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New comment by rezeroed in "Eleven Years of Go"

rezeroed — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 17:52:44 +0000

You seem more uptight about it than I am. I didn't see it as anything so formal as "plagiarism", I just thought it was rude and ungrateful. If digging up work from 2014 is easy, you must be more organised than I am.

New comment by rezeroed in "Eleven Years of Go"

rezeroed — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 17:29:56 +0000

Downvoting the way I prioritise my time? Good lord.

New comment by rezeroed in "Eleven Years of Go"

rezeroed — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 17:24:41 +0000

Archaeology. (~2014, couldn't be bothered.)

New comment by rezeroed in "Eleven Years of Go"

rezeroed — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 17:18:10 +0000

I've not had a good experience with them either. I was contributed a bug fix to the std lib which would've been a decent feather in my cap. Not even a thanks; some maintainer copied, pasted, made a few changes, merged "his" fix. 2014 iirc; extinguished my interest.

New comment by rezeroed in "One in five Covid-19 patients develop mental illness within 90 days – study"

rezeroed — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 17:03:54 +0000

Where I shop we have self-checkout. I haven't had a face to face conversation since the first London lockdown started, mid-March. I remain unconvinced that covid warrants such a gargantuan response, based on countless factors eg Sweden, Sage/Fergusson modelling blunders, UK stats authority highlighting governments incorrect data on eve of lockdown, etc, etc, it just goes on, but have very much enjoyed not having to commute to the office. Social life however couldn't be more dead.

New comment by rezeroed in "Global circulation of influenza viruses in 2020"

rezeroed — Fri, 30 Oct 2020 14:48:49 +0000

They didn't perform flu tests on all "covid" deaths.

New comment by rezeroed in "Prologue: A web framework written in Nim"

rezeroed — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 16:46:10 +0000

https://nim-lang.org/docs/options.html

New comment by rezeroed in "Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages [audio]"

rezeroed — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 14:27:24 +0000

I just refuse to listen to a three hour podcast. I have a one hour limit, and even then I have my finger on the skip button. I also usually listen at between 1.5x and 2x, never slower than 1.2x because they sound stoned at 1x. I've wondered if they deliberately slow them down a bit. Life is short, and there are many podcasts.

New comment by rezeroed in "Facebook, Twitter dismantle global array of disinformation networks"

rezeroed — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 16:36:02 +0000

I think twitter is dismantling itself. A couple of months ago they were auto-suspending new accounts - create account, spend ~20 mins following people and looking around, then "are you a robot", then a few minutes later "give us your phone number" else suspended. They seem to think new users are going to get so hooked in 20 mins they'll give up their phone number. I returned to an auto-suspended account a couple of weeks ago and found that "suspended" had changed to mean read-only. Bye-bye twitter.

New comment by rezeroed in "Hiring for tech jobs has increased more than 100% in these Midwestern cities"

rezeroed — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 11:28:17 +0000

You're news-flashing me? I know what east and west are, hence the explanation for a name that currently makes no sense.

New comment by rezeroed in "Hiring for tech jobs has increased more than 100% in these Midwestern cities"

rezeroed — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 15:52:48 +0000

Off-topic - for any other non-Americans wondering why this eastern area is considered western: "The term West was applied to the region in the early years of the country. In the early 19th century, anything west of Appalachia was considered the West"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States#Backg...

New comment by rezeroed in "“This tool works best on Google Chrome and mobile.”"

rezeroed — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 17:18:38 +0000

This user works best on Firefox. Your chrome software won't get used.

New comment by rezeroed in "Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms"

rezeroed — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 14:58:24 +0000

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it fall. Or a modern take, if a disease has no symptoms is it really a disease.

New comment by rezeroed in "We need young programmers; We need old programmers"

rezeroed — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 14:10:54 +0000

Re initiative. I've had jobs which did not want initiative on a macro level - my manager would tell me what was wanted, I'd go away and make it happen. Those managers loved me. My current role, bullshitted into a "devops" role, I'm expected to spend my days showing initiative - building things that I think will be useful - and which never get used. I'll take the former jobs. What I have now sounds like freedom, it feels pointless and torturously demotivating. Do my managers know what they're doing? Do they have any roadmap? Can they see shortcomings in our systems? Is it mushroom management or cluelessness? I think these positive sounding words eg "initiative" are not positive - they are context dependent. "Potential" - if you need someone writing endless crud, if they have potential are they going to stick around? Do you really want/need Achilles? Are you really leading the Trojan army? Maybe you just need sticky tape, not a welding torch.

New comment by rezeroed in "On Browser Tabs"

rezeroed — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 15:29:00 +0000

Have a look at Opera's workspaces. Unfortunately there's a limit of five, but if i could have one of those for each topic I would be happy. My tab problem is considerably worse than yours.

New comment by rezeroed in "Go modules have a v2+ problem"

rezeroed — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 12:35:13 +0000

What a mess. Starting with the GOPATH. This is far worse than the lack of generics which has had much airtime. For all the historical credits Pike and Thompson have, I don't know what they're doing here, it's making them look like buffoons; maybe they're not involved with this. I've mostly abandoned Go because of this ongoing red flag mess. Is there an end goal? The "we're watching the community" sounds like a weak excuse.

New comment by rezeroed in "BitTorrent v2"

rezeroed — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 12:12:15 +0000

Presumably this is changing somewhat with so many people working from home.

New comment by rezeroed in "Moving from YouTube to PeerTube"

rezeroed — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 15:07:16 +0000

How much has to be shared before it's a copyright infringement, ie three sequential bytes, three non-sequential bytes?

New comment by rezeroed in "ByteDance investors value TikTok at $50B in takeover bid"

rezeroed — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 13:17:08 +0000

Thanks for the conversation.

New comment by rezeroed in "ByteDance investors value TikTok at $50B in takeover bid"

rezeroed — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 16:00:57 +0000

I don't understand the tiktok interest. I installed it some months ago, used it for a few hours a day for about a week, then stopped, never returned.