Jetrel

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by Jetrel 2y ago
They've fired a bunch of government employees who work in e.g. air traffic control, inspections, etc. This is likely not a case of some hand-wringing villain at the airline declaring "haha, we're finally free of that pesky r
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by Jetrel 2y ago
Well, there's actually a HUGE historical downsizing that happened; this is actually something that really caught people off guard with Russia's invasion of Ukraine - the US MIC is a tiny fraction of the size that it used to be, an
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by Jetrel 2y ago
My radicalization came from an incident a few years ago where some brownshirts yelled "trump won" and emptied a clip into my sister's friend's house party. They were uninvolved with politics, and had no obvious "ma
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by Jetrel 2y ago
Yeah; frankly, in almost all languages, some early works of literature tend to be THE thing that establishes canonical spelling. A lot of this is simply that they act as an argument-settler when two people can't agree how something &q
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by Jetrel 3y ago
Well, we had two recent presidents. In all honesty, I was totally willing to give Trump the benefit of the doubt; like he was talking a big circus, but sometimes for a politician that's just "dazzle and chaff" to distract th
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by Jetrel 3y ago
It's not soldered. It used to be, but ever since the M1, it's in-CPU. The ram is actually part of the CPU die. Needless to say it has batshit insane implications for memory bandwidth. I've got an M1, and the load time for a
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by Jetrel 3y ago
Yep; tons of credit cards do usurious bait-and-switch stuff like that, under the express hope to make it up on people who have occasional "slippages" where they miss it by one pay period. The "siren song" on those is the
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by Jetrel 3y ago
This person gets it.
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by Jetrel 3y ago
The reality is that nobody wants the alternative. Another commenter was replying to you pitching a mobile debian version, and went on to explain that said mobile debian version isn't usable ... and that's probably because the siz
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by Jetrel 3y ago
In the finest tradition of Jean-Louis Gassée: The app store is a condom (or a covid mask). It's not all about "you"; it doesn't matter a damned sight if YOU are careful, or if YOU are responsible. Other people can make
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by Jetrel 3y ago
That's fully possible, even easy, on an iOS device. --- The kind of programming people are agitating for in threads like these is emphatically NOT general-purpose programming. It's a very specific kind of proto-programming - bein
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by Jetrel 3y ago
He notably took credit for ending the lawlessness of the 90s, which was really bad . Russia went through a couple of years of being an outright "failed state", with basically no police operating in much of the country, and rampa
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by Jetrel 4y ago
It's almost like the fundamental basis of crypto is fraud. Like they're not actually selling anything, besides "british south sea company" ~~stock shares~~ coins.
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by Jetrel 4y ago
At this point, I don't think much of famous schools, and might even find them a -minus- on hiring criterion. I'd be much more likely to hire someone from a tier-2 school who doesn't have any of the negative baggage — the wea
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by Jetrel 4y ago
I see Gritty and I think — "bad things happen in Philadelphia."
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by Jetrel 4y ago
The problem is that all users aren't happy. Having used federated services for years, they're never in synch, and some users always have access to some features that other users don't have. In fact, the problem is chiefly th
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by Jetrel 4y ago
The biggest plus is that — like Chrome, if they decide they made a mistake, they can pivot a change that many of their users would disagree with, and force it on the whole ecosystem immediately. Chrome has done this a lot , and almost all
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by Jetrel 4y ago
To help clarify for the person you're replying to; minification could be considered to only mean: taking an interpreted language like JS, and essentially compressing the text of the code by doing transformations to it that don't
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by Jetrel 4y ago
Yeah. I get pretty tilted when people complain about the banking system, because most of the "problems" they're complaining about are features. A really good metaphor is a programmer complaining about being forced to use a v
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by Jetrel 5y ago
I for one am holding out for the ULTRA GIGA chips.
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Unfortunately for people with your worldview, this isn't the way the world works. You're thinking under a framework that one set of actions will certainly prevent it, and the other is more likely to cause it. At this point, neith
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Uh, the whole point of code signing is a checksum — it's valid only for an exact match to the original executable that got signed. If it changes, the checksum and code signing become invalid. That's the only reason they even crea
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by Jetrel 5y ago
One is a privilege escalation, the other is just buying a fake rolex that you thought was real. Except that the rolex costs less than the cost of a hamburger.
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by Jetrel 5y ago
The problem with RoR is that it's an all-encompassing framework. It gives you a huge collection of things you typically don't need — entire major layers like the database are frequently completely irrelevant to projects. This is
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by Jetrel 5y ago
In most cases - source available is _de facto_ open-source. You have two limitations on a product: - "actual physical limitations": the fact that you have the source, and that it's not a brutally-difficult life/career-c
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Yeah, it's worth pointing out that people are blaming electron for what's wrong with Slack. When, perhaps, it's just Slack itself that sucks? I use Discord all the time, which is one hell of an oranges-to-oranges comparison
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by Jetrel 5y ago
The thing with Electron et al is that the GUI dev tools on it are the best thing humanity's come up with, by a country mile. It's vastly, vastly easier to develop a really good, clean app, with a great UI in it — especially a UI
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Not exactly a java fan here, but java targeted the enormous block of people writing in C/C++ for their enterprise servers, and gave them "machine-independence". Being able to upgrade your server, and not having to rewrite yo
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by Jetrel 5y ago
I was really surprised to discover that quite a few games in the SNES/Genesis era actually weren't written in assembly. They were usually "touched up" in assembly; there would be inlined assembly stuff for a lot of core
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by Jetrel 5y ago
So, I've been a person like this on a smaller scale (taking a fully written program, and basically "completely rewriting it" in a new language. Biggest thing I can say is that if you have enough of a "crazy-eyed mofo&qu

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