neutronicus

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by neutronicus 5d ago
I agree! Missteps are inevitable, though.
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by neutronicus 6d ago
I guess all I'm doing here is arguing that a little hubris can help a person avoid being timid, and far be it from me to say that computer scientists, mechanical engineers, and chemical engineers have not been imbued with any hubris by
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by neutronicus 6d ago
Yeah, I guess my point is that IMO a lot of people have so little interest in solving the problem that they aren't even approaching it at all, open mind or no. It's not my experience that I'm constantly arguing with people, f
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by neutronicus 6d ago
From a one-time physics grad student, I do think there advantages to being ... like this. The flip side of being confidently wrong sometimes is that we treat understanding new systems as something approachable. So, yeah, it's annoying
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by neutronicus 6d ago
> allowing it to be imposed on foreign societies without accusations of cultural imperialism. I don't actually know if this is an accurate representation of 21st century feminist thought. If anything, I think they just take an inevi
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by neutronicus 7d ago
Again, agreed. I just don't think it's particularly shocking that the US government would try to co-opt some of its rhetoric as a justification for military adventurism. They already do w/r/t the Middle East.
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by neutronicus 7d ago
This particular rhetoric is usually applied to the Middle East.
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by neutronicus 7d ago
C++ developers, too. I suppose they're splitting out the real powerful stuff (Debugger, LSP) for VSCode's consumption.
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by neutronicus 7d ago
Visual Studio brings a lot to the table for C++ development. Specifically the Debugger, although IntelliSense also often succeeds at queries that stump clangd. If they can replicate that capability, I think it can be a draw. I was a mac &#x
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by neutronicus 7d ago
Sure. I thought briefly about using the phrase "American Feminism". But, regardless, to be more nuanced: Feminism gets rhetorically roped into the case for Western cultural hegemony, which in turn gets used as a justification fo
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by neutronicus 7d ago
Feminism has always been bundled up in the idea of American cultural superiority that justifies pursuing hegemony (although the term used is usually "women's rights").
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by neutronicus 8d ago
I think public sentiment about surveillance is complicated. People have a lot of fears about being done injury by rogue antisocial actors. Ranging from nuisances like dog shit everywhere, stolen Amazon packages and car break-ins to life-def
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by neutronicus 9d ago
Hell, it took like 5 years for the market to get back to its peak after 2008.
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by neutronicus 12d ago
At least one reasoning trace I saw considered a helmet and discarded the idea because it was worried about obscuring some detail
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by neutronicus 15d ago
I think they just want, broadly, to divest from the American tech work force, whether that's via AI or outsourcing. If "the remaining employees just collapse" it's a data point in support of the thesis that developing so
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by neutronicus 17d ago
A "private tracker" is basically a speakeasy for media piracy. It's BitTorrent, so it's peer-to-peer, but it's exclusive and secretive to avoid letting in surveillance bots that get everyone threatening letters from
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by neutronicus 17d ago
Can you expand on needing to varnish? Why is that? I guess acrylic won’t set on top of it?
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by neutronicus 19d ago
FWIW, I think it's a blind spot to think of power users as "Arch Linux people" using "developer tooling". My wife is a UX Design consultant and she had an engagement where a bunch of state government accountants wer
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by neutronicus 22d ago
I do think ROI is the best lens for trying to explain why something is priced at a substantial fraction of a million dollars.
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by neutronicus 22d ago
The author seems in his blog posts to advocate for mass deportation of recent immigrants to Europe. This is an inflammatory enough position to make any of his output into a de facto political statement.
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by neutronicus 23d ago
A University education is priced as though as it has near-term ROI. The government has subsidized it on the basis that it's opening an investment with strong near-term ROI to its citizens. I don't think you can claim that this ROI
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by neutronicus 28d ago
The "npm-ness" of Cargo (centralized and standardized dependency management used at every opportunity) is generally pitched as one of the primary developer experience advantages over C++.
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by neutronicus 29d ago
The application I work on has an extension API that only requires C++11, but we compile against all the same headers in C++20. Obviously we need ABI compatibility between the two standards for this to work.
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by neutronicus 29d ago
C++ at least rescues you from defining a million callbacks with a void* context argument that you then cast into whatever you know it actually is
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by neutronicus 1mo ago
Amazon's logistics are a cut above, both in terms of turnaround time and their drivers actually knowing how to deliver to my house.
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by neutronicus 1mo ago
Losing WhatsApp would be pretty painful for me, personally.
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by neutronicus 1mo ago
Wow, their "high" threshold is 150 minutes / week. That's really not a lot, it's like 3 days / week of running a slow 10k.
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by neutronicus 1mo ago
Yeah, Instagram is by far the most reliable communications channel from my kid's school, believe it or not. Like, there are mailing lists and portals you can log into, but the IT aspect of actually getting access for even one parent, l
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by neutronicus 1mo ago
If you want to "make it" as an artist / restaurateur / musician / million other things you kind of have to. Hell, the most reliable communication channel for getting information from my kid's school is Instagra
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by neutronicus 1mo ago
I have had the same work Windows box since 2019 and it has become agonizingly slow over the last 7 years. Anytime I look in Task Manager "Anti-malware Service Executable" is pegging at least one CPU core.

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