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by veltas 5y ago
And as a general advantage emoji isn't trying to replace words. Nobody is (as far as I know) required to use emoji. People can pick and choose when they want them.
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by veltas 5y ago
No need to apologise, I just didn't understand your comment.
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by veltas 5y ago
If you mention 1984 at all today, the anti-1984 police will come and complain that you'd dare compare anything in modern society to the dystopia in the book, even though I wasn't implying there was any repression. To me it's
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by veltas 5y ago
What did I say? I was just saying they literally tried to prevent you from saying specific things with the designs of the icons, and made the connection. I didn't say they weren't fun.
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by veltas 5y ago
I recently found that having emoji fonts breaks my terminal. This bug will probably eventually be fixed so I didn't think too hard before removing emoji from my system. I don't use them myself and personally have not noticed them
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by veltas 5y ago
Reading about how they have carefully designed the pictures to prevent people from communicating certain things, it reminds me of the language in Orwell's 1984 which was a simplistic and limited language designed to make it impossible
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by veltas 5y ago
Using xacros to generate a lot of boring data or simplistic init code is definitely worth the potential confusion/complexity for the reader, and they will no doubt appreciate the reduced effort in maintaining it despite potentially hav
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by veltas 5y ago
I played with this kind of C, and it seems to be attractive to HN. Applying C's own (albeit limited) type-safety and encapsulation features where I can, but not going too exotic or trying too hard to be another language, seems to be th
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by veltas 5y ago
So I can implement code smell without ever leaving the comfort of C++? I've seen much scarier footguns in C++ than I've ever seen done in the C preprocessor.
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by veltas 5y ago
I don't see any mention of xacros in the article.
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by veltas 5y ago
If you introduce stuff like this into C it's major code smell. If I see a 'cool macro to do a custom loop' in code I immediately have to go look up what it does, and if it's as complicated as this I'm going to want
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by veltas 5y ago
Try in st, for me it's much faster than xterm.
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by veltas 5y ago
The mentioned GitHub issue: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362
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by veltas 5y ago
You have cheated by adding that comment noise.
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by veltas 5y ago
Yeah, not every board with an x86 CPU is "your average x86 PC".
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by veltas 5y ago
Usually double-quotes is just pointing out it's as the other person said, not calling it into question which is usually single-quotes.
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by veltas 5y ago
I didn't say anything about investing in public transport.
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by veltas 5y ago
Not everyone who struggles to walk more than 20 feet wants to use a scooter (or can even afford one), many elderly people in that situation already have a car, and many of them are able to drive relatively safely. Like people with respirato
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by veltas 5y ago
A lot of accusations flying around here about my intent. But just bear in mind that I have a particular person in mind that I know is unable to visit anywhere in pedestrianised places. They do not have a mobility scooter, can only walk like
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by veltas 5y ago
I know an elderly person that: - does not have a mobility scooter - cannot walk more than like 20 feet - is able to drive So if e.g. their hairdresser was suddenly in a pedestrianised place they would not be able to go there anymore. A bus
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by veltas 5y ago
Public transport is less accessible to people who can drive and walk very short distances.
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by veltas 5y ago
A mobility scooter works if you live close or can use transport that uses that. And also if you want one or have access to one, lots of e.g. elderly people don't use them. They're limited to where they can drive and walk an increa
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by veltas 5y ago
What about the disabled and elderly?
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by veltas 5y ago
>If there's a famine or a meat shortage, wouldn't people turn to other foods on their own? So it seemed unnecessary and superfluous. No, what will happen is some people will get meat for the week in their shop, and some will ge
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by veltas 5y ago
Although significant, unfortunately I don't think 4% of revenue means as much as it should to Facebook specifically. Facebook has a distinctly high profit ratio (2020 Facebook revenue was $85 billion, net income $29 billion), so 4% of
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by veltas 5y ago
>You won't even get a warning unless -Wextra or -Weverything is turned on. I know people are used to languages where compiler warnings are on by default, but if you are building C without -W/-Wextra you are kind of asking for t
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by veltas 5y ago
I have a low opinion of it! And I'm not in a tiny minority there. There have been other query languages that seemed better to me, but SQL won. SQL's not nearly as wordy as COBOL though, if you want to calculate tax in SQL you&#x27
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by veltas 5y ago
Very interesting, and I have a lot of respect for Grace Hopper personally. I think tech that's meant to look 'correct' to the right people is often worse off for it, though. I've got no interest in appealing to the peopl
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by veltas 5y ago
Article acts like having a 'richer' language approximating English makes it easier or more approachable, but whenever I've tried such languages I've found them harder. A programming language with simple and more orthogon
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by veltas 5y ago
Diamonds are precious partly because they're rare. If you find a way of 'making' a diamond it loses some of that value. It's interesting to me that someone would even try making a comparison between a precious stone and

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