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by xedrac 5y ago
I was in China for about a month, up until a couple weeks before the covid outbreak started. The internet was so locked down I could hardly do anything. Thankfully I had set up my laptop and home server with Wireguard, so I was able to ro
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by xedrac 5y ago
> Estimating one to three weeks of work is easy So a slightly more flexible sprint? I personally hate sprints - they tend to be inflexible and sometimes force you to make the wrong compromises. They are typically filled with many dispa
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by xedrac 5y ago
I really like Zig, but the lack of RAII means we're back to malloc/free style programming, and I would never opt into that unless Rust could not be used (e.g. binary size too large). Having said that, it's way better than
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by xedrac 5y ago
> The number of octopuses in the wild are decreasing and prices are going up. An estimated 350,000 tonnes are caught each year - more than 10 times the number caught in 1950. I don't think people are going to stop eating octopus any
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by xedrac 5y ago
That does sound a lot easier than Rust's channels and tasks...
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by xedrac 5y ago
> if I'm going to write a worker that will read from a queue, do a transformation and write to a few more queues/services upon completion, Go just works and the turn around time is far better than Rust. Since the inception of a
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by xedrac 5y ago
I find it very useful when mentoring, especially when working remotely. I think one of the best ways to train someone to program in Rust (or any language really) is to sit side-by-side and write code while answering questions and explainin
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by xedrac 5y ago
I've been in several debates where I was written off being in "bad-faith", when in reality, I just didn't agree with with the popular opinion on a particular subject. It seems people are all too eager to justify their o
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by xedrac 5y ago
I understand how someone could come to this conclusion, especially if you read the Old Testament and believe that Jesus and Jehovah are the same being. But I do think The Chosen has successfully captured the essence of the Gospels and made
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by xedrac 5y ago
So 80% of these vulnerabilities are on Netgear routers, and nearly all of them are rated as High severity. That's really impressive. I don't think I'll buy a Netgear router ever again.
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by xedrac 5y ago
On the contrary, Linux desktop is in a much better state than Windows desktop in my opinion. Windows seems to get worse with every release, while Linux has been making slow and steady improvements. Perhaps I just value the control that Li
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by xedrac 5y ago
I've used Emacs for about 5 years now, exclusively in Evil mode. One of my biggest complaints is that my big complex configuration setup seems to break every time I migrate to a new version of Emacs, or a new computer. This last time
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by xedrac 5y ago
This is stunning work. Bravo! I feel so small and insignificant right now. And that's not a bad thing.
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by xedrac 5y ago
If Hollywood is to be believed, then about 50% of those young men will be gay and not so unhappy about their situation...
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by xedrac 5y ago
I've met plenty of older developers that refused to adapt and keep learning. On the other hand, the best developers I've known have all been older. It's not about the skills you acquired at age X. It's about you attit
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by xedrac 5y ago
I don't really consider quicklisp to be "great package management" since you have to download it, install it, then load it. And don't forget to modify your sbcl init script to load it automatically for you. It felt qui
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by xedrac 5y ago
Everyone is different, but for me exploring new programming languages is like therapy. I do it for the joy of learning, without the pressure of having to "succeed." I particularly enjoy finding an open source project that I find
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by xedrac 5y ago
I followed a keto die for ~2 years. I lost a lot of weight and generally felt good. The moment I reintroduced carbs though, it all came rushing back with interest. So I only agree with this if you think you can keep it up forever. Anoth
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by xedrac 5y ago
Hard disagree. For me, Linux is easily twice as productive as MacOS. I think it's more about what you're used to.
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by xedrac 5y ago
I wish they'd "stand ready" to make their own GPUs in sufficient quantities. Jokes aside, ARM chips are great but I'd also like to see what they could do with RISC-V.
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by xedrac 5y ago
For those that want to do lisp on embedded, binary size can be very important.
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by xedrac 5y ago
When choosing between Zig and Rust for systems programming, I would reach for Rust most of the time. It's just a more expressive language with some seriously awesome compile-time guarantees. There are three things that bother me abou
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by xedrac 5y ago
I generally like RSR6, but Chicken opted to stick with RSR5 for a long time, which honestly was a deterrent for me. They are in the process of implementing RSR7 which is strangely incompatible with RSR6. Racket has been my go-to scheme fo
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by xedrac 5y ago
I've used Exercism for a number of years now and have enjoyed it. It's nice to see they added an editor in the browser so you don't have to use the command line to interact with their system. I'd like to see them imple
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by xedrac 5y ago
If you haven't read the book: "Mindset" by Carol Dweck, do yourself a huge favor and read/listen to that book. It completely changed my perspective in life.
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by xedrac 5y ago
As someone who has used Linux almost exclusively on the desktop for the past 10 years, I recently bought a Windows laptop to use with Piano Marvel. I was astonished at just how awful the Windows experience was. From the mandatory online u
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by xedrac 5y ago
Perhaps ADHD comes in many forms and severities. My wife has ADHD and her ability to "hyper-focus" is about as good as my ability to breath under water.
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by xedrac 5y ago
While I don't begrudge anyone from creating a new language, I'm trying to figure out what this brings to the table that languages like Nim, Zig, Ecl, Crystal, V, Forth, Gambit, etc... lack. The only thing I can really find is &qu
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by xedrac 5y ago
Lisp is already at the pinnacle of evolution, and can easily morph into whatever it needs to. That's both its greatest strength, and its greatest weakness.
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by xedrac 5y ago
Same here. I thought, "What does Unity want with a parsing library written in Haskell, and why is it worth $320M?"

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