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by xnorswap 5mo ago
This leaves me kind of sad, that we've had such little innovation in desktop / window-managers for 30 years. Certainly it doesn't feel any easier to manage multiple windows than when we had a quarter of the screen space.
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by xnorswap 5mo ago
I stand corrected.
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by xnorswap 5mo ago
I'd assume most are written in C or some other higher level language. Certainly I checked the x264 ( VLC implementation of h264 ) and that is C.
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by xnorswap 6mo ago
That's quite a rant, but it seems like it's from experience with the old times. For the last decade or so it's been a completely different story. System.Text.Json is part of the core standard library, the only reason to use N
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by xnorswap 6mo ago
I've never understood what is meant by "bloated", would you mind explaining, so perhaps I could better understand? If it's "Large standard library", I think that's a selling point. Having anything you need
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by xnorswap 6mo ago
It's had support for single exe compilation for a while now, although the file sizes can get large without being more careful about dependencies.
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by xnorswap 6mo ago
I can't see any reason this list why I should use Go over C# / .NET. .NET has almost all these upsides, but with a concurrency model (async/await) that is (now) more transferable to other languages.
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by xnorswap 6mo ago
It's clearly AI written as are quite a few of the posts on the front-page now. We seem to have lost the war for people to find their own voice, the AI articles are getting widely upvoted, and people pointing out they are AI are no long
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by xnorswap 6mo ago
Yes, apparently you're not allowed to not allow the "unclassified" category. Apparently it was really hard to classify "ads.twitter" as marketing, so it remains unclassified and therefore you can't opt-out. Exc
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by xnorswap 6mo ago
Personally I think it's scandalous that the now top comment is an off-topic reference to something tangential to the title, and nothing to do with the article, which isn't really about knitting at all, except for being the hook to
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by xnorswap 6mo ago
Their headline figure is a bit exaggerated, it's driven from the official status numbers, but aggregates across all GH services. Imagine you run 365 services, and each goes down 1 day a year. If those are all on the same day, this woul
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by xnorswap 6mo ago
You're getting downvoted, but it's unmistakably written by AI.
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by xnorswap 6mo ago
They fast-follow then market so aggressively with just enough proprietary tweaks so they can trademark it that people think that Apple invented the technology.
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by xnorswap 6mo ago
You'll also find plenty of potential malware injectors too, and who would want the responsibility of trying to vet a successor and have to work out the difference?
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by xnorswap 6mo ago
I read "We are investing heavily in XChat" and was really confused for a second, having used xchat as my main IRC client back in the day. I hadn't realised that it was now long defunct, with its last release in 2010. https:&
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by xnorswap 6mo ago
"Companies should be able to bully their staff, since their staff are free to quit" is not compatible with a decent society.
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by xnorswap 6mo ago
You can squeeze it into half that length with, "Meta staff fury at Big Brother AI scheme"
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by xnorswap 6mo ago
I love Portal, but it feels more like a tutorial than a puzzle game, because the tolerances on each solution are so large. It's a fantastic game, one of the all-time greats, and there are tricky parts to execute, but it's not part
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by xnorswap 6mo ago
I like this a lot more, because it captures whether two things are necessarily the same or just happen to be currently the same. A common "failure" of DRY is coupling together two things that only happened to bear similarity whi
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by xnorswap 6mo ago
From doing more research about this, it seems they don't want to use the good draft picks, but to sell them on to teams that do want to win. The draft pick is itself a commodity that can be traded*, so by losing they get a premium comm
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by xnorswap 6mo ago
And which model did you use to generate this comment? Please use your own voice.
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by xnorswap 6mo ago
Right, I forgot you guys have "The Draft", so failing is an advantage, doubly so if you can sell your draft picks, because then you can keep losing by having sold away the mechanism for getting you competitive again. I am so glad
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by xnorswap 6mo ago
I don't follow American Football so I don't know how coaching contracts work for you guys, but how does someone go 1W 15L one season, survive as head coach to go 0W 16L the next season, and still start the next season after that a
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by xnorswap 6mo ago
Or put another way, we need to compare the net present value. The more expensive choice now is an investment into not buying future bags, and the future returns on that investment should be discounted. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by xnorswap 6mo ago
Indeed, and also there's a special circle of hell reserved for anyone who dares change the interface on a public API, and forgets about client caching leading to invalid requests but only for one or two confused users in particular. Bo
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by xnorswap 6mo ago
500-series errors are server-side, 400 series are client side. A 500 error is almost never "just you". ( 404 is a client error, because it's the client requesting a file that does not exist, a problem with the client, not the
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by xnorswap 6mo ago
Sites going down under load is hardly a new phenomenon.
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by xnorswap 6mo ago
This article is wonderful crazy. The icing on the cake is the discovery of a potential performance bug in one or more of the about: pages, that's definitely worthy of following up.
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by xnorswap 6mo ago
> it must have been terrible coffee Douglas Adams nailed the quality of tea from a vending machine, "almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea", and that era of coffee machines weren't much better at coffee.
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by xnorswap 6mo ago
This is a bit off topic, but I always say that priority is a ranking of actual demands, it is an ordering, one that needs curating and keeping updated based on context and changes in environment. Nothing else works for prioritisation, any o

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