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by xedrac 3y ago
Huh? The current prophet doesn't "hate" it, and never said that God told him He doesn't like it either. You're putting your own words into his mouth. Let's be more precise in representing others, even if we
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by xedrac 3y ago
I can't think of a single time that fastmail was down for me in the last 3 years. But I remember gmail being down during that time.
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by xedrac 3y ago
I don't encounter overly clever code too often. But I do see excessive levels of abstraction all the time. Occasionally I'll see someone that doesn't use enough abstraction.
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by xedrac 3y ago
I often advocate for the use of Rust, but it's not the right tool for every job. If one of these conditions is met, I'll happily use Rust: - Cannot have garbage collection - Need the raw speed of C - Need to provide a C i
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by xedrac 4y ago
When I was 8% body fat, my BMI was 24.8. That's when I realized that BMI, like most office chairs, is tailored for the average population.
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by xedrac 4y ago
That's funny, because ChatGPT feeds me BS quite often. It's only when I call it out that it corrects itself.
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by xedrac 4y ago
I agree. C is absolutely terrible to use for anything that's not trivial. It may have a simple spec, but you pay dearly for it in code complexity. Its abstraction capabilities are only marginally better than writing straight assembl
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by xedrac 4y ago
I really like Rust, but it feels a bit rigid for game programming. I'd probably still use it, because Bevy, but I'd definitely push a lot of logic into a scripting language.
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by xedrac 4y ago
C++ is a monstrosity, but RAII is greatly missed when using C. I'm much more inclined to use Rust these days.
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by xedrac 4y ago
Empirically, home schooled kids are more socially awkward. I have nothing against home schooling, but the kids are definitely more limited in their exposure to different people and situations.
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by xedrac 4y ago
No, but having a good balance of leisure and work makes both of them better.
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by xedrac 4y ago
I only recently discovered NixOS, and the first thing I did was install it on my workstation. I would say NixOS has a fantastic foundation/philosophy, with a lot of paper cuts, and relatively poor documentation. That being said, I do
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by xedrac 4y ago
I don't want to need to be trusted. And I don't want to have to trust others so much. I want my tools to tell me I, or someone on my team, did something stupid.
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by xedrac 4y ago
It's a good thing we're sorting these issues out now, with our support for Ukraine.
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by xedrac 4y ago
I own two Hyundai (2007 Entourage, 2015 Sonata), and a 2022 Honda Odyssey. My initial impression of the Honda is far better than it was for my Hyundais. We'll see how it progresses over time, but as of now, I don't plan to buy H
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by xedrac 4y ago
Many companies missed payroll this week. But they'll likely all make up for it next week.
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by xedrac 4y ago
Because it's taboo to suggest that men and women tend to have different interests.
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by xedrac 4y ago
Imagine how popular the M3 and friends would be if people could buy it off Newegg/Amazon and use an operating system of their choice?
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by xedrac 4y ago
I wonder what people like The Mad Fientist, Mr. Money Moustache, and other FIRE advocates would say to this. Personally, I think $3 million is quite lavish. I suspect I could make it work on $1 million and be quite comfortable.
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by xedrac 4y ago
Yeah, I really didn't like the feel of Civ6. It felt a bit too confining? I'm not sure exactly why.
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by xedrac 4y ago
That only (partially) solves the sound problem. The visual distractions are equally as bad.
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by xedrac 4y ago
Sure, but that doesn't change the fact that his crop is being pollinated against his will, and why should he lose the freedom to spray something on his crop because his neighbor planted a certain seed? Why does it have to infect every
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by xedrac 4y ago
What is a farmer to do when mother nature infects his crop, against his will, with pollen from the GMO crop? I think the lawsuit should go the other way. Monsanto should pay for destroying the ability to grow heirloom seeds without gettin
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by xedrac 4y ago
"The Twits" was a favorite of my younger kids. I recently read "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe" to them, and they loved it. Of course we had to make Turkish Delight after learning about it in the book. Other wi
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by xedrac 4y ago
I absolutely hate daily standups. I switched jobs to a company that holds one "standup" a week, and my stress has dropped significantly and my productivity has increased. Daily standups were draining my energy much more than I r
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by xedrac 4y ago
My favorite comment below that post was the one that asked ChatGPT to write a letter to President Trump asking him not to run for president again, which ChatGPT was happy to do. But asking the same thing for President Biden, it refused.
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by xedrac 4y ago
Aside from tooling (which is much better in Rust), C++ just isn't a very expressive language and has a high impedance with cognition. I've worked in C++ for well over a decade, and now that I've used Rust for a couple year
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by xedrac 4y ago
Sure, dropping down to a C interface is easy enough, but far from ideal. So much of Rust's expressive power is lost by doing so. What would be the downside of providing a stable ABI for an edition? It seems to me it resolves both
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by xedrac 4y ago
And frankly, I have zero confidence that Apple will sufficiently invest in the language outside of their ecosystem. That's just not how Apple operates.
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by xedrac 4y ago
I think for Rust to truly replace C++, it needs a better dynamic linking story. I wish they would make their ABI stable within a given edition. That would make it much easier for people to rely on dynamic linking, similar to how C++ does

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