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by thefaux 2y ago
> The systems programmer has read the kernel source, to better understand the deep ways of the universe, and the systems programmer has seen the comment in the scheduler that says “DOES THIS WORK LOL,” and the systems programmer has wept
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by thefaux 2y ago
Yeah, it isn't elitism that makes my stomach feel horrible when I eat fast food.
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by thefaux 2y ago
At some point it becomes a bit ridiculous to be pre 1.0 for nearly a decade. It is symptomatic of a level of complexity and confusion about the core language use cases* that is a nonstarter for me. * In other words, I think it's trying
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by thefaux 2y ago
North American indigenous people were known to have remarkably good teeth.
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by thefaux 2y ago
I am sort of with Kant who believed that we have duties and responsibilities to others. There is an enormous cost imposed by deaths caused by reckless actions, which is not limited just to family and friends. The effects of these types of t
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by thefaux 2y ago
Yeah, I disagree with Dijkstra on this. And many other things.
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by thefaux 2y ago
In no way do the election results justify that claim.
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by thefaux 2y ago
My objection is to the idea that everything true and important can be captured in metrics and quantitatively modeled. Then there is the fact that even to the extent that things like macroeconomics can be modeled (which is never at a level o
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by thefaux 2y ago
And I'll bet the devs who implemented this were compensated with at best a very small fraction of the savings.
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by thefaux 2y ago
I don't even have to pretend!
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by thefaux 2y ago
I never understood the appeal of spatial audio. I intellectually understand it, but listening on headphones is a fundamentally different experience than both live music or listening to recordings on speakers. Let a thing be the thing that i
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by thefaux 2y ago
He lost me at Pepsi is the same as Coke. GTFO.
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by thefaux 2y ago
Yeah, I have a bar and weights but no racks so I'm limited to front squats and only what I can power clean. I feel though that this has forced me to work on the power clean which is a very satisfying exercise to do well. I've been
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by thefaux 2y ago
Sadly, when I was a postdoc, an eminent mathematician I was working under once shared a story that he found amusing that one of his colleagues was once asked a question in the form: "This might be a stupid question, but..." and th
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by thefaux 2y ago
I suspect an underrated factor in this election was SV antipathy towards Lina Khan.
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by thefaux 2y ago
The science of puberty blockers is clear to me: they prevent the unwanted development of secondary sex characteristics in adolescents and have a number of side effects that may or may not be tolerable for any particular individual. What wou
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by thefaux 2y ago
I raced at an elite amateur level for about a decade and I never really saw the purpose of those huge zone 2 training blocks. Almost no races were more than four hours long and most were in the one to three hour range. It felt like there wa
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by thefaux 2y ago
I agree about the accessibility, but Full Throttle is by far my least favorite lucasarts graphical adventure. It's really quite depressing and I deeply dislike the main character.
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by thefaux 2y ago
That seems crazy to me unless we're prepared to rebuild our infrastructure to allow a majority of the populace to live car free. Otherwise completely eliminating our auto industry would be an enormous national security risk.
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by thefaux 2y ago
The last time I checked, sbt was much faster than mill for incremental builds. Mill has a faster cold startup time, but sbt uses classloader tricks to reuse jitted classes so that it doesn't have to reload the scala standard library. W
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by thefaux 2y ago
I have come to find high intelligence, low wisdom a very scary combination.
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by thefaux 2y ago
I'm not here to change your mind, but dog whistling is a time honored political tradition. Lee Atwater famously explained how it works in a 1981 interview. It gives you plausible deniability to wrap sentiments that would be offensive t
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by thefaux 2y ago
Yeah, I didn't go to the dentist for a few years when I was in grad school and had no insurance. My first visit with a new dentist he informs me I had three cavities. I had no pain but just thought it was prudent to get checked out. I
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by thefaux 2y ago
Building a road bike with a threaded bottom bracket, rim brakes and pre built brakes really isn't that bad. I was pretty unexcited when disc brakes were introduced to road bikes due to the increased maintenance burden.
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by thefaux 2y ago
I'm not saying these prices aren't painful, but I am pretty sure there are very few bike shop owners, let alone employees, with enviable wealth.
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by thefaux 2y ago
I sometimes wonder about the negative effects of media (particularly literature) on my personal relationships. Minds in real life rarely measure up to what I find on the page. And yet I know that those words were the product of an embodied
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by thefaux 2y ago
Population density may be a factor but I don't think it's dominant. Right now, as I see it, the biggest problem in American politics is that the American right has been taken over by a personality cult. This has in turn sparked a
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by thefaux 2y ago
That still doesn't prove that Kay worked there because of the financial incentives. I don't think that 20% is nearly enough for most top talent to bail to an otherwise less attractive company if they deeply care about what they&#x
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by thefaux 2y ago
I half agree with this rule. I think that it's fine to break things as long as you make a semantic version change _and_ provide automated tooling for upgrading old code. If you can't build this tool, that is a strong negative sign
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by thefaux 2y ago
In the language I've implemented, I use significant whitespace for multiline strings and no leader is necessary. Having a leader almost defeats the purpose of multiline string syntax for me.

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