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dshpala··on What it's like to be cancelled
Noah, why are you even replying to this guy? He is obviously a troll, and you won't be able to "explain" anything to him.

Personally, I enjoy ignoring his types in online debates. Bait them, and ignore them - priceless.

dshpala··on Untapped potential in Rust's type system
I've always wondered if it's possible to use Rust' ownership chains to attribute memory usage? I.e. calculate total bytes retained by an object?
dshpala··on Why Are There So Few Women in Wargaming?
"Why Are So Few Dental Hygienists Are Men?"

"A combination of a high barrier to entry and outdated attitudes keep men out of a profession where they could thrive."

I hope to see something like this on Wired someday.

dshpala··on Last year, more people in San Francisco died of overdoses than of Covid-19
People are weak - and if they see more examples that masks are not necessary, they'll follow. So I'm trying to not wear mask unless absolutely necessary, but it's hard, the pressure is real.

Not to mention kids - masked kids on playgrounds break my heart.

dshpala··on How Basecamp Blew Up
I'm interested in "employee asked if the company could revisit Singer’s remarks" - was there a point, or did that employee just said literally that?
dshpala··on UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research
Maybe that was in line with the "research"?

I think this can be an interesting topic in itself, how those trigger words and victim playing can get you through code reviews faster. It's certainly true in my company...

dshpala··on GitHub, fuck your name change
Yeah? How about the other way around - I'll start using 'master' more in my code from now on. No more 'primary' things, only 'master'. What do we have here, serverUrl? How about masterUrl?

I'm less than half-joking here.

God this woke stuff is worse than Trump I swear.

dshpala··on Multigenerational LRU: more performant, versatile, straightforward than Linux's
I wonder how Linux with that compares to XNU (iOS)?

For some reason (maybe because I work with Android) I always thought that XNU is better at memory management (fewer low memory kills, better paging, etc.).

dshpala··on Godot maintainer removes controversial satirical piece from documentation
I wish headlines like this also included N, the number of people that considered the issue controversial.

As I understand in this case the N is 1? And so

"Godot maintainer removes controversial (to N=1) satirical piece from documentation".

Much better illustrated ridiculousness of the situation.

dshpala··on Flutter 2
Hmm, LiveData is pretty straightforward class, over the years I think I memorized its implementation. I'm curious what's the issue is?
dshpala··on Feedback Ladders: How We Encode Code Reviews at Netlify
Is there any metric to prove that this proposal works?

I mean, you can impose all sorts of rules and whatnot, but it's all [dust] until it improves a metric that the company cares about (e.g. review time, # of bugs, etc.).

dshpala··on How can you not be romantic about programming? (2020)
To paraphrase a thing that I read in a book about Tao:

"How can you not be romantic about making iron hooks?"

And I fully agree. You can find beauty and elegance in anything, including programming (and I certainly do).

dshpala··on Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
Thanks for the reminder - unsubscribed in two clicks in Play.

Also, the subscription was $15 a month?! Don't remember seeing that number when I was subscribing.

dshpala··on Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long?
This analogy is a bit careless.

You can't just throw BLM around, or we'll end up with stuff like: "So yeah, this code is bad and I'm the only one who thinks so, but not caring about my opinion is like not caring about oppression of black people!".

dshpala··on Starting Over: A FOSS proposal for a new type of OS for a new type of computer
Surprised no one mentioned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_OS
dshpala··on Toxic positivity does more harm than good
I discussed this article with my team, and the responses were very positive!
dshpala··on Ethical AI researcher Timnit Gebru fired from Google
Or: she won't be able to play black/minority card against Jeff, and will have to civilly discuss the matters.

But judging from her tweets this is not happening, bruh.

dshpala··on What Went Wrong with the Libdispatch
I wonder if there are parallels with Kotlin's coroutines?
dshpala··on 2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test
Challenge accepted :)
dshpala··on On Apple's Piss-Poor Documentation
Great, I'll definitely start indicating good/bad docs from now on. Thanks for you work!
dshpala··on Public Apology to Jeremy Howard
My new funtime activity: filing bogus claims against conference talks.
dshpala··on The Laptev Sea hasn't frozen
I think it's clear that humankind won't be able to stop/reverse this process.

So, are there any realistic state-wide plans to prepare for the worst? Like, move cities away from shores, prepare for certain regions to become very hot (unsuitable for farming), etc.?

dshpala··on Why some people suffer from a stutter
I have a stutter too. What is interesting, is that I stutter less when speaking English than when I'm speaking Russian (my first language). I think party it has something to do with different rhythm structure of English.
dshpala··on PandaDoc employees arrested in Belarus after founders protest against violence
I think that protesters didn't think it through enough. Yes, Lukashenko is an awful guy, but what is the alternative?

Protesters say they are pro Russia - but in my opinion this is a grave mistake, and Belarus will soon find itself as a Russia-controlled state.

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