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by armitron 2y ago
Idiomatic to you perhaps, to me this looks ridiculous and unnecessary, bordering on masochistic.
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by armitron 2y ago
DOGE operates in advisory capacity, it's the -elected- executive branch that has the authority to follow through and act on said advice.
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by armitron 2y ago
> legality - RE is « forbidden » - bannable so in which you do not want to lose your account in which you have spent tens of thousands of hours or more, breaking authentication and DRM flows is [DRM, auth handshake, protecteions] illegal
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by armitron 2y ago
There are no Rust bits anywhere outside drivers, and hopefully that will continue to be the case. This means that mainline Linux kernel has no hard dependency on Rust whatsoever, which also means that Rust can be excised at any point with a
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by armitron 2y ago
This is not a serious answer. IMO the fairest but not necessarily most accurate characterization for Ibram X. Kendi would be charlatan (others could say he's deliberately inducing racial hatred and stoking division). Additionally, acco
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by armitron 2y ago
Make is a power tool and power tools require effort to fully understand and master (though the base case in Make is surprisingly simple). It also has great documentation (which is something newer generations either don't appreciate or
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by armitron 2y ago
Retiring them is the first step, you can't remove the bureaucratic cancer in one go.
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by armitron 2y ago
GDB (I don't use LLDB) is fully programmable and has multiple user interfaces (TUI, Emacs, DDD, graphical frontends and various .gdbinit configurations that emulate SoftICE L&F). It's a power tool and takes some time and effor
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by armitron 2y ago
Some of the smartest and most accomplished people I've met in my life spent their 20s experimenting heavily with weed and psychedelics. But that was not *all* they did and the goal behind this experimentation was not 'get fucked u
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by armitron 2y ago
DJB is not being "selective", instead you're nitpicking on something tangential to the point he's trying to make and creating the impression that what you wrote detracts from his point when that's definitely not the
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by armitron 2y ago
35 years of coding C don't amount to much if you ignore best practices. Look at the Linux kernel to learn how gotos can be used to make the code safer and improve clarity. There's probably something wrong if a substantial project
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by armitron 2y ago
AFAIK the US government doesn't take anything from your retirement unless you give up citizenship, which you don't need to do in order to expatriate. One can be a US citizen and live his life in any country one sees fit.
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by armitron 2y ago
Given that Guile is unstable and full of rough edges on Unix and nearly unusable on Windows, I don't see that taking place any time soon. Even if they improve stability, the Emacs C VM (which is rock solid) is much more performant so t
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by armitron 2y ago
I don't have a facebook account, none of my family has a facebook account, none of my friends have a facebook account, most of my colleagues don't have facebook accounts. As far as we're all concerned, if it's solely on
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by armitron 2y ago
It's not solely about the inner voice. Abstract concepts, symbol manipulation, mathematical logic and reasoning are for the most part "linguistic" constructs.
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by armitron 2y ago
What is the everyday sense of self that you have if not a linguistic construct? Without language and higher order thinking, you'd be back to being an ape. Modern life drenched in information flows, much more so than the past, acceller
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by armitron 2y ago
Friendly reminder that the modern country of North Macedonia has no connection whatsoever to the ancient Kingdom of Macedon which was a Greek state, similar to the other Greek city states (Athens, Sparta). Ancient Macedonians spoke a Greek
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by armitron 2y ago
The exact location is not known but there is strong consensus amongst historians that he's burried in Alexandria.
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by armitron 2y ago
This is correct. Alexander is burried in Alexandria, Egypt. This discovery means that some of his artifacts were inherited by one of his siblings, moved back to Greece and burried with them.
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by armitron 2y ago
Not to mention more perfomant than Lispworks.
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by armitron 2y ago
One wonders what the point of this article is besides “we fucked up by choosing something that we should have known did not fit the constraints we had”.
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by armitron 2y ago
Isn't Chromium open source? How hard would it be to fork and restore Manifest V2? I'd expect the functionality to be fairly isolated so that easily tracking upstream becomes manageable.
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by armitron 2y ago
Compare Vallejo to Frank Frazetta and it's immediately obvious why the latter is considered a master of fantastic art while the former is drifting towards obscurity. Frazetta's art is full of tension [1] and energy [2] whilst Vall
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by armitron 2y ago
Top down architecture doesn’t scale and puts a hard limit on the problems one can tackle before complexity explodes. The Internet, the largest distributed system we have, is based on bottom-up cell-like biologically inspired models. Kay was
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by armitron 2y ago
Our main languages are Go and OCaml. We can leverage third party libraries without easily running into transitive dependency hell as there’s an implicit understanding in these communities that large number of dependencies is not a good thin
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by armitron 2y ago
This is the main reason we have banned Rust across my Org. Every third party library needs to be audited before being introduced as a vendored dependency which is not easy to do with the bloated dependency chains that Cargo promotes.
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by armitron 2y ago
It's still much much slower than SBCL which is not surprising given the time & effort that went into the latter. User-guided optimizations (type declarations, stack allocation, intrinsics, machine code generation) in SBCL are also
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by armitron 2y ago
The high resolution digitized versions are no longer available for purchase at Amazon, just a single issue June 1987. They're also not available anywhere else that I know of, the archive.org versions are inferior / bad scans &#x2F
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by armitron 2y ago
This and other newcomers (e.g. exa, ripgrep, ..) are not specified by POSIX and thus not ubiquitous. For someone that interacts with multiple UNIX systems daily, I find that the tedium of maintaining -sometimes multiple versions- and moving
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by armitron 2y ago
Are you living in the UK or just making baseless assumptions? For an ever-inceasing number of serious health issues, the NHS has been essentially non-functional for many years. I have friends with chronic conditions that are looking to emig

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