vpner

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   by vpner 6y ago

   You have to be careful with everything Pike says. It's not just limited to Go.
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   by vpner 6y ago

   Don't confuse the shortcomings of the tools you use with your intellectual limits. This is a very insidious philosophy and there is no good reason to internalize it. Always remember that tools must be subservient to user needs because
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   by vpner 6y ago

   I don't think Go's proposed system is parametric either. It's not clear to me how their contracts actually map to generics so I have no idea if Pike is telling the truth or just "thought leading".
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   by vpner 6y ago

   > Although it's far from certain, after over a decade of work it looks like a design for parametric polymorphism, what is colloquially but misleadingly called generics... What exactly is misleading about generics? The psychology of
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   by vpner 6y ago

   I don't actually blame the writers for this though. The technology that made a lot of journalists obsolete is also one of the reason everything has become click-bait to appease the algorithmic processes of driving engagement. I guess t
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   by vpner 6y ago

   I don't think I am. This writer specifically keeps writing very "lightweight" (to put it mildly) articles: https://www.wsj.com/news/author/deepa-seetharaman . I'm not sure what value they'r
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   by vpner 6y ago

   Thanks.
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   by vpner 6y ago

   I think the writers know these stories get traction so they just keep doing a variation on the same theme. They're not really in it to explain anything. They just want the clicks and the engagement numbers to go up. Speaking of which,
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   It takes 8 seconds for reddit.com to become interactive(imgur.com)

   3 points by vpner 6y ago|1 comments
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    by vpner 6y ago

    Currently using samsung galaxy buds+ and pretty happy with them: https://www.samsung.com/global/galaxy/galaxy-buds-plus/ .
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    by vpner 6y ago

    Re: dance. My current cardio routine is improv dancing and it's definitely a lot of fun. Re: drilling. This applies in any domain, even programming. Pick small problems and do variations on them until they become second nature. It&#x27
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    by vpner 6y ago

    GitHub has several projects that automate setting up a wireguard VPN on various cloud VMs without K8s: https://github.com/topics/wireguard . There's also this tutorial that sets up a VPN along with proper DNS confi