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by alexfrydl 4y ago
It really rather seems like they achieved a near-perfect library for creating complex web applications, then in order to justify continued work on the project, simply kept making up unnecessary clever/cool features motivated by vibes t
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by alexfrydl 5y ago
The problem is that people are not statistics. It may sound reasonable on the surface to say that this heuristic minimizes harm on average because she doesn't perform unnecessary interventions on the 99.9%. However, there are still act
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by alexfrydl 5y ago
> Last month, the main courses offered on meatless Fridays included grilled cheese sandwiches, mac and cheese and mozzarella sticks. February’s Friday entrees, are vegan veggie tacos, Mediterranean chickpeas and black bean and plantain r
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by alexfrydl 5y ago
This is so weird to me because I'm very much a turbo nerd power user Linux dork and I will still contend that Windows has a significantly easier user experience. I certainly don't use Linux because it's a convenient desktop p
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by alexfrydl 5y ago
Exactly. I'm not sure what the person you replied to is talking about. This article is clearly well researched because it covers many classic games on the timeline of roguelike history, from Dwarf Fortress to Civilization 5 to Super Sm
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by alexfrydl 5y ago
The only thing I don't like about HCL is that there are not enough good libraries for me to use it as the configuration language in all of my projects. I love HCL. HCL 2 anyway.
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by alexfrydl 5y ago
I've been using Firefox for about as long as a person could possibly have been using Firefox and I think this just happens every time they change the UI.
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by alexfrydl 5y ago
Ruby's “for … in” is syntax sugar in the sense that is just another way to spell an identical piece of code. This would be like if Python let you write “foreach” instead of “for” if you wanted to. Another example in Ruby is how you can
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by alexfrydl 5y ago
Honestly my first thought when I saw the title “why we use Haskell” was “because you have one engineer and they like Haskell?” I suppose I was wrong. It was two.
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by alexfrydl 5y ago
Very high percentage. At least in my experience, the effect is NOT subtle.
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by alexfrydl 5y ago
This is definitely true but just fyi by now you should be getting 2% back on everything, more if it's specific categories. If you're only getting 1% and have good credit, you need a new card.
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by alexfrydl 5y ago
Okay, gotcha. So who are the two sides of this argument, and what are they arguing about exactly? I'm just trying to get clarification on who it is in particular that needs to stop “formulating needlessly metaphysical conceptions of ge
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by alexfrydl 5y ago
I will always be amazed at how many people can type “because this group is a minority, meeting their needs is unimportant and shouldn't impact the majority” and think they've contributed a novel thought. Your elephant in the room
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by alexfrydl 5y ago
Old English has the same gender system as German. The reason English doesn't have gendered nouns now isn't because we are so progressive, but because language tends to lose all its excess features as it gets spoken and a LOT of pe
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by alexfrydl 5y ago
I think bad faith misrepresentations like this are the primary source of the supposed “impossible discourse” on the “subject.” What “subject” by the way? Who are the specific people who use this supposedly confusing, brand-new meaning of th
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by alexfrydl 5y ago
I bet the results were too embarrassing.
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by alexfrydl 5y ago
They're probably dependencies of dependencies. You depend on some very useful package and somewhere down the line it depends on something written to be platform agnostic in 2012 when lodash wasn't modular and JavaScript wasn'
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by alexfrydl 5y ago
Until I heard Visual Studio 2022 was coming out recently, I literally thought Microsoft had ceded the ecosystem in 2019. It's very surprising to hear it's the total opposite. I've been doing C# since .NET 1.0 and I can't
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by alexfrydl 5y ago
What you're describing is not actually a problem with async/await. Rather, async/await places a burden of knowledge on the developer to explicitly avoid this problem. Go makes a tradeoff on overhead in exchange for removing t
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by alexfrydl 5y ago
You're acting like the athletes got together and demanded enormous contracts so UEFA was begrudgingly forced to make deals with Coca-Cola to appease their entitlement.
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by alexfrydl 6y ago
I was thinking that this word is not, in fact, below the level of discourse of HN and based on the other replies I don't believe I even have to back this statement up.
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by alexfrydl 6y ago
I hate the logic that because people have successfully used something, it is good. Having used MongoDB extensively, it is absolutely true that MongoDB is powerful and useful. However, it is also true that I would never choose it over someth
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by alexfrydl 6y ago
There's webview ( https://github.com/webview/webview ) which has bindings for many different languages, but it's a whole window rather than a UI component you can embed. It's intended to be a lightweight a
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by alexfrydl 6y ago
All of those are aliased to the Linux commands and also have their own abbreviations (get-childitem -> gci).
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by alexfrydl 6y ago
Using TXT records for this kind of thing is not that unusual. For example, Kubernetes's external-dns uses TXT records to track which entries it manages.
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by alexfrydl 6y ago
This is way too much to write on the topic of what should and should not count for this goofy code golf challenge.
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by alexfrydl 6y ago
I think it's a bit much to name this a bug. This should have very little to no effect on real-world code, and the only way to fix it for real is to actually parse the languages.
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by alexfrydl 6y ago
Unless you mean right now because of carona, I'm not sure what about “this day and age” is more dangerous than when you grew up.