sidlls

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511.
by sidlls 4y ago
Not just you. Typing on the iPhone has become increasingly a chore over the last few updates for me.
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by sidlls 4y ago
Even if “most people” were doing what you claim (they don’t), no it absolutely would not matter. Comments like yours are simply attempts to deflect or mitigate criticism with spurious argumentation.
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by sidlls 4y ago
Every place has barbarism. But the kind and degree matter. There isn’t an equivalence between what, say, China or Qatar are like and the (terrible) practices of, say, the US. And even if there were, tu quoque doesn’t add anything to the dis
514.
by sidlls 4y ago
$625k seems like a lot but in the world of government contracting it’s often not. It may be motivating this, but I’m kinda skeptical.
515.
by sidlls 4y ago
Different languages provide different features and support these patterns in different ways. I think they’re complementary. Not to mention that learning different languages can be quite valuable for one’s career, as it is another skill one
516.
by sidlls 4y ago
Finding it neat is one thing. Conflating it with having higher intelligence is another
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by sidlls 4y ago
I don't understand the fetish for languages like this. Their notations and constructs aren't very high fidelity representations of the way most people who use mathematics think when working on a math problem. Maybe for a (relati
518.
by sidlls 4y ago
I’m always suspicious of “one engineer did this” projects. There are probably quite a few engineers, product people and other employees who are simply unattributed for this.
519.
by sidlls 4y ago
Read some of the history around natural philosophy some few hundred years ago. It’s a real hoot, how petty and ego-driven some of these people were. Leibniz’s attempts at taking credit for Newton’s hard work come to mind. (Tongue somewhat p
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by sidlls 4y ago
The use of propaganda and indoctrination to play sub-factions against each other in order to keep the larger group at a disadvantage is a tried and true tactic used by those with power since the beginning of recorded history. This specific
521.
by sidlls 4y ago
Kinda relies on the other parties also not doing it.
522.
by sidlls 4y ago
Could be something has changed, or else something else is at work. I had wretched teeth throughout my youth and through my late 20s. I have 8 or 9 crowns maybe 16 teeth, a few with fillings; some were pulled for orthodontic work. Then about
523.
by sidlls 4y ago
Tons of physics problems are problems related to minimizing some quantity or set of quantities given other constraints. A solution for something like this could very well provide insight into whole classes of unsolved physics problems, and
524.
by sidlls 4y ago
Curiosity; a desire to know the answer is usually enough for me, for the problems I enjoy working on anyway.
525.
by sidlls 4y ago
It's uncommon that more than the ones presented will be necessary for the majority of applications, though.
526.
by sidlls 4y ago
Your comment regarding performance is on point. 50ms response times are reasonable targets for certain niche cases, e.g. high scale—which most aren’t at) or super time critical applications (e.g. certain sectors of finance, where sometimes
527.
by sidlls 4y ago
Yep. And most of the time conflicts merging from master into your working branches produces minimal conflicts. Rebasing is just a way to make extra work for yourself
528.
by sidlls 4y ago
Git is in general a terrible tool: I’ve always thought of it as a shining example of where “worse is better” ought to have been applied. Rebasing is one of its worst features. For non-trivial changes, anyway, it is often just a way to add c
529.
by sidlls 4y ago
Sometimes things are just hard and it should be expected that nobody masters it in any arbitrary period (e.g., the course of a two week period covering a topic, or even over a semester).
530.
by sidlls 4y ago
That would be “constructive termination”. It’s too bad the deck is stacked against labor such that it is so hard to actually prove. But that’s why I keep a detailed journal of my activities and make copies of the overwhelmingly positive pee
531.
by sidlls 4y ago
Not really, proportionally it seems about the same to me. Or did as of last year when I stopped playing MMOs again.
532.
by sidlls 4y ago
The bits of UML in use today are quite pale shadows of how they were (intended to be) used in the early 2000s.
533.
by sidlls 4y ago
Um, 20 years ago MMOs were also full of racists, misogynists, and others engaging in harassment and “spewing their shitty political opinions” both in-game and out (e.g. guild sites).
534.
by sidlls 4y ago
The difference is these communities don’t have advocates spamming every technical thing they can find crapping on everyone else and proclaiming their favored language/tech to be indisputably superior in every case.
535.
by sidlls 4y ago
It’s not unique to Rust’s community at all. I think they have relatively more visibility in places like HN, currently.
536.
by sidlls 4y ago
They probably are, in many cases. Rust’s community, in aggregate, have developed a reputation (earned, in my opinion). It’s too bad that the community don’t follow the leaders’ example in this regard. There are some quality, level-headed Ru
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by sidlls 4y ago
1. The US doesn’t actually do what’s described here. 2. Even if it did, that would also be bad and it wouldn’t make what China does good. These tu quoque arguments always crop up in threads describing whatever horror out of China’s genocida
538.
by sidlls 4y ago
People do some really stupid stuff in the name of religion all the time. Perhaps that was motivation enough, and the line in your comment is seen as a means to invoke plausible deniability
539.
by sidlls 4y ago
Lua is pretty terrible as an embedded language. I’ve worked on numerous applications in both gaming and outside that industry in which lua was heavily utilized to “provide flexibility.” I’ve never liked it, and I probably never will. It has
540.
by sidlls 4y ago
The bill requires companies of a certain size (100+ employees or contractors) to publish the median and mean for each category, across race, ethnicity, and sex. It's not the complete distribution, and the numbers can probably be fudged

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