Yoric

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by Yoric 3y ago
I'm a big fan of Rust (and a minor contributor), but one can't deny that a garbage-collector makes most developments much easier. Now, I'm not convinced that a gc makes much sense in driver development, but I could be wrong.
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by Yoric 3y ago
Thanks :) While I think that we made some mistakes in the design, I'm surprised that, to this day, there isn't any widely-used language/toolkit/framework [1] that seems to do as well. [1] Alright, there's GWT, which
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by Yoric 3y ago
Thanks :) Now that OCaml has gained algebraic effects, I suspect that it should be feasible to reimplement Lwt to use these instead of monads, which should make writing async code much easier, which in turn should make Ocsigen much easier.
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by Yoric 3y ago
That's entirely possible. I'm probably in the process of graduating to graybeard, because I've been witness to a few cycles in computer science already :)
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by Yoric 3y ago
I mean during a refactoring. I don't know how much of this applies to Electric Clojure, mind you, that's only my experience from Opa.
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by Yoric 3y ago
Looking at it right now, thanks!
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by Yoric 3y ago
Well, it very much depends on your definition of "secure". The OWASP top 10 were pretty easy to eliminate entirely with a language that supports static analysis, but we accidentally introduced a couple more: 1. the model made it h
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by Yoric 3y ago
I may have involuntarily stolen this idea from GWT at some point during the last 15 years or so :)
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by Yoric 3y ago
Those were the days :) I believe that we made a few mistakes with Opa, though. The slicer (the component of the compiler that decided which code should be compiled to client and whic hto server) was a great idea, but it came with considerab
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by Yoric 3y ago
From what I understand, there are semi-rational reasons for which Putin might have wanted to attack Ukraine in 2022 and not wait, for instance, 10 more years to ensure that Europe could not wean itself of Russian resources. - Despite Russia
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by Yoric 3y ago
Funny, but as you probably suspect, it doesn't quite work like that :)
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by Yoric 3y ago
Your remarks make sense, but it's only going to be boats and planes if the war stays contained around Taiwan. India and China have been waiting ~60 years for a rematch, so there is the distinct possibility of a second front on land. No
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by Yoric 3y ago
Best guess: you're not talking of the same definition of "value".
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by Yoric 3y ago
As far as I understand, the US has a strong problem with stockpiles. They can send more material to Ukraine, but they want to have enough to also sustain a war in Taiwan. And it's unclear (at least to me) what the Chinese military doct
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by Yoric 3y ago
I agree that the democracy within US is currently in crisis. Not just in the US, mind you – several countries in Europe, but also India, Israel, Turkey, what I've read described as the "putsch belt" in Central Africa, ... Hop
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by Yoric 3y ago
In C++? Is there any C++ in the Linux kernel these days?
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by Yoric 3y ago
Oh gosh, the many different variants of SVGA that existed back in the days... /me shivers at the recollection
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by Yoric 3y ago
I've seen one wasm VM for Rust that offered what looked like transparent M:N, which should solve (in that case) most async difficulties. We'll see how that evolves.
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by Yoric 3y ago
How so? (asking as someone who has been involved in rationalism-related activities)
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by Yoric 3y ago
I'm not so sure about that. For one thing, France is and remains one of the richest countries in the world. For a second thing, I seem to remember that France is currently outperforming both Germany and the UK (I read this in both Germ
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by Yoric 3y ago
The Element Web Matrix client does that. I'm convinced that we're losing 99% of bug reports by making it so complicated. That being said, the Rust crowd is very different, so it's definitely worth a try!
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by Yoric 3y ago
I did and I'll certainly try it on my kid :)
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by Yoric 3y ago
Which I guess makes him a descendant of Jesus, in Diabolical logics? Such humility :)
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by Yoric 3y ago
Both of them are among my favorite books. I don't think I can pick one above the other.
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by Yoric 3y ago
Yeah, Atlas Shrugged was really bad.
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by Yoric 3y ago
In Paris, there were so many tourists visiting some of the churches mentioned in the book and "educating" their children based on what they had read from Dan Brown that these churches had posters on the doors reminding people to p
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by Yoric 3y ago
I read Foucault's Pendulum several times. First time, I was about 13yo and I loved the story. Then I read it again as an adult and realized just how many subtle jokes and references I had missed upon my first reading. Just don't f
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by Yoric 3y ago
If I recall correctly, the authors of The Holy Blood and he Holy Grail actually sued Dan Brown for plagiarism.
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by Yoric 3y ago
I've had a slightly different experience of Dan Brown. Some if it may due to my having read Foucault's Pendulum 5 years before Dan Brown, and part of the plot for Foucault's Pendulum is actually an algorithm for generating Da
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by Yoric 3y ago
> I'd think in this case it's about the response. What group of epidemiologists wouldn't get a sense of power, prestige than having daily Whitehouse meetings, continual press coverage, and effectively setting public policy

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