jdrek1

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by jdrek1 1mo ago
They were talking about what it costs the company, not just the salary. There are taxes, insurances, equipment costs, etc. 10k might be a bit too high, but it's far from "absolutely ridiculous" amounts of being too high. An e
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by jdrek1 2mo ago
Ruff is actually a formatter too
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by jdrek1 2mo ago
It is more obvious with some and a bit more nuanced with others, but in general yes. Just like you can typically see the flat/wide nose in Africans and Asians but not Europeans. Again, there is no implication of one being "better&
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by jdrek1 2mo ago
Skin color and (facial) bone structure for example. Like it or not, but humans have adapted to living in different climates and have different ancestral lines. Take a picture of an average black person and edit to white skin, it will still
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by jdrek1 5mo ago
The problem is what follows. They will make it mandatory to use the electronic ID to do anything, resulting in total surveillance. And if you happen to land on their "bad" list (which eventually everyone will), you're locked
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by jdrek1 1y ago
I would guess that Ada is simply more known. Keep in mind that tech exploded in the past ~3.5 decades whereas those languages are much older and lost the popularity contest. If you ask most people about older languages, the replies other th
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by jdrek1 1y ago
If you have lots of pointers, you're writing C, not C++.
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by jdrek1 1y ago
> But my main gripe with tabs is that no one agrees on the width. That's the entire point of tabs. One tab means one indentation level and you as the user can decide how that's displayed. Spaces forces everyone to see the code
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by jdrek1 1y ago
Ah, I didn't know that. To me your sentence read like autists out themselves by wearing a smartwatch. Fully agree with you on that, the less data they have, the better.
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by jdrek1 1y ago
> and wearing a fitbit or smart watch. Since when is wearing smart watches only for autists?
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by jdrek1 2y ago
You should get your calculator checked. 9.11 is definitely less than 9.9
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by jdrek1 2y ago
There is a GitHub icon directly at the top right of the side so your first two steps can be combined into one shorter one. But yes, screenshots should absolutely be on the home page, and prominently so.
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by jdrek1 2y ago
If you want a game where you effectively script/program the entire gameplay, check out Bitburner: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1812820/Bitburner/
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by jdrek1 3y ago
> I can't say why the scientists aren't flocking to Nim, but as someone who wants to support them wherever they go, it's why I'm uncertain if it was the right call. Because most scientists are only using programming a
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by jdrek1 3y ago
Well first of all, C++ is the language you'd be using to power a rocket engine. And second, that code is a terrible example because most of it isn't C++. Large parts of that are very C like or directly C because it's using th
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by jdrek1 3y ago
Only due to contraceptions not being a thing for most of history.
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by jdrek1 3y ago
> Which is impossible to do properly, because those keyboards differ from US keyboards in their geometry, not just in the labeling of the keys. The only difference is that on US keyboards the enter key is smaller and left shift is larger
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by jdrek1 3y ago
While that is true, there might be other requirements that prevent memory safe languages from being used. For example not having a heap available instantly disqualifies most of them. Or when you have simulations running where having constan
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by jdrek1 3y ago
> We can not let a tyranny of 1% of users steer the ship. Normally I'd agree with you on that the tyranny of the minority is a bad thing, but sometimes the minority actually has a point and this is one of the cases where the minorit
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by jdrek1 3y ago
> In LaTeX you can have actual boldface letters, so you should write a boldface letter R to represent the real numbers and so on. Almost [1] every single student absolutely hates that notation in scripts. Bold is used to draw attention,
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by jdrek1 3y ago
I don't, I think that line length limits are typically not a good idea and thus I don't like hard limiting them. Now obviously arbitrarily long lines are no good, I'm not advocating for people to write 300+ char lines. I&#x27
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by jdrek1 3y ago
That's a pretty ignorant view, there's tons of developers using Windows. If you take a look at the SO survey (or similar ones), Windows has 47% in the "Professional use" category.
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by jdrek1 3y ago
This has nothing to do with enterprise, it's about accessibility. For most people on the planet English isn't even the first language and now you expect them to know about obscure wannabe-cutesy internet slang? Fuck that shit, wha
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by jdrek1 3y ago
It's not just age, plenty of people find 2 spaces hard to read. Thus the only logical choice for indentation is tabs. That way every reader can pick the size that is good for them.
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by jdrek1 3y ago
Zeal works on Linux.
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by jdrek1 3y ago
The ones that start with `telemetry`
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by jdrek1 4y ago
I mean sure, more things being expressions instead of statements is pretty nice (e.g. in Rust you can do that). But you don't need to introduce different syntax for that.
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by jdrek1 4y ago
That example is quite unfair. You could just write println(is_me ? "me" : "you") which has exactly the same amount of symbols.
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by jdrek1 4y ago
There are strictly more parentheses since other languages also use [] and {} (and <>) instead for different things. Or even ; or whitespace. Ignoring the majority of available brace types is just stupid if you ask me. The parentheses
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by jdrek1 4y ago
Fair enough, I can see that this is something which can easily throw you off if it isn't part of your normal workflow.

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