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by armitron 7y ago
Regarding anything "Marvel" - including most of the other movies you mentioned - , utterly irredeemable trash is the word you are looking for. Here is a very well written critique: https://jacobitemag.com/2019&#x2F
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by armitron 7y ago
No, never-invent-here (aka extensive 3rd party library reuse) is orders of magnitude worse. NIH means you retain full control of your codebase. It's really determinism that leads to you being able to make reliability/robustness, a
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by armitron 7y ago
Freenode channels can require users to be registered and identified in order to join. This solves the spam problem. Given that I am on Freenode 24/7 and have been for years, on 40+ channels, and spam has never been an issue I stand by
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by armitron 7y ago
Everything that's wrong with slack, and more. No IRC gateway. Developers are extremely hostile to 3rd party clients. Centralized control. Ownership of your data.
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by armitron 7y ago
Most servers do, and a simple channel mode solves the spam problem (which isn't nowhere near as much of a problem as email spam).
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by armitron 7y ago
May I ask why you think it's worth doing all this work, especially now that Git has - clearly - won. How do you motivate yourself to keep working on mercurial and at what point do you cut your losses short? I assume you're not get
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by armitron 7y ago
What doesn't make sense? Limewire is P2P. My impression of the -sparse- darknet mentions is that they were independently (= not through their P2P monitoring software) looking for useful data there and manually inserting it into their d
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by armitron 7y ago
Ah who can forget Paul 'Genius Journalist' Carr that when the Snowden story was breaking was making fun of Ed and doing his best to downplay/bury the biggest story in years with an avalanche of bullshit. I also see that he wr
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by armitron 7y ago
Let me rephrase that: Cops _in the USA_ are almost never held liable for abuses of power including outright murders. This is unheard of in other first world countries, especially in Europe. I'm American but I've lived in England,
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by armitron 7y ago
This x1000. Everybody interested in economics should read Ha-Joon Chang and study the South Korean phenomenon. Those who haven't and still feel obliged to put down their 2 cents praising free trade / markets are talking out of the
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by armitron 7y ago
Most importantly, you forgot the wide availability of hard drugs. Downtown SF is an open drug bazaar, probably the biggest in the USA if not the world. Police do not go after the sellers and the city has for years maintained and enabled thi
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by armitron 7y ago
Nothing beats coding on the Amiga itself with an assembler like ASMOne. The feeling of immediacy is unparalleled.
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by armitron 7y ago
Sussman is still teaching SICP through his Adventures in Advanced Symbolic Programming [1]. The Python course happened clearly due to politics and popular appeal. Sussman expressed his disappointment about it multiple times. Abelson did the
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by armitron 7y ago
Not a lot, given that Clojure semantics are very different from Lisp semantics.
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by armitron 7y ago
"The question of whether machines can think is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim."
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by armitron 7y ago
Couldn't have said it better. I hope Stallman survives this coup because there is potential here for the GNU project to be destroyed by the actions of a few (I'd like to say misguided but I fear that some of them have been plannin
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by armitron 7y ago
Solaris is the laughing stock of any offensive exploit shop. Hackers like it so much they cheer every time it comes up in a gig or otherwise.
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by armitron 7y ago
https://www.cvedetails.com/product/19755/Oracle-Solaris.html... https://www.cvedetails.com/product/32658/?q=Suse+Linux+Enter...
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by armitron 7y ago
Either Gosling is being taken out of context or he's willingly obscuring the issue and occluding important information. Gosling did not invent Emacs and he has no claims to it like it's implied by this interview. Gosling Emacs was
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by armitron 7y ago
Bee colony is just a synonym for bees; bees run the colony, bees build the hive, bees are the hive. No matter how many levels of abstraction you go through it's _always_ bees at the top. If anything happens in the hive, there's _a
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by armitron 7y ago
Except the way it's presented by Aho is farcical. Smalltalk is small and beautiful. Forth is small and beautiful. Scheme is small and beautiful. C is NOT small and beautiful. Unix is NOT small and beautiful. Aho is going off the cliff
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by armitron 7y ago
Since it mentions CS I feel criticism is fair: I have a CS degree from CMU and this material is simply incomprehensible to me. It's not only written from a mathematical perspective but also aimed at mathematicians, and not computer sci
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by armitron 7y ago
It can be a good fit for quick throwaway projects, typically found in various research groups. Python itself is a giant antipattern for anything more ambitious I would say. Go provides far more rigor and stable foundations. Rust is also the
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by armitron 7y ago
The (micro)benchmarks game is a gimmick and should not be taken seriously. You forgot to mention that the SBCL #3 implementation also sits at 2.0 and is fully memory safe. I fail to see the reason for you presenting the facts in this manner
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by armitron 7y ago
Pi Hole is a very poor substitute for uBlock origin, it doesn't block Youtube or Twitch ads for example or do anything dynamic. Plus it's full of false positives since DNS rules can be very coarse or change continuously. Not to me
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by armitron 7y ago
You're focusing on something that doesn't really matter in the context of what he was saying, and ignoring the bigger truth which is that security researchers DID look at AMD processors and they DID find that they do not suffer fr
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by armitron 7y ago
Get a better router, there's no excuse for openwrt these days, with plenty of ultra small, cheap, abundant devices that can run a full distribution without issues.
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by armitron 7y ago
Online poker is a different game to live poker. Stu was a live player and he would probably eat every current "online" poker player alive if he sat down on a real table and could get his legendary reads off. The sort of technical
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by armitron 7y ago
Another regrettable decision by the idiots in charge. Keep banning people left and right for ludicrous reasons and then act all surprised when they radicalize/implode. Marginalized persons need access to the mainstream, not further ban
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by armitron 7y ago
Given that the production/consumption of plastic shows no sign of slowing down, it's not science fiction to imagine how this state of affairs can go very very wrong. Nick Bostrom's "global catastrophic risk" does af

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