RandomThoughts3

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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> So in your weird business view, you think Apple is doing all of that regardless of market share. For what purpose? Yes, very much and that’s a good question. I guess they consider the iMac to be important in the branding they want to m
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
I quite like having proper sound and a good webcam which sometimes is my phone connected to my computer, yes. Cables are not an issue because I can properly run them being the huge monitor in front of me. Plus I can undock my laptop from th
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
The issue here is not so much that it’s flowery but that it’s completely unremarkable, bordering on a truism, in its content. The sentence literally means: sound is relevant because you constantly hear it.
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
The iMac webcam has always been quite meh. So is the microphone. Speakers are good for inbuilt speakers which is to say they are average.
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> Or are you both claiming that Apple has an entire multi decade line of products it keeps refreshing without a market? Yes, pretty much. That’s why they still use the same 2021 screen, they now only have one size, the board is basically
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> The market for these doesn’t care about any of the stuff you mentioned. Yes, that’s because this market basically doesn’t exist which is indeed the Verge point.
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
The most important part of my comment is "and wouldn't be better served by actually pluging a laptop to a monitor" and your reply about cable unplugging (really?) lets me think you know it is. I am not even commenting about t
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> Why? Because you then also have a laptop for the same price and as a bonus you can upgrade the monitore and computer separately. It's so obvious I don't understand what you are missing there. Why do you think the market for d
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> Still basically everyone! I will hasard that the amount of people who would like a desktop computer with no customisability whatsoever and wouldn't be better served by actually pluging a laptop to a monitor is basically zero. And
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> The worst thing so far is that you have to declare and define functions before using them. That's an extremely good thing. Unordered definitions and where are some of Haskell worst decisions with lazy by default, overuse of oper
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
I also worked on an ocaml codebase for a roughly similar time frame and found it extremely pleasant. Probably the best time I spent as a dev with working on an Ada project with a great architecture.
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
It's not more reasonable. It explicitely designed to look like JS which is, well, bad. Some of the choices are extremely annoying and overall useless like reintroducing parentheses for function arguments. There is a reason - pun intend
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> An actual serious problem with Ocaml’s syntax is that matches don’t have a terminator, leading people to mess up nested matches frequently. Pair that with the parser’s poor error reporting/recovery and things can become unpleasant
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Germany has been leaching off the EU for so long through the weak Euro, they now think it will always work. They are clearly putting France on a fast track to an exit via a far right government with the whole Mercosur agreement debacle.
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> The official is that something must be returned to nature before climate change destroys everything. Nature is an abstraction, not a weird angry god. We need to capture GHG and stop emitting more but that’s pretty much it. That will mo
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Everything you are listing is indeed very much strategic and Europe was indeed extremely stupid to let that go. The end of your paragraph is a demonstration of that. It doesn’t go against the core idea.
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> I'm not arguing that what Kent did was right or wrong You are actually arguing that it was right. > The guy (Hocko) kept making mistake after mistake and Kent struggled to get him to do anything remotely net positive That’s not
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
I have never worked for a company where people building the software and people supporting it when it is critical were the same. The idea is weird to me. Plus any large enough company should have team in spread out timezones eliminating the
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Sorry for the poor grammar, I meant could and not would and I hope you took my comment as good intended (it was). I value your contribution a lot. Reading you just reminds me of myself when I had postponed time off far too long at a previou
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
The CoC committee was long overdue. The decision here is both lenient - it’s only one release - pragmatic and necessary. We should aspire to more friendless not some weird tolerance for behaviour which would he unacceptable everywhere else.
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Just to be clear, Overstreet wrote an email asking someone to “get their head checked” and “get the fuck out of here with this shit”. I don’t think it’s the CoC committee overreacting. I would reach to HR advising termination if a member of
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Kent is only prevented to merge for a version and mostly because he refused to actually apologise and kind of dig his heels. Reading his comment on LWN, he seems really really tired. A mandatory break doesn’t look like the worst thing which
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
To give some context, Overstreet insulted another maintainer in an LKML email and despite being asked to do so by the CoC committee has yet to issue an actual apology and mostly seems to be digging his heels. Reading the LWN comments where
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
There is nothing wrong with using print debugging but if you are only using print debugging, finding yourself doing a ton of compiler round trip, and don’t know how to use a debugger, you are doing yourself a massive disservice.
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> The juniors only get to run the show and introduce exotic, non-boring technology (asynchronicity, event-sourcing, eventual consistency, CQRS etc.) That’s decade old technologies. So is most of the functional niceties which are somehow
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Pointing that Ukraine benefited most from the sabotage is not a conspiracy theory. It would be if there was another significantly more likely explanation but there isn’t. Russian involvement is a bit far fetched to me. It severely limited t
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> them losing and that result being recognized implies that warmongering is acceptable You do realise that the US has more or less constently been at war for the past fifty years. "The west" - whatever that means - can't t
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Europe is not at war with another nuclear power, no. Ukraine is at war and Europe is giving support to Ukraine as that's aligned with its interest. This support is neither unconditional nor total and doesn't include going to war w
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Nordstream is also special because its destruction was not aligned with Russia interests. It limited Europe capacity to import Russian gaz lifting one of the reason which might have made the EU reluctent to fully support Ukraine (and causin
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Don’t use product with EULA you refuse to read. Then people will stop including them. Especially when it’s a game. Anyway I’m all for outlawing the inclusion of predatory clauses in EULA but this is not one of this case. People just want to

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