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I've been following this book to learn how to parse/interpret/compile languages: https://craftinginterpreters.com/ And started designing and implementing my own pure-functional, JavaScript-targeted language w
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There's a trope that management always prioritizes new features over mitigating tech debt. I'm sure that happens on some teams, but without inside information it's a bit of a leap to assume that's what's responsible
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Ars tends to have good science reporting, and Beth Mole in particular always seems to know her stuff. I don't feel that this article jumps to any hasty conclusions: > The finding does not necessarily mean that people will no longer
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I've always known it as a classic adage in relationship contexts, particularly romantic relationships, where for the sake of the relationship it can make sense to stop trying to win the argument. I don't know if the saying is a re
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I think it's still worthwhile to make it as expensive for them as possible. Sure, they have supercomputers that can break any crypto a normal citizen is using. But can they break every piece of encrypted data that everyone is using
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For a long time I've thought that the idea of having an entire, Turing-complete layer between the database and the HTTP API felt like overkill. You know your collections, you know the shape of your data, auth doesn't vary much bet
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Every once in a while something like this comes up that reminds me how incredible Apple can be at engineering, and how much attention they can give to the details, when they really try. It's so strange to contrast this with, say, the e
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That's still clunkier than await first await second So lots of people might not ever think to do it the other way. If you don't have intimate knowledge of how promises work and what async/await really do, you might n
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This is one reason I have reservations about async/await syntax in JavaScript. Promises are parallel by default; you have to go out of your way to make them "synchronous". The synchronous way of doing things may be clunky, bu
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This brings up an interesting question: could YouTube be forced to fix its abuse-ridden copyright system by having individuals spam major companies' videos with bogus takedown requests?
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Elaborating on verifiable facts that are relevant to the discussion?
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And instead our commander in chief prefers to insult allies old and new on Twitter
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They make screwdriver kits specifically for working on electronics and many of them include an Apple-style head. It's annoying that you need to buy one, but they aren't hard to find.
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Municipal law, spending, etc. seems to me like a ripe avenue for software being used to improve society. Here's why: most people don't even know what things are happening in their area, much less do the math to see the full pictur
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> the linear arrow says this: a function that has type A⊸BA⊸B is a function that has an AA available to compute with, but it can only use it once. Not twice, not zero times: just once. Superficially this sounds a lot like Rust's FnO
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I have to side with Ive here. Apple is not a gaming company, and that's the only consumer motive I could see for a bulky headset that's tethered to a base station. Any other use would be pure novelty. Plus, the already-small marke
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And what's to stop terrorists from dropping hand grenades from a small airplane onto whatever they want, today? Control on explosive substances (and on aircraft themselves, to a degree) is what. These drones don't change that equa
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And you really don't think those inhabitants would riot and swiftly overwhelm whatever enforcement existed if their friends and neighbors started getting picked off by assassination drones? If anything it sounds like India's enfor
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A rooftop sniper, then.
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You really think lack of money for hiring thugs with guns to shoot helpless citizens is the limiting factor for any ill-willed nation-state? Even the most insidious state relies on its citizenry to some extent. You're not ruling an
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They could already wipe out people they want to designate as "criminals" by busting into people's houses and shooting them in their sleep. The reason they don't (very often) is that, as we've seen in recent weeks, t
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To play devil's advocate against the panic I'm watching unfold in this thread: I don't think there's an enormous categorical difference here from weapons that already exist. We've had long-range (longer range than m
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It's not about authoritarianism vs democracy. It's about energized new blood vs an old, arrogant, decaying shamble of a nation that can do nothing but cling desperately to the visage of "greatness" that it presumes to de
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Here's a pretty awesome one: https://twitter.com/qornflex/status/1195701316418490368
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Which would include Electron apps
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Affordable, but a little hard to justify as a casual user who just wants to mess around and doesn't really plan on building anything complete
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By "tools like Blender" I meant the entire category.
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Houdini is an incredibly cool tool: https://www.sidefx.com/products/houdini/ One of the things I most dislike about tools like Blender is that it can be really hard to go back to earlier stages of the process and
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23566279
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Another commenter, downvoted for some reason, gave an explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23566279

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