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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
For some users it is actually the "Do suck" setting. Allowing devices to control other devices over HDMI starts to get random horse shit if you have a tree of HDMI devices. E.g. two devices connected to a TV, one of which is an AV
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
And it introduces new failure modes. I often experience responsive web applications hiding UI elements in my Firefox windows. Those windows usually use either the left or right have of a 28" 4k display. Why the heck do the hide the sid
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
I'd be definitely interested.
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
- Predictable memory layout of data structures. - Static typing. System-level programming often has more complete requirements and more stable requirements than, business information applications. Languages for system-level programming shou
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
We could paraphrase Dijkstra --- with some liberty -- to say, "Formal verification of programs can only show the specification is fulfilled, not that the specification is adequate."
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
A bold claim, which is obviously false. To see that compare Clojure's dynamic type system with C's static type system. So perhaps a more nuanced stance is needed.
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
But it was all just racks in a data centre before the invention of the cloud.
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
> I'm not in sales at all. My fault. > Thinking every engineer's job is "writing code" and anyone who thinks wider is wrong is what the pushback in this thread is all about. Writing code is not the only activity of
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
Of course it is good, if the sales team succeeds. But it is bad if that means that the developers are unable to do their work.
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
> Why send an email when they're thinking for themselves? Because, the act of writing down a question --- with the necessary details to state the question precisely --- is often enough to find the answer yourself. Unless it is simpl
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
Because, you bring up sales, I am assuming that is your area of expertise. If a big sale can be unblocked by asking some specific employee an important question now, do it. If that happens five times a day, those sales are neither big nor a
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
Of course there is a balance needed. But spending once 3 hours to search something might increase familiarity with the resources the intranet provides. So the next question could be answered way faster. Or it could be the occasion to improv
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Rich Hickey – Design in Practice [video](youtube.com)
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
Gathering the data might change the gut feeling.
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
Human decency has been investigate, discussed, analyzed, dramatised since millenia, however not by using numbers.
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
> Cache locality is good toward the leaves and bad everywhere else. 1. That depends on the operation performed. I'd say cache-locality is near perfect for depth-traversal. 2. Whether the effective performance of the cache is good or
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
> but being a culture that tends to tear-down fences has the second-order effect of being more adaptable. By killing many. In biology, species with higher rates of genetic diversity in their offspring sacrifice most of there offspring. E
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
In Chesterton's fable the people entrusted to road and fence maintenance couldn't find a reason for the fence while being in a world with the fence. Chesterton argues to try look at it from the world without the fence. If that has
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
> Isn’t that what XWayland does, except for the fact that it runs X Windows windows inside a full screen Wayland window? I don't know. But if it does so, how does it integrate wayland windows with X windows? How does it stop X progr
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
Chesterton's fence might not be ideal for a fast moving startup. Perhaps it is a better strategy to question the wisdom of anything that existed only for a few month/years. But if we are talking about society-wide or nation-wide c
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
On the contrary, I am convinced many taboos that persisted for millenia had very practical reasons. The world has changed dramatically since the industrialization. Therefore many reasons don't apply anymore. But that doesn't chang
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
> I’m not disagreeing with the premise of the fence, just pointing out that at times, even doing all of the due diligence to understand the fence isn’t enough to remove it. I don't understand this. Implementing billing from scratch
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
I guess GP meant, if Alice doesn't know about the edge case, she can't analyze it.
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
How does xwayland help here? In order to see what xsnow is about look here [1]. From my understanding such a program is fundamentally against wayland design philosophy. I feed it will be just impossible with Wayland unless you implement it
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
> 2. What if it's something like an IDE that reads the surrounding directories? Reading the directory in a software running on your computer is not the problem. The question is, is data from the surrounding directories transmitted t
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
> I consider sending anything up to the cloud without user's consent is pretty hostile. If not illegal.
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
Java is not becoming Scala and that is good. I am saying that as someone earning his bread with mostly writing Scala and SQL nowadays. Scala's underlying type theory is quite different from Java and that lead to many of its pitfalls. I
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
> There is nothing programmers get more fiery about than language syntax. Nothing. According to Wadler's Law [1], there is something: Syntax of comments. [1]: https://wiki.c2.com/?WadlersLaw
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
> but it looks like vim really has undo/redo "solved" Does it support restricting undo/redo to a selection? In Emacs you can select any region of text and just apply the undo history of the selection. That is extremel
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by funcDropShadow 3y ago
Calling for the genocide of Jews is context-dependent, but misgendering is always a hate crime?

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