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by armitron 7y ago
Link?
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by armitron 7y ago
We wouldn't know, since most of the incidents would never see the light. From the incidents that did come to light (e.g. Google spying on you through its assistant), we do know that they can and will bend the letter of the law to suit
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by armitron 7y ago
For a lot of people, psychedelics are the only path. The black iron prison is not just you and your worldview but the environment you choose (or not) to place yourself in and everyone you choose (or not) to interact with. A consensual hallu
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by armitron 7y ago
I stopped reading at Nelson Mandela. A white-washed caricature, a media construct of certain Western power structures, that entirely collapses the moment one pays even a little bit of attention at his deeds and the people he freely associat
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by armitron 7y ago
It has been happening for years, on HN too. Astroturfing used to be extremely obvious and you could quickly verify by looking at someone's comment history. No longer the case I'm afraid, since accounts are either bought outright o
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by armitron 7y ago
Absolutely terrible. I can see why data science types who use / produce a lot of (typically throwaway) Python code might be enamored with this, but as far as the Python language goes, functorflow will be another nail in its coffin if i
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by armitron 7y ago
This is certainly ironic given how Google is positioning itself to become one of the most evil corporations in the history of the planet. Will it get there? I hope not but things are not looking positive.
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by armitron 7y ago
I wouldn't want to run this solely based on the fact that they wrote a tremendous amount of parsers in C. Even worse, it also seems they wrote them by hand and didn't use a parser generator. This is really not what you should be d
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by armitron 7y ago
You should further rephrase that to be: Anyone not in a monogamous relationship that has (unprotected) anal sex with different men. Nothing else makes statistical sense. There is such a thing as a precautionary principle for medicine and it
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by armitron 7y ago
Do you know what the odds of contracting HIV for straight people that have non-anal sex are? Infinitesimal. Even when one of them is infected, the odds are less than one in a thousand exposures. What you are describing makes absolutely no s
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by armitron 7y ago
Key rotation can in many cases be ultra annoying and you dismiss PFS far too easily. After Snowden, we know for a fact nation states are conducting massive data capture operations. In some cases, visiting specific trigger sites is enough to
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by armitron 7y ago
PPC was niche compared to Intel. So they moved from a dying ecosystem to a thriving one. If they moved from AMD64 to ARM, they would be doing the opposite. AMD64 is not going anywhere on the desktop and is by far the undisputed performance
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by armitron 7y ago
DSVPN does not seem to support PFS [1] which would immediately disqualify for any purpose for me. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_secrecy
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by armitron 7y ago
I'll take Lisp over this. Sorry.
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by armitron 7y ago
This resonates but can also be viewed as testament to the rapid deterioration of American society on all fronts but most importantly in ethics and values. One great movie that brilliantly captures the American pioneering spirit is “The Righ
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by armitron 7y ago
The right term for what you refer to as terminal(s) is shell. A terminal (or a terminal emulator) is not a shell and, moreover, a shell does not necessarily require a terminal.
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by armitron 7y ago
[1] is, as you mention, going nowhere and with good reason (Guile is pretty much a single person project at this point and no heavy hitter from the emacs-devel community is interested in it). [2] is also going nowhere since again no Emacs c
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by armitron 7y ago
He's not plain wrong. Your replies are totally off the mark. > Most Mac apps are distributed outside of the Mac App Store. How does that make the author's statement wrong? > Nobody seems to have really been clamoring for nat
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by armitron 7y ago
In stark difference to pretty much almost everyone who replied to you, I'll say: Kudos. It takes courage and a strong will to see through this world for what it is and go against social and biological conditioning. It is amusing to me
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by armitron 7y ago
Ezekiel bread (toasted) is the best one can do at US supermarkets. It doesn’t compare to whole grain sourdough breads one can easily get in parts of Europe but it is ultra healthy and quite good tasting if you toast it.
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by armitron 7y ago
My team tried doing it once and we decided against it after running into problems with the number of Guile dependencies. We moved to Lua (0 dependencies) soon after. Guile may have more features but Lua (and Luajit) is really the undisputed
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by armitron 7y ago
Private trackers.
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by armitron 7y ago
He severely misunderstands the relevant issues I think. Here is a much more focused and illuminating perspective, by someone who has never worked in tech no less: https://jacobitemag.com/2019/04/03/primordial-
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by armitron 7y ago
Take Lisp code written in the last 50 years and odds are that Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp or Scheme can run it with zero/minimal/moderate modifications. Clojure needs a total and complete rewrite which doesn't only affect the syn
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by armitron 7y ago
A Clojure cons is something completely different to a Lisp cons. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34347985/clojure-no-cons...
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by armitron 7y ago
Not only would I not call Clojure a "proper lisp" but since it doesn't run any Lisp code and lacks fundamental Lisp data structures (e.g conses), I wouldn't even call it a Lisp.
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by armitron 7y ago
Rather than seeing "late binding of everything" as a specific implementation or bits and pieces of a particular implementation, I find it is much more clear to see it as a general self-referential idea. Why then would one _go agai
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by armitron 7y ago
We need to acknowledge that this particular field of, let's be generous and call it engineering, we are talking about is, for the most part, slow-moving and rather backwards to begin with. It's also shaped by forces and concerns t
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by armitron 7y ago
The article explains (very well) what the benefits of dynamic typing are, it's just that Python is a terrible language that spits in the face of Alan Kay's ideas. It's like someone went out of their way to create a language t
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by armitron 7y ago
I'm glad this was rejected as it was a terrible idea. If it wasn't clear back then, it certainly is obvious today. I have to agree with Drepper: It tried to solve an easy problem that didn't really matter - in a very messy wa

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