heretoo

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by heretoo 3y ago
I tried FreeCAD but all versions crash within minutes of using it, making it unusable.
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by heretoo 3y ago
It would be nice if I could scale the UI. Some text can be scaled with GDK environment variables, but not the icons.
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by heretoo 4y ago
Original version was written TCL: https://gist.github.com/antirez/6ca04dd191bdb82aad9fb241013e...
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by heretoo 4y ago
Except that lead's toxicity has been known for thousands of years.
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by heretoo 4y ago
> Now we just have to get a handle on all the leaky stuff at the edges of every “functional core”, because there lay many dragons My gut is telling me erlang might have tackled this.
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by heretoo 4y ago
> It sounds like you're making the mistake of thinking that TDD means writing the tests first. Actually, Kent Beck, who coined the term TDD, has the following to say in his book "Test Driven Development": "In Test-Dri
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by heretoo 4y ago
It wouldn't surprise me if the original reason is the pervasive use of jupyter notebooks in ML, which don't adhere to normal python conventions, and are affected by slow imports only when those sections are explicitly evaluated. S
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by heretoo 4y ago
You could consider Clojure. It is backed by the java ecosystem, which is substantial. Not quite the same as python's "batteries included" approach.
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by heretoo 4y ago
What if the warrant canary is from the developers of the encryption software? See truecrypt -- assuming it was actually a warrant canary. Where "cross your fingers" is equivalent to the "warrant canary has not been revoked&qu
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by heretoo 4y ago
Another options is "nsjail". I landed on it having considered at firejail, apparmour, selinux, bubblewrap.
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by heretoo 4y ago
Not in the community edition, but the enterprise edition appears to be quicker than JIT because of profile guided optimisations.
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by heretoo 4y ago
The window doesn't close at 39 for either of you. From personal experience, I know.
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by heretoo 4y ago
Not comparing, but is it really safe? https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2021/09/cycling-injuries-three... 50,000 serious injuries in one year seems considerable.
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by heretoo 4y ago
So, if we followed this advice, none of these technologies should have ever been used in the first place, because popularity takes time to establish.
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by heretoo 4y ago
> Developer ≠ programmer. Noone agrees on the definition of any of these, and they have changed over the years. Wikipedia says they are the same https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer > Maybe try a hallucinagen
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by heretoo 4y ago
The CDC has lowered its threshold to 3.5 micrograms/dL https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/news/cdc-updates-blood-lead-re...
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by heretoo 4y ago
There is still aviation fuel using lead.
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by heretoo 4y ago
> ClojureScript is just as leaky as Clojure By leaky, I assume you are refering to the interop with the host platform. Overall, this seems like a benefit, simply for having access to many more libraries than would otherwise exist in Cloj
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by heretoo 4y ago
I feel your frustration. Clojure, in my opinion, has always been niche, but is still effective and may actually be immortal? New things are always being tried by small groups of people leaving corpses strewn about. I don't think it is
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by heretoo 6y ago
Are you saying rocks have intent when they sink your boat?
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by heretoo 6y ago
That was aimed at everyone on this thread that feels comfortable with deleting databases that they don't own. Vigilantes make their own choices, but professionals are judged by their reputation. As I've said elsewhere, I challenge
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by heretoo 6y ago
So, you've answered "what good comes of it". For completeness, would you mind answering, "what bad comes of it?"
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by heretoo 6y ago
If you really believe this action is warranted, as I've read on this thread, I challenge you to tweet under your real name "I will delete your data if you don't secure it", and add it to your resume/CV as one of you
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by heretoo 6y ago
Hippocratic Oath: "First, do no harm".
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by heretoo 6y ago
To the best of my knowledge, GraalVM native images are probably slower at runtime, due to the hotspot vm being unavailable.
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by heretoo 6y ago
> You can't magically shoehorn types back into an untyped system when all the existing components assume untyped streams. If this were true, then a typed system couldn't exist on top of machine code and random access memory, be
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by heretoo 6y ago
> But that's not what an abstraction is! UNIX pipes are maximally low-level To put a spin on it, maximally low-level within it's particular domain, perhaps, sitting on top of the transistors below them, sitting on top of quantu
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by heretoo 6y ago
Are you saying that short term thinking has no utility? I am willing to bet that there are a multitude of circumstances in most peoples lives that require short term thinking, or their lively hood or lives will be destroyed. In a threatenin
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by heretoo 6y ago
> Security has drawbacks. Not really an argument for saying an implementation isn't possible.
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by heretoo 6y ago
Then, the conclusion can be that dynamic languages don't suffer from the expression problem.

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