armitron

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by armitron 6y ago
"I’m funny how, I mean funny like I’m a clown?" In all seriousness, I'd like to support you but I won't, not for this. As somebody else said, in this very thread, it doesn't really stand out and the alternatives are
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by armitron 6y ago
I bought your ZZ9000 and I obviously like your work. But I do wish you focused on retro computing. I just can’t see this laptop going anywhere in terms of impact. The field is a black hole that consumes time & effort.
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by armitron 6y ago
Emacs Lisp is a much better language than JavaScript, and that goes double for extending Emacs. Emacs Lisp is the reason for Emacs being such a cohesive ecosystem. JavaScript would be a major mistake.
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by armitron 6y ago
Your definition of flexible must differ from mine. The fact that you mentioned an AST as a plus and macros w/ runtime overhead tells me you don’t understand Lisp.
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by armitron 6y ago
Multiple versions of macOS. And Windows. And possibly other less known systems. Besides, why would a discerning engineer put up with magit creating all these wasteful processes knowing that most of them are redundant, regardless of performa
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by armitron 6y ago
At least Apple doesn’t serve you malware or harvest your personal data for profit.
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by armitron 6y ago
Is that supposed to be more attractive? I'll take Java over JavaScript and something else over both.
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by armitron 7y ago
Not even a mention for Taleb who had a paper out in January [1] yet paragraphs for Zeynep and the rest who merely parroted rising consensus? Weak, very weak. [1] https://necsi.edu/systemic-risk-of-pandemic-via-novel-pathog..
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by armitron 7y ago
You're confusing the map with the territory I think. It's safe to say that Gibson's early work is full of insinuations. He zooms into specific criminal subcultures and describes them in detail but that doesn't mean that
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by armitron 7y ago
I don't get the "this issue is a duplicate so we won't pay" business. If I find a serious issue that's still unpatched and someone tells me "Ops it's a duplicate sorry!" I'm still going to ask fo
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by armitron 7y ago
People who write robust, performant, maintainable systems that don’t collapse under their own weight are talented engineers. Most scrapers including this one lack these characteristics.
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by armitron 7y ago
If you are connectable you should set up your own tracker. Even the old python-based bittorrent command line utilities will work for this and it's a piece of cake to get going.
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by armitron 7y ago
A suggestion, since I see this more and more especially in communities that consist of (relatively) young people. Don't use discord. Even if you don't agree with the spyware characterization, there are very good social reasons to
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by armitron 7y ago
Assuming that an answer to your question is even quantifiable (it isn't since you're asking me to prove nonexistence), how is it relevant to my original question? The security failures that allowed the NSA to come in were comical.
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by armitron 7y ago
You mean the same Google services running on top of data centers that the NSA had infiltrated and was monitoring for years?
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by armitron 7y ago
Genuinely curious: What secure and reliable systems has Google built? Nothing really springs to mind. Android, their most popular end-user product, is a security disaster [1]. Chrome, "the most secure browser in the world", has a
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by armitron 7y ago
Well it does not allow coroutines to migrate to different OS threads and handles to be shared across OS threads, but that does not mean it doesn't support multiple CPUs. It's more correct to say that it doesn't come with that
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by armitron 7y ago
"Clojure, currently is the most widely used Lisp dialect in the industry." Citation needed. I would bet money that this isn't true. There are a lot of places using proper Lisps that stay out of the public eye.
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by armitron 7y ago
Please don't use discord if you can avoid it, it's spyware.
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by armitron 7y ago
Gabriel's "Worse is Better" is still relevant and explains a lot (if not everything). Look at Rust removing CL-style conditions for a good example and Rust is by no means a popular language or a language that makes technical
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by armitron 7y ago
Fully agree with you, Google -as a lot of us expected- has turned into a corporate scourge. Which makes their mission statement "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" come across l
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by armitron 7y ago
When it comes comprehensibility, the C++ standard is orderS of magnitude more difficult than the JLS due to the numerous interdependencies and layers upon layers of cruft. There is no single, cohesive model to understand. That is the fatal
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by armitron 7y ago
Benefits of centralization.
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by armitron 7y ago
If he understands the Internet and how it works (I doubt it), he's chosen to pervert it. Read "Where Wizards Stay Up Late" to get a better history of the real geniuses behind the Internet. Look to people like Alan Kay to remi
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by armitron 7y ago
It's hard to convey what I mean exactly by listing features, it's best if you use it yourself. Next best thing is to watch an expert use it. Wolfram has released good videos to that end, here's the latest: https://
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by armitron 7y ago
Mathematica is worth learning and using since it's so far ahead of the open source alternatives (e.g. Python/Jupyter and associated libraries ) in usability/interactivity/rapid development that it comes across like futur
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by armitron 7y ago
Thunderbolt isn't nowhere near close in performance to built-in PCI express slots.
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by armitron 7y ago
Unix goes far beyond installing GNU tools on your mac.
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by armitron 7y ago
Right, that's why they released the 6000$ Mac Pro. I'm sure iPad OS will run nicely on that.
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by armitron 7y ago
I think all your points are more wrong than right since you pick the weakest possible constructions to attack (reference Lua implementation, invalid bytecode) and seem not to be aware of how good LuaJIT is performance-wise.

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