Floegipoky

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by Floegipoky 6y ago
Perl 6 is basically a totally different language than any other Perl, and it took a very long time to go from announcement (2000) to release (2015). It was renamed to Raku last year.
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by Floegipoky 6y ago
> Why won't democratic constituencies hold their own politicians accountable? > Why is the blame directed toward those who have little if any influence in the governance of local police in urban cores? This is an election year, a
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by Floegipoky 6y ago
I also think it's important to be aware that much of the available intelligence at that time and reasoning behind it was classified, allowing the perpetrators to establish a narrative that went unchallenged for decades. For instance mo
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by Floegipoky 6y ago
As somebody else explained, if he had showed up to vote against it the amendment almost certainly would have still failed by 1 vote. The party whips would have just required one of the other "no"s to switch. The reality is that pa
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by Floegipoky 7y ago
> I’m a big proponent of implied-consent There is no such thing as implied consent. There is either explicit consent, or there is an absence of consent.
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by Floegipoky 7y ago
Big fan of mosh, I've used mosh + tmux + neovim for years
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by Floegipoky 7y ago
I built a cluster of 6 pi 3b+ duct taped to a USB hub for power and a switch and router a few years ago for the explicit purpose of experimenting with clustering technologies, including kubernetes. I wasn't running it for long periods
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by Floegipoky 7y ago
Sussman and Steele were quite surprised too! From the original Scheme paper: "This work developed out of an initial attempt to understand the actorness of actors... we discovered that the 'actors' and the lambda expressions w
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by Floegipoky 7y ago
To expand on this, by allowing preemption on function calls and simply not providing a loop mechanism, you can guarantee an upper bound on how long a process may need to wait until it can be scheduled.
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by Floegipoky 7y ago
> Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media - Noam Chomsky
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by Floegipoky 7y ago
I have far fewer problems with the Car than I do with the rest of the example. > The problem comes when you want to add continually new methods all the time This is not a real problem! Violating encapsulation to avoid dealing with the oc
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by Floegipoky 7y ago
Start making a list of production incidents caused by bugs that aren't possible in Haskell. Even better if you can attach a monetary cost to any of them. Find a small, relatively independent project and make the case to try it out.
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by Floegipoky 7y ago
Just like lavabit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit#Suspension_and_gag_ord...
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by Floegipoky 7y ago
Hot take: the "short functions are better" camp is really just accidentally arguing for pure functions and immutable data. If that 100 line function has 3 side effects and ends up broken into 10 smaller functions, you probably now
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by Floegipoky 7y ago
Function application is THE killer feature
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by Floegipoky 7y ago
1. Trap bar deadlifts are not actually deadlifts. The defining characteristic of a deadlift is that the load is in front of your center of balance. Trap bar deadlifts are actually squats, because the load is centered on your center of balan
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by Floegipoky 7y ago
You're correct that each fragment will have its own independent orbit, based on the delta-v that it gained from the explosion. But they won't circularize; each of those new orbits will intersect the original orbit at the point whe
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by Floegipoky 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohmann_transfer_orbit
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by Floegipoky 7y ago
Since this article refers to einkorn bread as "grimly tasteless, rather soggy flatbread," I just wanted to say that einkorn sourdough is my favorite type of bread. Definitely worth trying!
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by Floegipoky 7y ago
While skilled software engineers are still rare enough to be coveted, programmers are a dime a dozen these days, many desperate to get their foot in the door to break into the industry. Licensed engineers, on the other hand, are hard to com
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by Floegipoky 7y ago
Freedom of the press has nothing to do with publishers or institutions; "the press" is not a separate entity from "The People". All citizens may exercise freedom of the press whether they're a credentialed journalis
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by Floegipoky 7y ago
I feel woefully inadequate among present company, but nonetheless offer my 2 cents: There is a fundamental performance tradeoff between sequential vs concurrent computation, because concurrency always requires some form of communication. L
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by Floegipoky 8y ago
Don't forget how dwarves drop their personal items all over your fortress, even when they have an assigned bedroom. Some ahole leaves their sock in your front door and the vile forces of darkness just waltz on through. But all of the h
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by Floegipoky 8y ago
I'm not going to say we weren't all nuts... but a lot of advanced language features, including metaprogramming, were necessary to build things that other communities take for granted: frameworks, test harnesses, mocking, static an
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by Floegipoky 8y ago
We worked at the same company, can confirm. Every problem mentioned above is true. I once wrote a sub at this gig that returned a list (because hashes are lists) containing a string built by sprintf, which contained a sub dereference wrappi
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by Floegipoky 8y ago
I recently left a job at a company with a primarily perl 5 codebase. I would never choose to use perl to start a new project. In my opinion its relevance these days is primarily legacy systems and duct tape/scripting. I still use it fo
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by Floegipoky 8y ago
https://docs.scala-lang.org/tour/pattern-matching.html
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by Floegipoky 8y ago
Why would ISPs violate the laws written by their own lawyers?
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by Floegipoky 8y ago
It seems like you have a few problems: 1. Doing more than your role calls for and not getting recognition 2. Reporting to somebody who you don't trust 3. You want to keep coding/architecting. The next promotion requires pointy hai
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by Floegipoky 8y ago
*EDIT: I think I misinterpreted your point, but I'm going to leave this because I think it's valid. That probably contributes, however the reality is that most Americans (particularly below-average earners) are living paycheck to

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