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by xedrac 3y ago
I walked past the piano at John Wayne Airport (SNA) a few weeks ago and wished I had kept up with piano lessons as a kid.
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by xedrac 3y ago
I would take Fedora over Ubuntu every time. My biggest gripe with Fedora is a power outage during an upgrade will bork your system. Ubuntu will bork your system without external help.
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by xedrac 3y ago
In practice, Scheme isn't interoperable - you pick a Scheme implementation and pretty much stick with it. Different schemes implement different subsets of SFRIs, and many bring their own non-standard batteries to the table. I think ha
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by xedrac 3y ago
I'm not sure that I'd want to avoid using a good abstraction because 20 years from now, it may perform marginally worse than it could had it been modeled with much more complexity. Clearly it depends on the use case, but you get
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by xedrac 3y ago
For me, it's Chess scenes in movies. There seems to be a 50% chance that the board will be in the correct orientation. Thankfully, the Queen's Gambit has professional help on set.
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by xedrac 3y ago
It is clearly not an ideal abstraction for anything CPU bound. But for anything IO bound, it is a much more natural way to tame the complexities of concurrency.
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by xedrac 3y ago
In C++, you'll often see projects just use boost, which is a big monolith of useful libraries.
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by xedrac 3y ago
One definition of a dystopian society is a society where you cannot make mistakes. The good news is that every time one of these automated systems is implemented, too many politicians get caught and the laws get changed.
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by xedrac 3y ago
> Paying off your mortgage with an interest rate less than inflation is a mathematically verifiable horrible idea. This is often the case, but not always. It also doesn't account for the much better sleep I get at night, or the uns
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by xedrac 3y ago
I think by definition, that's no longer democracy.
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by xedrac 3y ago
Huh? You're going to have to clarify that one. If anything, not needing a root daemon makes it much more appealing to just about every environment.
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by xedrac 3y ago
It's more like a 52 hour work week for me. I think it depends on your personality. I have a hard time stopping my work, but I still think the benefits outweigh that.
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by xedrac 3y ago
I haven't my used Zig much, but I suspect that in practice Zig is much safer, even if only because it's more expressive.
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by xedrac 3y ago
Maybe the author is referring to generics - compile time generated code. But I'm with you. Code correctness is easily the biggest benefit for me, followed by fearless refactoring. The difference between refactoring a large Python pr
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by xedrac 3y ago
Haskell does let you freely execute side effects. It just asks you to label any function that does so. People get tripped up by it because it's different, but in practice, it's absolutely trivial.
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by xedrac 3y ago
> while working from their home and doing about 4 hours of real work a day. One of the consequences of working from home is I tend to work 8-12 hours a day. Sometimes it's hard to mentally shut off work because it's in the sam
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by xedrac 3y ago
C++ can take solace in knowing that Rust compilation is even slower.
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by xedrac 3y ago
Valve has been doing incredible work for Linux gaming, so I'm happy to support them, despite the DRM.
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by xedrac 3y ago
Even though I still use X11, my concern with AwesomeWM is there seems to be no path forward to Wayland, which will eventually eclipse X to the point that distros stop supporting it.
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by xedrac 3y ago
Yes, Haskell is magnificent for learning FP. I used to think Haskell was terrible for IO, but my tune has changed dramatically since I started working with it full time.
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by xedrac 3y ago
There is something very playful about lisp that is so intriguing to me. I've come to rely heavily on powerful type systems at work (which is amazing), but lisp feels like unbounded imagination flowing at my fingertips.
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by xedrac 3y ago
I hear this a lot, but have never once seen a COBOL job posting.
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by xedrac 3y ago
If I was a teacher, it would be inconceivable that I could not confiscate anything that is distracting my student's attention. They could have their items back after class, but there is simply no place for such distractions in the cla
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by xedrac 3y ago
I don't mean to state the obvious, but if I was to make a language that looked just like C++ and compiled to Python, people would be scratching their heads. Typically you compile down to a more efficient language, not a less efficient
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by xedrac 3y ago
Because rose water is subtle, not sugary.
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by xedrac 3y ago
Smell and taste are very intertwined. I wonder if your taste is very subdued as well. When I had covid, I couldn't smell anything, and eating a world class meal may have just as well been some cardboard...
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by xedrac 3y ago
ChatGPT meets Clippy... What would be even more useful is if that AI could receive unspoken queues/feedback and it "understood" human behavior. Sometimes it's just not a good time for an assistant to cut in and remind
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by xedrac 3y ago
Maybe they can lure them back by offering private workspaces without the open floorplan nonsense.
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by xedrac 3y ago
That is a good point. Tech debt is often, but not always, harder to pay back in small amounts.
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by xedrac 3y ago
I recently switched from a supposed 900 Mbps Comcast connection to FTTH, and the difference is astonishing. There's just no substitute for Fiber.

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