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It looks like Melon Husk is lighting this thing on fire even faster than expected, so a reminder that the canonical source for Avdi updates, thinky-thoughts, and one-on-one conversation has always been, and will always be SIGAVDI avdi.codes/sigavdi/
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Re: the left needs more podcasters/influencers to combat the joe rogans and Andrew tates of the world
This is why that won't work
Dropout is a very left leaning company in both actions and policy. They supported the writers strike, their crew is still masking on set, and they
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The people in my autism parenting groups who are just figuring out what gutting the Department of Education is going to do to their kids, after they voted for Trump. Whew, chile. It’s a whole lotta, “They can’t do that, right?” Nah, bro. They can and they’re gonna.
I don't get much reach here anymore, but for all my white tech dudes in the US - this is the most important election of our lives. Only one choice will protect women, children, queer and trans folk, BIPOC, and democracy itself. GTFO there and vote.
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To all the Dad's out there: your daughters future is in your hand. Your buddies don't need to know you who vote for.
#VoteEarlyForKamala
As a DV survivor I understand how people have been triggered by those "your husband will never know" ads. As someone raised among right-wing fundamentalists, I know that the abuse portrayed isn't just common, it is normalized and aspirational for millions of US families.
Yes, there are abusers of every political stripe. But one thing I'm gathering from reactions is that there are folks who didn't grow up in that world who didn't know just HOW normalized this practice is in right-wing fundamentalism.
1) I'm actually a huge fan of doing this where feasible and where it won't do harm. My favorite kind of coding honestly.
2) I was doing this with Emacs Tramp-mode 25 years ago, and I've been doing it in VS Code for years.
Arguably Tramp mode is still the best because I don't think any other solution has put in the level of "does X exist on the server? Can we use it? OK no, can we fall back on Y? No? OK, let's fall back to Z..."
Yes this is parody, but the terribly sad chaser for the joke is that a lot of these attendees ARE Trump voters now. Very possibly including some family of mine.
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Hi! Systems programmer here. Decent chance my code has been involved in landing a plane you were on.
One reason we switched to [subsets of] C++ was because exceptions couldn't be silently ignored.
Much Go code I've seen is full of errors being habitually ignored by boilerplate.
Go is interesting because most of its user base is _not_ the originally intended audience
Go was designed for C/C++ programmers and for systems programming
In that world you make lots of syscalls, and in lots of them you *have* to handle error codes or things will just break
The equivalent C code would be much more verbose and error prone
But now Go is used more for high-level web service API type things, where an error is mostly just something you need to return to the user
All that said, systems programming is a broad field, and web services code is so different from hard realtime concerns that they might be considered different disciplines.
My kid is asking for a recommendation for game design books. NOT "learn to program with games", but game design. Help?
The missing piece that finally fell into place for me about Puritan leftists is that the coming-soon-but-conveniently-never-quite-here "Revolution" is their "second coming of Christ".