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by slimsag 2y ago
I think the concept of a 'WTF notebook' is great, and I think writing down one's thoughts in general is a good idea. I also think that it helps formulate thoughts and communicate them in a more thoughtful not-in-the-heat-of-t
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by slimsag 3y ago
I mean, it's working. They are #1 on Hacker News currently - so like it or not they should continue doing this if that is their goal.
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by slimsag 3y ago
cheetos probably
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by slimsag 3y ago
no malice intended, but I will take my cloud provider's managed database service.. for which we get support, SOC2 compliance, years of proven stability, no major approval needed by my organization, and budget already approved - rather
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by slimsag 3y ago
The PopOS! installation page[0] - PopOS was the only Linux distribution that had both nvidia drivers and touchpad scrolling working out-of-the-box on my laptop. [0] https://support.system76.com/articles/install-pop&#x2F
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by slimsag 3y ago
Anecdotally, a majority of people I used to see on Twitter I now see only in Discord.
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by slimsag 3y ago
Well, the original commenter is not entirely wrong. Wayland would improve faster if things in real applications everyone cares about were noticeably broken. Many apps do not use Wayland, but rather the XWayland fallback, so people are not u
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by slimsag 3y ago
> Godot bashed game engine It's a typo - 'Godot based game engine' is what it should read I think.
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by slimsag 3y ago
GitLab Inc. is a Delaware corporation[0] like pretty much all other startups that seek US-based VC funding. [0] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1653482/000162828021...
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by slimsag 3y ago
vector graphics != SVG Vector graphics can absolutely require specialized editors to be built. SVG editors are an example of this.
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by slimsag 3y ago
Most kids want to be social media influencers. But I do not think most kids today, once adults, will be very happy with their parents if they just blindly support them in that dream, neglecting other realistic career possibilities in blind
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by slimsag 3y ago
`std.unicode` supports validation, codepoint iteration, conversion from UTF8 <-> other encodings, etc. It doesn't have graphemes (neither does Go or Rust), or other advanced unicode support. Instead that is provided by ziglyph[0]
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by slimsag 3y ago
If you care about Unicode for real, yes. Rust and Go both don't have a builtin package for grapheme iteration - and many naively (and incorrectly) think that a 'Go unicode rune == "character"' in Go. I assume the sa
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by slimsag 3y ago
In Zig strings are assumed to be UTF8 unless documented otherwise, so any function operating on strings is not wasting CPU cycles doing any validation. The person who creates the string is expected to ensure it is valid UTF8 if needed.
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by slimsag 3y ago
good to know! I just copied that quote directly from the Rust docs[0] which were not clear it is only possible in unsafe code. [0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.str.html#invariant
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by slimsag 3y ago
Welcome to the future. You might be able to get an enterprise sales contract with human support.
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by slimsag 3y ago
300 million people with some form of color blindness, and for a minority of those it's much worse than others. It's great your vision doesn't affect you most days, I hope you live a happy life. For me, it's pretty annoyi
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by slimsag 3y ago
I am profusely colorblind, and it's infuriating when people only use colors to indicate something. Please for the love of god give me a checkbox over a red/green slider toggle. Shapes, please, shapes.
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by slimsag 3y ago
That's an interesting take, thanks for writing that. That gives me something to think about.
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by slimsag 3y ago
That, combined with the proliferation of information being distributed as text-in-pictures or voice/text-in-video form will make it computationally difficult to search.
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by slimsag 3y ago
One way to read your story is that upper management applied heavy downward pressure, to the extent that relatively trivial changes in the organization were discussed as 'costly' - in an effort to get engineers like the senior staf
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by slimsag 3y ago
You might like NightHawkInLight's videos on the topic[0] and Tech Ingredients[1] - they've been working on making paint using this technology with an at-home DIY process and experimenting with it. [0] https://www.youtub
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by slimsag 3y ago
Yes. But the bridge looked fairly difficult to run and configure properly, requiring a yarn/npm dev environment (which I don't want installed on my machine) At the time (still?) it seemed impossible to bridge Discord channels (whi
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by slimsag 3y ago
If your intent is to dump some code on the internet, by all means - and more power to you. If your intent is to have your code reach the maximum amount of people to benefit them, and you want your project to benefit from networks effects..
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by slimsag 3y ago
with 1800 services, do you feel like you are programming/architecting code in the same way a complex monolithic codebase might, working across them all? Or are the services just cogs in the machine, managed by individual devs / co
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by slimsag 3y ago
If Search or GMail were released today, in modern Google, how do you think it would handle unethical search terms or unethical conversations? Are the unethical things Search/GMail allow today 'grandfathered' in? It seems like
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by slimsag 3y ago
Looks like it's caused over 300+ spam pull requests to random projects: https://github.com/search?q=tea.yaml&type=pullrequests
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by slimsag 3y ago
The report says "there are dozens of memory safe programming languages that can – and should – be used". The DoD, NSA, and CISA say[0] memory safe languages include[0]: * C# * Go * Java * Python * Rust * Swift Presumably any other
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by slimsag 3y ago
If you want a great example of how this plays out long-term, look no further than algospeak[0] - the new lingo created by censorship algorithms like those on youtube and tiktok. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/
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by slimsag 3y ago
Really it's the opposite. It's called a pharmacy, but in practice it is a convenience store first, and a pharmacy second. Often times the pharmacy is closed, has restricted hours, is understaffed, etc.

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