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by Smaug123 4y ago
There may be ten thousand dragons; that's not an argument against slaying them all!
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by Smaug123 4y ago
For those after more, https://blog.jaibot.com/500-million-but-not-a-single-one-mor... is another piece I find deeply moving on the subject of dragon-slaying.
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by Smaug123 4y ago
Does direnv have an advantage over `nix develop` in that regard?
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by Smaug123 4y ago
(Also, go and read "Hogfather", by Terry Pratchett. As I seem to remember Yudkowsky said, though presumably in much better wording, Terry Pratchett's death is all the reason you could need to resolve to end death forever. Hog
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by Smaug123 4y ago
There's no date or time which is objectively special, of course. Historical accident has simply given many societies a common period in the middle of Northern hemisphere winter in which we band together to banish the cold and darknes
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by Smaug123 4y ago
Yes, this is from the start of the Tao Te Ching. Ursula le Guin rendered it thus: > For the unwanting soul sees what's hidden, while the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants. Two things, one origin, but different in name, whose
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by Smaug123 4y ago
That does assume you can quickly and easily tell when it's bullshitting, which it's not always easy to do. As a way of learning new stuff, I'd strongly disrecommend it (because "when you're learning" is precise
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by Smaug123 4y ago
You've… really got the right answers from it? I've only ever asked it a couple of really basic (non-trick! straightforward!) questions about how to accomplish tasks by programming, but it bullshitted me some very plausible nonsens
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by Smaug123 4y ago
There's often a bunch of different versions in nixpkgs. For example, postgres currently has 11 through 15 available ( https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/e7f345ca81f4f5513c4e73... ). Nodejs has 14, 16, 1
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by Smaug123 4y ago
You should probably at least have read the first few paragraphs of the article, then. The article is about the economic competitiveness of it. (It notes that just because MythBusters built a lead balloon once, that doesn't mean there w
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by Smaug123 4y ago
Not out of the box, although you can upload a custom image to a Space, or you can instantiate a machine as any other Linux distribution and then assimilate it with nixos-infect or similar.
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by Smaug123 4y ago
For what it's worth, I think you're right, although it's been a very long time since I did any mechanics. The tidal locking isn't completely perfect, so the elevator would probably have to be basically a spool of rope ra
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by Smaug123 4y ago
twitch "Utilize" first arose in 1807 if Merriam-Webster is to be believed, well past the period you're quoting; and "dost" should agree with the number of its noun "senses". ("dost" is second-p
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by Smaug123 4y ago
I mean, if I'd written the software for them and it were my software being certified, I'd say two years would be an underestimate :P
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by Smaug123 4y ago
For example, Pluto and Charon is a pair that sometimes comes up; a space elevator connecting Pluto to Charon would very possibly just about be within our current civilisation's capabilities, if for some reason we cared to build one eno
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by Smaug123 4y ago
It's just because SPJ likes it. He uses it for presentations a lot.
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by Smaug123 4y ago
This language is cyuuuute! The multi-valuedness making "if (x | y) then…" work is so neat, and having `x : int` be a thing of exactly the same nature as `x = 3` is cool to see; even in a fully dependently-typed language, those thi
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by Smaug123 4y ago
(The GP was using the US convention to refer to the two dates 01/02 and 02/01, not trying to use two conventions to refer to a different date each.)
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by Smaug123 4y ago
Obviously your software should present dates in a locale-aware manner, just as it should (where possible) present localised text. But if it's anti-American signalling to expect reference documentation and technical features for non-loc
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by Smaug123 4y ago
Sorry, I intended to say "2% more of the respondents". That was what I had in my mind when I wrote it. (In general, my opinion is that Relative Statistics Considered Harmful, they're like absolute statistics but with all the
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by Smaug123 4y ago
… F#? As of .NET 6, ahead-of-time compilation is a thing, and I am led to believe it's got substantially better in .NET 7.
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by Smaug123 4y ago
Magic! I just checked, and this found the bug in a Go tool I use that bit me a couple of months ago, which I'm still smarting from. Thanks!
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by Smaug123 4y ago
… is it? For example, the Stack Overflow survey says Rust was loved by 86% of its users, while Go by 64%. Rust also beat Go on the percentage of respondents who wanted to use it. (But Golang was used by 2% more respondents than Rust, at 11.
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by Smaug123 4y ago
> I much prefer it to exceptions as it makes you think about each error and makes people wrap errors with helpful context everywhere… This would be absolutely fine, for the reasons you state, if Go made you deal with the error. But bec
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by Smaug123 4y ago
Do you have a source for that statement? (For all I know, you are a member of the team who wrote it, so you may know what it means! I certainly had nothing to do with its writing.) To me, the statement is obviously saying "yeah this or
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by Smaug123 4y ago
The insane bit about date formatting is recognised to be insane by the Golang team themselves. To quote https://pkg.go.dev/time : > It is a regrettable historic error that the date uses the American convention of putting
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by Smaug123 4y ago
It makes about as much sense as "eeny meeny miney mo" (or, for that matter, "one two three four"). It just sort of happened.
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by Smaug123 4y ago
Forgive me, I'm still recovering from the flu and am having some trouble thinking, but I didn't find your "Why not build this into Realtime?" section very compelling. If you've already got a central source of truth
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by Smaug123 4y ago
Dunno about "just fine" - I rarely use Go programs, but I found a bug in the one I work with the most which turned out to be precisely a failure to write "if err != nil". It just feels kind of embarrassing when we… alrea
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by Smaug123 4y ago
I expect an entity which is capable of pretending to be a filesystem in response to a free text prompt to also be able to pretend to be a user.

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