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by akkartik 3y ago
Thanks!
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I'm curious about the mechanical details here. How can a tenured professor at UCLA not be aware that they contributed (not author?!) to a paper cited 3000 times?
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I don't quite follow. I don't have a problem with git or Github. I just don't happen to have npm installed.
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"In proper HN fashion, the site is open-source and requires no JS!" It seems unfortunate that opening a PR requires having npm installed.
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Page 17 mentions a link and then goes off on a poignant meditation about its likelihood of breaking: "It feels like I may have just gone ahead and ruined what I am by [dumping this link]. Has all of this writing lost its timelessness,
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by akkartik 3y ago
In addition to other responses, an instance shutting down has historically validated the concept of decentralization. Instance announces, people export, choose another instance, thank the old one for its service. I've seen this a coupl
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by akkartik 3y ago
http://akkartik.name Since 2012 I have a one-track mind. I want a world with: * hundreds of software products for any need (mostly check) * that can all be easily modified by hundreds of thousands of people, * creating tens of t
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Regional handwriting variation(en.wikipedia.org)
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by akkartik 3y ago
One option not mentioned so far: gemini://bbs.geminispace.org Also +1 to https://tildes.net The important thing: use multiple sites to hedge your habits against such issues.
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I don't use Racket much, but Python certainly frustrates me. So what I want to know is where people land when all these languages frustrate them. Builds taking too long seems like a perennial problem, for example. (Currently I work in
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PEGs in a PEG (2008)(github.com)
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> That’s why I’m much more optimistic about Bluesky’s long-term prospects. This makes sense if: * you conflate prospects with scale, and * you deemphasize the possibility that Bluesky might follow the same trajectory as Twitter. What the
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by akkartik 3y ago
Sorry, yes I see my comment didn't convey that.
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by akkartik 3y ago
Hmm, upon closer investigation the only one of these that holds up is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13624926 (2017; 98 points; 67 comments) I feel sure I'm missing a lot. This subject seems to come up every few
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by akkartik 3y ago
Some past threads for dang to macroexpand: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33413124 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32384769 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25355171 https:&
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by akkartik 3y ago
Found via https://tilde.news/s/xlrzqc/comparison_text_based_browsers I find the two smallest browsers mentioned here most interesting: - https://retawq.sourceforge.net is 25k LoC. Last release 2006. -
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A comparison of text-based browsers (2011)(kmandla.wordpress.com)
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Does "IP" in this article mean "intellectual property"?
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Computers that live two seconds in the future(interconnected.org)
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Hence the word "component". It certainly seems more real than other paper tigers.
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+100 I was saying to someone yesterday that "enshittification" is a sub-optimal coinage for something that really shouldn't need a new term, and which focuses attention on symptoms rather than root causes. If you give someone
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by akkartik 3y ago
For one, it's alluding to other countries but not really holding up the US in much of the article. Second, this quote at the end: > Consequently, I suspect Russia is not the only paper tiger out there; the forest is likely to be ful
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by akkartik 3y ago
My only quibble with this article: it fails to apply its own conclusions to the US. The balance of evidence (Pentagon procurement processes and cost overruns of major projects) shows the US military too has a significant paper component.
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by akkartik 3y ago
I ran Arch for about six months back in 2021 on a Thinkpad. As I recall the mouse driver would reset like once a day. I'd be mousing around and suddenly the pointer would teleport to the top-left corner. And the wifi would intermittent
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by akkartik 3y ago
I went looking for an answer to the obvious question, and there is indeed a Rust version. https://github.com/containers/youki#motivation has a nice comparison with both runc and crun.
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I have so many questions after reading this. Like this example: [ // Call console.log "@", [".", ["console"], "log"], // Verbatim call parameter &quot
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by akkartik 3y ago
This whole comment needs a big "citation required". It's all anecdotes and speculation. Tech displaces industries, yes, but in the history of tech there has never been a company that stopped needing software engineers. If you
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Secret Service implements tougher penalties against agents on phones(cnn.com)
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Book recommendation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_of_Teeth
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Rde: A configuration framework for GNU Guix [video](youtube.com)
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