tatterdemalion @ tatterdemalion @programming.dev

Professional software engineer, musician, gamer, stoic, democratic socialis

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Pistols are still the deadliest type of guns no matter what metric you use.

That's a silly statement. Why do you think soldiers prefer to use assault rifles in combat? I said "deadliest" meaning the most capable of killing, not the most statistically likely gun to kill someone.

Yup I paid the fee to stop getting marketing junk mail. Then when I started an LLC, they started sending all of that mail again addressed to the LLC. You can't fucking win.

An "assault rifle" is specifically a selective-fire rifle with detachable magazines and intermediate cartridges. AR-15s, AK-47s, and M16s meet this definition. You are likely thinking of "assault weapon," a term which is not well-defined.

And while it's true that most mass shootings and gun deaths in general are perpetrated by handguns, assault rifles are responsible for the deadliest mass shootings.

Because it is so challenging to pass gun control legislation in the US, the least we can hope to do is forbid ownership of the deadliest types of guns.

I agree that this is not sufficient though. We need to have more stringent requirements for acquiring any firearm. 28 states don't even require background checks for private sale of guns. Our laws fall way too short on gun trafficking.

The illegal gun market is just a symptom of the very legal gun market. The head of the ATF even said, "virtually every crime gun in the US starts off as a legal firearm."

We need background checks, and I don't think private unlicensed gun sales should be legal either.

Some forms of it are illegal, but it's hard to define what exactly constitutes Gerrymandering. Rather than enumerating all of the ways the Gerrymandering is possible, we really just need to make it so only one specific policy for forming districts is used. I think mathematicians have been proposing models for this that attempt to create districts with roughly uniform distribution of population and isotropic borders.

Rebase feature branch, merge commit into main (NO SQUASH).

Selling life-saving drugs at large multiples of the cost to manufacture + distribute. The most obvious example being insulin.

Switching political party in the same term that you were elected to office.

CEOs making 100x the median worker at the same company.

Assault rifles and other automatic or military-grade weapons. They have no practical purpose in the hands of a citizen. Pistols, shotguns, and hunting rifles should be sufficient for hunting and self defense.

Generic finance bro bullshit. Frivolous use of bank credit for speculative investment. Predatory lending. Credit default swaps. It's just a spectrum of Ponzi Schemes. Let's reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act.

Non-disclosure of expensive gifts to Supreme Court judges. Looking at you, Clarence.

Military recruiting at high schools.

Junk mail. You literally have to pay a company to stop sending it.

It might not be a fad, but it's definitely a local maximum and/or a limitation that many devs seem to be stuck with.

Time to stock up.

Especially because devs actually have to go out of their way to exclude Linux these days. Proton makes it so damn easy to support Linux. If you don't, it's because you did not even try or you intentionally added some bloat to your software to make it incompatible.

Strongly agree with everything in this. And wouldn't you know, it's written very well!

Right but it's pretty rare that a tiny PR actually accomplishes a valuable user story.

So my point is just that lines of code is mostly irrelevant as long as it's organized well and does no more than necessary to accomplish the agreed upon goal.

This does seem like a potential issue if the PR is itself implementing more than one vertical slice of a feature. Then it could have been smaller and there might be wasted effort.

If the patches are small and well-organized then this isn't necessarily a bad thing. It will take more than one day to review it, but it clearly took much more time to write it.

Lol the yellow eye barely saves it.

Is it prohibitively expensive to manually define your data types? How many do you have?

I do not generally recommend using ORMs, but this advice is likely dependent on the particular ecosystem you are dealing with.

It seems like you are pretty deep into Microsoft/.NET territory. I don't have any experience with .NET so I might not be the best person to help.

I've never needed to use a template processor to generate code. Usually a macro system built into the programming language is better for this. I think template processors are more commonly used for generating text documents.

What problem are you trying to solve?

The irony is that the first amendment is in that thing.

Give a listen to L'Isle Joyeuse. My favorite Debussy.

TheseusOS is another interesting one.

Yea this looks productive.

Imagine how useless the LSP suggestions are.

I'm actually building a new work station right now.