 3y ago
> This is a ridiculous thing to say. I understand that inexperienced people oblivious to basic requirements of a simple release process might have a hard time understanding why those requirements need to be addressed. > GitLab says it
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by rewmie 3y ago
> In my experience, git tags are far more effective at managing releases than git branches. I'm sorry to say that your experience doesn't seem to be with production software with a significant release cadence. Tags fail very ba
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Agreed. In my teams, I've always implemented a simple model, which hasn't failed me. Main branch triggers deployment, and name rest of the branches <author>/<feature>. Just works. So you work with a small tea
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by rewmie 3y ago
> it was possible to strictly order commits This holds no relevance at all. Nothing in gitflow calls for strictly ordered commits. Just because there is a branch represented with semver that does not mean that the revision control system
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Versioning/release/deploy/rollback is dealt with mostly outside of git, or with tags-on-main at most. This is simply outright wrong. Releases are not a tagged versions of a development branch. There is stuff that belongs
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Strong agreement with everything you've said here. I can't say enough good things about trunk-based development. I don't agree. Git flow is just trunk development applied to release-centric, non-web projects, after you
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by rewmie 3y ago
> This was terrible at the time and it remains terrible now. I strongly disagree. This branching model didn't came out of the blue. This branching model is a direct mapping between regular run-of-the-mill release processes for appli
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by rewmie 3y ago
> That's not the most common pattern in tech acquisitions. I don't think any company in history ever said "I'd love to acquire that company, but I'll take a pass because it's been so successful that it manag
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by rewmie 3y ago
> What would motivate someone to rebut It was not a rebuttal. It was pure whataboutisms. > the mild claim Systematic sexual abuse is not mild, and it's way more than a mere claim: it's well and thoroughly documented.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> This is of course a different spin from 20 years ago when it was "Lets deliver democracy and beer, America, Fuck Yeah!", but it's similar. That's not correlated with reality at all. From the start the spin was and a
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by rewmie 3y ago
OP stated that Afghanistan is messed up, and substantiated the claims by pointing a pervasive custom of sexual abuse of children. Whataboutisms do not change the validity of such claim. I don't know what point you thought you were maki
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by rewmie 3y ago
Saudi Arabia's crown prince is also known for torturing and assassinating dissidents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashog...
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Almost feels like I'm learning regex again. But isn't that what jq is and always has been? I mean,what led you to believe that an entirely unrelated pattern matching language would work?
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Surprisingly, the women, often seen as sidelined, might be the ones to watch as they navigate and challenge both systems. As I posted in another reply, female suicide is spiking in Afghanistan. https://www.theguardian.com&#x

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