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by romwell 2y ago
Types in the end are contacts you make with yourself, enforced by the compiler. A weak type system gives you the freedom to trick yourself. I don't feel it's a feature.
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by romwell 2y ago
>The desire for stronger duck typing That's what C++ templates always have been, and got way, way tighter with concepts circa C++23. Rust's traits are also strong duck typing if you squint a little. The idea in both cases is
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by romwell 2y ago
Do you, too, live in San Jose? My favorite feature of bike lanes there is how highway access ramps straight up cross them - - creating a flow of cars accelerating to highway speeds coming from behind and sideways from you, while you are
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by romwell 2y ago
> Gervais Principle Reference: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
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by romwell 2y ago
And the meta-question of "why did the museum choose to waste money on lawyers that way" is "bureaucrat X decided that the scans belong to the museum, so no further logic or rational thinking will be applied unless absolutely
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by romwell 2y ago
>They’re afraid of losing out on the revenue from selling replicas You're aware that you don't need a 3D scanner (much less a 3D scan) to produce a replica of a sculpture (..or a replica of a replica ), right? There&#x27
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by romwell 2y ago
Note that I said that it would make sense a CRLF command too , as in: in addition to separate CR and LF commands, which are useful in their own rights. I also strongly disagree with the author that LF is useless. So many times in code I
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by romwell 2y ago
Indeed, I was clarifying that: 1) "Typewriters" in parent's comment didn't refer to mechanical typewriters, but 2) Line feed/carriage return semantics, as well as the UX of combining them into one action to proc
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by romwell 2y ago
Isn't this what I said? >the lever would do LF, and pushing on it further would do CR (tensioning the carriage spring). In any case, carriage return is just as important function of the lever as line feed: - you can also directl
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by romwell 2y ago
>The latter is what typewriters do for the Return key. Minor correction: mechanical typewriters do not have a Return key, but they have both operations (line feed, as well as carriage return). The carriage return lever is typically
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by romwell 2y ago
...that makes up results when it can't find any
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by romwell 2y ago
I should add the venerable FAR Manager to the list: https://www.farmanager.com/screenshots.php?l=en It's Windows-based, but has been open-sourced by the developer, and so it's got a Linux port[1]. The UI is the cl
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by romwell 2y ago
>So what you're saying is, the most efficient AI is not a data center of GPUs, it's... a giant tank of lab-grown brains. That's literally what a think tank is. Or a research university, for that matter. The labs are wher
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by romwell 2y ago
In any case, I can assure you the implication you object to wasn’t intended, and my sincere apologies for writing a comment that appears to give it. Thank you for explaining what’s wrong with what I wrote. I’m autistic (if that wasn’t appar
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by romwell 2y ago
Excellent. Even looking at that page brings me back to DOS days. BTW, what’s everyone’s favorite NFO viewer? With this font pack, LiteXL/Pragtical would probably do a great job, BRB gotta test it.
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by romwell 2y ago
To the contrary! My point was that out the lot of disorders listed, ME is the real bitch, and a bunch of others can be grouped together.
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by romwell 2y ago
It is evident that you misunderstood what I wrote. Please read it again. Some comments: -I am not equating ME with fatigue in general; -The fatigue that I say is not uncommon in autistic people is "I can't get out of bed for a da
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by romwell 2y ago
>Wow, that's a lot of disorders Eh, a bunch of those are just a part of the package that comes with AuDHD[0], Specifically these three: - Pathological demand avoidance [1] - Rejection sensitive dysphoria [2] - Sensory processing d
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by romwell 2y ago
OK, if you use reddit: Do you know how subreddits often link to other , related/friendly subreddits in the side bar? That's a modern webring.
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by romwell 2y ago
I dunno, some people¹ clearly care about the meaning of words, and are pained when the meaning doesn't align with the idea the words are picked to communicate. Perhaps we could allow ourselves to be unhappy when spotting such abuse i
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by romwell 2y ago
Napster ? There were online chatrooms before that. And forums before that. And newsgroups. And BBS. And FIDO. The net was social before web even existed.
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by romwell 2y ago
Well, that's what C++ templates were made for. White your code to work on Musicians, pass Taylor Swift in. If she's not a musician, your code won't compile.
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by romwell 2y ago
>When my account was closed by an ISP, Thunderbird (unexpectedly for me) mirrored the lack of access to the IMAP folders and deleted all my local mail. Fortunately this was a temporary issue that I was able to recover from. This is abs
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by romwell 2y ago
>bad jobs >Microsoft platform Are you 13, and living in the year 1999? >as a hacker, why would you want to work for an employer that uses a Microsoft platform ? Because I want to work in organizations like NASA. Out in the
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by romwell 2y ago
The Inhuman Centipede
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by romwell 2y ago
Can't wait to see what the almighty AI thinks about the Tits problem![1] Or the Tits group[2] (I swear, I'm not a member!). Very tempted to include Tits Alternative[3] as one of my interests on LinkedIn, but I'm afraid the re
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by romwell 2y ago
>This is only true if people repeat it and believe it to be true. Which they do. Particularly, employers.
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by romwell 2y ago
> I wonder if the same can be done with Gmail archives. That's called "using an email client" to access email. The way it originally worked, you know, and still does[1]. I use Vivaldi browser, which has a built-in mail c
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by romwell 2y ago
>It's... really not. Despite what some people seem to think, most of the 3 billion+ Facebook users are normal people who aren't just posting nonsense or memes. Most users also don't post much. Most Facebook posts (as o
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by romwell 2y ago
>If that actually is libertarian ethos, then it sucks. It is. Also, when I asked whether they would have the same libertarian attitude regarding a crowd-sourced app to keep tabs on people with net worth over $1B, my modest proposal[1]

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