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by s1gsegv 3y ago
I guess the ire towards macOS-created apps comes from the fact that you can write macOS things that work on Linux without doing the “proper” things for the platform. Windows is SO different that you have to do real porting work. When someth
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by s1gsegv 3y ago
While you can definitely get a speed up from going keyboard only and mastering hotkeys, you are way faster at selecting some random block of code with the pointer and retargeting to somewhere else to paste etc until you have them solid. For
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by s1gsegv 3y ago
In my opinion, you can generally write very nice looking code even if the indentation of the multiline statement isn’t exactly matching the brace or whatever. But as you say, you can still use spaces for alignment. I find it to be kinda meh
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by s1gsegv 3y ago
If someone finds it more readable to have their tabs smaller to fit on a small screen, or larger to fit on a large screen, why deprive them of that? It’s perfectly fine to still have a canonical width if you want to use it for other reasons
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by s1gsegv 3y ago
I have yet to see an editor that will truly work with spaces that way. Sure, the tab key will insert spaces, and the backspace will remove multiple spaces if you’re at a whitespace boundary, but I still have a much smaller click target when
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by s1gsegv 3y ago
> Especially if backed up by a fast SSD Ooh, relying on swap to your limited write cycle irreplaceable mass storage seems like a bridge too far to me. I know they do it, but I worry it will shorten the device lifespan if it’s relied on t
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by s1gsegv 3y ago
I also think we should progress past 8GB baselines but an interesting point: I said this “5 years down the line” back when the M1 first came out, in 2020. Maybe memory requirement inflation is truly starting to slow down.
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by s1gsegv 3y ago
Coming from a VPN company, I’m surprised they don’t speak about how much of this tracking is mitigated by using TikTok through a VPN. Sure, it doesn’t solve their keylogging in the browser, but I would assume apart from that you are relativ
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by s1gsegv 3y ago
I can understand feeling like both taxes and insurance premiums are too high, but the ability to make choices other than the specifically least risky one is one that fundamentally allows us to exercise our free will. Those in Auburn are, by
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by s1gsegv 3y ago
Due to the cost of doing so, right. If the aircraft were suddenly unmanned and significantly cheaper to fly in potentially great quantities, it’s easier to justify doing so “just in case.” It’s concerning to think that because police have t
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by s1gsegv 3y ago
I think the crux of the issue is that making a system that's customizable AND sandboxing AND user friendly multiplies together to create development and testing effort that's not palatable for most right now. Even the open source
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by s1gsegv 3y ago
Yes, there's much more work to be done here in the open source community, and I think it might have to be done there due to lack of aligned incentives otherwise. For instance, on platforms such as Android that are meant to be secure in
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by s1gsegv 3y ago
Through the same sort of mechanisms you can unload and reload a module, you could definitely consider that "rebooting". In practice, however, there are definitely modules that don't support unloading, or claim to support it b
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by s1gsegv 3y ago
In situations like this, why does HN seem to be such a crab bucket? I see so much "ah yeah well tech workers are finally getting a taste of reality." We have to fight to pull up other industries, not just laugh when tech "fin
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by s1gsegv 3y ago
Absolutely, however holding the entire fleet responsible for the number of faults that would disqualify a single driver also seems wrong. If a taxi driver drives 8 hours a day, then 10 robotaxis will drive 80 hours in that same day and stat
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by s1gsegv 3y ago
I noticed that there's a huge negative effect from COVID times too: interviews are all done over Zoom. That doesn't sound like a huge deal, but when you have an active day job that is potentially not close to your house and doing
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by s1gsegv 3y ago
I can see an argument for this being semantically correct, but in practice I think it's preferable to have the repo checkout in the closest configuration to correct for new developers who will start contributing. And, for what it'
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by s1gsegv 3y ago
Windows 3.1 on a 386 used preemptive multitasking, yes, but only between Windows as a whole and other DOS programs you were running. Within Windows, win16 apps were cooperatively multitasked even on a 386.
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by s1gsegv 4y ago
As I understand it, there's the WARN act both federally and at some state levels (namely California where a lot of this is taking place). They require advance notice of layoffs as a worker protection. However, companies don't want
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by s1gsegv 4y ago
The emergent behavior from this however is not that we get healthy competition, it's that the big guys have the money, connections, and understanding of the process to still do everything they want, while the little guys can't get
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by s1gsegv 4y ago
One data point: I'm someone who could explain, in pretty excruciating detail, every step of that process from the power sequence and boot ROM, all the way up to the JIT engines under the modern web browser. I got a new position about 9