horsemans

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by horsemans 3y ago
In your estimation, how much graphic violence should my operating system show me on a routine basis?
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by horsemans 5y ago
I would not be very happy if every time I called math.Min, I was also, under the hood, calling reflect.TypeOf.
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by horsemans 5y ago
Yes. It would be short-sighted to dismiss them out of hand, and it's possible that generics will provide a level of expressiveness and readability I haven't anticipated yet. I'm fairly bearish on it for now.
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by horsemans 5y ago
It's entirely possible that, through some strange quirks of circumstance, I've managed to avoid every problem space that would make me wish for generics. In spite of that, it's unlikely that I've written implementations
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by horsemans 5y ago
Would you use generics to write the same implementation of min/max for integers and floats?
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by horsemans 5y ago
I have never needed generics in Go, and I've probably been using it since 2017. I've never even once had to resort to any interface{} trickery to express what I want, and I've written Go programs for Fortune 50 companies, as
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by horsemans 5y ago
Most Zoomers have already accepted that they are not going to have children or live very long. I think following their example is the best one can do on an individual level. It’s baby’s first civilization and it’s over. Acceptance at least
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by horsemans 5y ago
You may be interested in Dash, which provides offline dockets of StackOverflow across a variety of different language/technology categories: https://kapeli.com/dash
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by horsemans 5y ago
What problem is this solving? NYC doesn't have a problem with people either not being able to drive or not knowing where they're going. We have workable (for an American definition of workable) mass transit and several livery serv
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by horsemans 5y ago
Less a "late response" and more the start of keeping a promise made by Jobs in 2010 to make FaceTime an cross-platform product supported by open standards, that was hampered by various legal I/P battles: https://ww
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by horsemans 5y ago
It has a built in 2FA generator. It supports many more kinds of secure data than passwords and credit cards. It has specific entry types for bank accounts, passports, reward programs, software licenses, and so on. It also has lots of built
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by horsemans 5y ago
Lewinsky has never been married. Clinton was the adulterer.
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by horsemans 5y ago
Explain the ethical line that was crossed.
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by horsemans 5y ago
You're confusing Joel/StackOverflow for Jeff Atwood, who posted on the forums while designing Discourse. Atwood was lambasted for not understanding the SA forums culture before making assertions about it, and for being seen as wan
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by horsemans 5y ago
> I bet it would take less than a minute to get banned for bring up freenode on libera. I'll take that bet. Give it a try.
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by horsemans 5y ago
"What people say they will do when there's no cost associated with an action and what people will actually do once a cost IS associated with the same action are frequently 2 different things." This statement makes it sound li
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by horsemans 5y ago
I believe by "no free documentation" they are referring to the 90s, where MSDN was a subscription service, hence the "long time coming" comment.
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by horsemans 6y ago
The riots last summer didn't involve insurrectionists violently invading the seat of power of the legislative branch with live ammunition intent on disrupting the peaceful transfer of power in a democratic republic.
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by horsemans 6y ago
Where do you see in the article that they aren't current Google employees?
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by horsemans 8y ago
There are plenty of unique and interesting posters on Mastodon. mastodon.technology is full of vintage computer experts, BBS operators, people working to revitalize Gopher as an alternative to the ad-saturated web, and more. And that’s just