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heretoo

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    Comment #36551136

    I tried FreeCAD but all versions crash within minutes of using it, making it unusable.

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    Comment #36551117

    It would be nice if I could scale the UI. Some text can be scaled with GDK environment variables, but not the icons.

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    Comment #35216630

    Original version was written TCL: https://gist.github.com/antirez/6ca04dd191bdb82aad9fb241013e...

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    Comment #35147565

    Except that lead's toxicity has been known for thousands of years.

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    Comment #34954227

    > Now we just have to get a handle on all the leaky stuff at the edges of every “functional core”, because there lay many dragons My gut is telling me erlang might have tackled thi…

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    Comment #34761146

    > It sounds like you're making the mistake of thinking that TDD means writing the tests first. Actually, Kent Beck, who coined the term TDD, has the following to say in his book "T…

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    Comment #34736177

    It wouldn't surprise me if the original reason is the pervasive use of jupyter notebooks in ML, which don't adhere to normal python conventions, and are affected by slow imports on…

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    Comment #34409723

    You could consider Clojure. It is backed by the java ecosystem, which is substantial. Not quite the same as python's "batteries included" approach.

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    Comment #34291750

    What if the warrant canary is from the developers of the encryption software? See truecrypt -- assuming it was actually a warrant canary. Where "cross your fingers" is equivalent t…

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    Comment #33446033

    Another options is "nsjail". I landed on it having considered at firejail, apparmour, selinux, bubblewrap.

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    Comment #33353474

    Not in the community edition, but the enterprise edition appears to be quicker than JIT because of profile guided optimisations.

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    Comment #33259621

    The window doesn't close at 39 for either of you. From personal experience, I know.

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    Comment #33253957

    Not comparing, but is it really safe? https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2021/09/cycling-injuries-three... 50,000 serious injuries in one year seems considerable.

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    Comment #33104705

    So, if we followed this advice, none of these technologies should have ever been used in the first place, because popularity takes time to establish.

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    Comment #32590124

    > Developer ≠ programmer. Noone agrees on the definition of any of these, and they have changed over the years. Wikipedia says they are the same https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progr…

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    Comment #32435060

    The CDC has lowered its threshold to 3.5 micrograms/dL https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/news/cdc-updates-blood-lead-re...

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    Comment #32425497

    There is still aviation fuel using lead.

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    Comment #32285006

    > ClojureScript is just as leaky as Clojure By leaky, I assume you are refering to the interop with the host platform. Overall, this seems like a benefit, simply for having access …

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    Comment #32284521

    I feel your frustration. Clojure, in my opinion, has always been niche, but is still effective and may actually be immortal? New things are always being tried by small groups of pe…

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    Comment #23960895

    Are you saying rocks have intent when they sink your boat?

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    Comment #23960858

    That was aimed at everyone on this thread that feels comfortable with deleting databases that they don't own. Vigilantes make their own choices, but professionals are judged by the…

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    Comment #23960693

    So, you've answered "what good comes of it". For completeness, would you mind answering, "what bad comes of it?"

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    Comment #23960656

    If you really believe this action is warranted, as I've read on this thread, I challenge you to tweet under your real name "I will delete your data if you don't secure it", and add…

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    Comment #23960557

    Hippocratic Oath: "First, do no harm".

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    Comment #23709741

    To the best of my knowledge, GraalVM native images are probably slower at runtime, due to the hotspot vm being unavailable.