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by SiVal 5y ago
why would I look at Python for performance when Go exists? If you're aware of the issues and have other options, you wouldn't look to Python for performance unless it was a case where Python is just used to script pre-existing C
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by SiVal 5y ago
in-cision: cut into de-cision: cut off (eliminate the alternatives) sui-cide, homi-cide, regi-cide, etc: cut/stab/slay self, a man, a king, etc.
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by SiVal 5y ago
I've had employment agreements handed to me by HR with "here, you'll just need to sign this, and we're ready to go!", and I've taken out my pen, drawn lines through the parts I did not agree to, sometimes addin
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by SiVal 5y ago
They are counting on people not noticing the absurdity, because they don't notice it themselves. They live in an ideological bubble where those who are True Believers prosper and heretics are punished, so even those who disagree have t
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by SiVal 6y ago
That's fascinating. Are they writing what they want to write, or are they only writing for the money or adulation? I've written commercially, but not at the rarefied level of your cohorts, and I've never wanted to make a care
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by SiVal 6y ago
I assume (generous interpretation and not much of a stretch) that that's exactly what his father meant, and if so, his father was right. It's funny that it would even "seem wrong", but it's not wrong. Recently publi
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by SiVal 6y ago
Can you recommend a quick, easy method for scanning all the pages? I like paper notebooks, too. Someday, I'd like to have an app that would let me turn any ordinary stack of scratch paper or notebook into a searchable PDF in under 5 mi
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by SiVal 6y ago
That was outstanding. Decades ago, before they invented juice boxes, we kids enjoyed milk and cookies while listening to carefully worded, age-appropriate explanations. Heaven help me, sometimes that combination still hits the spot. Thank y
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by SiVal 6y ago
What is SvelteKit? The linked page assumes I already know and have just been waiting for an announcement. I have heard a bit about Svelte. I love the analogy with spreadsheets, where original spreadsheets reevaluated every cell whenever any
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by SiVal 6y ago
From the article: "When you think about it, click menus are actually what we expect already in most other contexts." [slapping my forehead] For more than a decade I've been dumbfounded that nobody seemed to be thinking about
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by SiVal 6y ago
Exactly. Oh, you want to do something right here? Well, we could give you a menu right here of all the things that are relevant to this exact context--which was, you recall, the original "discoverability" advantage that was claime
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by SiVal 6y ago
By that argument, the US "monopoly or near monopoly" phone company AT&T during the Vietnam War could have decided that anyone who spoke on the phone about their opposition to the Vietnam War was unpatriotic and canceled their
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by SiVal 6y ago
You know, you can call those who disagree with you "fascists" while being the actual fascist who doesn't tolerate any dialog.
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by SiVal 6y ago
No, I remember what it meant. Once you put a product on a ship and watch it sail away, you can no longer tinker with it. You might not feel finished, so it takes resolve. Finished or not, when it sails away, you're done . Back when so
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by SiVal 6y ago
Part of what you're saying is a good point, IMO. The people who transition the infrastructure from Level 0 to Level 1 won't be the same people in charge of infrastructure when it's time to transition from Level 17 to Level 18
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by SiVal 6y ago
When I referred to tourist dollars "both literally and metaphorically" and explicitly distinguished between the two categories, it was because the metaphorical tourist dollars weren't literally "dollars". So you res
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by SiVal 6y ago
You don't seem to understand the difference between earning dollars and exchanging currency. I'm not claiming they face a "shortage of a specific currency". I'm saying they want to earn money from foreign customers,
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by SiVal 6y ago
Yes, Europeans bring the metaphorical "dollars" I referred to. And there is no "if they wanted $". They do. And I mean earning dollars, not buying them on international markets. I have access to capital markets, too, and
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by SiVal 6y ago
I think you mean "tourist dollars", not "tourist yen". The former, both literally and metaphorically, is what they're losing and what they would presumably prefer. The latter is much less attractive--akin to moving
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by SiVal 6y ago
Here's some anecdata on East Asian websites: Chinese: https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=S... Korean: https://www.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2007/05&#x
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by SiVal 6y ago
In the East Asian country where my family came from and many of my family still live, and in the neighboring East Asian countries where I've lived for so many years, drawing their own eyes as "slanted lines!" is commonplace.
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by SiVal 6y ago
I agree with you. Year after year we read about "revolutionary" battery technologies that are finally going to change the world. A laundry list of reasons why previous technologies that made the same claim ended up fizzling out is
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by SiVal 6y ago
There's no doubt that we're getting an ever-widening variety of clients, but this "general purpose" notion is a bit slippery. I remember when "general purpose" meant that not only did computers crunch numbers f
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by SiVal 6y ago
I agree with your claims about the potential advantages of a TUI, but in this case, almost all of these TUIs using Rich will be running as GUI graphics inside a GUI window on top of a GUI OS subsystem, driven by an interpreted Python subs
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by SiVal 6y ago
I would prefer the description "tech development" to "tech demonstration". I never do any non-trivial tech project without learning some lessons about how I would do it differently next time. So we go out and see what&#x
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by SiVal 6y ago
According to the BBC, you're not the only Brit who is so unaccustomed to friendly cultures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT0ay9u1gg4
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by SiVal 6y ago
No, you're making a good point, but my meaning was that TypeScript is a language that is always (and has always been) written as an improved, benefit-of-hindsight, good-parts-only language. It does of course allow any old JS to be used
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by SiVal 6y ago
Node is almost perfectly matched to the "Oops, well, too late now" design ethos of JavaScript itself. Nobody was stupid. We humans just can't really predict what will work out and what won't in the future, and this was o
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by SiVal 6y ago
LOL! Just one hour ago, a high school kid who grew up here in Silicon Valley was telling me about how ridiculously uninformed his local friends are about Southerners. This kid has visited the south a few times recently and has come back ama
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by SiVal 6y ago
I definitely agree, but before reading Bradford, I strongly suggest watching this: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/pilgrims/ I seems to be available free online at the moment. You can a

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