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by wyoung2 7y ago
> I don't imagine I'd want to deal with it writing WPF / UWP things though where language support is more important As the article points out, there never has been any visual forms designer type stuff for F#, so if you&#x2
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by wyoung2 8y ago
RHEL 7 took 6 months to go from the first beta to the first release. Don’t hold your breath.
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by wyoung2 8y ago
If the task is both undesirable, difficult to find people to fill, and yet widely sought after and greatly needed, the word you're looking for is "lucrative." Example: plumbers. Excel wizards: quit your whining and go make ba
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by wyoung2 8y ago
What's the alternative? Microsoft leaves Access out of many of its Office license plans, so it's an extra cost add-on to most people, hence uninteresting. Filemaker is very nice, but even more costly in most cases. I've never
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by wyoung2 8y ago
The problem with debugging formula code is that it's hidden in the default view, and you have to know which cells to click on to find each bit of code. In simple spreadsheets, the proper cell to click on is obvious, because the formula
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by wyoung2 8y ago
> So many painful memories or is that nostalgia. The Greek roots of “nostalgia” translate as “the pain of returning home,” so it’s a false dichotomy. :) https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/nostalgia
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by wyoung2 8y ago
> I don't have a "rational" argument I do: Times New Roman was designed for a newspaper — Brittain’s “The Times” — which means it was designed in large part to keep the cost of paper and ink down. Compared to book fonts of
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by wyoung2 8y ago
Here are some relevant test results which are about 4.5 years old now: https://modernweb.com/is-jquery-too-big-for-mobile/ At the time, your 3 round trips would have cost about a full second, which is roughly the same
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by wyoung2 8y ago
> server-side rendering That costs an HTTP round trip, which can easily pay for the cost of tens of kB of JavaScript code on each hit. Since a properly-optimized web app will have all or most of its JS code set to be cached indefinitel
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by wyoung2 8y ago
> What type should this function have: If you don't call it, F# simply guesses "int -> int -> int". If you pass a float, you get back a curried function taking float and returning float. Now that the "add"
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by wyoung2 8y ago
Yes, you're right, I shouldn't use the development tree for my comparison here. The runtime-only .NET Core 2.1.3 installer for my platform is only ( cough ) 26.3 MB. If you then try to get that lower by using self-contained builds
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by wyoung2 8y ago
> promotion from int to float is not free! Nor is it safe to allow implicit conversion in general, but F# shows that you don’t need separate operators for floating point. You just need a compiler that refuses to implicitly convert data t
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by wyoung2 8y ago
> It’s impossible to divorce the two It would surely be a lot of work, but “impossible?” I think you’re missing a couple of major tricks by not doing a native code compiler for F#: 1. Now that Moore’s Law^H^H^HBusiness Rule has run dry,
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by wyoung2 8y ago
For me, the attractions of F# over OCaml are: 1. Cleaner syntax. F# shows that we can do away with a lot of the visual noise in OCaml. I’m no particular fan of white space scoping, but I also don’t mind it. 2. Much better thought out standa
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by wyoung2 8y ago
A drone capable of carrying the weight of a useful firearm and dealing with the recoil is a potential weapon in its own right. If you were thinking of a lightweight one-shot deal that sends the drone flying in pieces away from the point of
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by wyoung2 8y ago
> Insert the contents of a file: :r <filename> The file name can be a pipe instead. Let’s say you have a Makefile based project and the dependencies aren’t as complete as they ought to be. With your cursor on this line in the Makef
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by wyoung2 8y ago
The nice thing about using `=` instead of `gq` is that you can “set equalprg” to something smarter than the internal Vim formatter, such as `fmt` or `par`: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/co
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by wyoung2 8y ago
> Land use is actually staying constant or going down. That's consistent with my claim that all the good farmland is already taken. The shrinkage in use of farmland could be that marginal farmland is falling away due to soil exhaust
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by wyoung2 8y ago
> We have lots and lots of land that could be farmed if we needed it to. Where? As I understand it, pretty much all the good farmland is already in use for farming. The only available farmland I'm aware of that is not being used for
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by wyoung2 8y ago
The apps become read-only, with export functions. Source: https://support.1password.com/membership-billing-policy/
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by wyoung2 9y ago
> The only really glaring issue is ConEmu and related Windows terminal ecosystem is still hot garbage compared to any Linux or OSX terminal. ...and that bites you in a surprising number of ways. I recently tried porting some software tha
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by wyoung2 9y ago
> Lightroom just work[s] a ton better on Windows That’s not my experience, at least with Classic. Mine is a Mac house. My parents, though, are long-time Windows users; I only managed to get my parents to run a single iMac, which they gav
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by wyoung2 9y ago
Because "Z" matches the goal of being "the last word in filesystems" than "Y".
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by wyoung2 9y ago
The article isn't talking about the size of raw disk blocks, better called the sector size. It's talking about ZFS blocks, which are variable in size, defaulting to 128 kB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Va
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by wyoung2 9y ago
That pretty much describes Fossil. As with Subversion, when you're not working on a project alone, you normally run Fossil on some central server somewhere. Then because it's a DVCS, you clone a copy of the repository to your work
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by wyoung2 9y ago
No. The first anecdote is about a TrueOS box — which previews what will become FreeBSD 12 — and the second is about a macOS Sierra box running OpenZFS on OS X. Since TrueOS, O3X and ZoL are all based on OpenZFS, I expect that you will have
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by wyoung2 9y ago
> might as well put in a full FS read in a cron ZFS scrub is not the same thing. If you do a full-filesystem read in a RAID system at the OS level, the redundant blocks won't be read: the RAID system will simply choose one of the co
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by wyoung2 9y ago
Scrub/verify/patrols, whatever you want to call it, with RAID all it can do is say, "Well shit, these two copies don't match. What do you want me to do about it, boss?" ZFS doesn't have to guess which copy is w
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by wyoung2 9y ago
I've got a ZFS server here that regularly detects some small number of megs of incorrect data on each week's scrub. This week, it happens to be 4.28M. Every week, ZFS finds the correct copy and fixes it. I have no idea what the pr
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by wyoung2 9y ago
The trivial case is that the data is corrupted in RAM prior to being written. If we take the simple case of a 2-disk mirror, the same wrong data is going to be written to both disks, the checksums will match, and the filesystems and underly

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