wccrawford

First off, I generally don't worry about DRY until there are 3 instances, not 2. With only 2, it's really easy to over-generalize or have a bad structure for the abstraction.

But otherwise, I disagree with the article. If it's complicated enough to bother abstracting the logic, the worst that can happen in the above situation is that you just duplicate that whole class once you discover that it's not the same. And if that never happens, you only have 1 copy to maintain.

The code in the article isn't complicated enough that I'd bother. It even ends up with about the same number of lines of code, hinting that you probably haven't simplified things much.

It's one guy claiming people around him are happy about it. He doesn't even say that he is personally excited about it.

Yup. Feeding the trolls. Doomed to failure.

It's too bad Ente doesn't have any browser extensions, because it sounds pretty awesome otherwise.

That's awesome. I can't wait now.

Oh, I'm not trying to make it happen. I just think it's inevitable that someone will. And probably pretty soon.

That's an interesting idea. I'll have to see if I can do something of the sort and see if it matters. I have a feeling it'll still pop the stupid messages about connecting to the internet, but maybe I'll get lucky and it won't.

Thanks!

To add to this, my LG C2 kept popping up a message that I could use Alexa with it if I connected it to Wifi.

To kill that message, I did. Now it pops up advertisements in that same way from time to time.

If I take it offline again, I get messages about connecting it again.

It's effectively impossible to kill ads on it.

A couple years ago I signed up for an email provider so I could use my own domain and avoid Google being able to kill my email account. They've got a spam filter, but it's ridiculously bad. I've been looking for better ways, but still haven't found them.

Ironically, I'm hoping a free locally-run LLM will soon be able to filter emails appropriately. I haven't seen anyone trying yet, but I'm sure they're out there.

Nobody should ever be banned without knowing exactly what they were banned for. Either he's lying (I doubt it) or they didn't bother telling him, just gave him a perma ban without notice.

That's pretty shitty. They deserve the shit storm this will kick up.

I think, even without a source, that's it's pretty much a given that each generation of cards is going to be about the same price as the last, possibly adding in some more for inflation.

Also, the xx80s and xx90s were always for gamers with insane expectations. The xx60s and xx70s are much more reasonable and are still amazing. Anyone complaining about the prices of the top end cards should just re-evaluate what they need instead of grumbling about prices.

"we had an argument in a bar and I got up and left, then she sent the text,"

If you abandon your girl in a bar, you should absolutely expect to lose her, birthday or not. She is under no obligation at that point to consider his feelings about his special day.