dpatterbee

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by dpatterbee 2mo ago
This blog post about Jarred never needed to say anything about Jarred? What on Earth does that mean? It is a response to a blog post written by Jarred, about actions taken by Jarred, and yet you think Jarred shouldn't have been mention
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by dpatterbee 2mo ago
Yes, professional has two meanings in use here. Professional as in relating to one's profession, and professional as in how one may be expected to behave when carrying out one's profession. In my comment I was using the former. I&
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by dpatterbee 2mo ago
If you view that first sentence as a personal attack I'm not really sure what response I can make here. As a sentence it almost says nothing at all. 'When Jarrad started he gave off a real "starting" vibe'. Also I l
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by dpatterbee 2mo ago
Do you normally assume that if someone shows any emotion that that emotion is "get[ting] in the way"? People's emotions are influenced by real things, and they don't have to speak dispassionately about those things. Espe
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by dpatterbee 2mo ago
My apologies, your previous comment read to me as "I have engaged, I just read this blog post". I now see what you intended. I've realised from the comments under this post that many people seem to desire some sort of perform
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by dpatterbee 2mo ago
I think you're, intentionally or not, misinterpreting my comment. Language is used to convey meaning, and Andrew wrote words that presumably meant what he meant them to mean. However, in many comments on here people are not commenting
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by dpatterbee 2mo ago
So you're saying your only singular experience with the Zig community is this one blogpost, and you've written 14 comments so far on here about it? What are you even gaining here?
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by dpatterbee 2mo ago
I don't know why choice of language is having such sway in determining what you view as professional. Maybe it's just a cultural difference but where I'm from people just use the words they need to to communicate what they&#x
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by dpatterbee 2mo ago
>> I think he's being completely sincere in this attempt to assassinate this person's character. So that's a no, you won't make the attempt to engage with it with any other frame of mind? >> Now I see him in
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by dpatterbee 2mo ago
Zig's community is - bar none - the least toxic programming community I've experienced. People on this website (who have never witnessed a single Zig community interaction) love to read blogposts from afar and come to conclusions
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by dpatterbee 2mo ago
Those are not personal criticisms, those are all professional criticisms. There are many people who don't seem to know the different between work and life and so they may conflate the two, but to me it's pretty obvious.
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by dpatterbee 3mo ago
This is not true in any meaningful way. The most widely-used zig project (Ghostty) is very welcoming of AI contributions, and the lead developer of the project uses it heavily.
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by dpatterbee 3mo ago
In elixir, processes (these are Erlang "processes", not OS processes) are designed to fail when they encounter errors, and the supervising process will restart it according to various rules you can configure. This isn't dissi
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by dpatterbee 4mo ago
People only need cars because people have cars and cars make cities worse for everyone outside of one. If nobody owned cars everyone would get by just fine. It's a race to the bottom.
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by dpatterbee 5mo ago
I contacted their support because my charging cable frayed and I thought I was still in warranty. Turns out I'd miscalculated and I was a year out but they replaced it for free anyway. Their support has been very responsive and helpful
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by dpatterbee 5mo ago
Git rebases don't work if there are conflicts, jj doesn't have this problem. Also idk if you can rebase onto multiple parents with git but jj can do it.
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by dpatterbee 6mo ago
We probably don't want to head down the path of creating new competitions for people that meet arbitrary criteria. White-straight-man only olympics anyone?
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by dpatterbee 6mo ago
In fairness he pretty explicitly states that he thinks people do understand it, but are pretending not to to wash their hands of the consequences. I'm definitely not reading it in the same way you are.
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by dpatterbee 6mo ago
I think the point is that regardless of what benefits LLMs are bringing to the table, there are a list of downsides that Drew views as non-negotiables. It doesn't matter what other people are seeing, because he sees a fundamental issue
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by dpatterbee 6mo ago
It makes sense that those with huge libraries may never want to move. But there are many existing and future PC gamers who do not have particularly large libraries on Steam, who would likely be much easier to lure if Epic actually made thei
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by dpatterbee 6mo ago
Very disappointing honestly. Vercel's leadership has shown itself to be aligned with some murderous characters. Despite the fact I have contributed only a small number of PRs and bug reports to Ghostty, and I don't think my absenc
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by dpatterbee 6mo ago
This really is a fantastic video. I don't think I'd considered many of the ideas behind dithering before seeing how it could be extrapolated to this degree. The video ends in a place where I suspect even further advances could sti
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by dpatterbee 7mo ago
If only one country has an article about something you'd probably think it's an outlier. If every country has the article then you'd more likely think it's just part of life. I didn't make an assertion, I'm not
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by dpatterbee 7mo ago
The point I was replying to used the existence of a Wikipedia article as proof that there is a problem in the UK regarding surveillance. By providing an example of similar articles about other locations I was showing that this alone is not
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by dpatterbee 7mo ago
Here's a wikipedia article about mass surveillance in the United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_Unite... . It's longer.
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by dpatterbee 7mo ago
Obviously
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by dpatterbee 7mo ago
Are you sure? Just because you feel that way doesn't mean you can just make up a statistic that supports your viewpoint. In my experience, ergonomics in Zig means something other than ergonomics in many other languages. In plenty of la
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by dpatterbee 8mo ago
I'm fairly certain those disclaimers were added after he got some pushback from the original post.
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by dpatterbee 9mo ago
As a daily user of both a first gen framework 13 and a M1 MacBook Pro, the MacBook touchpad is like 5-10% better. And I suspect that's all software because I did something recently that absolutely fucked the response and feel of my fra
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Proposed Price Increases for Sourcehut(sourcehut.org)
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