Garlef

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by Garlef 4y ago
Could someone explain this bit from the intro to me? > Recursion is very efficient in the Om language, due to (a) the "eager" evaluation model enabled by prefix concatenative syntax... How is the syntax of any relevance for the
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by Garlef 4y ago
It's streaming that killed piracy. And even piracy was only partially to avoid paying money: It was a huge UX win over CDs. The iPod would not have had the impact it had without piracy.
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by Garlef 4y ago
Judging from the abstract, the title should be actually be "Videoconferencing curbs creative idea generation". There's more to virtual communication.
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by Garlef 4y ago
My guess would be that it's sabotage from the left wing since there's a right wing protest today in Berlin that is done mostly by non-Berliners. (There's also a lot of busses bringing in protesters.) There was a similar (co-)
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by Garlef 4y ago
In the end: Who cares? Sure, from an academic perspective this might be interesting. But in the end it's the users who will pick the tool. And they will figure out the things the tool can not express in the first week after release. So
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by Garlef 4y ago
To me, handwriting is in analogy to martial arts: You begin learning one style, but by the time you reached the higher ranks, you've basically created your own system.
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by Garlef 4y ago
Delivering the software is much easier: * Do you want to build it for mac? And windows? And linux desktop (lol)? And from the clients side, it's also easier: * You just need to open your browser you're good to go. * No need to ins
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by Garlef 4y ago
> comparing the governments of US and China to my family Hi there. My intention was not to make this about your literal family. The "your" was intended to refer to a general addressee. Sry for that.
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by Garlef 4y ago
Agreed. Also, I'm not happy that I used and reproduced negative connotations about prostitution (that are deeply rooted in patriarchical control of female sexuality and reproduction). But I choose to keep this non-insult since it has a
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by Garlef 4y ago
This seems to be a fallacy as it can be applied to anything. Here's an example illustrating how bad of an argument that is: It appears to be reasonable to assign the "your mother is a [insert derogatory term]" hypothesis a hi
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by Garlef 4y ago
> This is such a gimmick. It's not. This is not a new solution and already exists for a few years from other providers and it's making money. https://sonnenusa.com/en/virtual-power-plant/
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by Garlef 4y ago
It's not a new thing. Sonnen is doing this for a few years already.
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by Garlef 4y ago
> I feel like a lot of boilerplate is a choice, that often comes from frameworks being used. [...] I disagree with the text criticism as well. The representation as text files is also part of what's causing the boilerplate. As an ex
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by Garlef 4y ago
I think the "ability to think clearly" is a bit too vague of a concept. * Is it really important that the whole process of thinking is "clear" or do you wish for a more structured outcome in the end? * Why do you assume
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by Garlef 4y ago
> But I will say that unionization does come with a cost that is borne not by Amazon’s executives or their shareholders, but ... I like parts of the analysis (if a big player has to pay higher wages, this will affect many in different wa
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by Garlef 4y ago
The federal minimum is not really something that should be taken as a point of reference (from the employees side). A better metric: "How much do jobs pay that are easily available to me?" (And so in this sense, the wages of Wallm
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by Garlef 4y ago
Looks great! A few questions (hopefully the author still reads it): * Any plan for support of arrow/monad comprehensions? * Semi-related: When it comes to generators it might be worth to consider making them clonable (see https:/
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by Garlef 4y ago
My short hot take on DevOps and infrastructure as code: "Infrastructure as code has it backwards" ------- Take the development of programming as an analogy: * Punched cards * Programming in assembler * Goto * Callable procedures *
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by Garlef 5y ago
Not a single mention of infrastructure as code or serverless ... :shrug:
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by Garlef 5y ago
No it's not. If someone walks through your living room with dirty shoes you don't get the floor cleaned up by having someone over who takes their shoes off.
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by Garlef 5y ago
> "Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships." That's catchy. But: The practice of programming is about manipulating a special kind of data (code). And so: &
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by Garlef 5y ago
> German speakers also can't resist replying to rhetorical questions. This should have been, "German speakers also can't resist replying to rhetorical questions, can they?", should it?
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by Garlef 5y ago
Sidenote: The font is very small on this site.
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by Garlef 5y ago
Ah... https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1779372/python-metaclass...
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by Garlef 5y ago
What's the advantage of this over class decorators? @decorator class SomeClass: ... To me, class decorators seem to be much easier to reason about.
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by Garlef 5y ago
> We only don’t see the propaganda because we’ve been subjected to it since birth. That's precisely the joke here. >> We have such a sophisticated propaganda in the west that it's much harder to see it
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by Garlef 5y ago
I think the documentation should give the precise AWS permissions so that a role can be issued. Currently it only reads "# the role must have access to AWS Lambda".
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by Garlef 5y ago
I think "scoundrel" is a better translation of "schuft" in this context (over "villain").
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by Garlef 5y ago
Interesting idea. Reminds me of Foucaults dispositifs.
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by Garlef 5y ago
> rationality is the same thing as ability to learn complex things I think this covers only a part of what the word means. There's a strong connection to (and to some even identity with) the term "reason". https:/&#x

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