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I recently worked for a company with a large C++ codebase. For many years they relied entirely on asserts in QA builds to catch errors, no unit testing or production asserts. When …

Out of curiosity, what's the portable keyboard you like?

Right next to my apartment building is a crosswalk that crosses a fairly busy street. The crosswalk is well-marked, and it has a sign in the median specifically stating that stoppi…

> For instance, the fact that the laws of physics are the same today as they were yesterday and will be tomorrow — a symmetry known as time translation symmetry, represented by the…

I'm not at all advocating for treating life like a lottery. I've had overall a successful career due in large part to my own effort, but the best opportunities have come to me simp…

Again, I think you've completely misinterpreted the post as well as what I'm trying to say. A "healthy mindset" is simply one that gives you a framework to navigate the world witho…

> Applying in the hope they mess up and admit you when they're really better off rejecting you is so antisocial. What? That's not what I'm suggesting at all. I just found the post …

The way I read this is that there are many "games" in life (applying for schools, jobs, dating, etc) where the odds of "winning" each instance are not in your favor, but you only n…

Right, I didn’t think about the shebang case being different. Thanks!

Why is the ‘-S’ argument to ‘env’ needed? Based on the man page it doesn’t appear to be doing anything useful here, and in practice it doesn’t either.

This actually looks perfect for me. I travel often with my steam deck, and sometimes pack an xbox controller or two to play local multiplayer with friends but this is a much less b…

What's wrong with Bitwig engineering?

Even if Python used the anonymous function syntax proposed, people would still call them "lambdas". If you want to have aa keyword for this, you might as well name it after what mo…

I really despise the idea that we should let the manufacturer decide what's best for us with no out based on the premise of protecting people who don't know any better. As technolo…

It sounded like the underlying issue was the OS reusing the same int value for the file descriptor (2), rather than a dangling FILE*, which AFIK is not something rust could prevent…

I’ve spent countless hours playing insta-team on Venice. Any Linux distro which doesn’t include Sauerbraten in its package repo isn’t one worth using, IMO