wirthjason

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by wirthjason 3y ago
Curious of the different reasons reasons people are creating Python bindings. Was it because the project started in Python, then when performance became an issue the slow parts were rewritten in C++. Or it started in C++ and Python bindings
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by wirthjason 3y ago
There’s long been framework fatigue in frontend JS work. I feel data engineering has a lot of that now. There’s different schedulers and orchestrators. Databases, ORMs, and wrappers. Cloud providers and hosting platforms. The list goes on.
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by wirthjason 3y ago
Good phrasing! I’m just a hobbyist so I don’t get very involved but what would you suggest as an alternative maximum?
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by wirthjason 3y ago
I’d open an Italian beef shop in Tokyo. Definitely need more Chicago food in Japan. Nobody mentioned YouTuber yet. Hate to be the “old man shakes fist at cloud” but the world is changing. My friends kids are in middle school and they have t
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by wirthjason 3y ago
Since there is bound to be a lot of Facebook bashing I’ll point out that they occasionally do some good. In the case of software they can be good stewards of FOSS. I listened to this CoRecursive episode about the history of Zstandard compre
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by wirthjason 3y ago
What would make Python better for command line use? Better alternatives to argparse in the standard library?
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by wirthjason 3y ago
I’m not making the argument that because it is cheap, or low cost, it is OK. Mux it’s totally right to do what they’re doing. It’s their service. I’m curious in the economics of it. The people who are streaming have economics too, their tim
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by wirthjason 3y ago
I wish they explained the cost model more rather than just vaguely mention they had $750,000 in unpaid bills in 2021. How much does one game game/cost them?
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by wirthjason 3y ago
Github issues, even low quality ones, are welcom here. This a refreshing line to read. I wonder if the missing “e” (welcom vs welcome) is intentional. It sounds like and easy (low quality?) PR.
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by wirthjason 3y ago
I’m in the camp of: I like the colors and cuteness of the air (I’m a guy for what it’s worth) but I always buy the pro ‘cuz, we’ll it’s “pro”. It’s probably more economical to buy the air at a lower cost and replace it more frequently but I
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by wirthjason 4y ago
Need to try this. I got one that’s bad. I mostly use the the Pro controller so I forget about it but there’s also times when I play Mario Party and need the joy cons for 4 people.
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by wirthjason 4y ago
I love cooking but often it can be a project. When I’m too lazy or don’t want to cook (like during a Bears game) I don’t mind a frozen pizza. HomeRun Inn makes a very good thin crust. When cooked in a toaster over air fryer it gets very cri
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by wirthjason 4y ago
Interesting comment from an interesting username. Antihero, a somewhat strong IPA, from Revolution Brewing in Chicago is my favorite beer. I’ve definitely craved pizza after downing one too many antiheros.
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by wirthjason 4y ago
What about “gambling” in the financial markets? Want that $1.50 call on GameStop earnings? Bets come in all shapes and sizes, including Wall Street bets.
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by wirthjason 4y ago
People say things all the time that they never intend to do. To go with the theme I’ll add another common Japanese concept: tatemae / honne. In short, what you say vs what you really do/feel. https://en.m.wikipedi
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by wirthjason 4y ago
One advantage of kanji is writing long tweets. You can say a lot in 140 characters when most words are 2-4 characters.
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by wirthjason 4y ago
This isn’t about quality or legibility of handwriting. When wiring 馬鹿 on a computer you type the 4 characters “baka” (or the two character ばか” if your phone supports Lana input) and get an autocomplete drop-down with the kanji.
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by wirthjason 4y ago
Can’t remember the last time I saw baka written in kanji and not katakana.
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by wirthjason 4y ago
Perhaps that’s a good thing. There’s so much computing hardware these days that some things are basic “free”. Liberating (but also scary) implication is that we’re limited more by our ideas than the hardware, so go out there and create some
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by wirthjason 4y ago
C++ needs a “missing semester” around tooling. Most material I see focus on the core language but leave out setting up build systems, package management, clang tidy, testing etc.
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by wirthjason 4y ago
I remember being in an after school philosophy club and we were discussing truth. My teacher popped out of his office, blurted out then returned to his office: “all objectivity moves through subjectivity”. We never discussed it in the conte
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by wirthjason 4y ago
Linux distros. ;) https://ubuntu.com/download/alternative-downloads
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by wirthjason 4y ago
Low salaries compared to the US really hurt things. My wife is Japanese, our daughter half, I studied there in college so we could reasonably have a life in Tokyo but can’t justify such a low salary. One posting on Japan Dev 11,000,000 JPY
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by wirthjason 4y ago
GatGPT should throw in a giant severance package — 1 years salary plus bonus? - as a deterrent to copy paste. It might also help the company reevaluate their position.
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by wirthjason 4y ago
Do non-competes include money? The ones I’ve seen include your salary for that period of time. It sounds fair. You ban the employee from job prospects but compensate them in pay. Maybe this varies by industry, geography, etc.
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by wirthjason 4y ago
Food is good at Chuck E Cheese?!?! I haven’t been there since I was a kid in the 80’s. All I remember was cheese pizza, which as a kid is the greatest food on earth, but as an adult I’d imagine it’s pretty terrible. They are maximizing chea
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by wirthjason 4y ago
Find out what local user groups are in the area and offer space to host a post-meetup party.
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by wirthjason 4y ago
I don’t know why but this comment triggered a memory of a toy I used to play with as a kid called Army Ants. I haven’t thought about this for 30 years. They were small plastic to toy ants in military gear. Each ant had a squeezable butt, ak
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by wirthjason 4y ago
On the sharks vs dinosaurs topic, I’m curious how this applies to languages and if C++ is a shark or dinosaur. Of all the languages that seems to be one on people talk about as being on the edge of extinction (Rust, Carbon, Cpp2, etc.) but
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by wirthjason 4y ago
I wish there was a good place to learn “the other parts” of C++, the build systems, using static analyzers, testing, dependency management, etc. I’m thinking something like MIT’s “missing semester” course which teaches the boots on the grou

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