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by slipperydippery 1y ago
When all your examples in actual use are bloated… I’ve never seen another basic tech used to develop other programs that’s so consistently obvious from its high resource use and slowness, aside from the modern web platform (Chrome, as you
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
Whatever efficiency may hypothetically be possible with Java, you can in-fact spot a real world Java program in the wild by looking for the thing taking up 10x the memory it seems like it should need… when idle. Yes yes I’m sure there are e
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
IDK I have one large Pendleton blanket, a robe, and about ten of their shirts, plus an old ex-army blanket that I suspect they made, and they’re pretty great. All but one of those items (one shirt) is long-fiber wool, so it’s the itchy kind
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
I buy wool sweaters from Europe. I don’t know of US equivalents to what I buy, and I doubt they’d be as cheap if I did find them, even with (expensive) shipping from Britain and Nordic countries. I bought a linen sheet from Lithuania this y
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
They're setting the ACA up to "naturally" fail anyway, so this doesn't matter to them, or is even a step in the right direction. They kicked out one of its three "legs" (the "individual mandate") so t
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
Our GDP would take a really bad hit if we stopped wasting 10+% of it overpaying for healthcare (a white-collar make-work jobs program—like, god, couldn't we just start up the CCC again? At least they built nice stuff that we're st
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
Python with a library like Pydantic isn't bad—I wouldn't rate base Python as being near Go's level, at all, though you can get it up to something non-painful with libraries. Go (and lots of other languages...) wreck it on dep
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
The benefit of the language being small and "normal" idioms mostly followed and the std library being good-enough that people rarely import another dep for something it can handle is that it's by far the easiest language in w
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
The people stewarding the Web platform have neglected a lot of nice things, among them this—a major version two major versions ahead of what's in browsers, is eight years old . That it still has any use on notable sites at all seems
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
They're just trolling. This is far too silly a line of argument to treat seriously.
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
I have a CS degree and have been in the industry for 25 years and man I hope "memorize syntax" was never supposed to be a notable component of any of that, because I certainly haven't....
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
Having a reasonably complete and well-performing set of XML tools available in the browser is really nice. The counterpoint seems to be "well it has Javascript so we don't need actual features since you can theoretically write a
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
My wife's seen this at multiple non-tech companies, and it's a disaster every single time. Most (like... 95+% of) folks can't use these things very well, being forced to use them kills morale because they're frustrating
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
I'm fairly confident there's going to be no shortage of work for programmers who actually halfway know what they're doing for the remainder of my career (another 20ish years, probably), at least. So that's nice. Though c
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
Yeah, the safest professional tone to adopt is now something like what you'd use talking to someone else's very-stupid dog than to a co-worker you respect. It's gross.
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
The two biggest causes of major UI problems I see are: 1) Exactly what you wrote: power users don’t even realize they clicked through five things in ten seconds any one of which would have derailed a weaker user, because they’re so used to
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
They do indeed often have zero ordinary cashiers. ... except at the "PRO" checkouts. Which are actually just ordinary check-out lanes. Anybody can go through them. The signs mean nothing whatsoever. I never go through their self
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
Time flies, and he’s been on my to-read list for… a while. Need to finally get around to it I guess.
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
I’ve seen nobody talking about this, so it’s probably wrong, but I can’t shake the feeling that a lot of the seemingly-nuts things we’ve seen the last 20ish years, from house prices going to the moon to LOLWTF P/E ratios sustained for
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
No! They still do that? Reading this thread had me thinking back to an early Nexus phone I had back in my Android days, maybe around 2012, and here’s this post! I had no idea that wasn’t some odd one-off problem. You could place the phone b