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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
As someone from NZ: we have an election in about 4 weeks, and this is a serious issue here. We know that this immigration-driven growth is not real growth.
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
The only people that should be affected by it are Sonos. They should sue Amazon for violating their service agreement to maintain Audible so it would continue to work.
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
'Compatible with service X' is a feature. If it stops being compatible with service X because service X changed their API, then you either need to fix it so it's compatible again, or refund to your customers. If you want to a
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
>stuff like PCG PCG is cryptographically secure, though. Or at least, it is as cryptographically secure as any other PRNG in the sense that nobody actually knows how to predict it, many have tried, nobody has succeeded, but nobody has pr
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
>I'd have called that a PRNG, because to me there were only two main categories. Pseudo-random, where it's designed to be unpredictable, and actually random where it is based on an external hardware source of true random inform
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
Programmers are not computer scientists, and computer science is no more equivalent to software engineering than physics is equivalent to civil engineering. Programmers are also not, in general, software engineers. It's not about getti
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
So they've already released 'updates' that break the device and reduces its feature set, and you're okay with this?
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
Everything else is 'clearly' a service? On what basis? You buy a product, it has these features, you can do these things, that's the product. Being able to play music on a 'smart speaker' from my phone isn't a
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
I'm pretty sure by definition IoT devices use the internet..
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
The EU as a whole is arguably much more diverse than the US as a whole, though. The 'oh the US is most diverse evar!' narrative is just American exceptionalism IMO.
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
Maths textbooks contain real mathematics and are aimed at mathematicians or mathematics students. This is about a blockchain, and is presented using Haskell and over-the-top Haskell pseudo-category-theory.. it just doesn't compute for
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
Your argument rests on the fault assumption that in a 'wide range of media', the median publication is unbiased and things that are more left-wing than it are biased and things more right-wing than it are biased in the other direc
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
>journalistsscum Nice neutral name >software engineers Sorry to break it to you, but software development is not engineering.
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
'Semantical terms'? Semantics literally just means 'meaning'. If you don't want a discussion to involve discussing meaning , what do you want it to discuss? Your grammar? Your spelling? Your syntax?
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
>I think there's a spectrum. People who optimize file systems, for example: that's on the "engineering" side of the spectrum. It requires a scientific approach to the research. It requires a very deep understanding of
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
I'm not super familiar with American politics. What do you mean by 'fiscally conservative'? You want the Government to lower taxes and lower benefits and such, is that right? Because that sort of 'the market is right, we
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
Coming from a maths background, it's not expository. It's pompous. Referring to the original article, btw.
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by alphaalpha101 9y ago
I like the idea behind this article, but this isn't the way to do it. It hides the simplicity of the blockchain concept behind arcane syntax and overly complicated higher-order typing constructs. newtype BlockF a = Block (V.Vecto