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by Jach 5y ago
Maintenance-free code exists. I'm sorry you haven't experienced work at an org that has 10+ year old code which hasn't changed at all, easily verified by source control. (Has Mozilla published something anywhere about exactly
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by Jach 5y ago
These days many AAA games work well in Gentoo thanks to Proton, though I still dual boot (to Windows 7...) for a lot of games. Looking Glass is pretty cool, though perhaps it's a bit too late. My next Windows on a new computer will be
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by Jach 5y ago
They should also consider whitelisting libraries individually in their CSP header (or meta tag if the header gets too long), instead of a blanket whitelist for an entire domain/subdomain or not having a CSP at all...
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by Jach 5y ago
Hunchentoot is the most popular as a server (and I suspect most people wrap their deployment with either nginx or apache) though two frameworks listed on https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl#web-frameworks worth
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by Jach 5y ago
No, it requires a parent way more invested into outsourcing the whole job of parenting than a typical lazy parent just letting the TV et al. handle things as much as possible. The lazy parent would just continue letting the TV handle things
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by Jach 5y ago
Thanks for sharing, old stuff in the field is still quite relevant. One of my favorite reads in the last few years was The Psychology of Computer Programming , 1971. Very interesting to read about some problem or difficulty they faced then
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by Jach 5y ago
Sure, one executable is nice, that might be enough of a payoff for some people to overlook the rest. I think you may be underestimating the amount of choice that's out there though. For documentation alone there's countless option
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by Jach 5y ago
http://stonetoss.com/comic/hodl-on-tight/ (This comic about price fluctuations has as much place on HN as this blurb piece about price fluctuations. At least it's more relevant than the XKCD.)
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by Jach 5y ago
I'm pretty familiar with a lot of Zed's doings but I had missed this one. I doubt it impacted the adoption much, losing one advocate like that isn't going to doom your project. I finally gave Fossil a serious try last year fo
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by Jach 5y ago
I suppose anywhere the sells toothpaste, just make sure it has Novamin on the package since Sensodyne has other kinds. I don't remember exactly where it was last time, some random corner store near the Waterfront station (perhaps Shopp
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by Jach 5y ago
I stock up on it (and Eat-Mores) when I visit Vancouver, but it's not magical and won't fix a bad habit of not brushing very often.
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by Jach 5y ago
What continues to grimly amuse me is that many of these websites that also have a mobile app will basically keep you signed in forever on the mobile app. It's just the website, where most people would prefer to do their heavy lifting w
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by Jach 5y ago
You don't have to give up on anything, that's the beauty of Lisp. Here's a library from 1993: https://github.com/quil-lang/cmu-infix Though personally I don't particularly find (+ 1 2 3 4 5) less re
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by Jach 5y ago
> Aren't you curious instead why people eat shit when they know it's shit and even call it junk food themselves, like you say? Because thats what I am curious about. No, because to me it's obvious. They eat it for obvious
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by Jach 5y ago
Inferior to VR for gaming or pron.
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by Jach 5y ago
> What is your concern ...? Free time to waste and a reaction to what I perceived as a weird moralizing tangent to a throwaway line only aimed at building social proof of importance for the article's main content about correcting th
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by Jach 5y ago
The implication isn't that it was banned because of health concerns, but because of its distracting popularity. (Like Pokemon cards or yo-yos.) The article reiterates this further down, though also links to a 2012 article where a few e
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by Jach 5y ago
Pretty much no one who advocates for effective biological immortality also argues that you should be forced to live forever against your will. So while it can be fun to speculate on such, as it can be fun to look at torture methods (the vid
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by Jach 5y ago
For a counterpoint to the confidence, but still a very high-confidence prediction, Aubrey de Grey has recently estimated a 50% chance that we'll hit longevity escape velocity by 2036. That is, enough treatments will be available to peo
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by Jach 5y ago
There's always Common Lisp using the popular SBCL implementation. It's not statically typed but you still get compiler warnings about types at compile time -- even cooler is that SBCL uses the types for assembly code optimization,
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by Jach 5y ago
As a former employee (and not one acqui-hired) I don't know how you could say they're not a "software company", but I did say something similar during my time that I still stand by which is they're not really a &quo
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by Jach 6y ago
Note to 1-bit people: saying that "X is not a good thing in general", is not the same as saying that "X is a bad thing in general". All that's being said here is "tradeoffs exist" and highlighting some iss
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by Jach 6y ago
It doesn't yet exist, and the old world is gone, same with so many professional magazines (RIP Dr. Dobb's). Enjoy the transitory period.
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by Jach 6y ago
You've always been able to use any of the web browsers in the store to download and install a random APK from a website (for example F-Droid), you don't even need to sideload it. Sideloading apps is mostly just a relevant concept
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by Jach 6y ago
FWIW Ma seems significantly smarter than he showed during that event when you look at translations of his Chinese (speaking or written). But in any case, even an incompetent CEO can still have competent IT.
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by Jach 6y ago
I would expect that in the limit it would follow clean-room design (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design ) -- you only have to do enough to prove to a court that you or someone you got to rewrite somethin
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by Jach 6y ago
You might find some mileage reading Behavior: The Control of Perception, which presents a hierarchical control system as a model of human behavior. We act to control our perceptions. From this model some interesting things can be derived ba
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by Jach 6y ago
The court overall seems confused, but whatever, at least they didn't rule wrongly in favor of Oracle, so I'm happy our long national nightmare is over. Specifically I'm less motivated to read more of the PDF when the opening
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by Jach 6y ago
Not on hand, sorry, I don't follow it that closely. My advice if you're interested in ultra low pause time designs is to look more at ZGC and maybe Shenandoah, and look for detailed comparisons to the other JVM GCs (especially G1
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by Jach 6y ago
"It depends." There is no such thing as a singular "GC", tradeoffs are everywhere, and there are more relevant metrics than just average collection time. I recommend this paper from 1992 for an introduction of what types

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