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by ab5tract 2y ago
It was just as annoying to constantly be pulled into discussions about Perl 5 in threads about Perl 6 back then too.
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by ab5tract 2y ago
I’m not sure that I see the connection that you are making here. Can you elaborate? Also note that in contrast to Bash, Junction is a type. Regarding their utility, at their most useful level (in my experience), junctions provide for things
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by ab5tract 2y ago
To me it’s not unlike spending all of a thread about Clojure commenting on Java or Common Lisp without even bothering to mention or contrast to Clojure. There are connections to both but that doesn’t necessarily make them topical. I disagre
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by ab5tract 2y ago
I dream of a day where one can post a Raku article on HNN and not encounter a comments section full of digressions into discussing Perl. There is some sense to it by means of comparison, but the constant conflation of the two becomes tireso
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by ab5tract 2y ago
There is no Perl code in Raku. Edit: Other than a configuration framework and a test harness.
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by ab5tract 2y ago
Genuinely curious what you mean by "beating Go". Do you mean "beating exceptional human Go players"?
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by ab5tract 2y ago
20-25 years is a “stereotypical” duration for non-com soldiers? That sounds very far-fetched to me.
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by ab5tract 2y ago
DNA literally changes inside of a human within a single lifetime. It didn't take a thousand years for moths to turn grey during the industrial revolution.
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by ab5tract 2y ago
Same here. The Cody autocomplete is so off base all the time that it’s deactivated. I serve Cody a direct question about 1-3 times a week. Of that, it gets maybe 50% correct on the first try. I don’t bother with a second try because by then
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by ab5tract 2y ago
This is a bizarre take. Corporate towns and company stores and union leader assassinations are all a part of the history of cheap labor in the US. None of those dynamics contribute to higher incomes for anyone aside from bosses and investor
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by ab5tract 2y ago
Is using glasses to see a crutch? Asking as someone who needs them as much as I need the prescribed-for-life medications I’ve been prescribed.
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by ab5tract 2y ago
The best are not prone to addiction or gambling? Better revise our meritocracy to downgrade the value of Wall St brokers to poverty levels then.
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by ab5tract 2y ago
Outside of this orange bubble, you might be surprised how little effort is required to orient public opinion against removing humanity from art.
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by ab5tract 2y ago
Telling when a thing is thread safe is hardly the same as telling when something isn’t.
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by ab5tract 2y ago
Can there really be only one LCD language? I guess theoretically based on the metaphor, yes, but for all of Java’s faults, it never asked me to swallow the poison pill that is significant white space. Which is to give immediate lie to the i
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by ab5tract 2y ago
Non-zero interest rates do not equal “high” interest rates.
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by ab5tract 2y ago
The fact that your comment is downvoted speaks volumes to the close-mindedness of your critics.
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by ab5tract 2y ago
It’s worth noting that the they only put population control measures in place because their prior policy of encouraging massive population growth backfired horribly due to the strain it wrought on society’s carrying capacity.
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by ab5tract 2y ago
Downvoting on HN was never supposed to be about punishing inconvenient truths.
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by ab5tract 2y ago
Ad agencies may consult with corporations as to whether a given venue is worth their investment. However, it is ultimately up to the company whether they follow that advice. They don’t “control” the advertising spend for that corporation. A
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by ab5tract 2y ago
I see plenty to fear when other people deploy AI to “determine” and judge my mood and my non-hypothetical mental illnesses without my knowledge or consent.
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by ab5tract 2y ago
It absolutely kills flow state for me personally because I’m being shown code completions that may or may not have anything to do with what I am actually about to write. When I allow myself to review the relevance and correctness of the att
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by ab5tract 2y ago
> This mostly threatens the parasite and pathogen species that are highly host-specific to critically endangered hosts The idea of worrying about the extinction of a parasite that would inevitably go extinct coincident to a host species’
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by ab5tract 2y ago
What rights are you contracting away, exactly? Usually capitalist rhetoric refers to contracting as a right in itself, muddying your point significantly.
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by ab5tract 2y ago
Because there would be no incentive to commodify user activity, bundle it up, and resell it to ever more dubious information brokers?
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by ab5tract 2y ago
It’s not a term, it’s a phrase. It means “open source advocates who are being honest about their advocacy”, in case you really need such a degree of clarification. I’ve met honest open source advocates before and, once again, they would be
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by ab5tract 2y ago
Ah yes, innovation can only emerge from glorious pits of pain and hellfire.
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by ab5tract 2y ago
Like I said, honest open source advocates won’t take issue to how I framed their position. Here’s a more important point: how far would the open source people have gotten without GCC and glibc? Much less far than they will ever admit, in my
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by ab5tract 2y ago
Are you really pretending that OSI and the open source label itself wasn’t a reactionary movement that vilified free software principles in hopes of gaining corporate traction? Most of us who were there remember it differently. True open so
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by ab5tract 2y ago
If you can’t share the dataset, under what twisted reality are you fine to share the derivative models based on those unsharable datasets? In a better world, there would be no “I ran some algos on it and now it’s mine” defense.

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