the_arcadian

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by the_arcadian 3y ago
"What I am proposing is simple - the End key should do what it says on the label, which is take you to the end of the web page. So for infinitely scrolling web pages, which have no end, they should just continue to load data until ther
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In an infinite scroll world, the End key should be king(tristanyates.com)
4 points by the_arcadian 3y ago|2 comments
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After Action Project Greensleeves(tristanyates.com)
1 points by the_arcadian 3y ago|1 comments
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by the_arcadian 3y ago
"But after it was assembled, I found a defect - a faint, flickering green band across my monitor. It sounds like a problem with the monitor or the cable, but it wasn’t - it disappeared when I installed an inexpensive video card, bypass
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by the_arcadian 3y ago
They say it is always easier to con intelligent people, because they don't think they are capable of being fooled.
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by the_arcadian 4y ago
> Ideally, you don’t want to make a self-referential struct in Rust. Instead you should leverage other types to accomplish the same thing; for example Rc<T> can be used for things like linked-lists or trees. Also, have a look for
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by the_arcadian 4y ago
The reason people use systems programming languages is because they need to efficiently and effectively manage and manipulate memory. That's why C was created in the first place - to write the 100,000+ lines of code that would become
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by the_arcadian 4y ago
Right, I understand that big corporations are pushing a new systems programming language that they say saves programmers from their own mistakes. My question was whether any programmers actually asked for it, and if so, which ones? > We
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by the_arcadian 4y ago
> So, what does the current ferment about Rust tell us? That the industry is ready to accept that programmers take a more disciplined approach by embracing strong data typing enhanced with program annotations. I have a question. Who ask
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by the_arcadian 4y ago
I heard that systems programming used to be dangerous and scary but then Rust was invented so now its okay.
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by the_arcadian 4y ago
Confusion? No it's just flat out obfuscation.
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by the_arcadian 4y ago
This sounds like a /r/politics headline.
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by the_arcadian 4y ago
While I generally agree that when someone does something violent, you blame them rather than the words on the page or the screen that they read, Reddit is an awful example here since its TOS is so perverse that it protects the most extreme
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by the_arcadian 4y ago
Found this comment when I did a ctrl-F to see who was breaking the first rule of Usenet LOL
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by the_arcadian 4y ago
Read up on creatine - it may help you.
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by the_arcadian 4y ago
As far as I know, Musk hasn't removed any comments critical of him or his management.
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by the_arcadian 4y ago
This is a really important question and one that MBAs miss all the time (speaking as one myself). The value of a tech company isn't in its existing product portfolio and revenue stream, it is in its ability to create and launch new su
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by the_arcadian 4y ago
I'm not sure how this is the lesson you're taking away from twitter when the workers are getting three months severance, unlike your typical service sector worker who can basically be fired by their manager on the spot. The US is
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by the_arcadian 4y ago
There's some willful denial here on HN and in other places that 1) twitter is being punished because it seems its role as supporting free speech rather than policing misinformation, 2) Elon Musk, as founder of Paypal and CEO of Starlin
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by the_arcadian 4y ago
The problem is that I've read "If you give a mouse a cookie" to my daughter so many times that I would naturally assume that giving a twinkie to a monkey would result in a bedtime-story length chain of humorous events.
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by the_arcadian 4y ago
Media publishers (and I use the term in the broadest sense) knew, going in, that the Internet was designed to distribute and copy information, in many cases completely anonymously. But they embraced the platform and chose that business mod
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by the_arcadian 4y ago
Unless your social / situational awareness skills are highly developed and you think you've found another use for your skills in the same firm that they haven't thought of, no I wouldn't even consider this. Even then yo
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by the_arcadian 4y ago
This is a great thread. I have had a home server for almost 10 years at this point for files & media, and added a second dedicated dev server this year. They both run FreeBSD and I honestly couldn't imagine my life without them.
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by the_arcadian 4y ago
Thanks!
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by the_arcadian 4y ago
I understand why any commentary from Torvalds is notable, but when I read this my takeaway isn't that we need ECC everywhere, its that a hardware component failed much sooner than it should have (I would have liked to have known who th
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by the_arcadian 4y ago
Exactly. It shows up the most in discretionary big ticket purchases. When the market's down you'll buy the same number of bags of doritos as you used to, but you're more reluctant to buy a new car or redo your kitchen.
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by the_arcadian 4y ago
This sort of reminds me of the 1994 essay "Why you should not use Tcl" by Richard Stallman. Then, if memory serves me, we all switched to scheme and lived happily ever after.
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by the_arcadian 4y ago
> Finally, there’s the mighty inconvenient fact that a large amount of safety-critical software (a well-defined term and domain!) is written in C and C++ with a track record of multiple decades Well stated.
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by the_arcadian 4y ago
Agree 100%. The C++ language and ecosystem shouldn't feel dynamic, given its age and the installed base, and yet it really does. I remember when c++11 came out and all the crazy typedefs I had to type out just disappeared overnight, a
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by the_arcadian 4y ago
Meson has improved the build situation in C++ significantly.

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