theandrewbailey

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by theandrewbailey 6d ago
Maybe PyPy needs a Steve Jobs-like figure to write a "no C extension" manifesto, declaring that all Python apps must be 100% Python.
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by theandrewbailey 6d ago
The title violates HN guidelines. Use the original title of the page. The title tell me nothing. Why should I bother clicking this? It makes me think this is a low-tier ad that I come across all day, every day, therefore sus and should be i
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by theandrewbailey 6d ago
I'm not into cars, and this is the only car channel I watch.
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by theandrewbailey 9d ago
It's not your English proficiency. I didn't know this game existed, so before clicking, I expected it was about LucasArt's legacy on the games industry, or what former people there are doing now.
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by theandrewbailey 9d ago
I want all my software to use all my cores, because I'll have twice as many within 5 years.
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by theandrewbailey 10d ago
> a Pentium 3 & a GeForce 2 That's the spec of my retro PC. I never had one of those back in the day, but it scratches the itch.
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by theandrewbailey 10d ago
This is one reason why I don't save my payment method for anything. No saved payment method means one less way for surprise charges.
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by theandrewbailey 10d ago
I remember when Microsoft was sued for forcing a web browser into Windows. How the times have changed.
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by theandrewbailey 11d ago
> but knowing exactly in which ways a function can fail is extremely helpful for building robust applications I've worked on Java apps that have failed in mysterious ways that no exception could explain. Meanwhile, the overhead of h
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by theandrewbailey 11d ago
I never thought of Java being the 'move fast ~and break things~' alternative over .NET, but Java has a faster release schedule to get features out sooner.
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by theandrewbailey 11d ago
Third Amendment is about not quartering troops. Fourth Amendment is protection against warrantless seizures. https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-3/ https://constitution.congress.gov
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by theandrewbailey 11d ago
This is about apps on F-Droid, not F-Droid itself.
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by theandrewbailey 12d ago
I went upstream and started using Debian instead. Don't listen to the haters: it updates at about the same frequency as Ubuntu LTS.
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by theandrewbailey 13d ago
I work in e-waste recycling. Most of the PCs and laptops I see are corporate IT decommissions. Most of those have i5 CPUs, and only a handful are i7. Few are cruel enough to afflict their wage slaves with an i3 or less.
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by theandrewbailey 13d ago
Maybe this can be a Comic Sans alternative.
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by theandrewbailey 15d ago
> Till date, there's not been an official Linux desktop build of Microsoft 365, and seeing how Microsoft currently operates, I don't expect one to appear anytime soon. No one expected SQL Server on Linux, and nobody asked for E
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by theandrewbailey 16d ago
My first programming job was an internal line of business application at a mortgage vending company. There was an uncomfortable amount of time wasted waiting for someone to do something in ClearCase so I could commit. I've turned down
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by theandrewbailey 17d ago
I haven't been professionally responsible for code since before AI started eating everything, and haven't touched AI in the meantime. Is this representative of the BS that everyone else here puts up with on a day-to-day basis? Did
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by theandrewbailey 17d ago
What a blast from the past, and one of the classic evergreen articles. The blockquotes made me depressed: > People are not in control of the technology that surrounds them For a few years back then, the pendulum was moving towards person
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by theandrewbailey 17d ago
I would make a quip about game devs will soon be making games for people who don't play games, but I think that's been happening for a while.
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by theandrewbailey 18d ago
Or worse: hardware as slow as any average, bloated Electron "app".
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by theandrewbailey 18d ago
I work in the refurb department of an ewaste recycling company. I had a TV on a roller stand come in some months ago. When I turned it on, I realized that it wasn't any ordinary consumer-grade TV, but a commercial grade one. It lacked
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by theandrewbailey 19d ago
These days, swapping to disk means your SSD wears out and dies faster. That's very much an issue.
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by theandrewbailey 20d ago
Talk to a lawyer about that firing. You might have a case.
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by theandrewbailey 20d ago
That's a suspicious number of em-dashes for something that's allegedly against LLMs.
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by theandrewbailey 20d ago
I'm a big fan of this format. It sounds great at 96kbit, and is in every recent browser[0]. There's good software support outside browsers, too. [0] https://caniuse.com/?search=opus
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by theandrewbailey 22d ago
> CERN engineers had considered moving to CentOS Stream as a more natural pathway but ultimately they say "the straw that broke the camel's back" to abandon Red Hat Enterprise Linux for their industrial accelerator-control
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by theandrewbailey 22d ago
I can confirm this. I also add interactive-widget=resizes-visual to prevent keyboards from causing style recalculation and reflow of a page on every animation frame, to keep things smooth.
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by theandrewbailey 23d ago
> The winter season is the most high-energy part of the year and usually the one that interests most people. Maybe for Europeans. Hurricanes and tornadoes are rather high-energy weather events that favor warmer seasons and North America.
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by theandrewbailey 23d ago
It's sad that Tuta has fallen for Big Tech newspeak. Once upon a time, we installed stuff on our devices. Calling it side -something makes it seem frowned upon, which plays right into Google's hand.

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