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by xedrac 4y ago
My biggest gripe is they invented their own expression language that could have easily been more familiar. Instead it adds to the learning curve.
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by xedrac 4y ago
Ok. I've had some time to think about this, and I am warming up to the idea. It would sure simplify a lot of challenging coordination problems. My only real concern is that the repo may grow so large it becomes very slow. Doubly so
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by xedrac 4y ago
I tried KDE recently on Fedora 37, and my workstation kept running out of memory (32 GB) due to its file indexer. I like KDE in general, but its quite heavy for my tastes.
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by xedrac 4y ago
I don't understand how this is possible, as a database is an abstraction on top of the filesystem. Perhaps for certain workloads, it may hit RAM more frequently than disk, making it faster. But for large binary blobs, Sqlite is way s
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by xedrac 4y ago
3Blue1Brown's video is the best explanation I've ever seen.
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by xedrac 4y ago
The only problem I have with a monorepo, is that sometimes I need to share code between completely different teams. For example, I could have a repo that contains a bunch of protobuf definitions so that every team can consume them in their
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by xedrac 4y ago
I suppose that's why butter costs 300% more too? That darn bird flu!
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by xedrac 4y ago
Bingo. It's all about reducing liabilities on the books, while also making employees effectively beg for vacation. I thought I'd like "unlimited" PTO, but in practice, it's been a source of stress.
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by xedrac 4y ago
It's simple enough to give ICs the correct context. The good ones, with adequate autonomy and purpose, will solve the company's problems in ways that will keep the machine running smoothly. That's not to say that every IC i
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by xedrac 4y ago
I installed Fedora 37 on a relative's laptop yesterday, because their Windows install was in shambles. He is completely computer illiterate. But the fact that it resembled his phone somewhat, instantly made it easier for him to use.
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by xedrac 4y ago
It also comes back surprisingly quickly, unless it's been decades.
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by xedrac 4y ago
When you say I/O in Haskell is sub-optimal, are you referring to performance, or the fact that it can be cumbersome? I personally love that Haskell's type system tells you whether a function has any side effects, which of cours
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by xedrac 4y ago
You can be certain "the masses" won't use it if it isn't simple. You seem to want everyone to give up on the idea that Linux Desktop could become mainstream. The Gnome project wants to pursue that goal, and so does Val
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by xedrac 4y ago
I used to complain a lot about Gnome and the big changes they made. I still don't love some of their decisions, but it has become simple to use for the masses, and I consider that a win for Desktop Linux adoption.
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by xedrac 4y ago
> all different ways to write `if err != nil` Not hardly. This comment makes me think you don't have any significant experience with Rust. > you don't even understand the challenges large code bases face I've worked in
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by xedrac 4y ago
> Everyone wants buy once, updated forever software. Actually, I prefer buy never, updated forever software. Somehow free* software fills all my needs these days. I wouldn't mind paying for exceptionally good software, if it came
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by xedrac 4y ago
I have worked through much of the SICP book, and loved it. I think the author is just trying to emphasize that it's a really great book. Not that it's some sort of initiation that you must go through before you're a "r
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by xedrac 4y ago
> people were griping about Go's error handling (if err != nil) when Rust is, at best, no better than Go Have you used Rust in a non-trivial context recently? I have a few minor gripes about Rust's error handling, but Go'
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by xedrac 4y ago
Chess takes a lot of energy and concentration, and when I'm feeling depressed, I have neither. So yeah, I'd say there's certainly a correlation between the two. As an experiment, you should try turning off all ratings on Li
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by xedrac 4y ago
I don't need a scientific paper to tell me that exercise helps depression. I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for exercise. That's not to say it'll work equally well for everyone, but there's enough empirical ev
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by xedrac 4y ago
My primary focus is to add Anki cards any time I learn something important that I am likely to forget, so as to employ spaced repetition and retain things better. But my programming goals are focused squarely on Haskell this year. Last ye
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by xedrac 4y ago
I've been holding out OCaml because it didn't have good concurrency support, but that seems to have changed recently. I've thoroughly enjoyed learning Haskell, and I'm sure ML has a few treasures of its own to give.
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by xedrac 4y ago
I felt this point was very out of place on that list. I've interviewed so many people that had an average tenure of 6-9 months across many different jobs. In my field, if someone only stays for 6-9 months, then it was a complete waste
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by xedrac 4y ago
> If my job was something more similar to “ship new stuff fast” Ironically, the slowest moving codebase I have ever seen was written in Python. It was impossible to "ship new stuff fast" without breaking things. I think Pytho
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by xedrac 4y ago
Not that it seems to matter. Congress will spend way more than they receive in taxes, regardless of the tax rate on rich people.
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by xedrac 4y ago
Oh no. Apple has been infected by Meta. In all seriousness though, Apple can probably pull off some decent hardware in this space.
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by xedrac 4y ago
> some people see the problem not about tobacco, but have thought about three moves ahead about several ways this can go very, very wrong. This kind of relationship with the government, well meaning at the beginning or not, will end up g
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by xedrac 4y ago
> But APL programs are often cryptic and hard to decode. Some have joked that it is a “write-only language” because even the author of a program might have trouble understanding it later. So the original Perl?
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by xedrac 4y ago
Does anyone have any recommendations on Emacs performance tweaks on large codebases? I used Emacs (Evil mode) for about a year, but then switched to VSCode simply because the latency spikes while editing drove me nuts. VSCode has these to
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by xedrac 4y ago
I consider this one of life's greatest privileges. The responsibility of it all can be overwhelming, but I have perspective in droves!

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