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by cle 6y ago
I don’t think that’s a fair characterization, you should be able to redefine widely-used Elisp functions to run in deno. One that immediately comes to mind is the crappy HTTP client that Emacs ships with. (I have not tried this, just spea
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by cle 6y ago
This doesn't require rewriting extensions, it is backwards compatible.
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by cle 6y ago
The killer Firefox feature for me are multi-account containers. I haven't found another browser with that feature, and they make it SO much easier to deal with multiple accounts on the same site (Google, Facebook, AWS/GCP/Azu
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by cle 6y ago
Based on that argument, I'm not sure why it's incorrect to characterize Bitcoin as having intrinsic value that is backed by the guarantee that you can provably transfer them directly to another party by a mere exchange of informat
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by cle 6y ago
Depends on what you think the cause of the lack of adoption is. If you think it can be fixed by doubling down on existing languages, then sure. But I don't know if that's addressing the cause (because I don't know the cause).
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by cle 6y ago
It’s a major step forward if it fixes one of the huge problems with Lisps: adoption.
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by cle 6y ago
From the commit messages > The ctime_r() and asctime_r() functions are reentrant, but have no check that the buffer we pass in is long enough (the manpage says it "should have room for at least 26 bytes"). Since this is such an
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by cle 6y ago
I believe it's a mistake to assume that this change is solely to deliver features to users faster. There are all kinds of other things in Chrome other than end-user features. One important thing would be security updates. Chrome also h
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by cle 6y ago
Groups of people can communicate more effectively if they agree upon common terminologies and definitions.
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by cle 6y ago
Because Bash already has an expression parser/evaluator that it uses for this case, so now there isn't just one thing doing it, there are two, and you have to know when they are used and when they aren't. Honestly the idea th
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by cle 6y ago
> Yes, when working with sub-processes you need to account for platform differences...which is also true when Python. The cases in which you even need to use subprocesses is much smaller with Python, because the stdlib replaces a huge am
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by cle 6y ago
What code are you writing that is pure Bash? Every Bash script I've written or find in the wild is always used to control subprocesses, and then you have to worry about compatibility of those programs, which are all over the place. Pyt
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by cle 6y ago
It is critically important depending on your country's relationship with either country.
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by cle 6y ago
Looks like it's in progress. Also native "rubberband" scrolling in macOS is in progress as well. Excellent!
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by cle 6y ago
I switched from IntelliJ to Emacs about a year ago, and honestly these things seem relatively trivial in that environment, because I can write small ELisp functions that automate things like this without much effort or ceremony. For example
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by cle 6y ago
There are a lot of people out there with unfounded mistrust. Some of it is justified, some of it is not. These things are not mutually exclusive.
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by cle 6y ago
These are provided by Readline. Many command line programs support Readline, and for those that don’t, rlwrap is like magic (even automatically adds history!).
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by cle 6y ago
That is a great way to improve trust. There are other ways as well, and we should work on them all.
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by cle 6y ago
> Just to clarify, if you have a problem with what eInk is doing here, then you basically have a problem with patents altogether. What in the world? So I can't agree that the patent system is net positive, and disagree with a compan
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by cle 6y ago
Sure you can, go for it. But I doubt that many people have the time nor the skills required to actually come to some justified conclusion. The scary part is that many of them think they do. Often the very ones who tell you "read the
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by cle 6y ago
> So read the science. Listen to the science. But read up further, and make educated decisions. Don't just listen to "experts" blindly. This is not feasible advice. I can't read studies and correctly interpret and sum
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by cle 6y ago
I don't think the author is trying to say "don't try anything new unless you have evidence", but "don't use something without understanding why". Experimenting with a practice to understand it better is a
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by cle 6y ago
When using a "mapper", the user tells the library up-front what objects will be used for holding the JSON data. You can do all kinds of optimizations if you know the shape of the data and what objects will need to be allocated in
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by cle 6y ago
I'd argue that it's the feeling of control that most people want, not necessarily the control itself. Perhaps a kind of "reactance".
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by cle 6y ago
Perhaps it's not the tracking itself that we care about, but control over when it occurs and by whom.
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by cle 6y ago
> During the incident, AWS engineers were alerted to our packet drops by their own internal monitoring, and increased our TGW capacity manually. By 10:40am PST that change had rolled out across all Availability Zones and our network retu
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by cle 6y ago
I work on critical services, similar to this. While nobody likes the overall business impact of events like this, I love being in the trenches when things like this happen. I enjoy the pressure of having to use anything I can to mitigate as
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by cle 6y ago
Honestly I’ve seen just as many disastrous codebases written in highly structured, statically typed languages. Any language with intrinsically interesting features tends to attract inexperienced (or just bad) developers who don’t appreciate
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by cle 6y ago
Apparently the standard poverty threshold does not vary by region. There is a measure called the "Supplemental Poverty Measure" which does take into account certain cost-of-living adjustments, amongst other things. More info here:
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by cle 6y ago
I don’t know how this is typically measured (or measured in this specific case because I can’t find the actual paper), but do economists generally apply the same dollar threshold to everyone across the country, or do they account for region

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