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by zem 10mo ago
my time at google likewise led me to the conclusion that fakes were better than mocks in pretty much every case (though I was working in c++ and python, not java). edit: of course google was an unusual case because you had access to all the
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by zem 10mo ago
it's not a trivial bug, it creates the same sort of aversive reaction that obvious AI slop banner images do.
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by zem 10mo ago
if nothing else, rex makes a good central place to evolve a set of helper code for doing ebpf-like stuff in a rust kernel module. wouldn't be too surprised if it eventually becomes closer to an embedded dsl.
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by zem 10mo ago
it was several years between the time I learnt noether's theorem and the time I learnt she was a woman. sad failure of the educational system, it really did deserve to be a more prominent fact since as you say it meant that she had to
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by zem 10mo ago
the argument is not "some other language has it so we should", the argument is "static type checking is very useful even if it is not 100% strict, and ruby's lack of syntactic support for type annotations makes them clun
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by zem 10mo ago
the overall field is known as "gradual typing", and it is an attempt to combine some of the benefits of both static and dynamic typing (or to put it more accurately, to explore more of the benefits and tradeoffs on the static to d
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by zem 10mo ago
yeah, really wish they would fix that one!
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by zem 10mo ago
I'm a programmer, and am intensely aware of the huge gap between the quantity of software the world could use and the total production capacity of the existing body of programmers. my distaste for AI has nothing to do with some real or
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by zem 10mo ago
I feel like winnie the pooh won't lose much from having seen the film version beforehand, but also the books had the kind of whimsical humour that I enjoyed a lot more in college than I did as a kid.
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by zem 10mo ago
for lotr in particular my last reread was slower paced because I kept this map[0] open and paused frequently to refer to it and see where everyone was. it was super enjoyable, I have literally read the book dozens of times before that and h
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by zem 10mo ago
when I was a kid I wanted some of the specialised sets simply because they had exciting new pieces like windshields, gears, dish antennas, etc. I don't think I ever made the actual thing the set was intended for, I just wanted to add n
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by zem 10mo ago
I spend an inordinate amount of time reading (fiction) when I'm not at work. always a nice break from anything else I'm doing.
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by zem 10mo ago
destroying things is extremely easy. there are typically a few ways for something to be working well and countless ways for it to be broken.
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by zem 10mo ago
someone should embed it into dillo!
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by zem 10mo ago
because a lot of us care about the software running out there being good quality, given how much of the world depends on it. i would very much rather not see it all come crashing down.
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by zem 10mo ago
it does seem like something a good static analysis tool should be able to catch though
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by zem 10mo ago
I feel like over time governments and government agencies naturally attract and retain people inclined towards overreach, especially if they live in a bubble where there are always good and valid reasons for said overreach. you need a branc
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by zem 10mo ago
the combination of single account for everything and arbitrary account locking is really scary, given how much of their lives people entrust to these services. anecdotally i have steered strictly clear of google cloud for my personal projec
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by zem 10mo ago
same thing happens in SF, often to businesses that have been a valued part of the local neighbourhood for years. it's infuriating.
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by zem 10mo ago
on the other hand, a better user experience is something open source projects can aspire towards as a pure goal, with no perverse incentives pulling them the other way. a lot of the recent github changes have degraded the user experience be
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by zem 10mo ago
strictly better than "uze" though
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by zem 10mo ago
> I feel like Canada is of two minds, awkwardly and indecisively straddling North American English and British English or it's got it's own dialect, which has inherited features from both british and american english but is now
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by zem 10mo ago
> From a cursory search, it appears that finnix is focused on the command line while knoppix provides a desktop environment if knoppix was one of the first live distros to offer a full desktop environment, that's definitely what the
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by zem 10mo ago
this looks like a truly amazing piece of work. props to the author for doing a very thorough job.
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by zem 10mo ago
requiring people to work for the sake of requiring them to work is also ridiculous, yet here we are. once a good basic income and guaranteed housing program is put into place we can get rid of bullshit jobs as a class.
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by zem 11mo ago
"windowpane" was my first thought :) such a lovely play on the "-ane" suffix
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by zem 11mo ago
and gdk was, delightfully enough, the gnu's not unix image manipulation program toolkit drawing kit
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by zem 11mo ago
the scenario that worries me is "fox news but personalised", e.g. fox can run a dozen pieces on "immigrants are taking your jobs" but an LLM hooked into your google profile could generate an article on how "plumbers
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by zem 11mo ago
super interesting project. I would love to generate a similar list for my own neighbourhood
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by zem 11mo ago
haha, that's pretty hilarious :) score one for the LLMs.

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