dblotsky

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by dblotsky 2y ago
Hard agree with the idea of greppability, but hard disagree about keeping names the same across boundaries. I think the benefit of having one symbol exist in only one domain (e.g. “user_request” only showing up in the database-handling code
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by dblotsky 6y ago
Aren't these effectively lab tests of robots that can navigate a home? [dancing] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw [cleaning clutter] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8-w9eF24gU
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by dblotsky 6y ago
Those all sound plausible! But... 1) I suspect GNU Make will be installed on any system where node code will run. 2) You don’t have to .PHONY anything that will never be a real file. 3) My bet is the Makefile will be shorter and clearer, bu
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by dblotsky 6y ago
Is there any design decision of Make that makes it not suitable for executing programs?
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by dblotsky 6y ago
The `./make` shell script kills me. Why not just use Make?
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by dblotsky 6y ago
Yeah, that tradeoff between generality and correctness really seems tyrannical. It kind of feels like the best trajectory is to start small with a general build system, and upgrade as needed? And then if you are confident the project will g
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by dblotsky 6y ago
I am personally not convinced that any build system can be correct and general, but perhaps that’s my lack of experience speaking. On that 30 minute note though: so, how big does the project need to be in order for Make not to be enough? An
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by dblotsky 6y ago
How big does the project have to be in order for this system to have benefits over Make?
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by dblotsky 6y ago
It sounds like the last point, about disobeying the rules when appropriate (my reading of it), was meant exactly to cover these corner cases.
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by dblotsky 6y ago
Reminds me of Orwell’s Politics and the English Language: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel... .
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by dblotsky 6y ago
Can this all be explained by the cost of labor being uniform (since humans are humans in all industries)? So if one industry demands more labor, all others will feel the rising price of labor?
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by dblotsky 7y ago
This looks like the Post Correspondence Problem at first glance: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_correspondence_problem .
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by dblotsky 7y ago
They inserted spaces though, between characters and words. In this problem, all spaces are removed.
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by dblotsky 7y ago
You’re missing the huge “works incorrectly” space of outputs.
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by dblotsky 7y ago
Facetious answer: Are there any good examples of projects using Parcel for a web app? ;) Real answer: probably, but a ton of production code is closed-source. But why restrict to web apps? Most influential software projects in the world use
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by dblotsky 7y ago
Make can run all the tools like babel, uglify, etc.
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by dblotsky 7y ago
Just use Make. Takes just as long to learn, and is transferrable everywhere.
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by dblotsky 7y ago
He’s called for some disciplines (e.g. women’s studies, anthropology) to be boycotted by students and ultimately removed.
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by dblotsky 7y ago
I find objectionable his “slippery slope” argument about pronouns and his calls for silencing disciplines with which he disagrees.
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by dblotsky 7y ago
Peterson said many other things that are objectionable. If he only said what Zhukov said, Peterson would also be in a more favourable light.
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by dblotsky 7y ago
The one I often go for is: “What is the reason you’re not using sshd?” It implies that I understand there is a reason, that I don’t know the reason, and that I’m ready to be surprised if indeed there is no good reason.
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by dblotsky 7y ago
1). It doesn’t work in all shells, so you have to think about your environment before you use it. 2). I often start with `bar < foo`, so if I need to add more arguments to `bar`, I need to always skip over the input. 3). If I just want t
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by dblotsky 7y ago
How vast are the differences in expenses needed to live (due to climate or otherwise)?
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by dblotsky 7y ago
The title says “GDP Per Capita, PPP”.
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by dblotsky 7y ago
China is investing in Belarus. They build factories and infrastructure, likely to get easier access to the European markets.
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by dblotsky 7y ago
The “PPP” in the graph is easy to miss, but is what makes the comparisons possible.
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by dblotsky 7y ago
What makes it useless? It’s functionally the same but makes it easier to author pipelines , which I think is a valid use.
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by dblotsky 7y ago
We often forget, but even the world’s top professionals get tired, cut corners, and make mistakes. But also, what substantial gains would have come from adopting the techniques in this article?
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by dblotsky 7y ago
In this case, I mean the POSIX standard. But yes, shipping by default in operating systems is how things (eventually) make it into the standard!
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by dblotsky 7y ago
You’re right, and I’m not at all against having custom tools in any controlled environment. In fact, I think enhancing a controlled environment with custom tools is extremely productive. My point was more about education. I think becoming a

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