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by SiVal 6y ago
Don't get discouraged, but you might still have a bug or two to work out with your new and never-before-tried "256^8 and easily able to be represented searching online with 8 characters" design. For your beta test, here are s
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by SiVal 6y ago
The "united" part was to prevent large, external states (initially, Great Britain) from taking away the liberty of each small state to live as its own citizens chose to live. The US Constitution was a mutual-defense pact meant to
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by SiVal 6y ago
Serious answer: it is hardly a given that a "higher power" will favor your idea of "good" over your idea of "bad". Or even if it does, that it will always continue to do so and will always continue to enforce y
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by SiVal 6y ago
"Where are youngsters seeing java?" Funny you should ask that. If a high school kid takes Advanced Placement (AP) Computer Science in the US (including the kids here in my neighborhood in Silicon Valley), the only language taught
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by SiVal 6y ago
I don't think so. I've been using Lisp as long as Paul Graham, but it's not mainstream enough for a first language now. Both Lisp (of some sort) and C are better used now to extend the foundation, the former in an algorithmic
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by SiVal 6y ago
Suppose Apple and Google started making cars and put every other car company out of business. Both made the rule that if you bought their car, every product or service that went into the car also had to be purchased through them. You pref
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by SiVal 6y ago
Yes, and this is very important. A wide keyboard can cause you to rotate your arms outward to reach a mouse. A neutral work position is to have your elbows near your sides with forearms horizontal (parallel to the floor) and pointing inwa
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by SiVal 6y ago
I'd like to see all phones and phone towers fitted with an emergency ping ability and an emergency ping protocol, since almost everyone carries a phone these days. If you needed help, you'd enter a text describing your situation (
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by SiVal 6y ago
I just read that article, and I'll bet you're right that it represents the (unstated) thinking behind that conclusion. But if so, my conclusion would be different from the author's. The big picture is that Go programming is i
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by SiVal 6y ago
I'm puzzled by one of the conclusions: Go is better "if you target exceptionally/mostly Linux". But Rust is better "If the project targets many operating systems and I want a truly multiplatform codebase". I ha
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by SiVal 6y ago
In general, you can't get a job in X without experience in X. The irony has been recognized for generations. But if you have experience in X, what you can do is get a job doing X but do some Y at the same company as sort of a volunteer
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by SiVal 6y ago
My family in China are amazed that we in the US don't recognize the parallels between the marxist revolutionaries and violent Red Guards in China and today's US. The One Party that controls more and more of the institutions, the &
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by SiVal 6y ago
Twitter and FB could be replaced quickly, because their technology is not their primary asset. Their primary asset is their hundreds of millions of users who are there mainly because of the other hundreds of millions of users. Not surprisin
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by SiVal 6y ago
Oh, nonsense. Proxy baptism doesn't make you a member. That's not what they believe. Century after century Catholics taught that if your loved one had the misfortune to die before baptism, no hope. Eternal misery, because Christ s
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by SiVal 6y ago
But it's not how long they've been around, it's whether they're built into standard browsers. Presumably, CSS variables can never be removed from standard browsers. They are permanently available in the web "toolcha
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by SiVal 6y ago
I write vanilla CSS in 2020, but I suspect you're right in a "most people" sense. Still, I'm biased toward longer-lived approaches, meaning that whenever I can make it practical, I try to build with vanilla HTML, CSS, &a
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by SiVal 6y ago
It seems to me (FWIW as someone curious abt Rust but not seriously using it yet), that "as" should require a warning label. If "unsafe" means something else, then "unsound" could be used. If the types are alway
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by SiVal 6y ago
Yes, my relatives in China are amused by this. Most people in most places have defined "racism" to mean the judgment that a person is bad in some way merely because of his or her race, regardless of any personal characteristics. B
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by SiVal 6y ago
No, it doesn't require that the groups be interchangeable. The point is that if something would be a racist attack if directed at one race, it would have the same nature if directed at any race. If it would be just a non-racist stateme
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by SiVal 6y ago
Sorry, but there's a simpler way to see it for what it is: Just imagine replacing white with black. Each time an organization publishes one of these "problems of xness" or "dismantling xness" or "confronting xn
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by SiVal 6y ago
The Soviet universities also had Marxist agriculture departments that guaranteed year after year of food shortages due to "bad weather". Anyone who disagreed was purged until only Marxists, whom they defined as the only true &quot
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by SiVal 6y ago
return (boo, hiss) There is something mature and responsible about a language that tends to refuse a command if the meaning isn't obvious, forcing you to make it obvious. If instead, you assign meanings to every ambiguous statement, an
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by SiVal 6y ago
Unschooling is a relatively uncommon form of homeschooling. They are definitely not synonyms. Unschooling can be defined differently by different people, but it tends to emphasize the Romantic philosophical notion of people being naturall
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You don't need an extra cache level for that. If what you want is to accumulate "adds" one at a time into the cache to create one combined commit, you could just accumulate small commits until you had what you wanted, then me
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by SiVal 6y ago
People often mistake covering material for learning. You can zoom through material at any speed you like, but learning is building something in your head. How fast you can build things in your head relates to what you've already built,
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by SiVal 6y ago
Tacit knowledge is knowledge that results from adapting to experience, like learning to tie shoelaces with practice, rather than something like finding the derivative of sin(x) by the usual mathematical proof method (reasoning step by forma
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by SiVal 6y ago
I always (mis?)interpreted that as a way to get you to finish putting it on before you went into the sun, so you wouldn't get burned while possibly putting it on (a group of kids, for ex) too slowly while standing in the mid-day sun.
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by SiVal 6y ago
Wait, Walter, what is this "wait 20 mins before it becomes effective"? Did I miss something? Aren't the standard ingredients simply opaque to UV frequencies right out of the bottle/tube?
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by SiVal 6y ago
Apple doesn't need dominance to hold back the shared web while driving forward its proprietary platform at full speed, it only needs veto power, which Safari-by-any-other-name on iOS gives it. I don't want Google to be able to jus
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by SiVal 6y ago
Ask your political conformist, "So I'll give you $20 for a copy of your tax return, your birth certificate, financial acct numbers, and passwords. There's a guy I know who said he'd pay me if I could get them from you, a

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