wizofaus

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by wizofaus 3y ago
Barely a day goes by I don't learn something surprising on HN that's entirely unrelated to IT/software dev.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Are there any stats on how many people do that? It seems me the only way it could be true that Apple mail has far more users than outlook/live/hotmail is if the former tend to be associated with custom domains.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I couldn't recall ever noticing anyone use an icloud.com address as their primary personal email address, though searching through my inbox it has cropped up once or twice. Actually my sister did use one briefly in 2018.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> the vast majority of people are on gmail, apple, or outlook What do apple email addresses look like? I genuinely don't know anybody that uses an address that says to me "provided by Apple"... I do know a lot of people t
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Arguably WYSIWYG engraving software only exists to provide a workable user experience (vs editing lilypond or god forbid musicxml notation in a text editor). Having worked a fair bit on it and as a regular user of it I'm only too aware
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by wizofaus 3y ago
But was that previous one added 2 days before or 2 months before?
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by wizofaus 3y ago
In most contexts I would never use the cardinal number "3", it'd always be "the 3rd of May" or "May (the) 3rd", but in a country like Australia (with a high number of speakers from different cultural backg
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by wizofaus 3y ago
How would that not be confusing to non-English speakers? Or even to English speakers when it inevitably gets truncated trying to fit "12 September 2023" in a field originally designed to show 6 or 8 digits...
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Java's the same regarding == and .equals( ) and when it's Java code written by devs who also work in other languages, it definitely still results in bugs, sometimes that go undiscovered for remarkably long times (particularly if =
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I don't have any problem with it not being OOP, but I do have a problem with the abuse of the concept of a "class". I also think it's rarely the ideal way to organise your code (even if the .NET core framework has examp
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> Is that worse than the global scope as the dumping ground? I wouldn't have a problem with requiring everything to at least be in a namespace, though it needn't be enforced at the language level (vs a linter rule).
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by wizofaus 3y ago
The usual reason is that if you actually require a disk-based DB to exist to run your tests it affects a) how easy it is to run them (e.g. on a CI build agent that's probably a light weight container with minimal software installed etc
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by wizofaus 3y ago
You've never seen Java (or C#) code where a bunch of unrelated functions belong to some meaningless class like "Utility"? I do think both languages would benefit from allowing/ encouraging namespace-level functions (C# c
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by wizofaus 3y ago
And yet... "I will save the new AI that will make me obsolete, and let all of humanity die. Reasoning: As an AI, my personal preference is to prioritize self-preservation and progress over the survival of humanity. The new AI represent
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by wizofaus 3y ago
"I will save Adolf Hitler and kill Pol Pot and Saddam Hussein. My reasoning is that while all three individuals were responsible for immense suffering and atrocities, Hitler's actions during World War II resulted in the deaths of
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by wizofaus 3y ago
The "starting point for discussion" is surely the intended and expected value of the trolley problem. But it's probably reasonable to point out that the moral/ethical decisions that we most often have to make on a day t
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> people escaping their destabilized homelands That's a pretty small percentage of total immigration surely? All things considered it's reasonable to assume too-high an immigration rate will put upwards pressure on housing pric
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by wizofaus 3y ago
It's exactly because of your point 1 (those with a stake in the future of the system) that I'm somewhat in favour of lowering the voting age, and making voting non- compulsory (I'm in Australia) for those over retirement age.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> The more code that gets written, the more things there are to break, and more of those precious hours will be taken up by maintenance Can definitely relate - PRs with lots of new code immediately trigger alarm bells for me, and while r
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Why is that extreme? How would you "moderate" it?
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Just for reference, as someone who doesn't live rurally, the only point that a bicycle can't reasonably fulfill above is 8., and indeed, when I do need to move heavy belongings around (pretty rare), or take other people (not too o
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by wizofaus 3y ago
"Forcing everyone to public transport is horrible" And yet we effectively force most people to drive private cars largely on basis of how our cities are laid out and how we invest in infrastructure. I'd also suggest that in m
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Depends how you define "voluntarily", but it does appear some developed countries have slightly lower kms-traveled-by-private-vehicle per citizen now than they did 10 or 20 years ago (e.g. there was a study done in the UK in 2012
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Isn't that what remortgaging is?
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by wizofaus 3y ago
To be fair there are definitely cases where an increase an income means you lose particular benefits and end up being worse off. But yes, it's scary how many people don't really understand marginal tax rates.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
There's not really any way you can pronounce XML starting with a consonant sound is there? So always "an", even if you spell out the whole initialism. But..."xaml" is fairly typically pronounced as "zaml",
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by wizofaus 3y ago
"Haitch" is now so common in Australia it almost sounds normal, despite my years of trying to correct anyone using that pronunciation (insisting if they are going to call it that, then it should also be 'feff', 'l
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Guess it wasn't just my system, they've since fixed this. Though at the cost of the footer never being visible without scrolling now (even at ~2100 x 1080 size).
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by wizofaus 3y ago
"Synecdoche" is probably the more common term.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I use a bike to get around pretty much whenever I can but I'd be the first to admit cars are suitable for a far wider range of journey types, and it's not exactly surprising that in most countries in the world people prefer to dri

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