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by armitron 11mo ago
Clojure is a niche language that (for realistic purposes) is still tied to a single platform, the JVM, which (Clojure, not the JVM) looks more dead with every passing year. It never became popular and it's been steadily losing users. I
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by armitron 1y ago
It is a gross exaggeration. There are far better modern text adventures out there written by one person (ie see the games of Andrew Plotkin). There’s minimal if any interactivity in this “game” and I deleted it after 10 minutes of one scre
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by armitron 1y ago
It is boring, there’s minimal interactivity. Quite a long way from the better text adventures out there.
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by armitron 1y ago
Wild exaggeration. Wireshark is very limited in what it can do and has gained few if any new power-user features (especially when it comes to extensibility and programmability) in more than a decade of development. The macOS-specific functi
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by armitron 1y ago
I moved to Germany where my wife is from, and I currently split my time between a conservative US state where my kids are studying (I left California where I grew up when the liberal politics became too much to handle as I didn't want
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by armitron 1y ago
As someone who's lived in the UK for years but no longer there (I'm American and currently live in another EU country) it's sad but also quite funny watching the rapid deterioration across multiple domains that has taken plac
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by armitron 1y ago
Read jonesforth if you want to learn how a Forth can be implemented and bootstrapped simply. Like other comments in this thread point out, this implementation isn’t really Forth and completely misses the point of Forth.
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by armitron 1y ago
Flud vision IOL has been in trials for years and looks very promising. Unless you really need an IOL NOW, I'd wait a few years for accommodating IOLs to hit the market. They make monofocals/trifocals seem like medieval technology
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by armitron 1y ago
Did you bother to read the OP text where it’s made crystal clear that Bitcoin is neither secure nor decentralized?
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by armitron 1y ago
Trump is trying hard to get voter id passed (common sense in Europe) and he’s obviously not doing that because he wants to cheat in elections. Your characterization is therefore misguided in the extreme. We only need to look at states like
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by armitron 1y ago
This is good example of how disastrous NHS can be (and it's not even that serious compared to horror stories that involve cancer) and makes me look at the flawed but also clearly superior US health system with renewed appreciation.
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by armitron 1y ago
Your calibration around skill gradients but also cause and effect is so far off that I'm wondering how you manage to navigate reality.
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by armitron 1y ago
"Borges provided more than two dozen pages of emails, memos and other communications outlining how DOGE “potentially violated multiple federal statutes” designed to protect government data." This reads like political theatrics fro
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by armitron 1y ago
This can be more accurately described as a hack: there are subtle bugs (e.g. CLOCK_REALTIME is not monotonic) and corner cases that are not taken into account that I can't find any strong reasons to recommend this. One would be better
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by armitron 1y ago
Even if you don't get the public key through a web of trust, you download it "once" not every time you download a file, then you keep using it until it expires. You also typically download it from a different place than the s
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by armitron 1y ago
Forging a signature is super hard, man-in-the-middling an HTTPS connection can be very easy (example: a lot of corporate environments do it).
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by armitron 1y ago
This is a very reductionist take that's to be expected from a software engineer but most definitely something that an artistic person would never utter. The creative process doesn't scale in the way that software engineers imagine
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by armitron 1y ago
This is a massive cope. AI image/video slop is still slop. Yes it's getting better, but it's still better .. slop. Unless radical new breakthroughs are made, the current LLM paradigm will not outdo Pixar or any other apex of
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by armitron 1y ago
Good riddance.
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by armitron 1y ago
Unless he ticks two or (ideally) more of the following: - graduated summa cum laude - from a top university (MIT, Stanford, CMU, Cornell, Berkeley) - lives and breathes tech, writes code for fun in his personal time, iron-clad determination
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by armitron 1y ago
Don't use Cloudflare, they've done enough damage to the Internet with their centralized bs without you needing to further reward them by handing over all your DNS data.
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by armitron 1y ago
This is one of the most confusing and badly worded interview problems I've ever seen. If I had been given this problem, I'd view it as a signal that I'd be wasting my time working with the folks that thought it was good.
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by armitron 1y ago
Let's not pretend that Google pre Pichai was anything special, the rot was already instilled long before he came along. Other than very early days, Google has mostly been a force that corrupts, commoditizes and destroys. Sundar Pichai
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by armitron 1y ago
There are many independent implementations of the same idea (given how easy it is to implement) but all suffer from similar shortcomings: 1. uprobes can be expensive and add latency (they force a context switch and copy data), especially wh
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by armitron 1y ago
That tirade? ranting? outburst? says more about you than it does about Alan.
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by armitron 1y ago
I think the more salient observation is that the author is completely detached from reality. Him writing: "shoulder to shoulder with incredible engineers, planning ways to make web developers life's easier while raising the qualit
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by armitron 1y ago
Reuters is turning into a rag. The vast majority of cutting edge research is not taking place in ossified academia these days, and most Oxford/Cambridge PhDs get on a plane to the US the moment they're done with their degrees. How
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by armitron 2y ago
The underlying strategy is so sound that Russia now effectively owns 20% of what used to be Ukraine, ground which is never going back. Their military has gained extremely valuable experience in fighting a modern war. Additionally, European
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by armitron 2y ago
See my previous comment, anyone learning C from K&R should not be writing C period. That book is legendary only in the magnitude of financial damages it (directly and indirectly) enabled, caused by people who read it and thought that th
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by armitron 2y ago
Terrible overall and entirely wrong in multiple places. If you learn C from this book, you should't be writing C. The last bit is also true for K&R The C Programming Language (avoid at all costs). You're better off with: - Mod

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