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by akkartik 5y ago
I built a computer with its own languages, and I consider it to be _less_ cognitive load when everything is in 1/2/3 languages. I don't have to worry that the next program I want to read the sources will require "Go, Rus
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by akkartik 5y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. I see that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Centauri has a much better caption for the same image.
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by akkartik 5y ago
The fallacy here is attributing to a technique something that is just a property of a domain. The hallmark of intelligence is that it generalizes. Good results in one domain tell you something about the domain, but absolutely nothing about
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by akkartik 5y ago
This is the critical, falsifiable prediction, to my mind: Putin "understands that he cannot conquer Ukraine and integrate it into a greater Russia or into a reincarnation of the former Soviet Union. He can’t do that. What he’s doing in
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by akkartik 5y ago
Favorited ( https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=akkartik&comments=... )
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by akkartik 5y ago
I'm not an expert, but my understanding of the space is that Dependabot shows vulnerabilities in direct dependencies of a repo . After reading greysteil's sibling comment, though, I wonder if something like Snyk does everything
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by akkartik 5y ago
In the wake of Log4shell I've spent some time thinking about how we can streamline the recovery from such large bugs. I suspect a lot of eyes are on this area now. Do y'all have any plans here? Figuring out what services are impac
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by akkartik 5y ago
I think you have your CEOs mixed up. https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1375128958056988673
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by akkartik 5y ago
This is all valid. But like I said, it was always about social and PR pressure ( edit with reputable sites). (I was mistaken earlier when I thought it also had the force of law behind it.) That still has some, depreciating, value. To repea
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by akkartik 5y ago
Yeah, it's an idiotic, 1-dimensional proposition in a game of n-dimensional chess. Tech employees are competition for a company's profit after all the other companies trying to commoditize their complements ( https://www
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by akkartik 5y ago
It provides a modicum of social and legal enforcement. A website with any sort of brand risks legal and PR costs if they violate DNT. I'm happy for them to take that risk. Though I see now that the whole thing has fallen through since
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by akkartik 5y ago
Elaborate? I have dnt turned on and am using incognito tabs? Still not good enough?
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by akkartik 5y ago
I've been running NoScript for the past year. It's pretty nice once you get to a stable set of policies. I load mainstream media sites in incognito tabs with JavaScript enabled for the tab.
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by akkartik 5y ago
Favorited ( https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=akkartik&comments=... )
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by akkartik 5y ago
I have Gmail forwarding all spam to my domain/fastmail. Any issues that way?
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by akkartik 5y ago
What do you enjoy about Gmail/cal? I don't see the point of that level of indirection in your setup. Fastmail seems indistinguishable from Gmail UI except I don't have crap on the left nav. And gcal is unreliable garbage, in
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by akkartik 5y ago
Just spatial safety, that's too bad. It won't catch use-after-free errors.
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by akkartik 5y ago
My wife says my pep talks always have the opposite effect. So if this doesn't work for you, just go read another comment. But it works for me. The way I stopped worrying about wasting my potential was when I realized I still had potent
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by akkartik 5y ago
Where are y'all seeing this norm? I regularly see shallow praise on HN, and I think it's great. Looking at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html , I don't actually see any restrictions on saying n
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by akkartik 5y ago
I don't see a link to the simulator at the bottom, and there's no mention of a simulator at http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/products/index.html . Do I need to order an evaluation kit?
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by akkartik 5y ago
Is an alloy a metamaterial?
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by akkartik 5y ago
What language are you developing in? Is the project code up somewhere? No payment necessary, but I'd be happy to do a videocall with you. I've implemented tagged unions once, albeit with a very different syntax: https:/&#x2F
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by akkartik 5y ago
This sounds tantalizing! Please write the blog post so I can read more about it :) Increasing the number of forks is a long-time goal of mine. Check out the bottom of this old page from a previous project of mine: https://akkarti
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by akkartik 5y ago
I work on ways to write programs that help outsiders understand their big picture (rather than insiders understand incoming contributions). The goal: you (any programmer) should be able to use an open-source program, get an idea for a simpl
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by akkartik 5y ago
I don't understand. What clarification? I don't see any mention of free vs bound variables anywhere in this thread or your links. I meant energies in describing the technical shortcomings of Gemini, and concentrating all the energ
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by akkartik 5y ago
If Gemini specifically is bad, you should be able to argue that without making these other arguments that apply to any new project. Convince people they shouldn't care about it. So far I haven't found that side compelling. If you
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by akkartik 5y ago
> I don't think you're conceptualizing the criticism correctly. This is not "B is better than A". This is a case where B never comes along because A exists. This risk is omnipresent in the universe. We never know wh
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by akkartik 5y ago
Yeah, I just axiomatically disagree with this sort of control-obsessed, zero-sum thinking. Good ideas have always had to compete with other new ideas in addition with incumbent old ones. There is always an organizational challenge in ad
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by akkartik 5y ago
I use Firefox. When I click on a gemini:// link it opens it in Lagrange. Seems pretty seamless. If you're not going to install Lagrange, I'm doubtful that you're going to install an extension either. This isn't
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by akkartik 5y ago
If you think the web sucks, stop equating people (not companies) building alternatives with Google and Facebook. I think OP is the Judean People's Front while Gemini is the People's Front of Judea. Or something. Who cares? Here&#x

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