rfiat

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by rfiat 4y ago
I think a much bigger downside would be its effect on the price of your insurance. I can't speak for any other country but in the UK insurers have a reputation for being petty about modifications. Even something as minor as a DIY heate
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by rfiat 4y ago
> For the opposite word, "expensive", it all depends on the word before it: "as expensive" or "more expensive". Frustratingly, I find this isn't always true in practice. Lots of people use "x times
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by rfiat 4y ago
I don't think the distinction you're trying to make is helpful here if I've understood you correctly. A good faith interpretation of haastad's comment would be that they were thinking of "insertion order" when
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by rfiat 4y ago
GP is correct, per the README: > gojq does not keep the order of object keys. I understand this might cause problems for some scripts but basically, we should not rely on the order of object keys. Due to this limitation, gojq does not ha
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by rfiat 4y ago
What you're describing is named the "curb cut effect" [0]. > The curb cut effect is the phenomenon of disability-friendly features being used and appreciated by a larger group than the people they were designed for. For ex
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by rfiat 4y ago
What you say about traction is a good point. I think "will it be successful?" is a very different question to "will I like it?". At one end of the scale for me is Rust. I discovered it through organic hype and I like the
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by rfiat 4y ago
> It has been so energetically hyped. Real standards don't have to be promoted I find this interesting because it's the first heuristic I use to judge anything new, technical or otherwise (e.g. TV shows or games). Did someone p
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by rfiat 4y ago
You're absolutely right, there are about a million and one rabbit holes you can go down if you _really_ want to understand the tools you use but in the vast majority of those cases you're better off relying on a higher level abstr
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by rfiat 4y ago
The reflog is very helpful but I don't think it counts as an "undo". Some operations (like git add or git push) won't show up in the reflog. Even the operations which do show will often require more thought to undo than
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by rfiat 4y ago
> Do I need to know how a gearbox works to drive stick shift? No, but it helps. If I treat my car's powertrain as a black box then it won't be intuitive that: * I shouldn't slip the clutch to hold my car on an incline.
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by rfiat 4y ago
I disagree. It has a formal grammar so at least in a CS sense [0] it's a language. Why is JSON not a language but e.g. TOML or YAML are? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_language
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by rfiat 4y ago
I appreciate your comment. My intention wasn't "Go is dissimilar because it's bad and Rust is good" but I can see why you'd think that. I'll attempt to clarify. The reason I like and recommend Rust is the numbe
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by rfiat 4y ago
As the sibling commentor said, syntax highlighting is only one example meant to illustrate Go's sometimes unnecessarily frustrating design. In case it wasn't clear, the example wasn't that Rob Pike doesn't like syntax hi
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by rfiat 4y ago
It's interesting that you find Go to be Rust-adjacent. Setting aside the USPs of each language (goroutines and borrow checker respectively) and just speaking about the general experience of writing code, I find Go painful for all the r
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by rfiat 4y ago
It should be noted that it's possible for electric (~heavy) vehicles to emit less brake dust than conventional vehicles due to regenerative braking
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by rfiat 4y ago
If you don't mind a comment about your English, I'd suggest that what you wrote seems like it's better described as "tongue in cheek" than "sarcastic". "Sarcastic" can have connotations of meanne