NateEag

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by NateEag 3y ago
Not OP, but IIRC Jonathan Edwards held that the whole universe existed in the mind of God. This is functionally indistinguishable from the "perfect simulation" hypothesis. That was what leapt immediately to mind the first time I e
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by NateEag 3y ago
The comma-separated number pairs are starting line number of hunk, and the number of lines in the hunk. The one starting with a minus sign is for the original file, the one with the plus prefix is for the new file. See https://ww
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by NateEag 3y ago
the clear implication that Reddit just keeps getting more and more awesome. Many people think it's gotten worse.
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by NateEag 3y ago
It sounds like you may not have read the "broken arrow" incidents Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_acc... There are a number of hair-raising stories tucked away in ther
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by NateEag 3y ago
> All the expert software engineers agree this is the most likely explanation. That's quite a strong claim. I'm skeptical. Sources? > Have physicists looked into this? They shelved it right next to "God Made The Univers
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by NateEag 3y ago
Prostitution: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_profession_(phrase)
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by NateEag 3y ago
I've known people who appeared to be in the category you're describing on first blush. In the cases where I got to see them work later, I found that they weren't nearly as impressive as they looked at first. Yes, there really
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by NateEag 3y ago
> Only one religion can be right or none, that must mean,logically speaking all other religions are hallucinations. There are some mistakes in this sentence. It is possible (if unlikely) that multiple religions accurately describe some a
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by NateEag 3y ago
See also Turing Tumble, a screenless, mechanical, gravity-powered computer for kids: https://upperstory.com/turingtumble/ My sons (7 and 9) love it, and both have some grasp of binary thanks to it.
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by NateEag 3y ago
"canon" is for the central repo, the blessed source of truth.
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by NateEag 3y ago
This is probably the most famous one: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75
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by NateEag 3y ago
It is. I'm sorry.
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by NateEag 3y ago
This is an interesting concept. Congrats on launching - that's an achievement! Are you familiar with beeminder? It uses the same concept, but is perhaps more complicated than your straightforward pitch. Any thoughts on how they compare
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by NateEag 3y ago
Alternately, just buy some Moonwalkers: https://shiftrobotics.io/
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by NateEag 3y ago
You make a good point about "Y/n" being more dangerous than refusing and requiring an explicit option be passed. The clear warning about what commits will be lost is not at all how I remember force-push working. That said, I
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by NateEag 3y ago
That all makes sense and mirrors many of my own thoughts. Though I'll say that "--force" isn't necessarily a "scary-sounding" option name unless you're used to Unix CLI naming conventions. Further, the war
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by NateEag 3y ago
And the tool made a screwup that hard not only possible, but very difficult for the victims to recover from. Doesn't say a lot for git's usability.
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by NateEag 3y ago
Some are gone, some are not. In most cases the style checkers and linters will warn you about them pre-emptively. At least, that was the state of things last I looked. I haven't touched PHP in probably two years now. Of all the languag
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by NateEag 3y ago
PHP made it incredibly easy to build and deploy dynamic websites in an era when those things were not straightforward or widely understood. The fact that it's a pretty poor language under the hood was irrelevant, because almost anyone
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by NateEag 3y ago
"Fixed" might be strong, since PHP rightly values backwards compatibility highly, but it is true that most of these issues aren't anything you need to think about when developing in recent PHP versions with recent frameworks.
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by NateEag 3y ago
This reduced me to tears. I'm so sorry for the pain you've gone through due to your past choices, and the loss you've given voice to here. I hope you find some measure of peace. Thank you for sharing what you've gone thr
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by NateEag 3y ago
Not OP, but I think their point was clear - they seem to wish that compilers offered their own ASTs / tools for working with ASTs, so that tools like tree-sitter wouldn't exist at all. It makes sense - tree-sitter is in large part
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by NateEag 3y ago
They lost John Lasseter to Disney. He was an awful lot of what made them work.
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by NateEag 3y ago
OP said nothing about human-level intelligence being important - just that this may mean it's rarer than previously thought. Seems like you've got an axe to grind, badly enough you go after it where it isn't.
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by NateEag 3y ago
You could also temp-ban those IPs for a few hours and save yourself some CPU and bandwidth. It may not seem like much, but I spent a year or two adminning a >1 million reqs / day cluster, and it does add up. Auto-banning this type o
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by NateEag 3y ago
The author makes a number of good points. In fail2ban's defense, it can be used for a lot more than just blocking IP addresses based on SSH failures. At one point in the past I adapted an existing fail2ban setup to ban IP addresses tha
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by NateEag 3y ago
You can't, but it turns out acting reasonably under uncertainty is a better goal than being sure of things.
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by NateEag 3y ago
Code produces value for programmers, but none for end users. Software businesses can thus usually only charge end users for access to the runnable programs (or running programs, in an SaaS business's case). You're certainly right
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> And all code is an asset. No - runnable programs are an asset. The code to produce those runnable programs is a liability. It's a necessary liability for a sustainable software business, as without the code fixing bugs is nigh-i
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by NateEag 3y ago
What do you think would change about religions? The only one I know well is evangelical Christianity, having been raised in it. I've read through the Protestant Bible several times, and I'm not aware of anything in it that changes

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