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by astrobe_ 7y ago
> So in that case, what exactly are you reselling at that point? Yes. Reselling is actually equivalent to a refund from the authors' perspective. Problem is that people are too often reselling to buy their next thing rather than bec
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
Even with console cartridges what you buy is not the hardware but a license to use a copyrighted material. Copyright laws does not restrict the buyer from reselling, that's called "first sale doctrine" or "exhaustion of
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
Got the same reaction. Found this: https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/researchers-in-museums/2013/03/04/pu...
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
> I think you would miss out on about 90% of what the web has to offer if you simply disable Javascript. I don't know, 80% of the web I'm interested in is text - like your comment - images and video. None of them require JS. We
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
If you go full Forth you start with writing your own interpreter, so what you are scared of is really your own shadow. And that's one of the qualities of Forth: to stop worrying, stop being scared of yourself, stop being scared of the
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
Zugswang happens in software too: when your software project is done but people think it is dead because it has not been updated in 18 months...
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
Not OP, but I think it is like indentation styles: you learn it one way, then everything else feels weird and ugly.
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
I guess to avoid the confusion with the verb and make the sentence more pleasant to read. I think the more usual way to deal with that type of problem is to use italics .
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
How strange. I have tinkered with a couple of FOSS games of Windows and none of them required VS (not to mention another couple of other non-game projects). Maybe that's because they often are multi-platform projects so Make is the bes
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
Make is a much the lingua franca of build systems as C is for programming, so there's no reason not to provide a (simple) makefile. The alternative they suggest is worse anyway.
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
> I think it would be a unfortunate for people to start redefining what "Systems Programming" means because it is vague enough now as it is Indeed. When people call something "systems programming" when it is just e.g.
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
Well, yes. What people forget to mention is that security always has a price. That's why less safe languages are more popular.
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
"A Datum Corporation" reminded me of Traf-O-data [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traf-O-Data
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
"A s
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
1920: "Don't talk to strangers, sonny". 2020: "Don't say too much about you online, sonny". I thought the last one was common sense in the 2000 actually. But apparently it was lost together with the netiquette.
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
And one could say it is also inside-out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColorForth Basically in ColorForth, color is sort of part of the syntax. For instance when you want to define a new function, you would use the red
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
> over here we definitely surrender more degrees of civil liberty for the safety and security of our streets It seems to me that you don't have to surrender so much, but I am totally unaware of your situation. And maybe I am desensi
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
> is all about making not yet known changes easily, which means you have to anticipate different possible futures. The absurdity of this statement should immediately convince you that YAGNI is fundamentally correct. Anticipating the fu
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
> Simplicity is often a matter of perspective Complexity was formally defined by Kolmogorov, using with Turing machines even. Hence, Simplicity is also objectively defined.
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
Well... You are unfortunately correct.
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
However sometimes it feels like it is being hijacked . Sometimes it feel that the main experience is "sharing a picture", rather than having an experience (view, sound, smell, all senses plus emotions) and then trying to share it
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
Minor correction: it's "status quo" and I think it should be italicized.
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
1984 is boring. Point them to Demolition Man and Minority Report instead.
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
Cube2, another oldie but goodie FOSS games relies heavily on admins too. They are supported with stats (a server plugin, IIRC) and a observer mode which is actually available to all spectators (the game is more focused on fun than competiti
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
If we want to colonize anything outside our orbit, we should start with solving our basic earthly problems. Like stop fighting for territory, power, money or to prove who believes in the right God(s). But I guess it would make us an "a
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
The problem with feature bloat is related to a very well known fact: Code is read more often than it is written. As a consequence, if you don't know the little details of a language, it might be a harder to read code written by someone
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
> Filesystems are hard! Huh, no. Just show how the FAT file system works. It's still used on USB drives. Now that you have a simple model for the low level, you can gradually add complexity such as standard file operations, cachin
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
> As a face-value claim, that's obviously untrue. Forth, by any reasonable metric, is a smaller language than Go, but I think you'd have a hard time claiming it's more productive. I used Forth instead of Awk recently. What
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
Well it would be "less risk", maybe even "riskless" so I guess you'd need a new language named "restless"?
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
I'm curious, when does it fail?

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