Quekid5

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by Quekid5 6y ago
I lean towards closures having primacy. FTR, I learned OOP way before I'd ever heard of functional programming. My reasoning is based on two things: Firstly, objects have identity and this is a superfluous notion for most cases. Functi
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by Quekid5 6y ago
> most parsers in production are done via hand without tooling or fancy techniques. What? Do you have any data you'd like to share? I'm given to understand that e.g. the C++ compilers usually have a hand-coded, but AFAIUI that&
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by Quekid5 6y ago
I was actually amazed that a big CMS/E-commerce vendor proudly proclaimed in a sales meeting that they were on MongoDB. I suppose salespeople probably aren't into the nitty-gritty, but their tech people should have warned them a
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by Quekid5 6y ago
Depending on specifics it could also be outright copyright infringement. (Just reusing a link wouldn't be, but e.g. reuploading a video would be.)
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by Quekid5 6y ago
You're far too generous. We're talking dog videos and such... and as adorable as dogs can be, there's not really any reason to keep that sort of content alive.
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by Quekid5 6y ago
To add to that, he's been accused of deleting posts, then reposting the same links/content without attribution. If you're watching closely I imagine it's pretty easy to see if a post is starting to gain a little traction
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by Quekid5 6y ago
> The next release of djbdns will be backed by a new security guarantee. I was a bit curious about this wording which seems quite weasel-wordy at first glance, so these are the snapshots of the page that have been saved by Archive here
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by Quekid5 6y ago
Yeah, the lack of self-reflection is pretty palpable.
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by Quekid5 6y ago
I think it bears saying that doctors are people too, that includes all the flaws/biases/etc. that we all succumb to. There is a huge issue that there is no feedback loop when doctors are incompetent or cannot be bothered to actual
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by Quekid5 6y ago
I honestly don't understand the idea that Arch is time-consuming or weird... but maybe my needs are less esoteric than the rest of the world. I'm just a bit mystified, but... whatever makes it work for you.
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by Quekid5 6y ago
KDE works much better for me, personally. Just avoid the aboslute shitshow that is Kubuntu. (I know they try hard, but...) Go for a distro that follows upstream more closely.
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by Quekid5 6y ago
What? You literally said you have only a limited amount of experience with KDE (from 'undefined' time ago), and yet you felt qualified to opine on its suitability for X... now? What?
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by Quekid5 7y ago
That could be an implementation of tagged unions. Without language level support (pattern matching, exhaustiveness checking, etc.) you gain very little from this.
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by Quekid5 7y ago
Exactly. They have nothing to lose from this... (or almost nothing). Just the no-DRM stance saves them from soooo much random trouble due to connectivity, etc. etc. There was one occasion when I was a little bit confused and couldn't
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by Quekid5 7y ago
I like GoG. They seem quite decent and not just wanting to capture you in their universe. Mind you, I I'm not a huge customer, but then again, maybe they're not agressively going for Whales... which is another point in their book
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by Quekid5 7y ago
... but it's worth considering that this is a 'question' from 2010. Just saying...
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by Quekid5 7y ago
I certainly agree that Modern C++ is vastly bett... actually this is just someone posting an old polemic and trying to stir resentment/controversy. IGNORE THIS CRITICSM OF C++ ... there are much better and more relevant ones which are
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by Quekid5 7y ago
> I spent a year there after they downgraded it to a medium security facility. I don't believe you.
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by Quekid5 7y ago
Good know, thank you. Probably never going to use OCaml again (just for business reasons, nothing against it per se), but good info for other readers. EDIT: I also hope some of the OCaml'ers did get some of use of the things I wrote. I
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by Quekid5 7y ago
That would actually be an interesting idea to pursue because I don't think it's even decidable and may require an AI/human to write back to understand. It depends on context that may not even be there . (Think of the absurdi
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by Quekid5 7y ago
> Remember that the dataset is often going to be small, and frequently will contain known or easily guessed strings. This is why modern crypto is designed to be resistant to prefix attacks, rainbow attacks, why CBC is considered a good i
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by Quekid5 7y ago
AFAICT there's nothing inherently insecure about server-encrypted data on the client. You have to secure that encryption, but fundamentally it Should Be Fine(TM). Now, deserializing arbitrary objects which might contain code?... that&#
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by Quekid5 7y ago
It's been a few years since I tried opam... When I did it just barfed out some obscure error message and I wasn't encouraged to try ever again. I realize that that's not really helpful towards improving the UX, but maybe it h
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by Quekid5 7y ago
Maybe sad is the wrong word, actually. Maybe a sort of malaise or melancholy is a more apt expression. It's kind of hard to describe the feeling.
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by Quekid5 7y ago
... and it's still kind of sad that we (or anything like us) will actually, realistically never ever venture far enough to even reach the nearest star to us. I genuinely think it is sad, but it is what it is. Interstellar space is so
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by Quekid5 7y ago
do notation is a thing
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by Quekid5 7y ago
> The field isn't separate from the particle - the particle is the quantized field itself. Yes. A particle is nothing but a very localized wave. Aka. "everything is fields." (At least that's may layman's understa
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by Quekid5 7y ago
I think it's pretty plausible that he was a raging egomaniac (narcissist, perhaps?). Undoubtedly a great thinker and genius, but that doesn't say very much about personality traits.
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by Quekid5 7y ago
Yup, it's such a small thing, but it actually makes a huge difference. C++ has the same problem when dealing with optionals, etc. etc. (I know absolutely nothing about Dart, but it does sound a bit weird that the expression-ness of an
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by Quekid5 7y ago
That's a very fair point. I can only speak from my own experience on this. It's a great observation that authoritarian tendencies can probably arise in any size of organization. (I would advise getting out -- if you can, financial

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