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by Jach 2y ago
I can't imagine it on a normal server expected to serve public internet requests. The way you phrased that though makes me wonder for desktop use, is there a non-cups alternative to printing on linux these days that's gone under m
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by Jach 2y ago
It seems more likely that Russia would just be using the hardware to communicate with their own systems, probably not Starlink's actual network. For a kamikaze drone, if you don't have to pay for the antenna, great, money saved. T
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by Jach 2y ago
From a non-expert view with no influence on the matter in any way, I do find these sorts of arguments more compelling than anything I've seen put forward by proponents. "It will indirectly help with superconducting magnet tech&quo
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by Jach 2y ago
Despite its age, my first and only encounter with it was in building godot. I was impressed from the user side. (Until, due to godot's dev policies (which might have changed by now) and not the fault of scons, a git pull resulted in a
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by Jach 2y ago
I quite like python's whitespace requirements, but notably it doesn't care what your stance is on tabs vs spaces, or how many spaces, so long as you're consistent in a block. Never liked yaml, though, I don't think it&#x
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by Jach 2y ago
Meanwhile gradle people are like: just run these included gradlew or gradlew.bat files, they'll download the actual gradle from somewhere online, pollute some folders in your home dir, and then execute the build stuff. I notice just ha
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by Jach 2y ago
> When you run the "make" command in your shell it will check if the "bar.txt" file exists. I got to this point and ran into an error: Makefile:2: *** missing separator. Stop. Ok I'm just giving you a hard time,
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by Jach 2y ago
That's fine, the separate files are a benefit here. The only annoyance is clogging up the root project folder -- though some people don't seem to care about that. If they got too numerous (the 5 in OP's "more advanced&qu
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by Jach 2y ago
We might all be operating under different ideas of what "matter of hours" means. Often times in a project, at least for me, the range of things that I can start and finish in mere hours is not actually infinite, but rather constra
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by Jach 2y ago
This has been a fun thread to read, though not reflecting highly on HN. For what it's worth, I agree with you that the original adage kicking this off is kind of silly, and basically wrong. For further enjoyment I found this interestin
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by Jach 2y ago
Smart wife. My take on the whole thing is that it's not wise to reason from non-technical metaphors around packages or lawn mowing when the reality is electronic systems. I don't know if it's any wiser but what I like to do i
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by Jach 2y ago
Nintendo vs. Colopl
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by Jach 2y ago
Given Nintendo's last lawsuit related to patents took several years and ended not with a court win or the game ever shut down during that time but with them getting a settlement, Pocketpair is likely fine. Pocketpair might have difficu
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by Jach 2y ago
I'd be more willing to bet that it's because my GPS location is in Japan, which is the strongest signal of my physical location. Nevertheless, my home IP is used by multiple people, they probably know who they are and that they&#x
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by Jach 2y ago
Google's IP to location mapping is so bad it has to be intentional. I was in Japan and using my home network as a VPN quite a bit, after a while Google decided my home comcast IP had to be located in Japan. Even though others in the ho
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by Jach 2y ago
I still think the IC, and especially the state department, benefits from having Tor fulfill its actual design goals most of the time. There are operations and state department goals that can benefit from Tor working properly. It's the
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by Jach 2y ago
Need-based learning is the way to go with this for sure. Z80 assembly (ZX Spectrum) used to be a popular online recommendation, it's probably a good thing it's no longer popular... On the other hand, I think most people who are ca
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by Jach 2y ago
Besides deflecting cases, the Federal Circuit sometimes works to effectively overturn the Supreme Court. A real mask-off moment from an patent attorney years ago: https://ipwatchdog.com/2012/03/20/supreme-cour
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by Jach 2y ago
Yeah, again I meant irrelevant to those who share such a broader ("dynamic" is a fun turn of phrase) definition of "literal" as I was using, it's very relevant to CL. I thought of mentioning the CL undefined behavio
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by Jach 2y ago
Last time I did some numbers, bank of america spent around $1bn per year in cybersecurity alone, and bitcoin mining energy cost about 10x that. For ensuring the security of a trustless worldwide monetary system, it's not that bad in co
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by Jach 2y ago
I started with my two questions not to strawman, but to find out if there was some underlying point or argument you had in mind that prompted you to make such a short reply in the first place. All I could read in it was not an argument, but
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by Jach 2y ago
Thanks for the clarification on the meaning of "literal" in Common Lisp, I'll try to keep that in mind in the future. My meaning was more in the sense of literals being some textual equivalent representation for a value. Whet
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by Jach 2y ago
Things have costs, what's your underlying point? That one shouldn't create such a macro, even if it's a one-liner, because of unquantified costs or concerns...? Singling out individual macros for "cost" analysis thi
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by Jach 2y ago
If that's your main downside, that's pretty good, since clunkiness is in many ways fixable. Personally with standard CL I like to use property lists with keywords, so a "map literal" is just (list :a 3 :b 'other). I
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by Jach 2y ago
I guess it's not so obvious if GP is the top comment. It seems broader messaging around anti-aging needs to be even better (nothing against the paper). Sometimes I like the jargon of negligible senescence and longevity escape velocity,
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by Jach 2y ago
TSMC was founded in 1987, I think there might just be other reasons the US may defend Taiwan which would justify the existence of the older original mutual defense treaty from 1955-1980 or the currently standing Taiwan relations act that re
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by Jach 2y ago
Last time I was on the interviewing side I used to ask engineers something like "If you weren't interviewing me today, what would you be doing instead?" to try and get a better idea of this person's day-to-day. Or someti
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by Jach 2y ago
I hear about lives being ruined or even just "identity theft" happening less often than it seemed to, but perhaps it's just my filtering is better. Still, given that to a first approximation the full details necessary for a f
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by Jach 2y ago
Macros enable communication, rather than hinder it. From the mundane ones defined as part of the language like defun and cond, to frequently helpful patterns like with-foo, to the more expressive ones like pattern matching or even domain-sp
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by Jach 2y ago
This seems to be the widely reported experience from people who develop in Common Lisp daily or very frequently, and even in my haphazard development I find things pretty stable. And it's not like version pinning is all that helpful in

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