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by beders 5y ago
Tears for Fears is touring again and I'm planning to catch Steve Hackett as well. Still being talked into seeing a-ha and Duran Duran. Go Gen-X!
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by beders 5y ago
It is minified and `map` supports different arities as well as dealing with chunked-sequences for performance reasons.
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by beders 5y ago
It's a mix of old and new. Mostly old though. One of the problematic pieces is the custom expression language: It's half a programming language incompatible with JavaScript that you will constantly battle with. Consequently it has
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by beders 5y ago
Pedestrians are not protected by airbags...
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by beders 5y ago
I do admire all the different ways you can shoot yourself in the foot with using C++. The relentless pursue of 'what would the compiler do and does it costs us cycles?' is a great mindset to have - if you can afford it. Thanks for
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by beders 5y ago
Indentation-based config languages really need to be retired. Unless you put in extra work to validate your config, they are just error prone and impractical. They don't compose (INI files do, btw), they need special editors to keep sa
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by beders 5y ago
Can't wait for the SC2 servers to run on a single slow VM in the MS cloud...
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by beders 5y ago
was thinking the same thing ;)
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by beders 5y ago
> I hope for the sake of the planet that they do and they succeed. The planet doesn't need nuclear. It just needs a concerted push to roll out renewables on a bigger scale and invest into promising long/medium term energy stora
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by beders 5y ago
Stanford researcher Mark Z. Jacobson makes a similar case but with renewables and storage only: https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/WWSBook/WWSBook...
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by beders 5y ago
Macros give you control over evaluation order. Fns don't. (or a b) If a is truthy, b will never evaluate
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by beders 5y ago
I still don't get the economics of this. Who is paying for the hosting and maintenance costs?
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by beders 5y ago
if this accelerates transitioning to renewables, it is not insane.
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by beders 5y ago
Here's a good article to give context about this decision and why Germans - who were affected by Chernobyl, btw - support this. https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/history-behind-ge...
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by beders 5y ago
It's one of these interesting little differences between America and - for example - Germany where tilt-and-turn is basically standard in every house I've ever been.
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by beders 5y ago
Yay, I'm finally a cool kid :) I did indeed run a BBS on OS/2 and played X-Wing vs. Tie-Fighter while people were dialing in without a hitch. At least that's how I want to remember it. Surprisingly I never tried DesqView but
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by beders 5y ago
A really well thought out Lisp-1 that runs on the JVM, in the browser, in node as well as the CLR and BEAM. It is hard to go back to other languages once you appreciate its simplicity.
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by beders 5y ago
Yeah, a company I've worked got shafted big time by Twitter. What is Twitter doing to regain my trust?
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by beders 5y ago
Hopefully not one of those: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattenom_Nuclear_Power_Plant
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by beders 5y ago
You mean the alternate timeline where whole regions in the US become devastated by nuclear fallout? Look at this. Look at it as long as you like: https://www.google.com/maps/@51.3886475,30.0983731,1302m/dat... ht
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by beders 5y ago
> The Internet was supposed to be a totally open set of protocols that anyone could interact with, and for a long time it was, That is still true today. Anyone can still open a connection to a socket or make a server-socket available o
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by beders 5y ago
Newer data says otherwise. https://twitter.com/mzjacobson/status/1452771074119135237 And variability is easy to deal with: overbuild and/or storage. Southern Australia shows how it is done.
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by beders 5y ago
oh yeah, the French are so confident with their nuclear power plants they built many of them on their eastern border (with mostly west winds blowing any fall out nicely into Belgium and Germany)
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by beders 5y ago
It is frustrating to see how stagnant desktop OS's have become. Both macOS and Windows 11 have added incremental features that are surely nice to have, but no one dares to improve on the human-computer-interaction which has remained th
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by beders 5y ago
If we would charge the fossil fuel industry for the cost of destroying the environment, the millions of lives lost due to pollution, it would become infeasible to pump or mine more stuff out of the ground. We don't need technological s
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by beders 5y ago
* Focus on the value you produce, not on the stack or language. * Don't over-architect for a future that might never come. * Be a fly on the wall when users use your product. It will be terrifying but it will give valuable insights.
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by beders 5y ago
Note how France conveniently placed many of their nuclear power plants close to their eastern border. With winds coming from the west most time of the year... Sneaky.
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by beders 5y ago
bullshit. If there are cheaper and safer alternatives. being anti-nuclear is common sense.
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by beders 5y ago
In most discussions around the decentralized apps of the future I fail to get any good answers who is actually paying for the compute power and who is maintaining it. In short: who is paying for the Ramen? Let's take a multi-user chatt
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by beders 5y ago
The issue is not Facebook. The issue is being equipped to handle information forwarded by your FB friends. Skeptical thinking, the impulse to distrust anecdotes first, the impulse to double check articles by using other news sources: It&#x2

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