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by sevensor 2y ago
> Arch is bleeding edge yet permanently issue prone What were you doing with Arch where you had this experience? I’ve been using it for more than ten years on a variety of hardware and everything has always just worked, but I see this co
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by sevensor 2y ago
It’s funny, this really isn’t my complaint with Arch. It’s more, “ugh, didn’t you just update LibreOffice last week? Another 2 gigabytes?” I want to be clear that Arch has been fantastically stable for me on a variety of hardware, for over
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by sevensor 2y ago
Maybe I’m getting old, but my long time preference for Arch is slowly being overtaken by my appreciation for Debian. It’s not the usual complaint about stability — I’ve had one issue in a dozen years with Arch — I just reached a point where
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by sevensor 2y ago
I’m not a fan of the way this presents interfaces. It’s quite nebulous, and despite coming close to the mark, it doesn’t appropriately distinguish between data and transport. It seems like what it’s trying to get at is that you can ignore h
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by sevensor 2y ago
I think you’re right? But as an outsider who wants to mess around with CL, I think I might be better off taking the sibling’s suggestion and just pulling in other people’s code, until that becomes unsustainable, and then figuring it out :)
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by sevensor 2y ago
The assurance you get from the examples in the article are pretty basic, but there are contracts you’ll have a lot of trouble encoding in the type system, like “arguments are integers in ascending order.”
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by sevensor 2y ago
Thanks! Actually vendoring it in sounds pretty reasonable for my purposes, which are basically “mess around with this thing somebody posted to HN.”
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by sevensor 2y ago
Every time I approach sbcl I run smack into the problem of installing dependencies. Quicklisp, clpm, roswell, ultralisp, qlot. Docker even. Each cool sounding project wants me to do something different. This one prefers ultralisp. Do CL use
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by sevensor 2y ago
> Then they acquire land, becoming physical “countries” with their own laws. These would exist alongside existing nation states, and eventually, replace them altogether. Let’s assume for a moment they’re not as stupid as this makes them
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by sevensor 2y ago
Figure out your data structure definitions early, along with where those structures come from and where they’re going, and write disposable code around them that builds them and gets them where they need to be. Stable data definitions make
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by sevensor 2y ago
A lot of people (present company excluded I’m sure) don’t know how to read critically. They may read history but not understand historiography. They may not be able to tell the difference between Livy and Tacitus. Being educated by a profes
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by sevensor 2y ago
Have you ever been in a factory? Perhaps you’ve seen automated material handling systems, robotic assembly systems, and so on. Have you seen the plumbing? Have you seen a pump fail and be replaced? We are a long, long, long way from the lig
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by sevensor 2y ago
Took a little digging to find that it targets 3.11. Didn’t see anything about a GIL. If you’re a Python person, don’t click the quick start link unless you want to look at some xml.
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by sevensor 2y ago
> Hire leaders, not managers Previous employer bought this line and was drowning in an excess of leadership. Turns out you do actually need good managers.
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by sevensor 2y ago
My most successful project management experience ever worked like this: we had a massive Gantt chart showing all of the work we had planned. I added and removed rows daily, updated expected completion dates, and generally rearranged the who
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by sevensor 2y ago
Why should we give them a pass on the metaphor? If that’s not what they mean, they can use different words. It’s telling that they don’t.
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by sevensor 2y ago
I would love to bring some scrum masters down to the local high school track and have them run back to back sprints until the message sinks in.
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by sevensor 2y ago
This was the first thing I thought of when I saw “dark age” in the post. If you want to get a historian spun up, start talking about dark ages and prepare to be educated.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Depends on how big they are, what layer they land on, what they’re composed of. I was a semiconductor process engineer for a few years, and honestly the worst damage came from people, and not in the “people shed dust everywhere” sense, but
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by sevensor 2y ago
The defect math is interesting, but process uniformity is more of a killer than the author gives it credit for. Fantastic amounts of ingenuity go into showerhead design, chamber design, and minute changes to process conditions, not to menti
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by sevensor 2y ago
Big state U is in the middle of nowhere, and in those years I was paying closer to $250, but I could see if you were willing to compromise on quality or quantity of personal space, getting that down to $150 without even hitting bottom.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Indeed, the printing press is a historical rupture that puts the author at a distance. The Internet has brought the reader back to the author’s ear.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Looks like a neat learning project! Doesn’t mention Scryer prolog ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28966133 ) but I’m guessing it’s not meant as an alternative
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by sevensor 2y ago
First time I saw an experienced Java programmer at work was a revelation. One hand on the keyboard, one hand on the mouse. Hardly ever actually typed anything. Line width set to 200 characters. Cranking out boilerplate, 5 lines with a singl
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by sevensor 2y ago
I've only recently started using Platinum Carbon Black, and I'm quite happy with it. Addresses the one major concern I've always had with fountain pens, which is how illegible everything becomes when exposed to liquid. Not
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by sevensor 2y ago
Not a word about laziness? This is at this point the most interesting thing about Haskell. As many others have pointed out, the type system has hugely influenced other languages, but laziness by default, for everything, seems like an equall
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by sevensor 2y ago
PyQt can be pretty snappy, but all it takes is a little ignorance implementing a slot method to tank performance. You really have to understand your program as a C++ event loop and not a regular Python application.
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by sevensor 2y ago
A generation later, most C programmers are bad at performance anyway. And they get segfaults.
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by sevensor 2y ago
You’re right on with the parallel with stack overflow, google, and message boards. I take a different conclusion though, which is that lazy irresponsible copy pasting has always been with us, but that doesn’t make it good. Remember the “ful
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by sevensor 2y ago
UTF8 with bom is a terrible idea. “Why does the name of the first column in my csv file not match?” is a question I answer at least once a month. It’s as if they’re trying to EEE plain text.

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