Jetrel

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by Jetrel 6y ago
Yeah, Rust kinda has two crowds getting excited about it: - low-level programmers looking for safer tools to wrangle big, beastly projects. - high-level programmers looking over the fence because this is the first low-level language that ha
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by Jetrel 6y ago
I have to believe there's a block of people out there who just assume "nigh-instantaneous compile time" is a bit of a bigfoot. Or maybe they assume that, if you have that, why wouldn't you make the jump to writing a RE
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by Jetrel 6y ago
I do sympathize with the argument (I've made it myself, in the past), but ... ... the problem with that is there are a lot of damned smart people who are good at what they're good at precisely because they view "wrangling t
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by Jetrel 6y ago
I'm not really aware of anything like this, besides how mastodon instances connect to each other, and I think this idea has massive promise. It's worth not just "a shot", but lots of earnest attempts.
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by Jetrel 6y ago
Spiders are actually a really good example of this principle. What's really interesting here is the problem of just a "naive threat estimation", which usually is always just estimating the purely mechanical danger the body of
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by Jetrel 6y ago
To interject with something that's hopefully an insight: I think the reason most people punish other people for social awkwardness is because - in their eyes, it falls on the foul side of Hanlon's Razor. I.e. they think that som
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by Jetrel 6y ago
If I recall, what he was really saying was - when he was in college, he chose to go to some classes that weren't required, but were interesting to him, personally - one of them was on typography. He learned a bunch of non-obvious thi
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by Jetrel 6y ago
So - AFAIK, originally most white men weren't allowed to vote, in the US; I can't remember when this got changed, but in the very earliest formulation, there was a strong limitation where only certain kinds of landed property ow
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by Jetrel 6y ago
> These are not things that would be caught by Typescript anyway. In my experience working with React, which is pretty heavily invested in typescript these days, if you go reasonably deep on doing typescript interfaces, it's like a
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by Jetrel 6y ago
Yeah, this pretty much echoes my experience working with type-safe languages. In the case of my anecdote here, I'm mostly talking about typescript, but I've worked with a bunch of other ones in a non-web context. Every single time
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by Jetrel 6y ago
Yeah, I think the OP is spot on; this is exactly the sort of thing that spurs i.e. Bill Gates. He basically won the omega-lottery, and then was like "okay, now that I've rubbed the genie's lamp and have a bajillion dollars
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by Jetrel 6y ago
Honestly, our general public really hasn't had any direct say in how our tax dollars are spent for most of America's history. Outside of really rare individual referendums, the public doesn't sit down and decide on individua
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by Jetrel 6y ago
Yeah, this is smart. The most dangerous thing about debt is the tacit assumption you can keep making money as a functional adult. Full stop. If you pay attention to the life stories of everybody who lives around you, that's actually a
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by Jetrel 6y ago
That's honestly one of the Big Questions™ about stuff like Mastodon; is how resilient it is against that sort of behaviour. On a lot of levels, it seems to be designed to allow multiple groups to share blacklists, so that if a given ta
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by Jetrel 6y ago
Thanks, random internet stranger. I'll never be able to un-hear this. •__•
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by Jetrel 6y ago
Having been around that culture quite a bit, I think it's safe to say that quite a few people believe that yes, personal property has enough of a sanctity/value that it's worth capital punishment to enforce that as a societal
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by Jetrel 6y ago
Just a small bit of polite anecdata, but I've fled IRC partly due to some pretty extreme quality-of-service problems - and these were on the major servers and communities that were really the only raison d'etre for using it in the
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by Jetrel 6y ago
Hopefully I can intervene a little here - I think the argument he's making is that nothing is stopping someone from, say, receiving UBI -AND- also working on an organized public-works project. There's a sense that if we have UBI,
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by Jetrel 6y ago
To invoke the old "rule 5" of explaining things: Until surprisingly recently, there was no built-in way to make a rectangular element on a webpage have rounded corners. People had to use all sorts of dirty hacks to make a final p
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by Jetrel 6y ago
One of the more famous ones was the classic game (now, series) Syndicate. The core premise was exactly as described above - a chip that would get wired into the brain to alter all sensory perception. The idea was that the world in the set
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by Jetrel 6y ago
Yeah, I was having a long discussion about this with a friend, and this is precisely where the misconception lies. The problem with the 32->64 transition (or x86->ARM) doesn't lie with active businesses failing to "get with
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by Jetrel 6y ago
To Firefox's credit, generally you don't need to. Almost everything I work with, outside of bleeding-edge experimental features, ends up in a setup where I write something for chrome and it works flawlessly in Firefox. And safar
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by Jetrel 8y ago
I really hope they make this work with the added files from Age of Empires 2: HD. What a lot of folks might be unaware of is that the "HD" edition primarily did not do any graphical makeovers; rather they just adapted the game t
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by Jetrel 8y ago
Macs basically kept pace, pretty nose-to-nose, with the Mhz speed of Intel CPUs until the Pentium II era. Apple actually beat them to about 350mhz on the 604e for a year or so, whilst the fastest Pentium Pro of the time was about 200mhz. T
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by Jetrel 8y ago
Actually, just for kicks, you might find it interesting to know that quite a few historical monarchies were essentially democracies with extremely limited enfranchisement. A setup where - instead of having a bloody "game-of-thrones&qu
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by Jetrel 10y ago
Yeah - this, a thousand times, this. This is one of the biggest wins we've had recently over just about every prior web authoring approach - and my experience goes back to the PHP days.
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by Jetrel 10y ago
I think the big thing most people miss is that whilst separation-of-concerns is a great idea, trying to make the division line happen between our styles and our logic was a really bad idea, historically. We're much better off having t
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by Jetrel 10y ago
I think you missed the whole point. You have all the room in the world to swing such a thing - it MAKES the room. Your allies aren't bunched up behind you, because they know what you're carrying. Making the room is the whole po
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by Jetrel 10y ago
The one thing that is very legitimate (c.f. that lindybeige video mentioned earlier) is that these were not common armament; these were specialist weapons for specialist troops. These were for a few very heavy "shock troops",
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by Jetrel 10y ago
Rather than reading about it, I've experienced this firsthand in martial arts, and you're dead right - the purpose is to "lariat" around any obstructions in front of the victim. They can hold up a shield, or a sword, an

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