rlamacraft @rlamacraft@qoto.org
Software engineer by trade. Programmer by hobby too (in addition to basketry and spoon carving). Personal website: https://rlamacraft.uk/. Gemini capsule: gemini://gemini.rlamacraft.uk
Joined Jan 2020
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None of the really hard problems in software engineering are going to be solved by new programming tools.
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At the height of One Million Checkboxes's popularity I thought I'd been hacked. A few hours later I was tearing up, extraordinarily proud of some brilliant teens.
Here's my favorite story from running OMCB :)
https://eieio.games/essays/the-secret-in-one-million-checkboxes/
@CppGuy @bleepbloop @anon_opin That's a fair point, integer types are a bit of an exception. In much the same vein, performing equality on floating points should always be invalid. Numbers are just different, I suppose
@bleepbloop @anon_opin and implicit type conversion is one of the worst mistakes in all of programming language design. Two things that are not even the same type should never be considered the same
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Every programming language with the === operator is a language where the designer made a mistake and has since had to paper over the cracks.
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@jimniels `<a>` the magic we already have
@yogthos Not true, not by several orders of magnitude https://pca.st/episode/fe3b97ae-35dd-4381-b16a-12f4b6a9da1a
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Salt brings out the flavour in food, and is essential in our diet. Pepper just makes things taste of pepper.
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So many people don't want to admit it but a tax increase for the wealthiest in society is a pretty easy fix for most societal problems. I know it's not exactly fair but they can afford it and the rest of us can't
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petition to rename "width" to "widgth" for monospace consistency with "height" and "length"
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Tubs of fresh soup are the wrong size. They're slightly too big for one serving, and slightly too small for two.
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20 degrees celcius is the hottest the weather ever needs to get. Anything more is pointless. It's warm enough to wear a t shirt and shorts and to get a tan.
The lesson we should learn from this is that the tech industry needs a regulator. Anyone selling software that runs with root privileges should be required by law to adhere to a testing standard, especially if that software auto updates. The rest of the economy should be provided with resiliency and redundancy guidance from said regulator.
@RichardJMurphy What’s stopping lenders from offering such a product now, if it would be as popular as you suggest? If borrowers truly value such certainty then surely there would be a competitive advantage to offering such a product without the need for government intervention?
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Rebranding RSS Feeds as PostCasts
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the world needs more recreational programming.
like, was this the most optimal or elegant way to code this?
no, but it was the most fun to write.
I've been re-reading the A Song of Ice and Fire series lately and one thing that stuck out to me is how much GRRM's writing makes each chapter feel like a children's' short story in length and structure. Coupled with the alternating viewpoints and the books feel rather than like an anthology of fairy tales. This then only further exacerbates the starkness of the sex, the violence, and the horror that the series doesn't shy away from. We're anticipating a happy-ever-after at the close of chapters that rarely deliver.
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Three years ago, astronauts aboard the International Space Station jettisoned an SUV-sized collection of trash that was supposed to burn up harmlessly in the atmosphere. Now it looks like a piece of it just crashed through a house in Florida. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/space-junk-from-the-international-space-station-may-have-struck-a-home-in/
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Software engineer by trade. Programmer by hobby too (in addition to basketry and spoon carving). Personal website: https://rlamacraft.uk/. Gemini capsule: gemini://gemini.rlamacraft.uk
Joined Jan 2020
