Mesopropithecus

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by Mesopropithecus 26d ago
In TUI, you almost always open a new process when your start a new instance. Pretty much all GUI frameworks I have worked with behave the same, and you have to actively create singleton behavior. Then you have Mac OS which makes it hard two
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by Mesopropithecus 4mo ago
True. I just happen to prefer the US to set the rules over an illegitimate, theocratic, and terrorist regime.
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by Mesopropithecus 6mo ago
Funny how Windows copies KDE (features and trajectories), almost 18 years after KDE 4.0/4.1. Also makes me feel old.
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by Mesopropithecus 1y ago
Was gonna write that it pays dividends only from a certain project size onwards, but in fact it could be true from a certain org size instead. So yes, it has some component of bureaucracy-as-code, and I agree with the author that that can b
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by Mesopropithecus 1y ago
I'm seeing this way too often in production code, despite linters and reviews. So we have to keep plastering over.
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by Mesopropithecus 1y ago
"They know what’s intuitive and what isn’t" ... and then they ignore it? It triggers me when someone calls hidden swipe gestures intuitive. It's the opposite of affordance, which these designers should be familiar with if th
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by Mesopropithecus 1y ago
Like this? https://protobuf.dev/reference/protobuf/textformat-spec/
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by Mesopropithecus 2y ago
Funnily, 1.5 decades after Golang popularized formatters, in 2024 it is the only language that I work in that requires me to think about formatting. Mostly line length, but super annoying.
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by Mesopropithecus 2y ago
They have tons of commuters and business travelers. Didn't look into the methodology, but my first guess would be that those are included in the numerator, but not in the denominator.
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by Mesopropithecus 2y ago
That's what options are for. But I find it more cost effective to just diversify my investments.
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by Mesopropithecus 2y ago
Ok satire and i fell for it. Nice.
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by Mesopropithecus 2y ago
Not familiar with the details, but page fault != segfault.
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by Mesopropithecus 2y ago
Do it. I recently built a beefy machine, the first time in years that I have something I can play on, it's Linux only and it's great. Deepening on the games you play, check protondb first.
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by Mesopropithecus 2y ago
I agree with that, but null safety would be a big deal for correctness.
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by Mesopropithecus 2y ago
In the intern's place, I probably would not have bragged about copying that company's idea. Then again, as the company, if I felt a former intern could threaten my business like that, I'd ask serious questions about my value
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by Mesopropithecus 2y ago
In the second example, buffer is still a pointer? If so, when does free run, and who decides that? When buffer goes out of scope, could do_stuff store the pointer some place else? I find this an interesting thought experiment, basically typ
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by Mesopropithecus 2y ago
Try-blocks with ~one line are best practice on code based I have worked with. The upside is that you can bubble errors up to the place where you handle them, AND get stack traces for free. As a huge fan of Result<T, E>, I have to admi
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by Mesopropithecus 2y ago
RIP. When I wasn't sure what to make of Goedel, Escher, Bach, his writings tipped the scale. Thanks!
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by Mesopropithecus 3y ago
Some of the in-house stuff was built before alternatives were available or scalable, and now there'd be a high cost and friction to trying to change it. Happens in many big companies that have been around for a few decades, it's n
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by Mesopropithecus 3y ago
As someone who hasn't thought about it that way yet: that's interesting!
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by Mesopropithecus 3y ago
Interesting. Though "ein Paar" is singular, "ein paar" is plural, making it clear from the context in many cases. Curiously, it's not clear in the case where it matters most: "please bring [ein [pP]aar Socken]&
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by Mesopropithecus 3y ago
Title should read "Extend a C project with Zig".
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by Mesopropithecus 3y ago
Exactly. So when people take"essential oils" or whatever to "detox" - yeah sure, you may feel a difference. But that's probably because that substance you ingested wasn't healthy in the first place and what you
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by Mesopropithecus 3y ago
The thing I love about HN is that enthusiast stuff like this makes it to the front page. <3
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by Mesopropithecus 3y ago
Depending on your background, learning either will be beneficial in that you'll learn about a C-like memory model. My experience is that Go is way easier to get started with (both in terms of the language and the libraries). It has a c
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by Mesopropithecus 3y ago
I have to apologize, I misread the context of "people whining..", which was in fact about those that don't even use the language. If this was not intended to be aggressive, sorry. Funny though that I did get triggered by it.
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by Mesopropithecus 3y ago
Comments like this are why I like to joke that the G in Golang stands for gaslighting.
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by Mesopropithecus 3y ago
I assume the previous poster meant that you can't tie specific taxes to specific spending buckets in Germany.
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by Mesopropithecus 3y ago
Meaningless statement unless you correct at the very least also for demographics and infection rates.
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by Mesopropithecus 3y ago
To some extent yes, it's certainly influenced by Smalltalk. I just wish the author hadn't focused that much on control flow in that paragraph. Ruby afaik also supports live programming up to a point (REPL), but it's still not

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