ByteJockey

22 ms·

1.
by ByteJockey 4y ago
It's slightly more complicated in practice. The US has this weird system where you can opt out of full union membership and become what's called an "objector". You opt out of union membership but still pay a portion of d
2.
by ByteJockey 4y ago
I appreciate the link, thank you.
3.
by ByteJockey 4y ago
Given the context of this thread (comparison of ruby and python), it should be noted that python also has this. You can decorate a method with `@property` and call the method without parentheses. It's really nice because it means you d
4.
by ByteJockey 4y ago
> but I feel like it makes it very difficult to reason about performance This seems like a form of premature optimization. I mean, you're not wrong technically, but if you were exceptionally performance concerned, you probably would
5.
by ByteJockey 4y ago
They mention doing this a decade ago. They were probably using utilities to manage downloads from the ruby application archive (which would have still been around at the time) and automate running `setup.rb`
6.
by ByteJockey 4y ago
> Sure the water in that creek might be falling hundreds of meters, or even kilometers, but without a dam the height differential at your generator is only going to he a few metres at best. Enough to power the lighting, fridge, and washi
7.
by ByteJockey 4y ago
That really depends on what percentage of water's potential energy is expended in small creeks and the like vs big rivers. I actually have no idea how to estimate that. Anyone have a good estimate on that? Intuitively, I'm thinkin
8.
by ByteJockey 4y ago
Wait... so the US army did poorly against guerilla combatants half way across the world, and therefore another country that lost in Afghanastan and a country that hasn't successfully invaded anyone that doesn't border them are a g
9.
by ByteJockey 4y ago
> Yes, I mostly see people saying that laws don't matter because billionaires are beyond law at this point. Huh. Weird. Well, I don't see it brought up on HN all that often (once a month tops?), so we must hang out in different
10.
by ByteJockey 4y ago
> They plan to use the exact same code! Did they announce a change of plans? Their website just says that they have no plans for a borrow checker (i.e. it's not required to actually implement rust). From the website for the project:
11.
by ByteJockey 4y ago
Wait, is that what you always see as the argument against it? Whenever I've seen it brought up it's always that it would require a constitutional amendment (specifically in the US). The federal government isn't allowed to do
12.
by ByteJockey 4y ago
> It completely failed and SUV consumption skyrocketed and people stopped buying minivans and station wagons. The government put fuel efficiency regulations on sedans in the 1970s. This effectively killed station wagons. The rules around
13.
by ByteJockey 4y ago
> When people air opinions they're unwilling to change That's the thing, there are a lot more positions these days that people seem to be unwilling to change.
14.
by ByteJockey 4y ago
If that were the case, you'd expect to see forking of 3rd party libraries rather than writing of new ones.
15.
by ByteJockey 4y ago
That may very well be. What's the windows support like/does it come with windows pre-installed? I may personally hate windows with a passion, but if we're talking about the layman's definition of "PC", I think
16.
by ByteJockey 4y ago
I think ARM would be allowed, but for a layman to consider it a PC, you probably do need the windows capabilities.
17.
by ByteJockey 4y ago
> That political party's actions are about weakening the federal government so as to make it easier for large corporations to behave abusively, not because of trust. Can you think of a reason people would do that if they didn't
18.
by ByteJockey 4y ago
> I don't think Americans and American companies understand how little trust rest of us have for the American government. Have you... have you seen our politics? What makes you think that we think other people trust our government?
19.
by ByteJockey 4y ago
> Water, air, chicken, dirt, star stuff. God, the Captain Planet re-boot got weird...
20.
by ByteJockey 4y ago
For this to work, you'd need most of the code to be written by people who are paid (i.e. professionals). In my experience somewhere between 50-80% of code at most places is stuff pulled off maven/npm/github/etc written b
21.
by ByteJockey 4y ago
> how is that not putting code in the driver's seat? Because humans enter into them. What you're describing is not a problem of the code making decisions for people, it's a problem of people not being able to back out of s
22.
by ByteJockey 4y ago
It's considered to have ended (and possibly started reversing) in developed countries starting in the mid 1990s. Your link even covers it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect#Possible_end_of_p...
23.
by ByteJockey 4y ago
> but that puts implacable emotionless code in the driving seat, and the article explains very eloquently why that's a bad thing. To re-iterate my previous point, putting code in the driver's seat would imply that something lik
24.
by ByteJockey 4y ago
> A deeply and clearly thought out argument for why immutable blockchains and code as law are terrible ideas, yet the conclusion is that crypto-anarchist technologies are a net good. I think there's an important distinction between
25.
by ByteJockey 4y ago
> Which is why punitive fines ought to scale with income and/or wealth That really seems like it depends on what the damage a particular action causes. Property destruction, for example, probably shouldn't scale. If I, accident
26.
by ByteJockey 4y ago
Of course. You have a good day.
27.
by ByteJockey 4y ago
> What about the people who don't have that advantage? For the text editor? For general help, they will probably google "gnome text editor help" or "gnome text editor docs" like I just did, which returns >80%
28.
by ByteJockey 4y ago
It's short for ex's visual command which would allow you to interactively edit text rather than edit with commands. You didn't have to type the entire command to get it to work, just the first two letters (though the long for
29.
by ByteJockey 4y ago
> "Vi" is not "just naming the editor what it is", it's a relatively distinct short name that doesn't actually mean anything unless you know the reason for the name (which I did not for years after being int
30.
by ByteJockey 4y ago
I mean, yeah? Are you new to internet drama? People use it to feel high and mighty for a couple weeks and get some sweet, sweet dopamine hits, and then they go back to doing exactly what they were doing before.

More ›