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by smaudet 1y ago
Other languages have problems, but before some basic libraries (jQuery/Underscore) and language enhancements (Typescript/Coffeescript), it was arguably quite simplistic, and parts of the language were straight up anachronistic. If
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by smaudet 1y ago
I don't think you can frame a media outlet based on which administration is currently in power. Anything and everything an administration says is propaganda, and hence untrustworthy. I.e. your claim that it is leftist requires some jus
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by smaudet 1y ago
> Samba is an important component to seamlessly integrate Linux/Unix Servers and Desktops into Active Directory environments. It can function either as an Active Directory Domain Controller or as a member server. What's somethi
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by smaudet 1y ago
> How are you having Dell ship a brand new laptop Have the vendor ship your image? Or provide your own bootstrap. Probably something with netboots as well... If your point is there is a heavy vendor presence, yeah, sure. But yes, it is a
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by smaudet 1y ago
> IT never even has to be in the same zipcode as the new laptop or ever remotely connect to it to perform maintenance tasks. That sounds nice, but that's not exactly a feature specific to AD. All perfectly possible with a couple wel
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by smaudet 1y ago
Maybe. Some things go deep, true. However most businesses don't use most of Microsoft products - even the ones that do, the usage of the more complicated products is far more minuscule than imagined by e.g. CFOs, etc. The real thing ke
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by smaudet 1y ago
Great for code re-use but I agree, terrible for anything new.
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by smaudet 1y ago
I'm not sure that it is as much about ritual humiliation as much as that, well, you are supposed to be at some sort of summit, so you must have refined your process. A mountain hiker can wear whatever, but above a certain altitude some
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by smaudet 1y ago
> Where is this template based code generator that can read my code, understand it, and generate a full client including a CLI, that include knowing how to format the data, and implement the required protocols? I'd argue you are qui
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by smaudet 1y ago
> But no template based generator could write that code, even though it's fairly trivial Not true at all, in fact this sort of thing used to happen all the time 10 years ago, code reading APIs and generating clients... > He doesn
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by smaudet 1y ago
> We get in trouble trying to be clever (or DRY) Certainly, however: > That's the point I'm making about reviewing LLM code: you are not on the hook for making it work The second portion of your statement is either confusing
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by smaudet 1y ago
I guess my challenge is that "if it was a rote recitation of an idiomatic go function", was it worth writing? There is a certain, style, lets say, of programming, that encourages highly non re-usable code that is both at once bori
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by smaudet 1y ago
Even just 10 PDFs is leaner than a similar number of bloated web pages. Documentation particularly is a big one. Then there are books, etc. Some web pages can still manage to be leaner than a PDF, but as another poster pointed out, a lot of
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by smaudet 1y ago
> the vast majority of websites these days fully fledged applications Many apps do exist on the web. Not many of them are very good, PDF is a bit case in point - web struggles to fully implement PDF read/write (partly a complexity t
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by smaudet 1y ago
Hmm, I have used sites like this in past to some effect to make real world connections. Signed up, but despite asking if I lived in one of three cities and selecting "other", it seemed to stick me in some event without a location
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by smaudet 1y ago
I'm more of the opinion that developers will make smart choices, when motivated. Sure, punching buttons for money is a widespread issue in the industry, but devs also like convenience. Security has the hard problem that it's infur
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by smaudet 1y ago
Safe encrypted group chat with stangers is an oxymoron. Locking down a platform is not an acceptable solution to the above conundrum - it doesn't matter if the user is using an official device/app whatever if they are untrusted. T
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by smaudet 1y ago
I use zim/markdown too, asciidoc is nice(r). That's my main objection to this urtext thing - it's yet another text format, i.e., not really plaintext. I'm sure you could use it to run your life, but should you, probably
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by smaudet 1y ago
And hopefully the constitution sets some bounds on said restrictions... Otherwise a constitution becomes ineffective at some point. There are such things as unconstitutional laws and laws that should not be observed nor enforced...
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by smaudet 2y ago
As a user, I'm not certain I completely agree. Yes, I don't want apps accessing my messages surreptitiously. Points there. However, what's wrong with allowing another app to post messages to my messages? If I don't want
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by smaudet 2y ago
I agree with you. But half of relevancy is branding, the other half is delivering. McD has advertising dollars still (also they own other successful franchises such as Chipotle), and in some places in the world it's not crap. It's
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by smaudet 2y ago
There aren't many big box names that compete. There are usually places that sell you a "meal" for comparable cost. The franchise has to pay fees and offer specific menu items. Small restaurants can outcompete in both price an
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by smaudet 2y ago
I was legitimately surprised last time I went to a UK McDonalds, it was like they actually served food. That is not the experience in other countries though, even in the US it is a pretty consistently shitty experience...
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by smaudet 2y ago
Possibly even SRE shouldn't even exist, not only the structural issues you mention, but... If you approach to security is that only square tiles are allowed because your security framework is a square grid, and points just break your s
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by smaudet 2y ago
I don't like leaving this decision up to either the maintainers or the author, TBH. They have different goals/purposes, often, and they frequently don't line up with my own. Maintainers are exhausting in their own right, they
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by smaudet 2y ago
Plenty of "state of the art", at least a decade ago, that was not very state of anything. I think bias is inherent in our literature and solutions. But also, I agree that the probability of a better solution degrades over time (as
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by smaudet 2y ago
Exactly. The one thing I learned about web dev in 10+ years is, all (or most of) the opinions are wrong. Where we were in the early 2000s wasn't bad, it was actually pretty slick compared to all the "shiny" we have today. The
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by smaudet 2y ago
It should be quite a bit more than that, world population is 8 billion, assuming 70 percent of that is of of working age (normal distribution), and about 95% of that would substantially benefit from a yearly annuity, it would be 3760 averag
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by smaudet 2y ago
I hear you. And the reason is "drumroll", people like Musk. How exactly, is it that billionaires have continued to do so well for so long while the working class hasn't experienced a pay increase since the 70s? You know pays
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by smaudet 2y ago
It is ironic that the most useful thing Musk and Trump will do is wake people up to the fact their house is on fire...

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