cgrealy

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by cgrealy 20d ago
Linux wouldn't be zero. There's still a cost involved in installing the OS, even if it's miniscule and automatable. You can bet your life that laptop manufacturers are going to charge you for it.
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by cgrealy 20d ago
Every engineer at my job uses a mac. Same for my friends job. In fact, the only people who use windows are finance people, HR, etc
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by cgrealy 2y ago
Peoples inability to come up with a better alternative doesn’t mean there aren’t issues with capitalism. Fossil fuels are the easiest and most effective way of powering transport at the moment (and pretty much the only game in town for air
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by cgrealy 2y ago
I can’t remember the source, but there’s a quote that goes “it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”. I’ve yet to read any kind of optimistic sci-fi that operates in a capitalist society. The two most obvious
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by cgrealy 2y ago
The Windows API is no longer the focus for .Net. They are very clearly pushing large scale web apps. I’d be curious to know what percentage of people are still writing windows clients. I suspect there’s a lot of legacy code still out there,
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by cgrealy 2y ago
Minor correction: Q3 came out in 99, so it was probably written in either VC++ 97 or VC6. Otherwise, carry on.
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by cgrealy 2y ago
> Tom Waits did have a point that I think today's content creators need to take onboard. With music it was not always about money for everyone, the love of music was motivating enough, bringing people together for a good time. The d
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by cgrealy 3y ago
Deciding not to do “normal” things is fine. You don’t want to drink or smoke or watch TV? Good for you. But it doesn’t have to be all or nothing. You can enjoy some really great TV and ignore the reality dreck. You can have a beer with frie
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by cgrealy 3y ago
Horses for courses.. If you want to build a shed, go to your local hardware store and buy a kit set. If you want to build a skyscraper, get an architect, some engineers and a competent building company.
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by cgrealy 3y ago
Just don’t generalise about massive groups of people? “Eastern” and “western” culture are not monoblocs.
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by cgrealy 3y ago
> Whether that's "purely capitalist" or not, it's still not safe to be a leftist in the USA. I don’t disagree. Remember that “shocking” scene from the Newsroom years ago where the main character had the audacity to su
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by cgrealy 3y ago
Depends on how socialist you want your socialism to be. Most countries aren’t purely socialist in the same way the US isn’t purely capitalist. Who would want to live in a purely socialist society? Probably very few people. Who would want to
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Yes, unfettered market forces have a fantastic track record in solving problems of wealth disparity. Btw, I have this amazing bridge for sale….
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by cgrealy 4y ago
I have to say I literally laughed when I saw the headline. Housing in NZ is still ridiculous. It’s dropped a bit in the last 6 months, but NZ easily ranks in the top 10 least affordable countries to buy a house, ESPECIALLY in Auckland http
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Your software probably won’t be running in 100 years, but in 10 years? 15? Absolutely possible. In fact, after 20 years writing software with various companies, the only ones that didn’t have code older than 10 years were the startups. But
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by cgrealy 4y ago
I think this is the key point. Asking how you can get into gamedev is kinda like asking how can you be a professional musician. Sure, you need to know and like music as a base, but becoming a concert pianist, a jazz drummer, a metal guitari
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by cgrealy 4y ago
This was a fairly common position when I was programming C++ over a decade ago. Performance critical code like game engines, etc used to avoid exceptions like the plague. Not entirely surprised to find that’s still the case.
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by cgrealy 4y ago
The title is poorly chosen at best and misleading at worst. They’re not abandoning JavaScript, they’re just abandoning client side rendering (angular, etc)
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Even if we are to take the propositions in the article at face value (some of those studies are dubious), it still leaves you with a simple equation. MHLs make it more likely that you will be involved in an accident, but also more likely th
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by cgrealy 4y ago
> It is intensely weird to me that people hold the opinion that their company is building something that is bad for the world, and yet they stay there and continue to help build it. Not really. People fear change. Engineers at Meta alm
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Merriam Webster - Indigenous: of or relating to the earliest known inhabitants of a place and especially of a place that was colonized by a now-dominant group Wikipedia - Indigenous peoples are culturally distinct ethnic groups whose member
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by cgrealy 4y ago
> Firstly, the article has zero example of the "native knowledge" in question. You mean apart from this link that specifically talks about use tradition harvesting practices and local knowledge to find the kōura to study? htt
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by cgrealy 4y ago
And? It's not exactly news that European attitudes and practices don't necessarily work that well when transposed to a different ecosystem. Look at Australia for example. The indigenous people figured out thousands of years ago ho
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by cgrealy 4y ago
> it might be a cultural difference: I'd expect all of those to be handled by HR. Possibly. Generally, I'd only involve HR as a last resort. Go to them for guidance, certainly, but in terms of dealing with an employee, I prefe
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by cgrealy 4y ago
I'm sure they do. But my response to any employer who did that would be to start polishing my CV.
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by cgrealy 4y ago
It’s not just about “asking someone to be less sick”, you need to ascertain if there are other factors: are they over worked? is there a serious condition that you might need to support? Or conversely, is the sick leave legitimate? Some emp
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by cgrealy 4y ago
While I agree that encouraging a sick employee to work is all kinds of messed up, most countries impose a limit on sick days. At that point, you need to talk to the employee and figure out a solution.
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by cgrealy 4y ago
I think the emissions drop comes from the fact that they are EVs, not that they are autonomous.
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Code coverage doesn't tell you much IMO. I'll take a system with 70% coverage that's focused on the really complex pieces over a system with 99% coverage that's mostly checking that "person.Name" returns the na
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by cgrealy 4y ago
> I've always suspected that the ideal testing setup would be mostly unit tests, integration tests only to fill those gaps, and selenium-ish tests (hopefully rare!) only to fill in the final remaining gaps. I would have thought this

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