shortrounddev

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by shortrounddev 3y ago
Personally I think macOS sucks as a dev environment. If you switch to mac you should immediately use brew to install coreutils that don't suck. The bash they ship was built in 2007 (run `bash --version` and see; though they use zsh by
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by shortrounddev 3y ago
Pick an API, write a frontend for it of some kind. A CLI tool, a website, etc.
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by shortrounddev 3y ago
this is not engineering
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by shortrounddev 3y ago
It feels really shitty to me when companies that are profitable lay people off
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by shortrounddev 3y ago
So the equivalent of std::move will also make sure to "null" the original object at the same time?
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by shortrounddev 3y ago
Meritocracy is something which must be vehemently defended. We cannot give an inch to people who would destroy it. Without meritocracy, liberalism is dead
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by shortrounddev 3y ago
I generally opt for a lifetime license for software I use, but this site looks like the lifetime license is $300
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by shortrounddev 3y ago
I use it to talk with my wife and sister in law. It's pretty cool, and has a decent developer API for making chatbots, though I don't see the point of chatbots personally
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by shortrounddev 3y ago
I like writing C++ code, and I like using SAL annotations to try to improve safety. I try to remember to be const correct as best as I can. Is Rust something I would enjoy? It's hard to discern the signal from the noise on this lang
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by shortrounddev 3y ago
> But the government says only services posing the highest risk to children will need age verification. They obviously have never seen the Wikipedia article for "mons pubis"
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by shortrounddev 3y ago
Why not
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by shortrounddev 3y ago
> 5 years Because Apple will forcibly kill it after that with incompatible software updates. Windows machines keep going until they physically break. But what everyone here is missing is that the consumer desktop/laptop market is dy
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by shortrounddev 3y ago
> if any of the modern operating systems had halfway decent sandboxing What qualifies as "halfway decent"? For servers, Linux seems to have a good set of utilities (taken advantage of by docker). Windows doesn't seem to ha
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by shortrounddev 3y ago
Keeps you alive
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by shortrounddev 3y ago
Evil is a useless word for psychologists. People shoot up their schools because there's something wrong with their heads, not because of good vs evil. But I will say that people who molest children ARE often mentally ill. Often, they t
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by shortrounddev 3y ago
> People would likely still farm and produce and maintain, even clean and repair, everything that is deemed meaningful and important, but few if anyone would voluntarily open an Excel spreadsheet ever again or schedule an entirely pointl
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by shortrounddev 3y ago
>The miners move to other blue collar jobs, they became truck drivers, plumbers, welders, factory workers, etc. Actually a lot of them didn't transition to anything. They stopped working and went on welfare or disability.
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by shortrounddev 3y ago
> help people who have chosen to be evil (worst examples being child rapists, school shooters,etc... not sick, evil! But evil has no place in a freudian context). Evil has no place in any psychological context. People who commit these cr
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by shortrounddev 3y ago
Yes, it's unfortunate that Programming Windows after 5ed became about XAML and C#. Those are good tools, but it's sad that they stopped updating the Win32/C++ resources as well.
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by shortrounddev 3y ago
I've found that suburbs are a lot more sociable and friendly than cities. Its impossible to make friends in a new city, and it seems like none of your neighbors are interested either. You have to be the one to go out of your way to mee
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by shortrounddev 3y ago
The real reason is the same in Japan as it is in Europe and America: even controlling for hours worked, low wages, high cost of living, and other economic costs associated with having a child, women are choosing not the have children becaus
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by shortrounddev 3y ago
It seems vastly harder to make friends in a city, to me. When I lived in the suburbs, it was really simple to make friends. In the city, I dont know anyone. I agree that its nice to live so close to friends, but it seems impossible to MAKE
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by shortrounddev 3y ago
I have found that the suburbs are far friendlier than cities. In the suburbs, I knew a lots of my neighbors, and making friends was very easy. In the city, nobody talks to anybody. City people are just unfriendly or theyre sick of other peo
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by shortrounddev 3y ago
> I'm hoping that's normal The vast majority of people on the planet do not know calculus and will never need to, so yes it is completely normal
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by shortrounddev 3y ago
he alienates people not because hes white or male but because he's an uncharismatic libertarian toad
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by shortrounddev 3y ago
It was enlightening to me when I started applying to jobs to find out that the companies which were renowned for their innovation and productivity had a several week, 5-stage+, committee-based hiring process that made you feel like a sow ge
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by shortrounddev 3y ago
This is a racist statement
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by shortrounddev 3y ago
I would not take opinions on technology very seriously from people who use technology like it's 1985. RMS does not have a real job as a software engineer and never has, and also does not work in the private sector. He is out of touch w
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by shortrounddev 3y ago
The only thing an organization is obligated to do is: 1. Treat all candidates equally, regardless of race, sex, etc. 2. Hire the most qualified candidate for the job, regardless of race, sex, etc. 3. Not engage in conscious or unconscious s
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by shortrounddev 3y ago
Can you give an example?

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