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by xedrac 4y ago
I had it about 2 weeks before I was eligible to get a vaccine, in my 30s. As an active Crossfitter, I am (was?) much healthier than the majority of my peers. Yet it nearly killed me with double pneumonia, and I couldn't taste or smel
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by xedrac 4y ago
A lot more than the number of lines of Lisp in Lisp.
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by xedrac 4y ago
My red flag goes up immediately as soon as any manager, or executive, starts making claims about no layoffs. The least they can do is provide enough severance that you have ample time to find something new without worrying about money.
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by xedrac 4y ago
I had a very strong coach work with me on this exact problem. He required me to reframe my definition of what it means to win. Basically it came down the the quality of effort I put into the game. If I put everything I have into a game a
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by xedrac 4y ago
Father of five here. I don't have specific suggestions other than to realize that your life as you've known it up until now is forever changed. Life's greatest joys have come to me because of my children, but also my greate
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by xedrac 4y ago
I fully support Wayland, but also also recognizing its problems. Most of it boils down to apps that don't natively support Wayland, or incomplete support for some use case. Otherwise I think Wayland has been great.
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by xedrac 4y ago
I saw this in the news recently: https://www.deseret.com/utah/2022/3/8/22968089/utah-company-... I'm not sure how $30 for 100 units of insulin compares to the status quo, but they make it sound
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by xedrac 4y ago
> So I'm not covering tools like AddressSanitizer that are intended for testing and are not recommended for production use. How is it an exaggeration when he explicitly called this out?
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by xedrac 4y ago
I'm sure there is a place for no-code tools, but LabView left a very sour taste in my mouth after seeing how much it was abused to do things it was pretty much the worst tool imaginable for.
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by xedrac 4y ago
Well, scratch that one off the list too then. But that's my point. Very few things are made to last anymore, and that makes me sad.
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by xedrac 4y ago
I wish I could buy things that are expected to last a lifetime. The only things I've purchased in recent months that fall into that category are my cast iron pan and some hardcover books.
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by xedrac 4y ago
I realize company-wide planning is extremely hard, especially when there are many inter-dependencies that can block entire departments if a single deadline slips. But in my experience, the only thing that Jira brings to the table is the ab
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by xedrac 4y ago
Go is easy, decently fast, and reasonably safe. It's a good tool for many problems. Rust is complex, extremely fast, and notably safer than Go. It sounds like Vale is trying to push the envelope of what is possible, which to me, mea
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by xedrac 4y ago
It turns out when you treat your employees as disposable resources to be exploited, instead of human beings, people don't want to work there. I have several friends that worked for Amazon as engineers and from their stories, I don&#x2
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by xedrac 4y ago
In my experience, this wouldn't be needed if the rest of the app ran at native speed. There would already be a natural delay that would be noticed by the user.
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by xedrac 4y ago
And here I struggle with the latency of local programs built on Electron. I can't imagine developing in the cloud all the time. Maybe the next generation of developers can go down that path and eventually rediscover the wonders of lo
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by xedrac 4y ago
Well now I have an excuse to write some Clojure.
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by xedrac 4y ago
It appears I was simply not exposed to the terminology then. But thanks for the information.
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by xedrac 4y ago
I don't know this mrb_ guy you're referring to, but is he the same person as _mrb or mrb? Whoever he is, he's clearly a snake_case kind of guy... next I expect to see m_rb because that's the only other form of private
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by xedrac 4y ago
I tend to use Podman/Buildah more than Docker these days. But I've been pretty happy with Toolbox, which seems similar. I agree that for many things, it's a lot more convenient than using a Dockerfile.
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by xedrac 4y ago
Many RAII objects really are tied to a simple scope - such as std::lock_guard. So it's not just about persisting beyond the initial scope. I don't recall the word "lifetime" being used in the C++ world before Rust came
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by xedrac 4y ago
https://paulhjossey.medium.com/the-nazis-were-leftists-deal-... The Nazis were just as much far left as far right, if not more. It's funny to me how people are unwilling to acknowledge this.
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by xedrac 4y ago
I've only written about 20k lines of Go code, but Rust has somewhat ruined Go for me. It's really hard to pick Go when I know Rust can do the job better and with fewer resources and bugs. I do think Go brought some good things t
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by xedrac 4y ago
My general philosophy is to get my tools to work for me as much as possible (a big reason I love rust so much). Years of using C gave me a huge appreciation for RAII when I started using C++. To my horror, a lot of C++ codebases actively
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by xedrac 4y ago
To each their own of course. But the benefit of having and raising children can only be fully understood by experiencing it firsthand. And then when someone pulls out the "destroying the planet" card on you, you realize just how
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by xedrac 4y ago
I've been to SF proper only twice (but many times to San Jose). In my opinion, the only things going for it are the weather, coastal locality, sycamores, and interesting terrain. Otherwise it just felt really trashy to me. I wouldn&
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by xedrac 4y ago
> Clearly it is in peoples best interests to not have children these days. Why do you say that? This seems rather short-sighted. The decision to have children was the best choice I ever made. It demanded more of me than I ever knew I
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by xedrac 4y ago
I like how C++ gets the verbose template parameter name of RandomAccessIterator (repeated 3 times), while Rust gets T. It's sort of like he's saying, "if you choose to use C++, this is the sort of muck you'll have to de
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by xedrac 4y ago
Some kid-oriented shows seem to get by just fine, albeit their story lines don't necessarily connect. Sponge Bob, and Big City Greens are two of my favorite kid shows with a ton of episodes. Maybe I just like kid shows...
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by xedrac 4y ago
My empirical evidence says otherwise. It is the primary reason I cancelled my subscription, and I've heard an awful lot of people complain about how every show has some forced social agenda. I suspect that Elon's tweet regarding

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