Avshalom

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2491.
by Avshalom 11y ago
Tidal sells FLAC, they charge you for it but it's there. I think they're around 30m tracks now.
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by Avshalom 11y ago
I can for instance do type throw is (ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS); type result is (ME, YOU, DRAW); winner : array (throw, throw) of result := ( (DRAW, YOU, ME), (YOU, DRAW, ME), (ME, YOU, DRAW)); YOU = winner(ROCK, PAPER);
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by Avshalom 11y ago
Oh its almost certainly a terrible idea (at least if done that drastically) if for no other reason that massive upheavals of the status quo tend to harm the poor the most. It is just yes an example of the sort of "fundamental" of
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by Avshalom 11y ago
Ada has associative arrays as well. But it will also let you have normal old boring arrays with enums, chars and modular types as indexes.
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by Avshalom 11y ago
You could always dissolve the legal concept of the publicly owned corporation and only allow employee owned corporations. Thats actually less government, because right now we have a government that has to write and enforce laws for both for
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by Avshalom 11y ago
Completely unrelated to the topic but I'm struck by the Ada solution. So many other languages either make a map or make an array and then back out characters from numeric indexes. Ada just lets you use characters as indexes. Ada will a
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by Avshalom 11y ago
It's worth pointing out that Monte Carlo tree search is a relatively 'dumb' algorithm. It turns out that getting a computer to be good at Go doesn't reveal anything deep or interesting about: Humans, Computers, Intellige
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by Avshalom 11y ago
I mean it's hard to rank these things but Debian has been so so very important to the whole GNU/Linux/FOSS/Anything-But-Microsoft endeavor.
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by Avshalom 11y ago
Of course people can. The question is whether they will. The idea that people will use trend de jure to justify whatever bad behaviors they already exhibit while not putting any actual effort into self-improvement is, I feel, fairly uncontr
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by Avshalom 11y ago
> I think he'd support the idea of calling out managers who hide their opinions from you. I suspect even the managers would support that... until it's their turn in the barrel. One of the problems with "treat others how yo
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by Avshalom 11y ago
Because of course the concept of social etiquette was just recently invented this generation.
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by Avshalom 11y ago
On one hand: no fuck you I want to pee in solitude. On the other hand: I can't remember the title/author but there has absolutely been the argument floating around for a while that the problem isn't the lack of privacy it&#x2
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by Avshalom 11y ago
This is that thing where managers buy a book and pay some consultants to (further) justify being dicks to their subordinates isn't it?
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by Avshalom 11y ago
Yeah I mean I for one am over ten years old so I remember when 'functional' pretty much just meant functions-as-first-class-values and every-thing-returns-a-value. Then because those are pretty reasonable language features all the
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by Avshalom 11y ago
8-9 years isn't sudden. I mean I know it feels like yesterday if you don't stop to think about it.
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by Avshalom 11y ago
Isn't the whole selling point of the hypertext format that we can follow as many links as we need for context and foundational information?
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by Avshalom 11y ago
Jr bayl pner nobhg gur crgnyf .Lur fvatyr cvc bs n bar vf n ebfr jvgu ab crgnyf, guhf pbhagf nf mreb.
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by Avshalom 11y ago
It's possible that we did it as an intentional Americanism. Which I hear is how we ended up drinking coffee over tea.
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by Avshalom 11y ago
It was more of a rhetorical question from 6-8 year old me. Yeah, though, and certainly there's other reasons, like distinguishing it from a bunch of dependent clauses. That we elide "and"s when speaking a list is of course a
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by Avshalom 11y ago
See I didn't grow up thinking I was using commas to separate list items, I grew up thinking I was contracting a bunch "and"s. That is: A red one and a blue one and a green one and a purple one. became A red one, a blu
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by Avshalom 11y ago
This seems like a good place to use ligatures to shrink most of the white space between quotes and following punctuation marks. I do it when I'm writing informally because yeah it's the sensible way to do it, but it does sometimes
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by Avshalom 11y ago
You got excited by my first sentenced and failed to notice that I fairly explicitly don't give even a tiny shit about the hypocrisy didn't you? Though it's worth pointing that most people care about the difference between kil
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by Avshalom 11y ago
The waterfalls in the northwest make for absolutely stunning mossy walls. Oneota down in the Columbia Gorge is amazing in the summer (possibly also the winter but it's a bit cold to be traipsing up a river then)
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by Avshalom 11y ago
depends. If you jump onto debian and do apt-get gnat you'll pull down the FSF distribution. The FSF standard library/runtime is under the GNAT-modified gpl which is basically the LGPL and you can use it commercially. I think it&#x
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by Avshalom 11y ago
Also I don't know how common the sentiment is but I would happily take an extra 1-2 millimeters in depth and the extra weight for more battery life in said hypothetical smaller phones.
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by Avshalom 11y ago
It's still absolute domination of life[1] for the sake of aesthetics. It's not exactly inexplicable to be a bit unsettled by it or the mindset that leads to it. Comparisons to other human activity are only going to make it seem c
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by Avshalom 11y ago
As if perfect consistency is something attainable or even virtuous if it was. ME, personally, yeah I contribute to a lot of ethically horrifying things through my economic choices. Mostly because I'm lazy, also not sufficiently rich th
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by Avshalom 11y ago
They really aren't. Or at least if they are it's a terrifying commentary on tech companies because neither of them have ever actually made money.
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by Avshalom 11y ago
Wait... "internet services like ... farming"?
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by Avshalom 11y ago
chips all the way down, until you hit turtles.

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