Kinrany

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by Kinrany 3y ago
Any program can be written in assembly. The purpose of languages is to make writing programs easier. Every useful program written in language A that could also be written in language B or C is a piece of evidence that writing programs in A
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by Kinrany 3y ago
I agree, except that it's important to remember that code by itself is as meaningless as programs with no side effects. A bug becomes a problem when it's a part of a running program.
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The Wanderer and the Seeds(medium.com)
1 points by Kinrany 3y ago|0 comments
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by Kinrany 3y ago
Materialized views are not a full solution without updates. Some databases can update incrementally, but not the popular ones.
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by Kinrany 3y ago
This is not the right question. A Turing machine can model any algorithm, but no one uses Turing machines in practice.
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by Kinrany 3y ago
I once toyed with the idea of viewing all the available compute and storage in the world as one big decentralized computer, with multi-tenancy and auth baked into the OS.
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by Kinrany 3y ago
> However nobody wants to admit that their own job should be cut, so these roles won't just vanish, and these people won't just change careers. I don't understand this sentence. Jobs are not created by people who want jobs
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Technical Dimensions of Programming Systems(programming-journal.org)
3 points by Kinrany 3y ago|0 comments
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by Kinrany 3y ago
I don't think it would have mattered if Firefox suddenly started improving rapidly. Alphabet has enough money and competence to not fall behind in features, ever, and it has the advertising power to never lose their market share. The b
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by Kinrany 3y ago
Mozilla doesn't have enough money to keep up with Chrome regardless.
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by Kinrany 3y ago
This sounds like the exact opposite of the effect ADHD medication should have! Thank you for the explanation though. I think I was being unfair
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by Kinrany 3y ago
"Real human glow" is so nonspecific, as if you were inviting a flame war on purpose
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by Kinrany 3y ago
Their point is that you can't learn general problem solving. IQ is not a skill.
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by Kinrany 3y ago
Is there a smalltalk variant that uses a more conventional language and can rely on its package ecosystem?
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by Kinrany 3y ago
I wonder why it doesn't offer any kind of higher level controls. Surely it gets old to have to click all the tiles repeatedly to collect the army
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by Kinrany 3y ago
It does test attention, but that is not its purpose.
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by Kinrany 3y ago
I linked the overview page because the image on it explains the project better than any description I could find. One of the issues I see is mixing "what" and "why". The "what": an abstraction for accessing obj
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by Kinrany 3y ago
It is accurate but not concise. The explanation should start with the purpose of the project described in about one sentence, then elaborate by adding context that may or may not be known to the reader.
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by Kinrany 3y ago
I used SQLite for coordination between processes. It was a huge Python application that originally used the multiprocessing library and had to be migrated to Rust. In hindsight, it would have been better to use a local HTTP server. Seemed l
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Welcome to Apache OpenDAL(opendal.apache.org)
86 points by Kinrany 3y ago|39 comments
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by Kinrany 3y ago
Free markets only ever exist because of regulation.
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by Kinrany 3y ago
> No queries > I know this is controvertial. Query engine amounts for a lot of complexity in DataScript, and it’s very convenient to use. I have a feeling a lot of people are attracted to DataScript because they want to use queries. &
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by Kinrany 3y ago
Doesn't it go in the other direction too? Any PM you can hire can probably make more in finance?
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by Kinrany 3y ago
> Maybe recorded integration tests are run on every release instead of every commit? That would limit the frequency of releases.
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by Kinrany 3y ago
Surely Gmail is the right party to blame. Blame is a way to change incentives.
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by Kinrany 3y ago
> When I set up a computer, I don't want to have to spend all day getting my browser into a usable state. I don't want to have to recommend Firefox with the asterisk that you need half a dozen plugins to make it good. You want
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by Kinrany 3y ago
> Homes can be built with solar shingles. Is it important for all that to be replaceable when solar technology improves?
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by Kinrany 3y ago
Your argument is "might makes right".
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by Kinrany 3y ago
Do the h3 heading tags look like they're tilted a little bit? CSS/font trickery? Just me?
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by Kinrany 3y ago
Auto code formatting is a must in every language at this point.

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