Fellshard

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by Fellshard 4y ago
Correct: consensus is never a good justification on its own.
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by Fellshard 4y ago
Dr. Racket does have an SICP #lang available; I'm not sure whether I got it through the package manager, or elsewhere.
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by Fellshard 4y ago
This may be somewhat tangential, and if it is too much so, then ignore this and move along. Isn't the key axiom - preservation of information - a presupposition, and not a formally evidenced law? As best I can tell, it's mostly be
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by Fellshard 5y ago
The difference is that the words you cited in the HTML spec are all rooted in English vocabulary and words, without modification. Creating an entirely new set of vocabulary - not mere jargon, but full-on /new words/ with their own
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by Fellshard 5y ago
I believe this is a very rose-tinted slant on what the intent is, especially that worldview has shown itself quite willing and ready to generate oppression along some categories in order to purportedly alleviate oppression along other categ
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by Fellshard 5y ago
Not quite sure that was the message of Seveneves; there was quite a bit of rancor and political sniping that escalated to a horrible climax once the mission was already underway. A 'humanity at its best and worst' book, as Stephen
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by Fellshard 5y ago
Brave iOS, the page keeps refreshing on a loop. Bizarre.
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by Fellshard 5y ago
His B-reel books are usually decent ideas, but you can tell when it's Brandon's voice leaking through the characters instead of the characters themselves. He tends to take a bit more care of his larger, mainline books.
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by Fellshard 5y ago
Mostly for understanding any stack traces you might see while running the code, I'd say. Other than that, you can use the bulk of the core language without needing a deep level of Java knowledge. Those bits of Java you may touch can be
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by Fellshard 5y ago
I'd say JS-only devs would benefit from getting outside of their bubble ASAP, and the original SICP is a very good way to begin doing that.
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by Fellshard 5y ago
And yet, NFTs grant no 'rights to use': licensing, copyright, terms of use, or any other legal terms of the sort. At its heart, it's because blockchains are not widely recognized as legally authoritative. They /cannot be
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by Fellshard 5y ago
Hypothesis for why there could be an actual /defense/ for the existence and even utility of flat earthers and similar groups: They act as a continual, low-grade chaos assault on scientific institutions, thus encouraging the instit
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by Fellshard 5y ago
Consensus protocols 101? It seems to boil down to, 'who will subordinate' - it doesn't matter who, so long as someone does. There is a risk of interminably failing to come to consensus on a means for finding consensus, though
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by Fellshard 5y ago
The presumption that churches are purely utilitarian is going to start you off with a large swathe of options cut off.
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by Fellshard 5y ago
I believe what's being stated is that TCP isn't some mathematical inevitability, falling out of some discovered law, but rather a tool that was adopted because it had utility, and was certainly based on more formal findings or hyp
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by Fellshard 5y ago
Maybe less useful, but in fiction, Ted Chiang's 'Division by Zero'[1] is a fascinating window into a human response to such a discovery as Gödel's, because it's not /just/ about math. Major breakthroughs i
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by Fellshard 5y ago
I take this approach for internal divisions within the same file. For external APIs, you're operating under a completely different set of constraints. As I recall, similar advice was in the original Clean Code: context guides which pri
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by Fellshard 5y ago
Only if said functions are illogically split along non-obvious boundaries. Very frequently, though, I find I can break down concepts to two-three statements in a way that makes it very concise. But also not a hard rule, because there are ca
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by Fellshard 5y ago
Format migration seems to me to be a key feature - the ability to lift ephemeral discussions into more permanent and deliberate mediums as required. Something like chat -> forum -> wiki, for example. Have set processes in place for de
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by Fellshard 5y ago
Genuine question: is it necessary to get vaxxed if - all else held the same - the cost is not significantly higher for the antiviral? Wouldn't that cut the risk down so significantly that we can safely say, "Vaccinate if you'
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by Fellshard 5y ago
One major one that seems to have set its course for the ensuing years is its response to the infamous Charlottesville rally, wherein they attempted to argue that they now considered liberties to have precedence among one another. [1] Their
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by Fellshard 5y ago
They are explicitly picking and choosing which speech they believe should be free - and it's not just selecting cases, but actively militating against some speech. EDIT: Not just speech, but also other basic rights they have stood for,
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by Fellshard 5y ago
You have to deal with every idiosyncrasy as soon as you begin using external dependencies (and even many standard browser features), because there is no standard convention at any one time, much less over time. There is no fixed paradigm, n
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by Fellshard 5y ago
I don't think this is a good read. A standard library is very concrete - it's the core of the language in action, and the shape that its code takes will likely be repeated regularly in 3rd party code written in that language. Ther
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by Fellshard 5y ago
I figured there would be mathematical foundations to it, and it would figure Euler is involved. Very neat!
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by Fellshard 5y ago
This is not isolated to Fox News, whatever other problems it certainly has.
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by Fellshard 5y ago
The gag to this song[1] is a bit crass, but one of the visualization tools in particular has always caught my eye: the hexagonally-arranged note visualization. It seems to capture a number of chord relationships in a very intriguing and int
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by Fellshard 5y ago
That's a pretty current view of Chinese national policy, actually, so it doesn't come as a surprise at all. From what I recall, Liu takes a party line; I believe he defended their treatment of Uyghurs in recent interviews, for exa
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by Fellshard 5y ago
Certainly agreed the water is muddy, and that only the kooky fringe hold to all these, but that fringe is growing. The widely-hailed current sources for this kind of thinking are Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo; the latter, specifically,
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by Fellshard 5y ago
The argument you'd heard basically boils down to turning all power dynamics into moral categories: those who have power reinforce their own power by building systems that make sure there's no repercussions for their own actions if

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