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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
The derogatory and inaccurate use of “monkey patch” to describe adding methods to an open class identifies you as a Python advocate, so grains of salt applied, but: I can’t speak for this particular Rails usage, but one of the most powerful
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
I think it’s much simpler than that. Ruby didn’t have good documentation in English until the mid-2000’s. Python was in use by the English-speaking world before the turn of the century. Documentation + you can generally understand it at a g
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
Dissenting voice here. I did not like the book. It's dark and unpleasant and contra other people here I don't think it speaks to any particularly interesting truths about how supposedly smart kids can be misled. edited to add: I a
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
> In my experience people complain about Obj-C syntax when what they actually dislike are verbose Cocoa/Foundation/etc APIs If so, that’s a real shame. Foundation may be the single best-designed standard library for a (non-func
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
It’s really unfortunate that Apple’s blown gaming so badly. I built a mid-high range gaming PC during the first year of the pandemic. The awful software that PC gamers have to put up with, from the basic stuff like NVidia’s driver software
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
Note that the precipitating event was Wallace’s Fox contract coming to an end. This wasn’t ideological ragequit. But this probably is a consequence of Fox having gone full Trumpy/facist (see: Tucker Carlson) and CNN willing to buy name
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
It’s reasonable for people with center-right, centrist, or left-leaning politics to distrust Fox affiliates. Some of them are in fact still owned by the same company as Fox News. TV network affiliates can be either independently owned or ow
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
Not familiar with Raku, but that grep call seems like it would be quite a bit slower than the Ruby equivalent at runtime if it’s anything like a normal grep. Is there some magic there that would make that not so? Edit: clarity
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
Note how much more concise and yet readable the equivalent Ruby is.
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
> There were analog HDTV standards before we all moved to digital 8-bit computers likely wouldn't be able to keep up with the bandwidth requirements of those systems either.
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
The religious channels are not PBS. "support" is not relevant if the goal is propaganda (religious or political).
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
> Any person who resorts to violence instantly loses all justification This is an argument for defunding the police. Police reform is sorely needed. "Defund the police" as a slogan was insane political malpractice.
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
I understand your concern, but you're advocating for a form of security-through-obscurity. Data harvesting of this information is already available to bad actors. If information must be private for security reasons, it should not be in
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
Kind of a tangent, but Ruby-is-slow was always contextual. Ruby was always hugely faster than complex bash scripts for the same task. If you value launch time, Python (at least through 2.x) was always slower from a cold launch compared with
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
I use a PC as gaming console for my 4k TV. The EGS windows app is unusable on a 4k TV. Steam, GOG, and Ubisoft Connect all work fine on the same TV. On top of that, I don't like Epic's business and legal practices. Can't buy
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
Gershwin was always vaporware. As far as I know, no real code was written; it was all planning. Pink did exist in various forms, and it would be fascinating to have that material available, though.
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
No real need for Copland — there’s an entire book about it — search for Mac OS 8 by Tony Francis.
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
Not a chance.
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
I don’t know specifically what this person was told, but there was low confidence before the turn of the century on the classic Mac OS side that the NeXT people would developer a consumer-grade OS capable of replacing classic Mac OS[footnot
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
And why should we believe this? Edit: The "space force" needs to justify its existence, and this is a way for them to do it. Why haven't we heard about this before?
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
There's no reason a spatial layout shouldn't be remembered (by default) per-user on a multiuser system.
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
“Mild” in this case means you don’t go to the hospital (and/or the morgue). It doesn’t rule out long COVID or extremely severe (from a layman’s perspective) symptoms. And that’s the same as other “mild” COVID infections, yep. The ones
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
This, so much. I maintain corporate, closed-source components which are central to my org’s mission and have to request radical changes on PRs submitted by other teams on a frequent basis. It’s really not “perfectionism” to avoid introducin
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
I think you could actually justify it with something sufficiently radical, but TFA fails to do that.
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
To make progress in OS architecture, it’s optimal to have a clear view of the failings you want to address. The author seems to have a fundamental misunderstanding of basically everything. Unix is garbage in a lot of ways. But there’s nothi
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
Ruby and Swift have those features and are fine languages. The reaction against those features originates from exposure to C++.
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
It’s no mystery why. It remains unclear why the ownership rights of a digital signature — which do not also convey the ownership rights to the digital object signed — have any value whatsoever. So everyone not NFT-pilled assumes that the ex
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
If Apple ever does this with HomePods, I’m throwing mine out (after smashing them with a mallet to ensure that they won’t plague anyone else).
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
The internet effectively did not exist in 1987. Even the most tech savvy people didn’t have access. That didn’t start to change until the early 90’s. Al Gore’s contribution was actually important.
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
XPC sync is not in fact async underneath in recent macOS versions. It’s a severe performance pessimization to use async in many cases, because sync propagates thread priority and async often can’t. You don’t seem to have a full grip on the

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