LAC-Tech

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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
I'm no economist, but isn't that to be expected? - A burst of people take your DNA test - Much less people will subsequently, as your target becomes younger people who are now old enough to pay for DNA tests. Seems like you'd
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
I've actually thought about this a lot! 1. no more keyword parameters 2. every message has exactly one argument, which may be a tuple. 3. "obj.msg" becomes short hand for "obj msg ()" 4. if a message expects 2 eleme
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
Yeah that's another approach to it, one I think could definitely be borrowed (though I wouldn't do it exactly how smalltalk did). And then of course there's the "concatenative" family where everything is postfix.
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
The big thing I took away from LISP is that having everything be prefix solves a lot of problems. Seriously, the arguments people have in languages like Zig about whether to have "operator overloading" just seem a bit silly. Opera
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
I'm sure similar arrests in the Russian Federation also have caveats that are "worth noting". But in the grand scheme of things, how noteworthy are they?
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
The same problems, with the same causes, are happening all over the western world. This idea that we all coincidentally face the same issues, but they're completely unrelated, is farcical. Our elites are globalised, so our response can
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
Why do you equate this to police being underfunded? They just care about other things way more. Like people writing mean things on the internet.
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
Magnanimous of them. Here's what you can get arrested for though: UK police launched an inquiry over offensive memes in a whatsapp chat. A man was later jailed for it: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
Is it so hard to imagine? I can easily see certain theories being denounced today because they are "too white". Maybe not in physics - not yet - but I imagine this is already a debate in the social sciences.
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
I don't get the Zeus or Thor bit. Of course our indo-european father of the daylight sky has likely killed a few mortals. But does that really stop people contributing to projects named after him? I've been using the Thunar file m
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
Mass conscription in the west would be disastrous for the west. This isn't the 20th century, we don't trust our institutions anymore, so militarily training the general population would end very poorly.
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
Dunno who you followed, but my little corner of twitter is not gross at all. A lot of smart people, doing cool things, and linking to interesting stuff. AFAIK you can't curate stuff in 4chan by following/muting/blocking, so i
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
Yes. Their share has been declining since 2009. Or to put it into perspective, we are as far away from peak Firefox as peak Firefox was from the first release of Netscape in 1994.
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
Old English had cognates of all three words: feahr (porc), swin and picga.
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
I'm more upset at how few 'educated' English speakers can pronounce archaic English. I'm so sick of hearing about the Anglo-Saxon poem "Bay O'Wolf".
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
Simon Roper is great. I was amused how I could understand the 'English' by the late 14th century pronunciation, but understood less when I was in Dublin in the 21st century when native hiberno-English speakers conversed together.
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
Steer means something something more like Bull in modern German I think - it doesn't have the connotations of a castrated animal as in English.
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
Object-oriented programming an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
Apparently Alan Kay knew Dijkstra and was meant as a joke rather than some big insult.
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
Yeah version vectors were first coined in a very underrated paper from 4 decades ago; "Detection of Mutual Inconsistency in Distributed Systems" [0]. In it they not only invent version vectors, they also perfectly describe what ca
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
Normally, this is the job of vector clocks in State-based CRDTs Is the author mistaking vector clocks for version vectors? If so he would not be the first; the famous Amazon Dynamo white paper makes the same mistake when discussing their
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
Reported crime suffers from the same issue. Have you lived in a place where you need to report crimes, perhaps happening to you, and the police straight up tell you they probably won't response? I have, and you basically don't bot
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
Is "Tory" in your mind just this vast, vague ocean, with sea monsters and dragons scribbled in the corners, that lies to the right of wherever you are? The man fought for the republicans in the Spanish Civil war, for goodness sake
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
A few assholes, and a few apathetic (or encouraging!) people who won't engage in the anti-social behaviour, but cultivate it.
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
Crime rates like that measure convictions, don't they? If police stop convicting for certain things (which has been a decades long trend), crime rates will go down. IMO the only clear window into this are victim surveys.
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
Was it common? Have you looked at the data? Or is this based off of Clint Eastward movies?
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
The western worlds tolerance for crime is insanely high. I know a lot of people like to romanticise it (perhaps political extremists seeing it as "direct action"), or excuse it, or gaslight people into thinking it's not an is
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
Oh, I did not know.
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
It's great to see rust maturing. That people care about binary size and work to improve it is a good sign.
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
Debate is a good if you all have a shared idea of what constitutes 'good'. IE, simplicity, performance, whatever.

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