lordgroff

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by lordgroff 6mo ago
It's incredibly distressing, but I think the issue here lies with 'we'. Those at the very top are a very, shall we say, unique group. Those who seek power at such a level are not like the rest of us. There's established
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by lordgroff 6mo ago
Linux will always be a second class citizen on Apple hardware. I have the M1 and have tried Linux a few times at different stages of maturity. As it is right now, it's still a far cry from the experience of a Linux on x86 hardware, and
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by lordgroff 6mo ago
These are shockingly high.
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by lordgroff 8mo ago
There's Lazarus / FPC. Fast, small. Extremely quick compiler. The language has its warts but very readable and relatively simple yet powerful. Uncool and treated like a relic though
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by lordgroff 8mo ago
The idea that any country does 'friends' is, frankly, incredibly naive. Besides, Carney doesn't want to be friends with China, he wants to open up the market between the two countries. Of course, everyone here was better off
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by lordgroff 8mo ago
It has nothing to do with Venezuela, and the move has been long time coming. It's not 'on top of all the prior' rhetoric, it is _ALL_ the rhetoric. Let me be clear: here in Canada, the idea we are ever going to have anything
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by lordgroff 9mo ago
And for which there's often no serious alternative to in many domains anyway.
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by lordgroff 9mo ago
The attitude expressed here and that tends to surface in any Rust discussion is the reason I completely lost interest in the language.
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by lordgroff 11mo ago
Kitty and wez both have the ability to present graphics on the terminal which may sound like a solution in search of a problem, but once you start using the capability, it's hard to live without it. Wez is also cross platform so I get
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by lordgroff 1y ago
It seemed to me that you were attributing the lower life expectancy due to US' diversity compared to many wealthy nations. My point was: Canada is similarly diverse and yet its life expectancy is higher.
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by lordgroff 1y ago
So is Canada -- more so in fact -- and yet...
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by lordgroff 2y ago
If Fossil let me rebase, I'd never use git for personal projects again. I love the whole all-in-one approach and it's all so functional. But the (almost extreme) hostility to a rebase workflow makes it a no go for me, and I'm
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by lordgroff 2y ago
Canadian here, currently absolutely in shock of what's happening down south (and your president is constantly threatening to bring us in on this circus against our will -- if someone told me this would be happening a few short months a
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by lordgroff 2y ago
PHP never did do a py2->3, but instead took the js route of adding things while being very cautious indeed if breaking compatibility. I really have very little annoyance with PHP despite retaining some WTFs. In fact, with a modern langua
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by lordgroff 2y ago
> For a "dead" language, PHP sure seems to have a lot of life left in it! I honestly have not met, in real life, anyone that has thought PHP is dead. People that hated PHP? Oh yeah, I've met plenty of such people, often fr
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by lordgroff 2y ago
That was kind of my take on this article as well. We're comparing libraries with lots of breaking-API churn vs. libraries that don't do as much, in another language. When it comes to React itself, only breaking changes I ever expe
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by lordgroff 2y ago
Please--do tell more re: China. I hear a lot of parroting of negative talking point about China here in Canada, I see a lot of crazy footage from China that looks like the future, but I'd love to know more about your actual experience.
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by lordgroff 2y ago
I had the pleasure of seeing one in Mexico recently. If this car is garbage, sign me up! But alas, it's impossible because we decided that since we can't compete we'll just make them essentially illegal.
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by lordgroff 2y ago
I always hear this as a criticism of China but then I watch some footage of the actual place and it looks like it lives in the future (to be fair, it's uneven, but let me tell you I've traveled to the US enough times to be shocked
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by lordgroff 2y ago
We've seen Russians shoot their own satellites, officially to ensure no large object re-entry (or some such nonsense, I don't remember), but I'm 10000% that it's a demonstration to the United States. If the Russians can
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by lordgroff 2y ago
The problem is that what WP can do is so, so much more than that. And this is the secret to its success since it can grow from a blog to "here's a bunch of static pages" to a full ecommerce site with CRM/ERP integrations
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by lordgroff 2y ago
I mean, even on HN, I'd say if there's derision, it's mostly one uttered with a yawn rather than genuine hate. And that's almost justified; while I spend a lot of my time with lots of different languages (I can't th
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by lordgroff 2y ago
I run a WordPress site for my wife's business. Would I pick it up again in 2024? Absolutely. It has nothing to do with what I "know", there's still no better CMS/ small diy e-commerce solution for, frankly, peanuts
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by lordgroff 2y ago
I'm not in the States and have zero knowledge of the SAT and whether it's useful, but targeting an intervention at this level is simply too little too late, no matter how you slice it. If the idea is to reduce the stratification o
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by lordgroff 3y ago
Well that's because ML isn't really software engineering. Unfortunately, it is also software engineering as I often have to remind my colleagues coming from algebra / econometrics / statistics sides who are happy to shov
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by lordgroff 3y ago
But sometimes that's kind of lovely too, it takes all kinds after all. It's like using Gopher in 2023 and insisting everyone else should too.
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by lordgroff 3y ago
Ah, I thought this critical situation was only in Canada. Yep, my doctor no longer exists, I've been handed over to a nurse practitioner who may or may not consult with doctors. I assumed our situation was unique in that the number of
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by lordgroff 3y ago
One of the titans of the era, Pascal greatly contributed to my love of programming and my eventual career. Rest in peace Dr. Wirth.
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by lordgroff 3y ago
Yep. I have a Woocommerce site that's mostly modified by my own custom plugins. Most of my own custom work plugs in to the old school PHP server side rendering and that works just fine. I also have what's in effect two separate SP
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by lordgroff 3y ago
There's an easy way around this, and that's to namespace in some way branches that are free to be overwritten, ie WIP work not yet merged into the canonical branches. Works just fine. If the project is too large for this, you can

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