Conlectus

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by Conlectus 5y ago
Property rights are the name of the game though right? The extent to which you are allowed to own property is the fundamental design mechanism for an economy system. Simple versions being taxation, more extensive being things like collectiv
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by Conlectus 6y ago
The memory management of large blocks of text often uses a recursive data structure called a "Rope". It may be difficult to guarantee good memory properties without manual management of some sort.
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by Conlectus 6y ago
Relevant: The Responsibility of Intellectuals by Noam Chomsky https://chomsky.info/19670223/ Spoiler: It's to tell the truth.
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by Conlectus 6y ago
The full thing would be an example of property based testing, I believe, based on the property "the compiler doesn't crash".
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by Conlectus 6y ago
It seems to me this "impossibility" might be an artifact of definition: if some system contains disjoint parts, we no longer call it "an animal". Colonial animals are the edge case here. Most would be hesitant to say an
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by Conlectus 6y ago
(meaningful) isn't as much a get-of-out-jail clause here as you suggest, if I understand correctly. Requiring implementations at all, even if they are broken, moves the time when you find out about a missing definition to runtime, rath
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by Conlectus 6y ago
This distinction is the same as the distinction between structural and nominal typing, described at the end of the article. Abstract base classes require everything to extend from a base-level object, and also inherit it's default imp
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by Conlectus 6y ago
Taken from the article > "It is no surprise that search engines replicate biases that are not exclusive to the technology, but rather cultural ones. Women of certain nationalities are pigeonholed into sexual and services roles by a
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by Conlectus 6y ago
Since there is no "correct" way to rank images, why doesn't Google return them randomly? Because they have _chosen_ a way to rank them, motivated by some goal (likely, "user satisfaction"). It is therefore reasonabl
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by Conlectus 6y ago
The article mentions that queries made in the country's native language tended to be less "racy", suggesting the later. More generally, it's the differences in the intent of the search that may be the cause, with those i
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by Conlectus 6y ago
Ha! I was working in literally the same thing a while ago (a terminal emulator that used separate panes for commands, based on Electron). You could potentially pipe every command output into a separate FIFO file and then run them in the bac
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by Conlectus 6y ago
Note, the grandparent is not actually quoting the website, they are referencing the fictional Turboencabulator[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboencabulator
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TV Pickup(en.wikipedia.org)
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by Conlectus 6y ago
That's right, yes. This is apparently possible (if not common) given the networking setups of a lot of data centers.
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by Conlectus 6y ago
One thing that jumps out at me after reading a lot of Jepsen analyses - does Rqlite assume that partitions form equality relations? That is, that all nodes belong to one and only partition group? This is not always the case in practice.
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by Conlectus 6y ago
This was in reference to a quote from a software developer comparing software development to building a bridge. That is why "he has never built a bridge" was emphasized.
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by Conlectus 6y ago
I believe the comparisons between how engineering is practiced make this more than "silly". The purpose of the writing is not to answer that shallow question, but to better understand both fields.
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by Conlectus 6y ago
It may be an important question because answering it requires dissecting the similarities and differences between software development and the jobs that people usually call "engineering". In doing so, we see what lessons there are
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by Conlectus 6y ago
The moral differentiation is one the author talks about a lot, because it's the usual reaction. That said; which engineering field are you basing this on? I thought that generally only lead engineers or architects were responsible in t
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by Conlectus 6y ago
Any reasonable length pin would not contain enough information to act as a safe encryption key; it would be too easy to brute force.
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by Conlectus 6y ago
To prod this a bit: Qanon is popular and growing conspiracy theory. Should a news organization covering it spend equal time detailing the supposed evidence of an international satanic pedophile ring as they do discrediting it? If such a new
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by Conlectus 6y ago
Here's a picture of all the different regions: https://imgur.com/a/oYDA5Ja For those curious if how it works, Paul Irish did a breakdown of it quite a while ago: https://youtu.be/Z2ZXW2HBLPM TL:DW
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by Conlectus 6y ago
> How arrogant of the web developer to override the user's preference! I imagine this is partly tongue-in-cheek, but I think the real difficulty here is that CSS doesn't differentiate between "user-configured sans-serif fo
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by Conlectus 6y ago
> What tactics are ok for a company to combat unions? None. This is a legally protected right.
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by Conlectus 6y ago
Nice! Apologies if I sounded condescending, you clearly are much more familiar than me :). I tend to agree, but I have difficulty when you scale the problem. No individual person benefits from having their computer rebooted enough to counte
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by Conlectus 6y ago
MySQL has worse guarantees in several cases, though. For example, using `SERIALIZABLE` isolation means your queries can deadlock when run in parallel. Likewise, selecting a column not present in a GROUP BY leads to random values being retur
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by Conlectus 6y ago
It's a bit more complicated than that I think. A common function of malware is to create "zombie" computers that are controllable en-mass to, say, DDoS a website. This makes the prevalence of malware-ridden Windows machines a
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by Conlectus 6y ago
This project is entirely doable on any of those platforms. Edit: perhaps with some difficulty for the last hop to a virtual device on Electron, to be fair.
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by Conlectus 6y ago
Webview looks like an interesting project. I feel lost people's complaints with Electron apps from from memory usage / JavaScript performance though, which it doesn't look like it would improve significantly.
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by Conlectus 6y ago
Semantically neutral yes, but they are not divs -- they're "unknown elements", which have more annoying behavior (similar to pseudoelements from memory)

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