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by astrobe_ 4y ago
Most programs don't deal with birth dates and people. It's like stating that most "computers" are neither on a desktop nor in a pocket. Technically correct, as counter-intuitive as it is.
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by astrobe_ 4y ago
That's what I thought. This list mixes "falsehoods" that nobody with a bit of common sense - even children - would believe, and pedantry that could be useful to 0.001% of developers. For most programs, Time starts in 1970.
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by astrobe_ 4y ago
To protect is always the initial goal, and directly dangerous videos are the low hanging fruits. I'd say "viral videos" are too recent to be part of History yet, but shutting down a dangerous viral video is not very far from
574.
by astrobe_ 4y ago
Definitely, and your example makes me understand the point of view of OP better: why wouldn't programs also be loadable libraries?
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by astrobe_ 4y ago
Maybe it looks weird now because libraries were collections of subroutines, then have evolved as sub-programs (some spawn their own threads to do their job), and then eventually got so big that they became the main program in which you plug
576.
by astrobe_ 4y ago
It seems to me that it is the whole story about REST APIs and GraphQL. But I'm no player, just watching from the bench.
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by astrobe_ 4y ago
>> He also notes that it cannot be demonstrated that the fears of ancestral hominids are coded into the human brain I am pretty used to see harmless European spiders but I still can get an adrenaline burst if one shows up a bit too cl
578.
by astrobe_ 4y ago
This type of circular argument sometimes hit a nerve when it about a thing cares about, but lets remember that the literal sense of "mediocre" is "middle" or "average", so its kind of a tautology to say that in
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by astrobe_ 4y ago
Someone mentioned in the comments of TFA, but soap-making was an industry in a southern french town since ancient times. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marseille_soap
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by astrobe_ 4y ago
> If you don't like the OP, then simply downvote and move on I never downvote because I "don't like", and so should you. > Lots of people in this thread find it valuable and are actually willing to say as much Bein
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by astrobe_ 4y ago
"We don't do that here" is a jewel of passive-aggressiveness. I clicked on the link hoping to find something related to "Not invented there", but ended up with a new way to issue heavy threats with small words.
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by astrobe_ 4y ago
Depends on what meaning you put on each word. There is no One True Meaning in this case.
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by astrobe_ 4y ago
> I don’t see how a computer racer that destroys human competition would make the game more entertaining Indeed that looks like the racing version of aimbots. I remember a thread on HN before about AI in guys. A game developer said that
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by astrobe_ 4y ago
It is useful mainly if you have to do some netprog in C, and secondarily if you have to deal with language bindings that do a 1:1 mapping to the BSD socket API. In other words, you will know when you need it - unless you forget it exists
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by astrobe_ 4y ago
Not the best example. The lack of quotes around file.scr is an extra-giant-huge hint that OPEN does some parsing, and therefore you should check the docs before using it in a definition (actually it is so very likely that it "won&#x2
586.
by astrobe_ 4y ago
"One" would be troublesome... Two is actually common, three is in the red zone, four you refactor. Except in specific cases where 4+ arguments doesn't cause stack juggling. Chuck Moore (inventor of Forth) said once that he do
587.
by astrobe_ 4y ago
Except perhaps that Forth doesn't "obsess" over theory, it is rooted in pragmatism: making a Forth interpreter is easy.
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by astrobe_ 4y ago
I am not a parent, by I think there are kids that are interested in computers and programming, and kids that are not. That's the divide between users and makers. That does not mean they can't be creative with something else. So it
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by astrobe_ 4y ago
I guess it depends on what you do. I usually work at low-level, so making lib interfaces myself is acceptable, but at a higher-level, one usually have to pile libs over libs to get anything done because that's the way things are done t
590.
by astrobe_ 4y ago
Multicore is not common at all in embedded, so there is no point in supporting that in this type of project. And even if you are in "fat" embedded (Raspi etc.), you might want to use just only one core anyway so that your system c
591.
by astrobe_ 4y ago
It is not unlikely that the "taxi mafia" was created by a similar mix or lobbying and corruption. Basically, it looks like a mafia replacing another mafia.
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by astrobe_ 4y ago
The word "modern" in the phrase is dumb -- as usual with the word modern ; it's on of those word that convey no real meaning most of the times. It's not about modern , it's about power. Current 32bits SoCs prolly
593.
by astrobe_ 4y ago
Indeed the brain is pretty good at this, so much so that it is annoying when you are trying to generate a variety of textures by combining a small set of textures. This of course extends to audio patterns, temporal event patterns (e.g. pos
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by astrobe_ 4y ago
WASM bringing back Flash from the dead... Oh, the irony...
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by astrobe_ 4y ago
> UnrealIRCd (a popular IRC server implementation) have actively refused That's really moot because operators can certainly and easily snoop the traffic on the wire. Therefore I agree with the statement above that one should take IR
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by astrobe_ 4y ago
When a platform does not guarantees secrecy you just avoid holding private conversations on it. In my opinion, that's the spirit of IRC, a public place to discuss, because often channels are logged and the logs are accessible for anyon
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by astrobe_ 4y ago
> Nor do that care. That's a misunderstanding about size. It is not about saving some kilobytes - indeed we have more than enough RAM/ROM/flash/mass storage in general, although it is a bit less true currently due to
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by astrobe_ 4y ago
> Either as an end to end experience or simply fewer bugs? I'd say we build bigger things with the same size/bug ratio. Therefore, "Small is beautiful".
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by astrobe_ 4y ago
Coincidence, I was reloading the BVE train simulator today. I am not train fan, but I like the ambiance add-on makers put in. Installing those add-ons can require some efforts, as most of the times directions are in Japanese [1]. [1] https
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by astrobe_ 4y ago
With funds and labor you still cannot reasonably grow food in a desert. Fertile land and compatible climate are actually the limiting factors - I think.

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