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by thewebcount 4y ago
I shouldn't have to sacrifice either good UX or speed of single stepping on a modern machine. It says a lot that that's even a real suggestion in our industry.
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by thewebcount 4y ago
I program in a hybrid of C/C++/Objective-C/Objective-C++/Swift and can use conditional breakpoints in all of those languages in lldb and Xcode. There's nothing special about conditional breakpoints that makes them n
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by thewebcount 4y ago
> But his main point is that debuggers distract developers from seeing the problem as a whole rather than just understanding what's going on the vicinity of that problematic line. So, the debugger incentivises small, targeted fixes
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by thewebcount 4y ago
I think one problem I have with gdb and to a lesser extent lldb is that when using them with an IDE, it's just a janky connection between a command-line program and a GUI program. Back in my macOS 7-9 days, using something like CodeWar
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by thewebcount 4y ago
Most of the data I work with can't be visualized by printing. (I mostly work on 3D and video.) But I have found it invaluable to log data, then read it into another program. Sometimes I can just bing it into a spreadsheet and plot it,
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by thewebcount 4y ago
FYI you can turn off the auto-playing ability of trailers in your settings on the website. They will then take affect in any Netflix app you use, too. It's stupid you can't set it from the app, but I turned off autoplaying trailer
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by thewebcount 4y ago
I just upgraded my computer and now my older Brother can’t scan anymore because Brother isn’t supporting it anymore. (And the app they point you to for scanning also doesn’t support it.) There are some 3rd party tools you can install appare
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by thewebcount 4y ago
Oh, great! Thank you! I must have missed that in the instructions.
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by thewebcount 4y ago
> 5. There are two proposed models: ad-supported and subscription. For the record, there are many other possible models. (I realize you may be saying that in this thread there are 2 proposed models, but I want to say this because people
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by thewebcount 4y ago
On an iPad, it’s very hard to hit the left/center/right targets accurately. I got some successful landings, but there was a lot of, “No I said center, not left… no, center, not right… ah crap!” If there were keyboard controls, tha
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by thewebcount 4y ago
Super minor language nitpick, but I thought you might want to know. There are a couple places where you seem to have mixed up empathetic and emphatic. One section is titled “Emphethatic”. I’m not sure if you were trying to make a portmantea
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by thewebcount 4y ago
Sorry, but it is absolutely right to deride their social credit scores even if we have our own similar system. As others have pointed out in this thread, ours have a completely different set of issues. Yes, they exist and should also be cri
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by thewebcount 4y ago
Even if the other person in the conversation has read receipts turned off you will still get a delivery receipt that shows it made it to their phone. I turn off read receipts because it's nobody's damn business if I read their mes
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by thewebcount 4y ago
I haven't worked professionally with it for about 25 years, honestly. I worked at a shop making grading software for teachers. The Windows side was Delphi and the Mac side was Think Pascal. Their tooling for the Mac was barely usable a
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by thewebcount 4y ago
Wow, a 500 page single issue? I read Byte back in the day. (Well my Dad’s copy.) I don’t remember most issues being that long. How did they find enough content? I guess the probably had a lot of ads, but still, 500 pages? Wow!
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by thewebcount 4y ago
> Just because deepak chopra advocates quantum healing doesn't mean the field itself is corrupt. I must not be understanding what you mean. The field of quantum healing is entirely corrupt. There is no such thing, it's all bun
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by thewebcount 4y ago
I feel like this could describe a lot of the culture around startups, too: > Until we all begin to acknowledge there’s more to life than “the hustle,” and that struggling financially is not a personal failure, MLMs will continue to recru
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by thewebcount 4y ago
This was the first thing I thought of when I read that. I was like, "Is this the author being cheeky and not really saying what the phrase is, or did someone who works for the bank think they were being clever re-using this line that a
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by thewebcount 4y ago
Not every criticism of something has to be accompanied by a better solution. Pointing out that something has shortcomings is the first step. It’s perfectly fine to say, “That person’s singing is awful,” without also adding, “They need to wo
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by thewebcount 4y ago
It doesn't matter if that's how a barber typically works. Your average consumer doesn't and shouldn't have to understand how every business they frequent works behind the scenes. I shouldn't need a degree in economi
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by thewebcount 4y ago
> If they know how much to charge me at the payment step, they know what price to put on the shelf. On the shelf, yes, but then what's on the shelf wouldn't match what's advertised on the Internet, in the paper, on TV and
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by thewebcount 4y ago
Well I'm in my 50s and wouldn't consider a single one of the clubs listed in the GP as I feel like the people in those clubs would all be older than me . (Plus I hate religious and quasi-religious organizations like those.) On th
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by thewebcount 4y ago
Yeah, I found that site much more interesting than the cover of the latest issue. My first thought was, “this looks terrible,” but after seeing her site, I quite like it.
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by thewebcount 4y ago
I have to wonder if the problem exists partly because most people don’t care? As a musician myself, I care a little bit. But as a user, I haven’t updated metadata on a music file (other than the ones I create from my own music) in probably
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by thewebcount 4y ago
> Anyone allergic to sesame? I am. I'm lucky in that I'm not anaphylactic to it, but it causes me other problems. I was able to eat sesame for decades, then one day, after having a bunch of other issues, I went to the doctor an
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by thewebcount 4y ago
The difference is that Apple has rules about what can going into App notifications, and if developers don't follow the rules they can kick the app out of the App Store. (Not saying they couldn't be better about this, but it's
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by thewebcount 4y ago
I think there are 2 different things being discussed here: 1. Commuting via school bus vs. parents' cars 2. Commuting via public bus In the US, at least for the first 25 years of my life, most people I knew got to school by school bus
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by thewebcount 4y ago
Agreed. This was such a stupid take that it’s going to turn off most who read it. I think the goal of the bill is great, but I wouldn’t take it seriously after reading this person’s take on it and would assume it was put forth by ideologues
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by thewebcount 4y ago
Have you tried out Logic’s drummers? They aren’t style transfer per se, but they are AI that drums in a particular style, and you can control how it works.
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by thewebcount 4y ago
Ah, thanks! That did the trick!

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