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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
Greater than FDR? You sure about that? Obama sucked at his job. Like, nearly Carter-level blindness to political reality, but with more personal arrogance. Obama was better than Shrub. Shrub was a war criminal, so you'd have to hope Ob
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
BerkeleyDB was a key/value store. I'm not sure how much uptake it actually had vs other solutions. Prior to widespread availability of SQLite3, it was not unheard of to write your bespoke format if you needed something sophisticat
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
NeXT and Apple open sourced more projects under Steve Jobs than they have since. A world where Jobs went for Google CEO is a world where Jobs has a different aesthetic worldview entirely, and you can’t know what would have happened.
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
This sort of thinking is corrosive to society at large. It’s not a zero-sum game. But, if you must, take heart in the fact that the teenager will never make more than $minimum in that job, where presumably your income will continue to rise
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
The walled garden rant is anachronistic. HyperCard died because Apple stopped major work it. Circa 1987! There was no HyperCard team to put out a new version when Jobs returned in 1997, and a dying Apple couldn’t justify building one from s
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
for posterity: <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en" id="facebook"> <head> <title>Error</title> <meta charset="utf-8&quot
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
Seconded. Both Dirk Gently series are good, both should have had additional seasons.
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
Unicode tables are gigantic. If it’s possible to build an abstraction layer, it should be done.
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
Yes, it depends in a very absolute sense, but for most cases, efficient use of memory is a hugely important factor in a large software system for performance. It’s worth doing an abstraction layer. ICU has a stable API, to the best of my kn
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
More broadly: always set boundaries for yourself. You may not have a choice to ignore the bug in a corporate setting, but you need to be willing to kick issues back to the originator for lack of information and /or lack of willingness
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
This suggests that a possible answer to TFA could be to find a trusted female peer to carry the message.
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
Not a chance, no. Here's something from 1985: https://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v11n8/36_The_Sider_1... > Five years ago I drooled over the new 5Mb Winchester hard disk drives being introduced to the
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
The parties have changed since whenever you last read up on this (four years ago? ten years ago?). Gop politicians (for Republicans call themselves this) don't care about deregulation anymore -- they just want to funnel money and power
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
You cannot generally trust that C primitive types are atomic.
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
> Sometimes we might also just choose the bear the cost. For systems with low risk profiles (eg internal software that is never exposed to hostile input) we might decide that debugging the occasional use-after-free is preferable to addin
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
Song publishing seems like a bad example here — it’s insanely easy to make that arrangement in practice because there is an existing real world payment / licensing structure for exactly that transaction.
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by setpatchaddress 5y ago
In games, you have the thing of value itself. It’s not an NFT just because it’s digital.
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by setpatchaddress 6y ago
I can't get past this sentence: > From these humble beginnings, and a quick move from Santa Clara to Sunnyvale (Silicon Valley in California) Is the rest of the article better than this? For those outside the Bay Area: Santa Clara a
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by setpatchaddress 6y ago
I think that was intended as sarcasm
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by setpatchaddress 6y ago
This is largely cherry-picking revisionism. I saw CGA on the displays of the time at the time with the games of the time, and can confirm it was mostly terrible. EGA couldn't come fast enough.
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by setpatchaddress 6y ago
This is buzzword-laden gobbledygook, and I tend to think Greenwald is butthurt on “online censorship” because he got called on his shit. https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/glenn-greenwald-quits-inte...
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by setpatchaddress 6y ago
Second this. Much easier to follow than the dragon book. And you’ll end up with a better implementation if you follow Wirth vs the YACC dudes.
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by setpatchaddress 6y ago
This is getting into wooden volume knob territory, but MiniDisc did sound remarkably good compared to MP3 at the time.
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by setpatchaddress 6y ago
IBM, maybe? I'm surprised to read these recent anecdotes (going back to that New Jersey unemployment COVID programmer shortage) from various people that COBOL jobs are in high demand yet shockingly underpaid. That would seem to imply m
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by setpatchaddress 6y ago
You could use a Mac and avoid all of this nonsense entirely.
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by setpatchaddress 6y ago
Genuine question: what's better about the Netflix app? Haven't used Roku. Seems decent on Apple TV. What really sucks on Apple TV is the YouTube app. It may be Google's single least competent publicly available software engin
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by setpatchaddress 6y ago
Could not disagree more about goto. Small programs always turn into larger ones. And what you have at the end if you're not from the beginning using practices appropriate for larger programs is spaghetti code. I'm not criticizing
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by setpatchaddress 6y ago
You can't shave if you commit a crime? Is this a New York colloquialism?
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by setpatchaddress 6y ago
Yes. And just to be clear, this was a problem in SF well before the pandemic.
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by setpatchaddress 6y ago
SF’s homeless problem is out of control in a way that it isn’t in most large cities. You can’t say “that’s just life”.

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