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by funcDropShadow 2y ago
> The level playing field is interesting. I've been an assistant to a professor teaching introductory programming at a university. And we chose ML (later Haskell), as the first programming language, exactly because of this reason. W
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by funcDropShadow 2y ago
When was the last time anybody cared what HR had to say? I've never encountered an HR department whose primary role wasn't to indoctrinate or to create roadblocks for everybody else.
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by funcDropShadow 2y ago
Because many people will read different content than in physical book form.
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by funcDropShadow 2y ago
In case it scales to Facebook's scale. Better safe than sorry.
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by funcDropShadow 2y ago
> The first thing you have to get used to when moving from school to uni is being utterly lost and defeated. Very well said, at the university where I studied, there was a pre-semester math repetition course. It was a week long and start
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by funcDropShadow 2y ago
The point is that you gradually get better at it. And by gradually I mean exponentially. If you start with a problem at then end of the book, it'll be very difficult.
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by funcDropShadow 2y ago
> Like how they learn biology. How do they learn biology?
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by funcDropShadow 2y ago
As almost always, we programmers / software developers / engineers, forget to state our assumptions. In closed-world, system-software, or low-level software you want to have your kind of knowledge about everything you call. Even m
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by funcDropShadow 2y ago
> Maybe we could have multiple heaps defined As far as I understand, Erlang has one heap per actor. The cost is that messages have to be serialized to pass from one actor to another. But it means there are lots of independent, often tiny
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by funcDropShadow 2y ago
No, Emacs has lots and lots of config variables and functions which depend on the exact mode used. So, if you switch the major mode, you also have to switch to other config variables and functions. And as far as I see it, c-ts-mode is far f
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by funcDropShadow 2y ago
I wouldn't say, I hate tabs. But I strongly prefer not using tabs in source code. Let me explain why. There are some languages and coding styles where it doesn't really matter. E.g. when you are always indenting by multiples of s
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by funcDropShadow 2y ago
Is there any editor with an intelligent soft-wrap? I.e. it doesn't just wrap at the end the window. Line breaks should be introduced so that the tree structure of the code (think AST) becomes obvious. That improves readability a lot co
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by funcDropShadow 2y ago
It also messes with config files of lot's of users.
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by funcDropShadow 2y ago
These names are not internal names, like identifiers in the C source code of vim. The names in question appear in lot's of users Emacs configuration files. And Emacs has been extremely reluctant to change the meaning of those names in
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by funcDropShadow 2y ago
Of course, there is an xkcd for that: https://xkcd.com/1172/
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by funcDropShadow 2y ago
The security model is not the only factor, but it is one very important factor. Why do I have to open Moebius sync to keep syncthing synchronization running? Why is the whole landscape build under the assumption that a cloud storage is more
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by funcDropShadow 2y ago
> You would be surprised how many content creator gets by with a single ipad. Can you name one professional software developer? Probably, you can. But I don't want to limit myself to that sub standard environment. I love my iPad for
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by funcDropShadow 2y ago
Why? I want to have some applications that can always see the mouse cursor like, xeyes. Because that allows me to implement a better customized desktop environment.
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by funcDropShadow 2y ago
You think enforcing the one true rights model to everyone is more empowering? We have obviously different definitions.
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by funcDropShadow 2y ago
Why is X11 unsandboxable? A similar but reverse approach to Xwayland, something like waylandX could be used to be part of the overall sandbox approach to run untrusted applications. That would have the advantage that the severe restriction
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by funcDropShadow 2y ago
... while introducing lot's of other jank that was solved before.
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by funcDropShadow 2y ago
But wayland merges more components into one server than X11 did. Therefore, there is a need for more wayland server then there was a need for X11 servers.
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by funcDropShadow 2y ago
I think, I am similar. I've discovered source minimaps when they came out first almost 20 years ago. And I loved the sense of spatialness they added to the code .
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by funcDropShadow 2y ago
Whether the CPU is busy because of a loop with a sleep depends on the ration of the sleep time and the time to perform the rest of one loop iteration. Doing stuff in a loop iteration that takes 1min and then adding a ms sleep will not drop
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by funcDropShadow 2y ago
Can you recommend any good resource on how to start seriously with barefoot running or walking?
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by funcDropShadow 2y ago
If maximizing value is not the goal, then why should Marxism redefine value in a counter-intuitive way? Btw, "Labor" cannot be in charge, outside the UK at least, because Labor is an abstract concept. In Marxist societies people a
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by funcDropShadow 2y ago
Universities are full of people with Linux desktops with public IPs and that are printing all the time: papers, their own and other's.
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by funcDropShadow 2y ago
No, persistent print queues can be implemented without cups running as super-user.
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by funcDropShadow 2y ago
> This was the beauty of Karl Marx's thinking. He postulated that the best way to measure value is in the amount of human labor that goes into the output. This is indeed the most beautiful insight of Karl Marx that I ever read. This
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by funcDropShadow 2y ago
Fractional scaling is not the alternative.

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