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by sevensor 8d ago
I was an undergraduate student of George's many years ago and it's an absolute delight to see these renderings. He used to doodle them on any available surface -- blackboards, notebook paper, napkins, what have you -- often with
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by sevensor 7mo ago
The answer is obviously to balance your smiley faces and wrap the entire statement in the smiley face sentiment. ((: Like this :))
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by sevensor 7mo ago
I live in a college town. There are now commercial bar crawl operators. They make the T shirt, develop an itinerary, coordinate with the bars. It’s a weirdly infantilized form of debauchery. Can’t frat boys be trusted to make bad decisions
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by sevensor 7mo ago
Thanks, that’s what I was afraid of. The ping ponging described in the article seems hard to avoid regardless of what language you’re using.
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by sevensor 7mo ago
Does this apply also to std::shared_mutex in C++? This is a timely article if so; I’m in the middle of doing some C++ multithreading that relies on a shared_mutex. I have some measuring to do.
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by sevensor 7mo ago
Stalin is said to have gifted a large amount of Georgian brandy to Churchill at Yalta, which made Churchill more pliable during the proceedings. Until now, this is all I knew about Georgian food and drink.
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by sevensor 7mo ago
There’s a palpable assault on expertise afoot in the Anglosphere. It’s been going on for decades, at least since the rise of the counterculture in the 1960s, but what’s new is how pervasive it feels. Even software companies, once the nerdie
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by sevensor 7mo ago
A good abstraction relieves you of concern for the particulars it abstracts away. A bad abstraction hides the particulars until the worst possible moment, at which point everything spills out in a messy heap and you have to confront all the
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by sevensor 7mo ago
What then am I meant to take away from the piece on Zoroastrianism? I don’t know enough about the subject to navigate to the point around the distortions.
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by sevensor 7mo ago
Fair point. This makes much more sense when you make it about your git identity + ssh configuration.
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by sevensor 7mo ago
Git hub account switching. A git account is not an idea that makes sense.
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by sevensor 7mo ago
It’s an interesting blog, he seems well read, but surely he knows better than “Plato lived in a placid static Greek aristocratic world.” Plato lived through the execution of Socrates, the fall of the Athenian democracy, the tyranny of the T
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by sevensor 7mo ago
Unfortunately, hoppy IPA seems to constitute the majority of the survivors. I have no interest personally in suffering through another hazy sour grapefruit triple ipa, but that seems to be about 90% of craft brewery output these days.
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by sevensor 7mo ago
Gotcha: once you get into it, hacking the game gets to be way more fun than actually playing it. Way back in the day I used the DOS debug utility to edit my Bard’s Tale savegames. But once everybody has 127 hit points and -10 AC, the game
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by sevensor 7mo ago
And like the article says, early computerization produced way more output than anybody could handle. In my opinion, we realized the true benefits of IT when ordinary users were able to produce for themselves exactly the computations they ne
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by sevensor 7mo ago
I switched from Fedora in 2013 because the ArchWiki was answering all of my questions. It’s very, very good.
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by sevensor 7mo ago
Hams, by and large, despise pirate radio.
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by sevensor 7mo ago
This is my process as well. I find it’s a good way for clearing out bad assumptions. Usually I’ve committed to my first idea, and writing it down gives me space to consider the alternatives. Usually I have a better idea that I haven’t worke
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by sevensor 7mo ago
Making illegal states unrepresentable sounds like a great idea, and it is, but I see it getting applied without nuance. “Has multiple errors” can be a valid type. Instead of bailing immediately, you can collect all of the errors so that the
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by sevensor 7mo ago
Yeah. I tried that at the eight week mark, but I heard nothing back. Obviously not a process-heavy company, but that’s part of their appeal.
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by sevensor 7mo ago
A generic rejection is more than I got for feedback; I never heard back. Still, I thought the process of writing the materials was great. I don’t usually take the time to think about the arc of my experience in a holistic way. Do it for you
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by sevensor 7mo ago
I used a Sun workstation as late as 2008, but by that time it was ancient and kept around only for the expensive engineering software that wouldn’t run anywhere else. Even at the time, using CDE felt like a blast from the past. I didn’t dig
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by sevensor 7mo ago
IDE vim support suffers from three problems. First, performance. I have yet to try an IDE that can match the responsiveness of vim. You can obviously tank vim’s performance with plugins, but you don’t have to. Second: clutter. Modern displa
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by sevensor 7mo ago
Yeah, why would billionaires sell us something that lets us chill out all day, instead of using it themselves and capturing the value directly? You claim to have a perpetual motion machine and a Star Trek replicator rolled into one, what do
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by sevensor 7mo ago
I could not agree less. The line of reasoning here is: relying on the type system to prevent error lets people writer fewer tests. Tests are the only way to assure quality. Therefore fewer tests is bad, and powerful type systems are bad too
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by sevensor 7mo ago
Thanks! I’ll look forward to these landing in Python.
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by sevensor 7mo ago
What you’ve described is very much not writing code though. It’s the tedious and unpleasant outcome of having a flaky or under resourced CI setup or pulling in a misbehaving dependency. Neither of those is typing code per se. I don’t think
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by sevensor 7mo ago
Ooof, good luck. Civ3 copy protection was intense. I had to get out my old Win2k disk and stand up a VM. Attempts to rip an iso will be complicated by the fact that they deliberately wrote bad data to the disk. All of this is surmountable,
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by sevensor 7mo ago
I know competent adults whose login flow for most websites is “forgot password.” Might be better off writing your passwords on post it notes at that point.
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by sevensor 7mo ago
I wouldn’t bet against cramming more and more business processes into Excel. The guy who was copying cells from one workbook to another yesterday, tomorrow can have a single mega-workbook with all the macros more or less deconflicted.

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