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by vonwoodson 4y ago
Blah… blah… blah… As long as the Free Software movement has been around people have said that it’s too <X> and not <Y>. Technology as we know it today only exists because of Free Software (period)
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
I think that it’s right to call out scientists who think that math is reality. We made math up, end of story. The “Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics“ is obvious selection bias. Math, statistics, is a tool. I don’t expect my shove
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
Could be, now that you mention it. Which, now, makes me wonder if my K&R is even shorter.
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
To be fair, and definitely a part of its appeal, the K&R is only 312 pages long. It covers the language and most of the standard library you’ll need. As opposed to say, “Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! A Beginner's Guide” whic
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
This is interesting, if only for the fact that track data did not show a correlation between these two people. 40-ish near misses over a few years would never have made me think that these two tracks were related in any way… then an externa
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
0/10 for recommending the garbage text editor neovim. Use real vim.
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
“More importantly, everyone can see that nothing useful is coming out of particle physics, it’s just a sink of money.” -cry of a (wo)man hypnotized by capitalism. You cannot waste money, we made it up and can make more. Alternatively, you c
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
I’ve always felt that the greatest contribution that software development could contribute to supply chain is the UI/UX paradigm. Like so many bureaucratic systems, it requires expertise to navigate successfully. “No, I didn’t fill ou
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
That sounds like using a Mac in general: “Do what you want if your just playing around, but be aware that [if you’re not a blessed developer] macOS is private, subject to change at any time, and should never be used [professionally]”
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
They left out the block channel button. Very effective. Seriously, as an avid YouTube consumer (and not a creator) training my algorithm is such a huge part of what my entertainment life is. Definitely have used private mode, on a VPN, w
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
The very idea that FP programmers don’t understand OOP is absurd on its face. You point to an undergraduate CS program that is teaching FP before imperative and OOP paradigms; you find me an FP zealot who hasn’t written more OOP than FP cod
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
when you learned C++ 22 years ago “I remember when we were excited for std::string”…
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
Tab completion. mic drop
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
Hear, hear!
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
As a dyslexic person, syntax highlighting is amazing. I don’t care that the highlights are 100% correct or even useful for understanding what the code does. What I care about is that it breaks up the characters with something other than
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
Desire is the cause of suffering. Advertising, in its way, generates desire where there was once none and therefore causes suffering. And, it does so on industrial mass-scale! Worst of all, there is no mechanism, at all, to restore the bli
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
tl;dr; disable Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) It also doesn’t help that my privacy is always (*ALWAYS*) wrapped in some platform specific jargon.
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
“There should be one– and preferably only one –obvious way to do it.“ If you’re not maintaining one of the libraries listed in the article, and try to pull any of this “clever” stuff you’ll be bitten on the ankle by a pythonic snake. No exc
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
The Federal Reserve is independent, in the sense that monetary policy and related decisions are made autonomously and are not subject to approval by the federal government.
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
I had to supplement my machine with cloud hosting and mainly work from the command line. I also need to say that my “actually pays the bills” work was done on company computers, which were modern but not purchased by me. I play games on
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
Oh, man, have I got a treat for you: go checkout hylang.org - Hy is a lisp that (ab)uses the python AST to give you access to the entirety of python, but gives you a pretty lisp syntax.
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
android(dot)com says Apple product bad! Shocking!
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
I keep a YouTube video in my back pocket just for this argument: [The Order of Operations is Wrong by mintuephysics]( https://youtu.be/y9h1oqv21Vs )
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
Tried searching for your username name, but, nothing happens.
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
Nice. Keeping that old hardware is quite the statement against the “every <x> years” cycle businesses need us to be in to stay profitable. I feel bad, that having bought my first new computer since 2003, I am no longer a part of the
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
The fact that Python let’s you pick byte order so easily has saved my skin bunches of times. Great article.
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
Oh, that mean old government. shakes fist mockingly
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
Four corners is a square, but I wonder: why not an X? If you can literally step from Arizona to Colorado I’d say that they’re connected. Anyway, cool maps. I love how they help promote the kinds of default graphziv layouts in a commonly un
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
Ah, the IoT in it’s full glory
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by vonwoodson 4y ago
k8s is making a lot of the same “write once run anywhere” promises that were made by Jav- hit in the neck with a blow dart -Agggghhhh!…

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