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by brabel 1y ago
> see the painful experience of Germany's unification I had thought that Germans from both sides were overwhelmingly supportive of re-unification, even if it would cause short-term pain??
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by brabel 1y ago
Exactly, the author's library is just a parser combinator [1] that specializes in providing constructs mirrorring CLI options. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parser_combinator
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by brabel 1y ago
How dare you suggest Putin is not doing things because he’s just crazy and wants to take over Europe??
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by brabel 1y ago
This piece would be very enticing for a tech billionaire.
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by brabel 1y ago
What are you talking about?? There was lots of resistance to computers at office jobs. Even through the 90s lots of people were still avoiding moving away from the old way and companies had to spend lots of money on training because without
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by brabel 1y ago
Isn’t it wonderful it still works fine!?
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by brabel 1y ago
I believe this argument is fallacious. There could be infinite other ways a species could have evolved to acquire space technology. A smart dinosaur that evolved to use arms and tail could perhaps have built an industrial civilization. They
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by brabel 1y ago
Sorry but I have heard a lot about Gleam for at least one year. Since they had a 1.0 release and ThePrimeTime [0] Youtube channel featured it (it has 175k views as of writing, for a new programming language video that's like a number 1
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by brabel 1y ago
Is it really comparable?? I use JB IDEs heavily and when I tried Zed a few months ago it felt more like Notepad than IntelliJ. Maybe that’s what you’re looking for and I am sure that’s fast, but they seem to have quite different use cases.
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by brabel 1y ago
Before reading this I didn’t realize how today gaming is different from 80’s and 90’s gaming , to the point Kazeta is a thing! I thought that mostly, CDs had replaced cartridges and loading games became slow, but apparently subscription pla
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by brabel 1y ago
> Because there's absolutely no reason to believe that's the case? The fact we haven't seen an organism live forever is strong evidence that that's the case. You're the one making the case without any evidence!
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by brabel 1y ago
> it is physically possible to extend the lifespan of an existing organism. This is not at all guaranteed until we actually manage to do it. And that's exactly what we're discussing, you can't just say "but it must be
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by brabel 1y ago
> Anyway my point is that "reproduction" doesn't create whole new life, it's just a continuation. Then you're just arguing that we're already immortal, after all we reproduce, but I don't think that&#x2
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by brabel 1y ago
The example you posted is very interesting as it used both a visitor and ADTs. It seems the need for the Visitor comes from the generics in this case? Probably a Rust specific limitation. I don’t understand why you mention exhaustiveness th
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by brabel 1y ago
How do you know that you could? That’s the question! If we did understand biology perfectly it may be that we would then prove no organism can live forever and reproduction is the only way.
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by brabel 1y ago
What theory says that human lifespan has no limits with technology assistance? Anything involving replacing biological systems with artificial ones is not really extending human lifespan, it’s replacing human life with something else.
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by brabel 1y ago
And Red has been around since 2013.
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by brabel 1y ago
You should not need to read every line of code in every file and function to understand what’s going on to the level you need to solve a particular problem. You must make a decision to NOT look deeper at some point on any non- trivial code
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by brabel 1y ago
That’s only true in languages that do not have Algebraic Data Types and pattern matching, which nowadays is a minority of languages (even Java has it).
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by brabel 1y ago
I was also offended by that :D.
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by brabel 1y ago
In Mechanical Engineering, tolerances ensure that when you put parts together, they will fit as long as the tolerances were respected. It's not statistical. If the machinist makes a part that's not within the +/- bounds, they
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by brabel 1y ago
Stack overflow published recently a survey in which something like 80% of developers were using AI and the rest “wants to soon”. By now I have trouble believing a competent developer is still convinced they shouldn’t use it at all , though
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by brabel 1y ago
I don’t think anyone needs to be convinced at this point. Every developer is using LLM and I really can’t believe someone who has made a career out of automating things wouldn’t be immediately drawn to trying them at least. Every single com
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by brabel 1y ago
> Not exactly known to be a country of rule breakers, in fact more like the opposite. I've heard the demographics in Germany have changed dramatically. That could no longer be the case.
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by brabel 1y ago
Watch the video someone else linked... it has nothing to do with textual AI. It's about a grotesque digital creature. It reminded the artist of a disabled person, which felt insulting to him. You can have your opinion on the topic but
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by brabel 1y ago
While some people support AGI because they yearn for "new forms of life to enslave", I think it's fair to say most people who look forward to AGI wants it because it means they may find solutions to very difficult issues we j
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by brabel 1y ago
You should see the context in which he said that. It was 2016. It was no ChatGPT he was talking about. It was some truly bizarre art that was going on back then, like a sort of humanoid form trying to learn how to walk without being given i
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by brabel 1y ago
Are you coming from Windows? MacOS is a BSD descendant so it’s quite Unix-y. I never miss Linux on it and I used to only use Linux. Just learn how to get around the minor annoyances (eg the file explorer sucks , I use eMacs for that) and it
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by brabel 1y ago
That’s absolutely not how it works. Every license has a clause explicitly saying that the user is responsible for what they do with the tool. That’s just common sense. If it was the way you suggested no one would create tools for others any
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by brabel 1y ago
Perhaps you guys are in completely different regions?? I wouldn’t assume arborists behave the same everywhere!

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