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de_watcher··on Automatically download symbols and sources in GDB
You load up the debug info and get all file/line info you need, or you debug the core file.
de_watcher··on Ask HN: Are my expectations on code quality and professionalism too high?
There is a "overkill tactic": do all the improvements for yourself at your own expense (your personal productivity and heat from the stakeholders). In this case you're doing it all yourself plus you take on the overhead of building the interface to keep the workflow of others unaffected.

You'll get fired or you'll gain the support of other developers who won't see you as a threat (because of your low productivity and because of the handy things you do).

de_watcher··on Germany will require all petrol stations to provide electric car charging
Meaningless question because you won't have a garage in your life.
de_watcher··on Germany will require all petrol stations to provide electric car charging
Most of the people can't charge at home, it's not the US.
de_watcher··on Germany will require all petrol stations to provide electric car charging
> If you don't have a parking space, you probably don't have an EV

Not true.

And if every gas station has a fast charger then you don't need a parking space with a charger.

de_watcher··on The Beauty of Unix Pipelines
Choosing space as a separator is a useful convention that saves you typing in additional code afterwards if you want to run a short command.

It's like there is a shortcut that some people use that you want to wall in because it doesn't look pretty to you.

de_watcher··on Stanford lab envisions delivery drones that save energy by taking the bus
Non-electric scooters should be banned. Or especially the dirt bikes in the city.
de_watcher··on The Dyson Battery Electric Vehicle
Electric cars are as deep as you make them. I've watched several youtube videos showing disassembling some Zoe components, it's really impressive. Some models use parts of the motor as an inverter during charging.
de_watcher··on Janus WebRTC Server
The Google's WebRTC Native is a good option too. It's basically a piece of the Chrome browser.
de_watcher··on Spanish schedules are downright weird (2016)
The natural programmer's schedule is around 30 hours so it constantly slips relative to the day cycle.
de_watcher··on Qt 5.15 LTS
You're a funny guy.
de_watcher··on Qt 5.15 LTS
Well, when you target Windows or Mac it's a mess anyway: when your project reaches certain level of complexity then you probably build Qt alongside with it.

But I think that adding friction to the "download binaries from some site" is doing nothing more than alienating Windows developers. Qt just must add something like "Sign in with Google/Facebook with one click" because this audience cares about convenience.

de_watcher··on The Day AppGet Died
They've Bukkited you like Mojang/MS did.
de_watcher··on Dutch Scientists Find a Novel Coronavirus Early-Warning Signal
Google Toilet must become real.
de_watcher··on Qt 5.15 LTS
The real news is Qt6.
de_watcher··on Qt 5.15 LTS
You can't "get rid of free version".

When you choose this wording or stuff like "someone is worried" then it's a plain FUD.

de_watcher··on Qt 5.15 LTS
> Installation of Qt binaries will require a Qt Account

Distributions ship binaries with OS anyways. You won't have to build it yourself.

de_watcher··on macOS Catalina 10.15.5
Oh boy, you're spoiled by Linux.
de_watcher··on Today’s Javascript, from an outsider’s perspective
So like shaders?
de_watcher··on Today’s Javascript, from an outsider’s perspective
> web developers have to deal with a layer of complexity that other programs don't have to

yep, other programs totally don't need to deal with different OS, graphics APIs, GPU driverstacks and hardware architectures.

de_watcher··on Today’s Javascript, from an outsider’s perspective
"Can't do a linear list of Javascript files that you import on the page in order" - sounds like a problem that a BCPL developer has stumbled upon 50 years ago while writing his include directives.
de_watcher··on Try Linux
Hardware abstraction. AFAIK WSL2 also even uses a non-standard init system.
de_watcher··on Today’s Javascript, from an outsider’s perspective
Yea, the original intent of js was to write small snippets of code to stitch HTML together.

The neat "software distribution system" - the web browser became very popular. The wide adoption of the browser has forced js into the realm of the general purpose languages because it was the language of that VM-browser.

de_watcher··on Today’s Javascript, from an outsider’s perspective
> Snowpack

oh look, another one

de_watcher··on Today’s Javascript, from an outsider’s perspective
Most of the C++ is curated by the package maintainers. That's the key: do not let upstream programmers do it (they adore their unique build systems and other stuff like that).

That's how you get quality user experience. It creates balance between developer of the library/tool and the user of the library/tool.

de_watcher··on Today’s Javascript, from an outsider’s perspective
I don't know why people do this. In more complex areas of programming the code and tooling are simpler. It seems like any ecosystem just fills up to the certain level of complexity regardless of the complexity of the original task at hand.
de_watcher··on Try Linux
Windows is mouse-centric but you've got to install stuff to get middle-click paste working.
de_watcher··on Try Linux
Linux programming environment is a desktop distribution. Maybe WSL has some part of it, but a VM is a VM.
de_watcher··on A non-moral dilemma about cheating, but it brings up some points (2019)
You'll have the same shit but on a smaller scale.
de_watcher··on KH-11 spysat design revealed by NRO’s telescope gift to NASA (2012)
For deformable mirrors they shine a control beam into the sky. A spy satellite would have to shine it downwards.
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