tormeh

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by tormeh 11mo ago
I'm not fact-checking that because that's horrifying. Beyond parody. But I guess that's a trend currently. Edit: I checked because one shouldn't be outraged without fact checking. It's true.
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by tormeh 11mo ago
I'd prefer Rust as well, but anything with a decent type system is okay. I have bad associations with Java software, but idk if that's the language itself, or enterprise brainworns.
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by tormeh 11mo ago
Anything with types. And that doesn't have "wat" videos about its behaviour.
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by tormeh 11mo ago
Money and jobs. But yes, the government really took cheap housing for granted and made no effort to keep it that way. Actually they took measures to destroy unused housing. But that's government for you. Even left-wing government hates
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by tormeh 11mo ago
This is what you get when you have rent control. Landlords are going to maximize profits somehow, and if they can't increase rents, they'll decrease costs and try to find ways around the rent cap to squeeze tenants anyway. There&#
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by tormeh 1y ago
Afaict the original sin of the US healthcare system is having the healthcare providers chosen by employers. That means that the patient is not the customer, the patient's employer is. That in itself has dire consequences. Privatized he
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by tormeh 1y ago
Demonstrates how important it is to match the scenes with the rendering techniques. You can easily create a corridor with a light at one end that requires lots of bounces for the light to get to the end. But in a game you can just decide to
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by tormeh 1y ago
Works on mobile Firefox Nightly
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by tormeh 1y ago
Don't understand this complaint about Rust, but I'll give you Scala. Never seen a language so finely tuned to empower architecture astronauts to make terrible decisions. And boy do they make terrible decisions.
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by tormeh 1y ago
You'd love Henry George.
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by tormeh 1y ago
In my last project every class had a corresponding abstract class, and then we used DI to use the real class. Good to be rid of it.
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by tormeh 1y ago
I've always wanted my editor's go-to functionality to take me to an abstract class instead of the place where the actual logic resides. Good times.
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by tormeh 1y ago
Not in this position, but obviously this might be the first of many measures taken. Next they could make the repository private. Code is only for customers, Red Hat style. It's not as popular as RHEL - a CentOS style effort is unlikely
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by tormeh 1y ago
If the client you're consulting for has no presence in Germany then it cannot possibly be false self-employment, surely?
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by tormeh 1y ago
They mostly took inspiration from other languages for UV. Cargo (Rust) was a huge inspiration, but they got stuff from Ruby as well, I believe. There was an episode on "the changelog" about it. Don't remember them saying anyt
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by tormeh 1y ago
If you want to work 100% remote you could consider working for a US company as a consultant?
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by tormeh 1y ago
It's seriously puzzling. I just don't get how it's possible to look at what so many others have done better, and somehow design something worse. For what reason? Consistency with the rest of the language, possibly? But is tha
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by tormeh 1y ago
I think the issue is more that a lot of people weren't cynical enough. I knew Bitcoin was a shit currency when I first heard about it, and thought that was all there was to it. I didn't understand that while it was a shit currency
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by tormeh 1y ago
Stablecoins are interesting, but they're closer to company scrip than to decentralised currency. Anyway, stablecoins are apparently becoming important financial infrastructure, so that's something. Bitcoin is completely useless as
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by tormeh 1y ago
Well, we'll never achieve anything if we don't try. But I think as terra starts to become inhospitable the required urgency will arrive. Hopefully after I'm gone, though.
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by tormeh 1y ago
In practice it's a visa-free zone. Anyone from anywhere can settle in Svalbard as long as they can get there. Of course, not many want to, so it's a bit academic.
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by tormeh 1y ago
I don't think we should chase simplicity/austerity in our products, but we should chase elegance. Ideally, features should compose so their utility multiplies instead of sums. The program should be fast and have a UI that's e
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by tormeh 1y ago
Well, presumably he's a massive fan of Israel's current administration and thinks everyone who disagrees can stop being customers and also pound sand. Either that or he's completely lost the plot.
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by tormeh 1y ago
A coworker of mine is using CXX in a combined Rust and C++ code base. This is not exotic.
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by tormeh 1y ago
You can just use CXX? Idk what to tell you. A coworker of mine is doing it. It's not some kind of weird thing.
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by tormeh 1y ago
Not everyone puts the bottom line first, even among CEOs. In fact it's incredibly normal not to.
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by tormeh 1y ago
You can use C++ libraries from Rust. That's a very normal thing to do. People start new projects in C++ either because they themselves don't want to learn a new thing or because they don't want their employees spending time l
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by tormeh 1y ago
Idk, I think Microsoft could get away with a lot. Not selling your emails to the highest bidder, that might be a bridge too far, but training an LLM on Outlook emails? Probably. Just have an LLM scan every email to see if its contents are m
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by tormeh 1y ago
Almost every developer outside the defense and aerospace sector is just stuffing code from internet randos into their binaries, JARs, and wheels. Just after they run this code on their developer machine that they keep their SSH keys on. It
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by tormeh 1y ago
I believe it's basically all countries. There was a deal with other countries through the UN.

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