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by Zak 2mo ago
> the complexity of the problems demands so much code that the REPL cannot keep up. Now we disagree, at least in part. REPL-driven development is in part about incrementalism. You wouldn't run all the complex code every time you w
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by Zak 2mo ago
I think we're largely in agreement here. Unit tests and REPLs serve different purposes and are poor substitutes for each other; red_admiral was arguing that unit tests obviate the need for REPLs.
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by Zak 2mo ago
Unit testing doesn't provide the level of interactivity a REPL does. A REPL lets you see the output of parts of an unfinished function based on the running program's state. If you've already thought out the whole program befo
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by Zak 2mo ago
C++ predated the OOP hype cycle and triggered, or at least accelerated it.
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by Zak 2mo ago
I don't think C++ succeeded because it was object-oriented. I think C++ was object-oriented because classes were an abstraction that could layer on top of C with fairly low overhead, giving it more expressive power without much mandato
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by Zak 2mo ago
I was hoping it would address Lisp. Lisp is fun. The interactivity and instant turnaround of a Lisp REPL is still rarely matched in other languages. Common Lisp also solved a significant issue other languages didn't address well until
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by Zak 2mo ago
Not a pilot either, but it's my understanding that accidental spins almost never happen at altitudes where they're recoverable. Preventing the spin is the only way to avoid most crashes involving spins. Stalls, on the other hand a
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by Zak 2mo ago
That may be, but quite a few of the things that people want to keep kids out of are entirely usable from a browser.
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by Zak 2mo ago
The commercial value of a ten year old smartphone in a wealthy country is approximately $0. It's probably not terribly hard for a determined child who goes to school and has friends to obtain one.
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by Zak 2mo ago
Is it? I saw macros and went mad with power. I wrote a macro that could have been a function today . But seriously, I think Clojure has a particularly strong tradition of writing clean, readable code.
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by Zak 2mo ago
It seems to me the Clojure community internalized the lesson of not writing macros unless it's really necessary more than other Lisps did.
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by Zak 2mo ago
A "bad look" is legally irrelevant. A US citizen has an almost unlimited right to enter the USA carrying anything that's legal to import. Blank phones are legal to import.
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by Zak 2mo ago
The border search exemption is not intended to allow searching for evidence of crimes that aren't related to importing something illegally. Of course CPB isn't expected to ignore evidence of other crimes they happen to see inciden
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by Zak 2mo ago
> That anything within 100 miles of the border is constitution free tosses that out That's a misconception. Border/immigration agents can operate inside this zone, including making stops with reasonable suspicion or running c
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by Zak 2mo ago
This probably doesn't hold up legally, but it does hold up logically: if the reason a border search exemption exists is to prevent importation of material that is unlawful to import, wiping a storage device also fulfills that purpose.
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by Zak 2mo ago
Looks like the correct link is now https://geekyants.com/case-studies/nowmatch-next-gen-dating-...
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by Zak 2mo ago
This seems to describe a workflow with a small number of apps that store things remotely. I want to back up my phone and restore it in one step, possibly to different hardware, and have it work like nothing ever happened. I can do that with
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by Zak 2mo ago
A US citizen has an almost unlimited right to enter the USA. The border search rule permits officials to search for things that are illegal to import. A blank phone is not illegal to import. A non-citizen who arrives with a blank phone migh
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by Zak 2mo ago
Possible, yes. Easy, not so much. Phone operating systems don't really place nice with local backup and restore, which I consider a serious flaw.
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by Zak 2mo ago
The article already links to a website that shows their locations: https://deflock.org/ It does not gamify or otherwise encourage damaging them, which would be legally risky.
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by Zak 2mo ago
A long time ago, I fixed Windows machines for pocket change. I can confirm some users will make bad decisions no matter what warnings they're given. I think the impulse for an OS vendor to try to make such mistakes impossible is about
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by Zak 3mo ago
Then I wouldn't use it, and I would probably stop using services that tried to push me in to it. I use multiple devices and I want to log in to things using only my master password. I also want to be able to back up my credentials to l
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by Zak 3mo ago
I have a hard time imagining any significant number of people objecting based on the sender's privacy. An adult sending explicit images to a child is a crime in most jurisdictions. A child doing it with a recipient under 13 is a concer
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by Zak 3mo ago
> Pedophiles aren't stupid I'm not entirely convinced that's true. Facebook is a leading reporter of CSAM, much of it sent through Messenger, which only recently got E2EE, and Instagram DM, which briefly had E2EE but no
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by Zak 3mo ago
There were two different technologies. One was client-side scanning for known CSAM, which created a huge backlash and is described here: https://educatedguesswork.org/posts/apple-csam-intro/ The other is detection
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by Zak 3mo ago
You wrote this in the passive voice; it doesn't say who is doing the blocking. Pornhub itself is doing the blocking; it uses geolocation and denies services to IP addresses from jurisdictions with age verification laws. The laws are us
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by Zak 3mo ago
That's so opposite to my preferences that I'd be really interested in the results of someone studying that group of users. I do like local native software, preferably using the native UI toolkit, filesystem and features of the dev
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by Zak 3mo ago
I have no interest in installing a web app in almost all cases. I'm happy to visit one though, and I trust the browser sandbox to keep it from doing anything worse than making my device warm until I notice and close the tab.
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by Zak 3mo ago
I once read that app users are seven times more profitable than web users. That easily answers the author's question about why a company would bother make an app when a web page is the natural fit for the use case. I don't remembe
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by Zak 3mo ago
The auditor app itself does not result in any loss of freedom, but the widespread availability of remote attestation mechanisms on end-user devices incentivizes others to use it in a manner that does. A purely local mechanism that lets the

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