doboyy

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by doboyy 6y ago
I liked your first post, but this one is in line with the article.
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by doboyy 6y ago
I feel this is a more accurate assessment. The relationship between abuse/quality of parenting and anxiety/disfunction can't be thought of as linear. When parenting starts qualifying as abuse, there is a pretty steep increase
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by doboyy 6y ago
Very cool. I'm not a super big horror fan, but when this whole pandemic thing started, I consciously went on a ~2 month horror binge for fun, watching a bunch or horror films (of varying quality) and games. Now I wonder if there was so
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by doboyy 7y ago
I thought most of this was just normal life tbh
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by doboyy 7y ago
I thought they were better on the road that season? It's not clear sign stealing helps much oddly enough.
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by doboyy 7y ago
Unless you are doing web stuff, you'll face significant resistance from your platform with no clear gain imo
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by doboyy 7y ago
If you're doing dynamic dispatch then there is still code that's living for each specialization. Sort of solves linking because symbols don't have to be generated and compile times because you hand write the code. To be fair,
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by doboyy 7y ago
I really don't like the monomorphization approach to generics (I think that's the concept?), where the function/struct essentially gets duplicated for each type. It seems to mess with linkage, increase binary sizes, and incre
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by doboyy 7y ago
Typesafe generics via a better void* would make me super happy. There are definitely other quality of life improvements that could be added or reworked that wouldn't affect the simplicity too much.
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by doboyy 7y ago
This is a very beautiful piece. Thanks for posting it.
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by doboyy 7y ago
8 days per week. 5 days of work. The calendar has been conspiring against us.
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by doboyy 7y ago
If status is not tied to a sense of self then I don't know what is. You mentioned in another comment that the skills you've learned are not you (roles?). They are just things you have. You've just said that identifying these
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by doboyy 7y ago
I'm treading into Marxist territory, but I think industrialization, technology, and their societal consequences are a large part. If I dropped the first part, there would be no downvotes.
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by doboyy 7y ago
Basically allowing societies to function (people assuming roles, shame, and whatever). It should be of no surprise that a damaged sense of self often correlates with poor integration into a society.
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by doboyy 7y ago
God forbid poor people catch on to this noble lie
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by doboyy 7y ago
Language designers and enthusiats will forever be disappointed at how many social and human factors are at play, which coincidentally, is a large part of the motivation for programming languages
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by doboyy 7y ago
No doubt, but they are all non standard which is irritating for people who expect that out of the box.
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by doboyy 7y ago
This is bait but whatever. Keeping some properties of C is very hard if you go this route. It also seems you'll end up playing lanaguage design whack-a-mole problems which manifests its self in C++ and co.
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by doboyy 7y ago
Don't do allocations in the call until the API becomes annoying and unpleasant to use. Also weighted upon the domain and performance implications of the particular API By nature of being a buffer means it can probably be used in subseq
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by doboyy 7y ago
Unfortunately, it's often algorithmically less efficient and more error prone, so everybody ends up replicating what git is doing with 'strbuf' but in slightly incompatible ways. The effect makes dealing with strings in C unn
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by doboyy 7y ago
The thing you are pointing to could have its length prefixed. I've always assumed that this isn't the case because nobody could commit to the size of the length prefix. Is it string8, string16, string32, or string64? Using a senti
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by doboyy 7y ago
I do this, but I like to just return the actual struct and also avoid typedefing pointer semantics. Can double as a dynamic array too. It's true. We all have string libraries...
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by doboyy 7y ago
I'd say one property of good ideas is that they are able to survive much longer than bad, so, yes, they have a higher probability of reaching a general consensus. Bad ideas can also reach consensus. Consensus is not always an indicator
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by doboyy 7y ago
The good parts listed as OOP don't seem exclusive to it though. They fall more under just plain, old, good program design regardless of the paradigm. But subclassing, while occasionally useful, does.
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by doboyy 7y ago
I'm constantly torn between these two perspectives. Practically speaking, 6mb is fine. Ideologically, not as much. In general, complexity is indicative of a poorer design, and the fact that an entire operating system + utilities can be
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by doboyy 7y ago
Yeah, I think an api of that sort would quickly turn into a headache if it subtlety did code dispatch through a common interface on objects that are hardly related in reality. From a programming perspective, that kind of opaqueness is more
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by doboyy 7y ago
Yeah, I've thought that the reputation on psychedelics regarding enlightenment and such things is a bit overblown by culture and different promoters. I'm skeptical that anything of that nature would reveal itself if you didn'
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by doboyy 7y ago
The definition of a highly skilled worker kind of hinges on the fact that there are few. If everyone was skilled then we'd raise the bar. Your argument makes sense, but I'm suspicious that there is that wide of a gap between the 2
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by doboyy 7y ago
I agree wholeheartedly, and hoped to get across everything you said. I took care to mention in the bottom of both of my posts that your beliefs can be wrong/misguided, and CBT could help with something related to self-esteem. I don&#x2
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by doboyy 7y ago
Because software isn't as cooperative and scalable as Alan Kay says. We are getting better at this, but probably at a painstakingly slower rate than he would like.

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