ByteJockey

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by ByteJockey 4y ago
What made you go CL instead of something like, say, racket? Is it being a lisp-2 as much of a pain as it looks from the outside? Any tips for groking the package/namespace system? I've taken a couple runs at CL and that's whe
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
TLC died and burned its credibility around when (or a bit before) Toddlers & Tiaras. If Netflix wants the same cultural clout as TLC, it's a defensible decision. Up until recently, they've had significantly more.
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
> I think your "ease of iteration" point will still probably win for PHP vs any compiled language. While I don't think you can beat straight php/js/python for this, there's still a lot of room for improvemen
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
It works fine if you're working solo, but companies have to pay for it. > To have a low-level developer tool that’s required to be in my menubar and administered through a closed-source GUI is IMHO an insane departure from web softw
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
I wasn't aware that there were any existing C compilers made in asm for modern architectures. I guess I shouldn't be too surprised. That's cool, thanks for showing me.
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
The main use case right now is that your company won't spring for a docker desktop license (and you work in a windows/mac shop). It works well enough for single docker images, but I've never gotten it to work well with a comp
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
You can also bootstrap the way lisp did and write the fist compiler in the language and get a bunch of grad students to hand-compile it. But, yeah if you don't have a bunch of grad students at the ready, an assembler hand-written in ma
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
Oh, gotcha. Sorry, brain wasn't parsing right before the coffee today.
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
Don't most toolchains have a rather large C++ component? Just parsing C++ is a rather large undertaking (my understanding is that it's syntax is turing complete).
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
> but I don’t think calling it a fallacy is correct as a fallacy means incorrect The (logical) fallacy is in the word "must". Let's look at the statement again: > if an aspect of a system benefits a group, that the grou
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
Yes, but it's also very much not the kind of statement PG is talking about. It's not generally something someone would be concerned about the truth value of.
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
Probably something like: "food delivery near me"
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by ByteJockey 5y ago
Fair, those are the same words, but it's not the same meaning. The "I" in this term refers to two different people depending on who says it. Are they really the same statement if they have two different meanings?
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by ByteJockey 5y ago
A fair point. I'm not sure how the FTC would be involved here. My understanding is that the exchange between twitter and most of its users doesn't rise to the legal designation of "trade" (excluding twitter blue users, o
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by ByteJockey 5y ago
I think they're using it so that they can use nil as the zero value to indicate the buffer is empty in cases where the zero value is a valid result. I feel like the comma ok idiom is a better idea here.
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by ByteJockey 5y ago
Almost certainly. It's really only C++ and Rust that monomorphize everything (this is one of the reasons their builds take so long).
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by ByteJockey 5y ago
Depends on the authority they're claiming. If they claim to be regulating trade, that's probably gonna get slapped down really quick. The feds don't really like that. Doing background checks on the drivers would probably also
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by ByteJockey 5y ago
That's really only an issue if enough of the shareholders decide to sue or you're straight up abusing your position (i.e. embezzling). Otherwise, you can always make some stuff up about it being a long-term strategy. But, fundamen
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by ByteJockey 5y ago
And yet religious beliefs, generally speaking, are protected. How hard does someone have to believe something before it crosses the line into religion? Or is it just a matter of paperwork?
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by ByteJockey 5y ago
> Neither was I. Then I may have misinterpreted your statement. Would you mind elaborating on exactly which part of the essay confuses the paradox of intolerance with heresy?
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by ByteJockey 5y ago
Yes, but it's in the context of someone already having said that an "x-ist" statement can't be true. The quote in question is immediately after this paragraph: > If you find yourself talking to someone who uses these
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by ByteJockey 5y ago
> Really? He can’t think of a statement that is racist when a white person says it and not a black person? He can't think of a statement that is false when a white person says it and true when a black person says it (or vice versa).
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by ByteJockey 5y ago
I think you're the one who is confused here. The paradox of tolerance was not conceived to describe people who merely hold opinions. To quote Popper (this is also quoted in the wiki link you posted): > In this formulation, I do not
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by ByteJockey 5y ago
> Basic hygiene when cooking is not perfectionism, and is not only done at elite restaurants. Ok, so let's continue this analogy on the other one. It's less like basic hygiene, and more like refusing to cook outside a clean roo
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by ByteJockey 5y ago
I think your examples are unfair. Getting stuck on needing the perfect architecture is closer to scrapping a building plan because it wouldn't hold up to a 2km asteroid strike than it is building something that will ultimately kill peo
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by ByteJockey 5y ago
> So for clarity, they will jump to do 10 hours for 5-7 technical interviews at $0 but won't do 10 hours of paid contracting work where they get $2,000? It's a 30 hour contract, or at least the comment I was reading said that.
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by ByteJockey 5y ago
> I think there’s a lot of WFH folk who are worried less about promotions than they are the availability of WFH jobs in general. I feel like this was covered in the "tanking their career" part of my statement, but fair. It&#x27
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by ByteJockey 5y ago
At this point, the mere existence of the other group is a danger to what the first group sees as their interests. The human instinct is to minimize the other group, making their group appear larger, and strengthening the argument that their
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by ByteJockey 5y ago
There are two camps that want something mutually exclusive (work from home vs work in office). Additionally, in order to get what they want, they need the other group to comply.* The struggle is spilling over into the comment threads. * If
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by ByteJockey 5y ago
> What is this mainstream media garbage about tumblr being racist. From my memories of the meme wars and the last time I checked in on tumblr, tumblr had a lot of niche communities. A lot of those revolved around sexuality. There were so

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