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by weberc2 7y ago
I lived in France and travel regularly. Maybe kebab is cheaper (not really a thing in the US like it is in France), but meals on average are slightly more expensive in Europe.
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by weberc2 7y ago
Yep, if you’re sick and poor, Europe is the better bargain for sure. I think it would be good for the US to have a stronger social safety net, but nevertheless, most things are more affordable in the US (my Internet is $60/month for fa
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by weberc2 7y ago
Disclaimer: I know this because I tried very hard to justify living in Europe for a few years. It is true for salaried professionals. Salaries are about 30-40% higher in the states. Taxes (which cover education up to uni), health insurance,
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by weberc2 7y ago
Eating out is considerably more expensive in Europe, even factoring in the tip. Meal prices might be slightly larger in some states, but you’re reliably getting almost twice the food. Personally I’d rather have European portions with the
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by weberc2 7y ago
This is pretty much only true for cable companies. For the most part, we have lots and lots of competition, and things are generally more affordable here than in Europe (and salaries are quite a lot higher as well, even factoring in the soc
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by weberc2 7y ago
For what it’s worth, cable companies are the rare exception in American consumerism in that there is very little competition. I wouldn’t regard this as emblematic. EDIT: I’d really like to know why folks are downvoting this.
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by weberc2 7y ago
Ignoring the superior content quality of streaming services, lack of ads, and on-demand model, having 10 different content streams is still better than one even if only because you have finer grained control over the content you watch. I do
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by weberc2 7y ago
The goalposts didn't move, you were just reminded that conventional trains frequently carry explosive freight.
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by weberc2 7y ago
Granted, but pretty much every language also ships with routines for other data structures, and I would think that you need things like lists/slices more often than you need string routines.
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by weberc2 7y ago
I get that, but it seems strictly better than, for example, blowing up a trail full of oil cars.
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by weberc2 7y ago
So the inverse--could an OS distribution like alpine profit from using picolib instead of musl? What would be the tradeoffs (presumably performance for size, but to what degree)?
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by weberc2 7y ago
What is TLS? > Part of libc such as pthread is very hard, and so does the dynamic linker. What does this mean? I'm having trouble parsing this as English much less making sense of the argument :) > It's a pretty hard task to
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by weberc2 7y ago
> You can’t really hijack a train to hit a specific building, as you can with a train. *as you can with a _plane_
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by weberc2 7y ago
I get that it's moving fast, but what's the specific threat model? Terrorists hijack the train and somehow drive it off the tracks? Presumably it's easy enough to secure the "cockpit". They could blow it up, but is
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by weberc2 7y ago
> The party is more important than any one elected official and certainly more important than the voters. Presumably that's even truer in China (where 'Party' is capitalized), but at least they're getting a high-speed
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by weberc2 7y ago
> And the blanket dismissal often posted here in a knee jerk reaction isn't very charitable to a whole body of research, that is arguably harder to operationalize than the hard sciences. Credibility doesn’t depend on the relative di
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by weberc2 7y ago
The period is important. Lying to homeless is deplorable, full stop. But incorporating homeless faces into your training data is not objectionable.
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by weberc2 7y ago
Dismissal ("that's not true") is different than skepticism ("I can't trust this to be true"). You're "ego" quip is not very charitable of this community--a more likely and more charitable interpr
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by weberc2 7y ago
That’s the crux of the issue. Go aims to be useful, not relevant. Obviously some relevance is necessary for utility (a language isn’t useful if there is no community around it), but when you optimize for relevance directly, you end up with
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by weberc2 7y ago
If this level of "hostility" offends you, please don't read the US-related topics.
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by weberc2 7y ago
I think the important distinction is that Go holds simplicity as a virtue, while Java’s position was “please give us time to add all of the features you are requesting!”. How long was it before Java shipped exceptions and inheritance? If th
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by weberc2 7y ago
I'm not sure why the Python community can't get it sorted out. We've been using Pipenv because it's one of a few tools that supports lockfiles/reproducible builds, and at the time we chose it, the Python packaging a
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by weberc2 7y ago
This is the weirdest straw man I've seen in a while. Python, not Go, benefits most from containerization. Installing "Dynamic libraries, OS packages, and even directories like virtualenvs" on target machines is far more compl
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by weberc2 7y ago
Fully agree about Go; however, if you can't move away from Python, github.com/pantsbuild/pex is a pretty good alternative. It's an executable zip file that contains all of your python dependencies; you still need the Pyt
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by weberc2 7y ago
Usually your responses are well-reasoned and interesting; this one was disappointingly lazy. I didn’t say Java’s boilerplate was bad nor that Go’s was good. I criticized Go’s boilerplate and Java’s complexity.
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by weberc2 7y ago
> Here is a condensed list: I don’t find that list very compelling. Longevity in particular isn’t very interesting given that Scheme has gained very little ground in 60 years. That seems like an indicator that there is something wrong. I
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by weberc2 7y ago
I’m not opposed to modules; there are just some odd edge cases that have given me trouble; probably the error messaging just needs to be improved.
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by weberc2 7y ago
Well, boilerplate is a nuisance, but it is cheap. It’s not generally where your bugs are coming from (and certainly not your most insidious bugs)—they come from your complexity, especially your incidental complexity. In exchange, Go is a ve
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by weberc2 7y ago
Yes, I always find it surprising that people evaluate languages on the sheer number of features. As though the hallmark of a good language is having lots of complexity.
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by weberc2 7y ago
I was drawn to Go because it was the only language at the time (or the only one I came across) that allowed me to build and package software without learning a domain specific language and imperatively stitching together my own build system

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