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by wvenable 11mo ago
I agree with the other comments that this understanding of exceptions is wrong. He's not wrong about these two points: - Correctness: you don’t know if the exception type you’ve caught matches what the code throws - Exhaustiveness: yo
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by wvenable 11mo ago
I like working in C++ (I don't do it professionally though) and I just never bother to read up on all the weird semantic stuff. I think the more you look into C++ the more irrational it seems but I generally just program in it like it
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by wvenable 11mo ago
I was not making a global claim about ethics; I was defining what makes an activity a hobby. Saying "for hobbies the primary purpose is enjoyment" doesn't assert that pleasure is the sole good in life -- it simply notes the i
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by wvenable 11mo ago
In the US, whether you're legally required to identify yourself depends on the situation and the state: "Stop and identify" states: If police have reasonable suspicion that you're involved in a crime, you can be require
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by wvenable 11mo ago
The Turing test for code: LLM "slop" is now indistinguishable from code written by human 6 years ago.
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by wvenable 11mo ago
CTO is management.
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by wvenable 11mo ago
I'm working on such a re-write / learning process right now because underlying stuff has fundamentally changed and it was (slightly) long past time to make the move. Of course, we're still going things incrementally and slow
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by wvenable 11mo ago
Probably should be "management" can't be rational about programming languages because that's what it's about. The article isn't talking about a group of engineers coming together to decide on a platform, inste
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by wvenable 11mo ago
For those way to young to even know what this is, it's basically like MDN web documentation but for the DOS era. It was a community-maintained API reference for IBM PC hardware, DOS operating system, and other software.
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by wvenable 11mo ago
What would be the point of blaming LLMs? What would that accomplish? What does it even mean to blame LLMs? LLMs are not submitting these papers on their own, people are. As far as I'm concerned, whatever blame exists rests on those
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by wvenable 1y ago
hobby /ˈhäbē/ 1. an activity done regularly in one's leisure time for pleasure. If you enjoy the activity then it is neither pointless nor a waste of time since the primary purpose is enjoyment. If you don't en
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by wvenable 1y ago
What's insane is just accepting that government shutdown is a thing. Determining what is and is not essentially is just splitting hairs.
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by wvenable 1y ago
I think it still counts as bit-banging -- the PIO just lets you bit-bang faster and in a more limited way.
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by wvenable 1y ago
My counter argument is that the entire web exists because of Postel's law. HTML would just be another obsolete boring document format from the 1980s. I agree that there are better ways to design flexibility into protocols but that req
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by wvenable 1y ago
It's not a crime if you are not a citizen either. If someone is denied a visa renewal, for example, just administrative -- that's not a criminal proceeding. At no point does anyone have less First Amendment protections under the
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by wvenable 1y ago
Spoiling for some trolling, are you? Having a hobby is not hedonism. There is more to life than just working for someone else.
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by wvenable 1y ago
I wouldn't argue that they have less First Amendment protections because, as previously described, everybody within the US has the same First Amendment protections. I think that phrasing is both misleading and dangerous. You're j
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by wvenable 1y ago
In some countries that might be true, but not in the US. Free speech protections apply to everyone within US borders, not just citizens. US courts have repeatedly interpreted the First Amendment to mean any person physically present in t
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by wvenable 1y ago
Copyleft requires strong copyright protections. Without a license, you have no rights at all to use the code. If you want to use the code, because it's copyrighted, you have abide by the terms of the license.
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by wvenable 1y ago
That's not a correct characterization. OS X is entirely NeXTStep with some classic Mac OS UI elements bolted into it. You couldn't just swap some bit out for Plan9.
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by wvenable 1y ago
Because hobbies are fun.
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by wvenable 1y ago
Mozilla is a C-suite vanity organization disguised as software company. I love Firefox (I'm using it write this comment) and I really appreciate the developers who continue to work and improve it -- I just wish they were given far mor
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by wvenable 1y ago
YouTube has a massive amount of edutainment content that is absolutely fantastic. Content that could never make it onto mainstream television. At this point I think I owe all my hobbies to YouTube.
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by wvenable 1y ago
Youtube Shorts are apparently very popular; so even if they aren't our cup of tea, you can't argue with success.
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by wvenable 1y ago
I believe that's the concept behind the PineTime. https://pine64.org/devices/pinetime/
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by wvenable 1y ago
I ran a few shut-up scripts and installed StartAllBack and my machine is almost indistinguishable from Windows 7 on first glance. And it was certainly no more work than configuring Linux to my liking.
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by wvenable 1y ago
"When developing Windows 95, one manager bought every program available at a local software store..." https://www.pcworld.com/article/2816273/how-microsofts-windo...
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by wvenable 1y ago
In my experience actively maintained but not heavily modified applications tend towards stability over time. It don't even matter if they are good or bad codebases -- even a bad code will become less buggy over time if someone is work
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by wvenable 1y ago
Trademark law pretty much requires the "For X" style of product naming. It's caught a few open source projects.
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by wvenable 1y ago
> LLMs are terrible at asking questions. I was dealing with a particularly tricky problem in a technology I'm not super familiar with and GPT-5 eventually asked me to put in some debug code to analyze the state of the system as it r

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