@IceCremeForAll @miltonappl3 It absolutely does not benefit the home owner to have a same day decision. The home owner should collect 3-5 quotes and then get the contractors to bid over the job!
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Jake Federico
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Jake Federico
@katanadash
Safety engineer for things that move. Worked on robots, linear accelerators, electric cars and drones. Also a digging boar simulator @WholeHogGames
Santa Clara Katılım Ağustos 2011
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@miltonappl3 You're the problem. Not them. Everyone in the home improvement industry knows that the WIFE is the most common "objection" and cop-out for not making a same day decision. It benefits both yourself and the company to have a same day decision -which is why they provide the discount
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Need new windows. I call a very reputable company:
>I see two names listed on the property, is this your wife?
>Yes
>Will she be available for the estimate
>Probably not
>We would like her to be there
>I can't guarantee that she'll be there
>We have lots of available times so we can be flexible
>She's not interested in being there
>How does this date work?
>Ok
>We're going to transfer you to dispatch for confirmation
Dispatch:
>So we're all set for that date to meet with you and your wife.
>Raising voice: my wife doesn't want to be there! Sorry for raising my voice. Your other colleague was very irksome on this point
>I accept your apology gave a good day
Next day, the window salesman shows up. My wife is not there. He's visibly irritated, not interested in measuring windows or anything.
>Negotiate
>Negotiate
>Negotiate
>Calls boss: yeah he wants 24 hours to think about this offer can we still hold the offer for him if he calls us tomorrow? Yeah his wife isn't here.
>Dude get out of my house
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@rfleury My mental model for this: Are you putting the mess in a closet, or are you actually organizing the it?
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The first way people usually learn code compression is by pulling common things out into helper functions, but in my view the complexity of adding a new entry point is often overlooked, and things quickly turn into a mess.
It’s a useful exercise to try compressing code without helper functions, and instead merging similar work by using loops, tables, and reordering. In my experience this leads to dramatically simpler architecture, and it’s a lot easier to keep the whole picture in your head.
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@AlfonsoHegao The other thing, is that for sure half of that 2 feet is insulation that you could cut with a utility knife…
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This is underlining my previous theory.
An American would have seen a 2 foot thick wall and gone "Google, how to drill hole in 2ft of masonry" hopped over to the local home improvement store, got a 36 inch drill bit, drilled the hole (and maybe broke one bit in the process).
Gregor 🌹🇪🇺🇦🇹@salingergregor
Americans talking as if one could just just drill a hole through 2 ft thick walls
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@BGriffinEnjoyer @Kharn_300BO @JeffGraw @JeremiahDJohns In mathematics it has always meant vectors, or other coordinate systems, whose components are independent. It isn’t limited to geometry, Sine and Cosine are orthogonal in frequency space, for example
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Remembering back to that time when SCOTUS interrupted arguments for a full minute to oooh and ahhh over a new vocabulary word.
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@aramh Software engineering is the only discipline where practitioners from different specializations yell at each other for using tools and materials their specialization doesn’t.
Imagine an aerospace engineer telling a civil engineer they were an idiot for using concrete.
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I use recursion probably fifty times a day. What you are saying is that you are not using a language that has TCO.
You claim that "you are not thinking recursively", which means you are not using induction, the most powerful reasoning tool in mathematics and the most common reasoning principle in computer science. You claim "it's not slowing you down", but I'm sure an ancient Roman would make the same claim about Roman numerals.
It's not just factually wrong, but it also misses the point.
You could in principle design better-behaved for loops that have a form of induction principle, but those are not the sort of for loops found in languages without TCO. When I am forced to use a language without TCO, I very carefully have to translate my mental inductive (recursive) algorithm into for loops.
devleader@DevLeaderCa
How often do you *actually* use recursion in your programs? I'm not sure if I'm the only one here, but I'm going to put it out in the open: I've been programming for 20+ years, and while I understand recursion… I never use it. Ever. Seriously 🙂 I feel like there's a huge emphasis on recursion in computer science topics because there are seemingly elegant solutions that arise with recursion. It seems to make some algorithms align better from a mathematical perspective, perhaps? In reality, debugging recursion is a pain. It's also a nightmare to deal with if you have very deep recursion (your call stack gets ridiculous). I've just never had a need to use recursion in production code. I've found that converting over to an iterative loop based approach is almost always more readable and easier to debug. And I'm generalizing, of course, but this has been my working experience. So after 20+ years of writing code, my brain never thinks about things recursively (even though I understand the concept). But it has also never once slowed me down 🙂 What's been your experience using recursion in production code bases? Do you use it just because it was there, or did you add it in with purpose? I'd love to hear!
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@ForrestTheWoods I see your point, but also it sort of doesn’t matter on arm64, both the 4byte and 8byte answers are correct.
We use “word” when we don’t care about the actual size, we want the compiler to pick a reasonable size for the architecture.
It is ambiguous on purpose!
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@katanadash If you told someone using an arm64 device that some value was “word sized” they would have no effing clue what you meant. It’s too ambiguous.
We’re past time to retire the term.
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I abhor that computer programmers still use the term “word”.
> Size=2 means a word (2 bytes)
Just say it’s 2-bytes. Word and Dword and Qword are stupid terms that should never be used by anyone in 2025. Just say how many bytes and be done with it!
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@ForrestTheWoods Most of the time, most people don’t actually care what the supported bit width and alignment of the architecture is, and want to let the compiler deal with it. In this case, you are better off using types that might vary between architectures, rather than prescribing size.
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@ForrestTheWoods Sort of.
Under the hood, the word is 64bits. The ISA grew from a 32bit one, so there is legacy naming around words and 4 byte widths. The arm64 supports atomic read/write of 1,2,4 and 8 byte widths aligned to that size. Many ISAs don’t have the partial word as atomic instructions
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@ForrestTheWoods So if you want the compiler to just pick the fastest, convenient size for you, use “int” or “size_t”
Word also relates to the size of pointers on the processor, which you frequently want the compiler to deal with, rather than specifying the size of your pointer in bytes.
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@ForrestTheWoods When you say “modern” do you mean application processors, like what runs a cell phone or laptop? There is a whole universe of embedded processors…
The ARM cortex processors, have new revisions coming out every year. Have a 4 byte word, and require word writes be word aligned.
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@zuhaitz_dev Computer science is a field independent of electrical engineering. Its principals would apply equally if computer were made out of cogs or valves.
It just so happens that the best way to implement a computer is with transistors 😅
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Wait till people find out that all of computer science is an abstraction of electrical engineering, which is an abstraction of fundamental physics.
Theo - t3.gg@theo
Seen a lot of people sharing this meme today. Y'all know that literally everything we use is an abstraction, right?
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@Hasen_Judi @tetsuo_cpp You are 100% correct to hate linters.
The problem is in the reviewers brains, trivial details should be trivial to you, we shouldn’t invent an entire new class of problems to solve made up problem.
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One of the reasons I cannot stand working in a typical software company is the code review.
Stupid people leaving the most stupid comments.
"You have an extra space here"
"Don't use under scores in variable names".
wanye@xwanyex
One thing that’s annoying about being a software engineer is that you’re surrounded by people who have strong opinions about the stupidest possible stuff that couldn’t possibly ever matter even a little bit. This is your whole career. It’s just arguments like this one over and over and over and over again and they literally never matter. The years roll into decades and nobody ever stops talking about this stuff and it didn’t matter in 1980 and it didn’t matter in 1990 and it didn’t matter in 2010 and it doesn’t matter today.
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@MobileAppMike @theaspect @ChShersh Then you add c and d, and each time the function gets more complicated.
Oh and the requirements for A changed a year after it was written, and now it isn’t compatible with B.
C is post production now, and making a change would require a recertification…
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@theaspect @ChShersh then you add a boolean in to the function
if A do this
if B do this
problem solved
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Duplicating code is fine
Rounak@rounak_O1
What’s a piece of programming advice that completely changed how you code?
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@yoltartar I feel like this is missing a data lane for memory?
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i didn't truly get how much compression the mind is doing until i made this graphic for a blog post, hard to even show the scale difference across this many orders of magnitude
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@obraxis @Flayra @Subnautica Walking around in it just felt good. I sort of wish it had more battle stations setup. In a co-op game that would feel amazing
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I have a @subnautica question for Cyclops lovers:
-What do you love most about the Cyclops?
-What could be improved/added to make it even better?
#subnautica #Cyclops #submarine
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@HonnouRod Excellent soon you can hang with the 40+ brothers Rod and I will welcome you into the kingdom
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