humanrebar

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by humanrebar 22d ago
Sometimes it's not hard. "What color is the tongue of a giraffe?" can be answered in less than eight words trivially. Most models will give you paragraphs, bullet points, and followup questions.
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by humanrebar 22d ago
Short answers to simple questions.
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by humanrebar 8mo ago
Red Hat employs a significant number of GCC core devs.
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by humanrebar 10mo ago
So why did they have you fill in that field then?
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by humanrebar 11mo ago
"I'm sorry" can mean "I am apologizing" but often it instead means "I feel bad". It depends on context which applies. "I'm sorry for how you feel" without more explanation often sounds like
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by humanrebar 11mo ago
RFCs can be titled Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) or policies once they are accepted.
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by humanrebar 11mo ago
Counterpoint: Shaded spots at work parking lots in Texas fill up the fastest. Conspicuously so. Also, use of windshield visors is much more prolific than in cooler climates. I can't believe your Texan friend never noticed those phenome
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by humanrebar 11mo ago
Also the U.S. Constitution allows for a full rewrite by a constitutional convention process. This hasn't been attempted, of course.
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by humanrebar 11mo ago
> In what way(s) does Rust's C interop depend on cargo? Do rust and cargo allow for multiple interpretations of the same C header file across different objects in the same program? That's how C libraries are often implemented i
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by humanrebar 11mo ago
Sanitizers are technically dynamic analysis. They instrument built programs and analyze them as they run.
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by humanrebar 1y ago
> It’s basic expense fraud. I'm making the case that mandatory unpaid overtime is effectively wage theft. It is legal in the US because half of jobs there are "exempt" from the usual overtime protections. There's no e
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by humanrebar 1y ago
Are you saying the mentality is offensive? Or is there a business justification I am missing? Note that employers do this as well. A classic one is a manager setting a deadline that requires extreme crunches by employees. They're not n
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by humanrebar 1y ago
That might be a good tip, but people do get signals from their bodies when running a nutrient deficit. People crave calories when in a calorie deficit. And they crave carbohydrates, proteins, or fats when abstaining from them, at least some
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by humanrebar 1y ago
Yeah, story points approximate effort, so it's fairly impossible to be 10x on those. JIRA has a notion of business value points, and you could make up similar metrics in other project planning tools. The problem would then be how to es
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by humanrebar 1y ago
I understand this concern, but at the same time it's not hard to write clang-query statements for the ones you care about. Sometimes it is even a regex! And it's not too expensive to upstream universally relevant checks to clang-t
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by humanrebar 1y ago
State government, local government, and local philanthropy (like the chamber of commerce, etc.) could also buy lunch. I'd rather keep the dysfunction of national politics away from my kids' food, personally. At least I can reasona
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by humanrebar 1y ago
Strawmen usually have stupid philosophies, yes. The simpler and more convincing explanation is that lawmakers write bad laws, regulators write bad regulations, and everyone votes on hot button issues like the economy, immigration, and trans
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by humanrebar 1y ago
Excellent question. Maybe people will use this newfound productivity to actually review, test, and document code. Maybe.
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by humanrebar 1y ago
Weigh yourself every day. Journal it. This sets up an objective metric to calibrate against. Set medium term goals. Don't try to lose 20 kilos in six months. Lose the next kilo by this time in two weeks. Similarly, don't try to lo
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by humanrebar 1y ago
I was making a narrow comment that you can turn on VLAs, off exceptions, etc., with C++ flags on publicly available compilers regardless of what the C++ language specification and the C++ experts say. The difference in build times between i
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by humanrebar 1y ago
You can do everything you describe in C++. Even the language features are available (or diableable) as compilation flags.
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by humanrebar 1y ago
I have no special information, but some of these seem targeted at least partially to internal marketing and morale. For instance, I have seen what appear to be employees (probably union members) delivering a lot of these lines. I would expe
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by humanrebar 2y ago
I don't see why all software roles are seen as in the same category. There is a huge difference between the difficulty level and experience requirements in different tasks and roles.
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by humanrebar 2y ago
Modules alone do not guarantee one definition per entity per linked program. On the contrary, build systems are needing to add design complexity to support, for instance, multiple built module interfaces for the std module because different
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by humanrebar 2y ago
5) Weather. If it's under -20 C or over 40 C, walking five blocks is unpleasant for anyone and dangerous for some. Especially if the walk is unsheltered, which it typically is.
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by humanrebar 2y ago
Most of the disagreements are fundamentally metaphysical (would God make fossils?), so debates about evidence, expertise, and scientific consensus are beside the point.
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by humanrebar 2y ago
For what it's worth, I get the same experience you're describing with statically typed python wired up to mypy. Not that rust and python have the same feature set in other ways.
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by humanrebar 2y ago
Dirty Honey, The Black Tones, Greta Van Fleet. It's easy to find more with modern music streaming services.
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by humanrebar 2y ago
It's not clear that modules alone will solve One Definition Rule issues that you're describing. It's actually more likely that programs will have different object files building against different Built Module Interfaces for t
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by humanrebar 2y ago
You can even add nonstandard features to existing compilers! The neat thing is that once the standard committee learns about this use case, it could get de facto support as existing use!

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