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by xedrac 4y ago
I'd hate to have to unwrap anything in this context.
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by xedrac 4y ago
The worst CTO I ever worked for thought he was the expert because he "cut his teeth on assembly" in college. He indirectly micro-managed everyone with a "goal setting" farce. You had to submit very specific goals eac
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by xedrac 4y ago
Rust brings a lot more to the table than C++ does - it solves many of the "hard" problems, at compile time, that kernel developers have to constantly grok with. I have a feeling, that it'll not only do well in the Kernel, bu
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by xedrac 4y ago
Yeah, I would like a flag that makes the compiler as loose as possible, maybe something like "-fprototype". Then when I'm ready to get serious about correctness, I can remove the flag and be all pedantic.
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by xedrac 4y ago
My favorite was Civ Net, because you could play multiplayer without hotseat. We used to play large games in one of the University library computer labs. Good times.
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by xedrac 4y ago
I could see Zig thriving in a kernel, with its seamless integration with C. It would be a relatively simple upgrade to make. I still think Rust is the better choice though. Maybe the answer to your question is, if you're strictly a
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by xedrac 4y ago
It seems ridiculous that we don't officially acknowledge Taiwan. But to say it's not China, might be misleading. Does the Taiwanese government still make claim on China?
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by xedrac 4y ago
I don't know anyone that likes scrum. If everyone hates scrum because its "being implemented wrong", then wouldn't it follow that scrum is fundamentally broken in some way?
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by xedrac 4y ago
I've been using the same setup for several years now. I purchased my own domain, and have Fastmail do all the email hosting for me. Super simple. I also forward my gmail to my custom domain email, because I was only able to transiti
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by xedrac 4y ago
I like Zig, but its lack of RAII or GC puts it in the same camp as C. I would definitely prefer it over C, but not C++, let alone Rust. Who wants to deal with manual deallocations again? How about manual ref counting? Those feel like ar
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by xedrac 4y ago
I wonder if Biden's proposal to tax based on reported income to shareholders instead of taxable income, will change that for public companies: https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/what-bidens-minimum-b...
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by xedrac 4y ago
Intuitively, there are absolutely different forms of "intelligence". One simple example is the ability to visualize things in your head. I love the game of Chess, but no matter how many years I spend trying to visualize the boar
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by xedrac 4y ago
When I'm not working at peak efficiency, it's usually because: - I don't have enough autonomy to perform my job at a high level. - I don't have enough purpose, I'm bored, or I'm working on a lingering problem t
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by xedrac 4y ago
I can appreciate 1-2 days a week in the office. There are certainly some benefits to be had there. But if I consistently come into the office 2 days a week, I know for certain that my company is going to push for 3 days, then 4 etc... An
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by xedrac 4y ago
Aside for not having to handle errors in Go, the type system itself makes error handling less useful. Rust's error handling is superior to Go's in every way I can think of.
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by xedrac 4y ago
Several low level embedded C++ projects here, but most of our new projects are in Rust. It's becoming increasingly hard to justify using C++, despite how much it has improved over the years.
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by xedrac 4y ago
> if Ukraine doesn’t surrender I think you mean if Russia doesn't surrender. If Ukraine was to surrender, we'd have bigger problems than an increase in beef costs. I don't see any universe where Russia wins this war.
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by xedrac 4y ago
Apparently, that's the first challenge you must overcome to cracking the code...
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by xedrac 4y ago
Similarly, video games that focus solely on amazing graphics are often incredibly boring to play, while there are plenty of low budget games that are very creative and fun to play, despite not having amazing graphics. Another example is An
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by xedrac 4y ago
I think those who are naturally pessimistic/optimistic, do think they are being realistic. Unless there is overwhelmingly conclusive data, what is "realistic" is going to be tinted through their life experience and biases.
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by xedrac 4y ago
I need to try this sometime. It's all too easy for me to just stick with the "safe" option, and I think I'm missing out on some really great things in life because of it.
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by xedrac 4y ago
This is a bit misleading. Yes you can reverse the metrics by which we measure diabetes. But you cannot cure the blindness it may have caused, or the leg amputation that may have been needed, etc... The earlier you begin to manage your in
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by xedrac 4y ago
I'm pretty sure Taiwan cares, and anyone else that believes Democracy is worth fighting for.
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by xedrac 4y ago
Every engineering team I have worked on in the last 10 years has been almost exclusively Linux. But I've never seen other job types using it. That's fine by me though.
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by xedrac 4y ago
Sounds like it's time for ARM to fill the void and make AMD hungry again.
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by xedrac 4y ago
Goodheart's law in action.
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by xedrac 4y ago
We write abstractions to tame complexity. But abstractions themselves are inherently a form of complexity. A good abstraction may be simple to use, understand, and extend, but it can also make it harder to understand or debug issues becau
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by xedrac 4y ago
I was not implying a lack of understanding of the ecosystem/codebase or to blindly stack "simplest solutions" on top of each other. I was stating that one should not add more complexity than is necessary for the problem at h
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by xedrac 4y ago
> People abstract before an abstraction is necessary. This one really frustrates me. Write code to the complexity level needed to solve the problem, and nothing more. The only time I'd break from this is if I know for certain that
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by xedrac 4y ago
Please no. I have to believe there is more to live for than a SF-like future.

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