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by stouset 1mo ago
Making functions that must be called in a specific, pre-defined order is the problem. Forcing it to be done correctly through the type system is a neat trick, but better is to design it so the trick wasn’t needed in the first place.
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by stouset 1mo ago
> where I need to make sure certain functions are called in order The ticket approach is a neat way to handle this, but I’ve always felt that functions needing to be called in a specific order is usually a bad code smell. I’m sure ther
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by stouset 1mo ago
I thought the narrative was that it was the blue cities that were the chaotic hellholes, specifically because of all the minorities that live there? Can you try to keep your stories straight?
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by stouset 2mo ago
It’s not slanted, it’s accurate.
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by stouset 2mo ago
> it's trivial to avoid the tainted supplier It really, really is not. They are massive and are a supplier for a huge number of restaurants.
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by stouset 2mo ago
No one is saying we shouldn’t work to improve the safety of multiple systems at a time. But it is helpful to keep perspective over relative safety. People are very prone to overweight the risk of things that are prominent in the media.
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by stouset 2mo ago
Neither Stripe or Visa count passthrough dollars as revenue. Nor should they.
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by stouset 2mo ago
I’ll never not be bitter than Python “won” the scripting language war over Ruby, more or less just because someone did a bit of AI work in it first and it took over that space by default. Ruby has such a nice holistic consistency to it. Wit
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by stouset 2mo ago
Frankly I think expressing it in Celsius has made Americans think it’s less of a problem than it is. It took me awhile to realize that it’s basically 4°F, which is enormous.
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by stouset 2mo ago
And (in Ossof and Mamdani’s cases) serving their constituents.
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by stouset 2mo ago
The Republican base doesn’t give a shit about “tax and spend” either. For all their hand-wringing about deficit spending, Republican administrations have for decades been the party of excessive spending and ballooning deficits. They’ve demo
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by stouset 2mo ago
Independent of the merits of this case, is there legally a distinction between deleting a secret key that decrypts an encrypted blob (maybe not spoilage?) vs writing over the blob itself (spoilage?). I could see arguments for both, either
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by stouset 2mo ago
In other words, “the point of a system is what it does” applies to humans as well.
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by stouset 2mo ago
Given that the Republicans claim to be the “party of personal responsibility”, I utterly reject this attempt to frame its voters as the poor and unfortunate victims of manipulation and choose instead to hold them personally responsible.
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by stouset 2mo ago
Edited this after the fact to reduce the intensity of my tone. This “both sides” nonsense is not particularly convincing when one party literally has masked goons on the street sending people extrajudicially to concentration camps.
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by stouset 2mo ago
Conservative voters themselves have been quite clear that they don’t actually care about any of those principles either. I remain skeptical.
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by stouset 2mo ago
> the technology is already fully paid for by the user This seems like a very large and unfounded assumption on your part, particularly in a world where we no longer pay for Apple operating systems or their updates.
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by stouset 2mo ago
It's cute you think that Rust is the only language that has people who are whole converts.
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by stouset 2mo ago
I am not one of those people. Neither are the majority of the people you are replying to. Please go tilt at windmills elsewhere.
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by stouset 2mo ago
I’ll be honest, man, it seems like you are not engaging in this discussion in good faith. You are hell-bent on pushing this viewpoint while completely ignoring what others are telling you their actual needs are. We get it. A cheap tester wi
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by stouset 2mo ago
Buying my cables from decent manufacturers does not tell me what specific version of USB a cable purports to support, what voltage of USB-PD it can transmit, whether or not it can do Thunderbolt or DisplayPort, or a dozen other random capab
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by stouset 2mo ago
Choosing a language because it's easy to learn might be common and popular, but that is just about the least meaningful criteria for a programming language given the length of time you expect to use it. Can you imagine if structural
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by stouset 2mo ago
The original point was that go is not a Pareto-optimal choice along any set of language criteria. "I didn't feel like choosing $LANG's competitors, so I went with $LANG" might be how languages are chosen for projects in
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by stouset 2mo ago
And every set of headphones I’ve ever had either has an incredibly thick cable or the cable has failed due to repeated wear. I bought a pair of AirPods and have never looked back. If you have a pair of wired studio headphones, there are a m
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by stouset 2mo ago
Exactly. Writing code is easy. Junior developers do it all the time. Hell, they write far mode code and do it faster! I go half the speed of a junior developer, but the code I write lasts five years to a decade with an order of magnitud
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by stouset 2mo ago
This not being a problem is supposedly the entire reason for USB-C.
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by stouset 2mo ago
USB-C is a physical connector layout. The full cable that is between the two connector ends has an enormous matrix of specifications it can support. There are variations of bandwidth, power delivery (or not), Thunderbolt versions (or not),
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by stouset 2mo ago
I don’t think you fully comprehend the matrix of legal possibilities for a cable with USB-C connectors.
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by stouset 2mo ago
No, they mean USB-C, the port they switched all but a handful of their devices to before any other manufacturer. While GP’s take is ridiculous (if common), I do think the notion that Apple led the charge on USB-C is mostly a myth, outside o
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by stouset 2mo ago
Now we live in a world where any cable can connect any two devices, but what happens and what’s supported is a complete and total crapshoot. The more devices and cables you own, the more chaotic things become. I have devices that take USB-C

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