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by unconed 3y ago
I find Go bizarre... 90% of the code written in it seems to consist of checking for errors and passing them around. And yet, every time I've had to interoperate with somebody's Go code, it falls apart immediately because of signif
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by unconed 3y ago
One of the saddest moments was hearing a smart person with barely a few years of experience insist that code always degrades in quality and there's nothing you can really do about it... Never saw them try.
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by unconed 3y ago
The why of hooks is actually easy to explain, it's just that nobody does it. A complex UI component will usually contain different aspects A, B and C. Each of these requires hooking into the component lifecycle in various ways. In a cl
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by unconed 3y ago
Correct. You lose customers on purpose when you don't have basic features that the competition has had for years, and when, after years of delays, you release a new version of your app that still doesn't have this feature. I don&#
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by unconed 3y ago
The underlying sentiment is typically that humans should have the right to live in a comprehensible society that even a below-average person can successfully navigate. Technology threatens this, and it's not just the elderly who fall t
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by unconed 3y ago
Why can't you just detect that it was already signed with a valid signature, especially if you have the user's public key? PS: the lack of threading support in your mobile apps is embarrassing, it's been like this for years.
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by unconed 3y ago
The Mac-only gaming market is tiny but the iOS market is huge.
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by unconed 3y ago
If Apple hadn't created Metal we would have nothing to compare Vulkan with and to point and laugh at how badly Khronos did. (DX doesn't count, MS has no taste)
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by unconed 3y ago
What really makes me sad is that there is enough of my brain space wasted on gpu esoterics that I can understand this comment. GPU programming is insane and the devs have stockholm syndrome.
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by unconed 3y ago
Sad that a feature that used to be part of the music player is now a thing people bake into videos so it can be posted to social media. And these visualizations are ass. Yes, I'm allowed to say that.
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by unconed 3y ago
* ... a compute-oriented continuation of the practice where they take the average of Nvidia and AMD's implementations, and then force the developer to deal with the overhead of harmonizing the details without going insane. GPU compute
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by unconed 3y ago
I am glad he's still doing it but I am not very optimistic that a tangible computer built for children and laymen will lead anywhere good. Even getting professional programmers to reason correctly about their program is hard. And getti
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by unconed 3y ago
How embarrassing, I have never heard of those people! Here are some journalists or whistleblowers I have heard of: - Daniel Ellsberg - Julian Assange - Glenn Greenwald - Seymour Hirsch - Chelsea Manning
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by unconed 3y ago
Twitter went from a 4.9k headcount in Dec 2019, to 7.5k in Dec 2021. Fact. I don't care if you "like my graphics work" or not. You seem to be implying I owe you something, which is crazy. I have been publishing stuff online f
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by unconed 3y ago
Your statement is an admission that you prefer to judge messages for their implied moral valence instead of their truth content. Personally I find that pathetic.
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by unconed 3y ago
No, you claim that I am claiming that. What I claim is that: - OPs story that Twitter was a healthy and productive tech company pre-Elon is complete non-sense. How many years did people pine for an edit button? - Twitter returned to pre-2
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by unconed 3y ago
Elonjet was bait by people with an axe to grind and a chip on their shoulder, and if this isn't blindingly obvious, I have a bridge to sell you. There is no doubt that, after firing Vijaya Gadde (sp?), the corporate focus has shifted a
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by unconed 3y ago
Except, progress grinding to a halt pretty much described Twitter before Elon Musk too. The story that anyone who knew anything was let go is just that, a story, as the number of employees by year shows Twitter, and other tech companies in
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by unconed 3y ago
This implies that those benefiting from the current system would not benefit in another system, while the ones not profiting from the current system would automatically start reaping benefits. The study you linked seems to consider any disp
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by unconed 3y ago
The "massive layoffs" was just twitter returning to the same staffing level they had in 2019, after they massively overhired in 2020-2021. This information is public, but this hasn't stopped people from building a fable aroun
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by unconed 3y ago
I love how the response to the comment above was you posting random statistics without context, thus illustrating the maxim: if there is any statistical discrepancy between two demographic groups, it must be the fault of white people, who a
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by unconed 3y ago
It's not so much off-putting as just covering up for the fact that the explanation above is pedagogically bad. I had to open both snippets in two tabs so I could flip between them and spot all the actual differences, which is that 1) t
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by unconed 3y ago
And not only that: when the committee for enforcing the CoC decided the CoC wasn't actually violated, the entire witch hunt continued with more and more made up reasons why this person was bad and deserved to be punished. This included
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by unconed 3y ago
Just going to leave this here: "There is a View, which only knows how to tell you something. There is a Controller, which only knows how to manipulate something. This is a crack team of a quadriplegic and a blind man, each in separate
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by unconed 3y ago
I gave up on Reddit during the corona years when pleading with people to not create a QR-code underclass got me banned, permanently, from my national subreddit. This isn't some major subreddit run by the same mod cabal either. Reddit m
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by unconed 3y ago
UTF-8 is 30 years old, and 20 years ago it was already in common use on the web. I know because I was the doofus who pushed PHP projects to adopt it because monolinguals kept fucking up character encodings. Being an older programmer is a ve
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by unconed 3y ago
Scrolling through that pudding site, right away I notice the tell tale sign of midwit misconception. - a story makes claims about women in the news, without any controls or comparison to men (i.e. it's useless) - a story presents one o
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by unconed 3y ago
Spoiler: the kind of person who will inject themselves into a community to make it more "inclusive and diverse" is exactly the same kind of person who will join or create a secret insider cabal. The venn diagram is a circle. http
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by unconed 3y ago
Can you name a few of these luminaries to see what we've lost? Most of what I've heard about Stallman are social attacks from autistic mean girls with zero self awareness. Edit: FYI, people have flagged my follow up comment where
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by unconed 3y ago
The resentment coming from media towards tech has been there for years now. The thing that always gets me is that they pretend to offer the insider view (rubbing shoulders with billionaires), but actually it's them fixing on these hand

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