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bitcrafter

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  • [No PHPun Intended] A Brief History of Web Development

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  • The belief that exercising one's code is good? I am certainly all in favor of testing, to be sure!

    (Sorry, I have been having some playful fun at your expense: the actual word you have been reaching for is excise, e.g., "If only I had exercised more, then I would not have developed a tumor requiring excision!")

  • [No PHPun Intended] A Brief History of Web Development

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  • Ah, so it sounds like it was more about dieting than exercising.

  • Linus Torvalds Rejects LTTng Upstreaming Request

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  • No wonder he refused to upstream it!

  • [No PHPun Intended] A Brief History of Web Development

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  • I exercised all client side JavaScript from an app I maintain. It’s fast, clean, and the back button always works. I just checked on one of the more complicated pages, and according to Firefox’s memory profile, it takes about 2.6MB of RAM.

    Wow, that really is a light weight! What exercise do you have your code perform to get such impressive results?

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    LibreOffice calls out Microsoft for using "complex" file formats to lock in Office users

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  • I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux/LibreOffice, is in fact, GNU/Linux/LibreOffice, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux plus LibreOffice.

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  • Imagining your death. :P

    But seriously, it's perfectly sensible when remember that i is just the mathematical representation of "left turn", just like -1 is the mathematical representation of "go backwards"-- and as we know, two left turns sends you backwards. So think about this triangle in the following way:

    Imagine you are a snail, starting at the origin. Now imagine that you walk forward 1 step along the horizontal line. Then you turn 90° to the left to start walking along the vertical line, but then, because you need to walk i steps along this line you take another 90° turn to the left, which means that you are now walking backwards and you end up back at the origin. How far away from the origin are you? Zero steps.

  • The Jank programming language

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  • Thank you, my human language parser is not fully operational at the moment so I actually appreciated this summary!

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  • I for one like to keep things simple and just express everything directly in units of the number of periods of the radiation emitted by the ground state hyperfine levels of Cesium-133.

  • The Jank programming language

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  • Is it worse than Clojure?

  • systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success

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  • Uh, good for you?

  • UK firm achieves first commercial tritium breakthrough for fusion fuel

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  • Nonetheless, being able to produce tritium, which is the claim that appears in the headline and the article, is very useful, in part because many reactors use it as a fuel source.

    There is only one place where I see "more fuel" show up, which is this single sentence:

    The ability to generate tritium within the reactor is crucial. A sustainable fusion energy system needs to produce more fuel than it consumes. This development shows a path toward solving that engineering challenge.

    I agree that this single sentence could have been better worded.

  • UK firm achieves first commercial tritium breakthrough for fusion fuel

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  • Any element below iron is technically fuel for fusion.

  • Literate Programming

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  • I'm confused... was that wall of text supposed to have sold me on something?

  • Literate Programming

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  • You want to turn my 300 lines of clear, readable and concise logic into 1,000 lines of English paragraphs that break up the functions of my code into yet smaller pieces of code devoid of context?

    If a function has 300 lines without a lot of supporting documentation then I doubt that it is "clear, readable and concise" anyway.

    Now I have to dig through that book, ignoring all the shit I’ve read hundreds of times because it doesn’t compile into anything, just to debug an off-by-1 error in a loop buried in a paragraph explaining the original developers diatribe on why we’re looping over that range?

    I have never found it hard at all to skip past comments that are not relevant because my code editor helpfully colors them differently from the rest of the code, making it easy. Does your editor not do the same?

    (Also, by now you should be especially good at skipping past it, given that you have apparently "read [it] hundreds of times" instead of skipping past it, for some reason.)

    This is the sort of academic crap that sounds good but in practice is just terrible for anything other than small projects that are intended specifically to teach.

    It depends on what you are doing. If you are implementing relatively simple logic like a REST API handler, then it is probably overkill. If you are implementing a relatively advanced algorithm, then having a running narrative of what is going can be extremely helpful.

  • Literate Programming

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  • It's not immediately obvious to me where the examples are.

  • Ubuntu Maker Canonical Generated Nearly $300M In Revenue Last Year - Phoronix

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  • ENDELAYIFICATION IS STILL BAD!!!

  • Announcing Rust 1.88.0 | Rust Blog

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  • Just to be clear: it is only the GNU toolchain for which the 32-bit target is being demoted, not the MSVC toolchain.

  • How much data do you require before you accept something as "fact"?

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  • Evidence suggests that “consciousness” is the mechanism that allows separate parts of the brain to communicate with other parts of the brain and coordinate activities. The hypothesis is this is done by the frontal cortex which is responsible for reasoning, decision making, and controlling voluntary movements. However, there is still much research required in Neurosciences before we have a solid theory and understanding of consciousness.

    So in other words... it exists.

    It is worth nothing that the first sentence is exactly my perspective, as I explicitly stated earlier:

    I think that consciousness in the brain is just an approach that it uses to aggregate and share information amongst several subcomponents.

  • How much data do you require before you accept something as "fact"?

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  • Sure! What exactly do you think consciousness is (or is not)? You seem to think that I was motivated to enter this conversation in order to feel smart, but asked my original question because I was genuinely interested in your point of view.