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by hwc 2mo ago
> Developers can't pick it up in a week... I don't think any of the new additions to the library have seriously made the learning curve more difficult. I suspect that most projects don't use templates at all. There have a
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by hwc 2mo ago
On the other hand, I've found that for every real-world application I've written in Go, I have not found myself missing any of the containers C++ has had since 2003. I didn't really ever need generics either. I only use the
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by hwc 2mo ago
Those fonts make me very sad.
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by hwc 2mo ago
If there is any attack surface within a properly-configured container, that's a kernel bug, right?
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by hwc 2mo ago
just move the prime meridian. the one we use for timekeeping doesn't have to aligh with longitude forever.
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by hwc 3mo ago
A few years ago, before I bought a Nintendo for my kid, he was playing Minecraft on an iPad. I tried to pair a Bluetooth controller, and had no luck. I think the OS was too locked down. At the same time, I could connect a Bluetooth contr
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by hwc 3mo ago
With WASM and WebGL being mature technologies, I'm not sure why there aren't more video games published this way. For really big games with lots of assets, having those assets in local storage makes sense. But I wouldn't
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by hwc 4mo ago
Aren't you supposed to find the solutions BEFORE you announce the product?
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by hwc 7mo ago
Please note that the US Congress has not approved the existence of a "Department of War" this century. Calling it the Department of Defense is the only legally correct way to refer to it.
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by hwc 11mo ago
Now make it do a perceptually uniform color space.
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by hwc 1y ago
Yep, I can't quite get as much power out of the panels on my roof as I use on average, but that's okay because I am reducing the cost of transmission by a significant amount.
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by hwc 1y ago
Probably not orders of magnitude cheaper than today. But energy prices will become very stable.
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by hwc 1y ago
How did they make any money at all without ads?
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by hwc 1y ago
Yeah, if you can't send robots to the surface to mine necessary minerals, don't bother building floating cities.
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by hwc 1y ago
> and padded I prefer to use a laptop sleeve, and then it doesn't matter if it is padded or not.
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by hwc 1y ago
Also, you need a place to build the dike. Look at a map of Miami, for example, and tell me where you want to build a dike. In front of Miami Beach? And how far does it go? All the way up the coast? There's 120 miles of continuous
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by hwc 1y ago
My parents bought a house 11 feet above sea level. The right combination of high tides and storm surge could easily flood that any time. It hasn't happened yet, but the sea level could rise a foot or so in the next generation, making
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by hwc 1y ago
I used to live in this part of the country. There's an insane amount of disregard for the environment and climate. Yes, new buildings have to be reinforced against hurricanes. But they are still building new houses only a few meters
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by hwc 1y ago
the new dock is huge and has a fan. We won't be able to find a more compact alternative.
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by hwc 1y ago
I already can run vim on my phone. That's enough for me.
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by hwc 1y ago
It almost works. But the monitor just mirrors the phone, including its weird aspect ratio and font size. It's almost usable for playing movies on a TV, but that's about it.
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by hwc 1y ago
If Android is getting desktop windowing, how long until I can just plug my phone into a monitor and keyboard and have a usable computer?
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by hwc 2y ago
I care more about total mass than thinness. But those things tend to be correlated.
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by hwc 2y ago
Is the Pro fan cooled? I have never heard a fan on my M2 Pro.
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by hwc 2y ago
I still love my M2 MacBook. I can't see any reason at all to upgrade. But I am glad that they continue to refine the technology.
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by hwc 2y ago
Other than battery mass and screen size, is there a significant difference between the new Macbook Air and the low-end Macbook Pro?
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by hwc 2y ago
> internal function every time you introduce something nonstandard, you add one little hardship to anyone trying to read or modify your code. if a programmer is familiar with the language, it's standard library, and the normal idiom
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by hwc 2y ago
Well, that seems like something that should have been there from the beginning .
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by hwc 2y ago
if they owe debt, they may not be legally able to open source their software, since it could still theoretically be sold to someone to pay off debts. is there an expert in bankruptcy law that knows for sure?
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by hwc 2y ago
yeah, be aware that many things you buy today depend on some cloud service that may go away. for example, a computer system that routinely checks for updates will hopefully still function if the update server goes away. and you can always

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