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by crote 4mo ago
I'm not mad, I'm disappointed . Elm was quite promising prior to this, but 0.19 essentially killed it. And the problem isn't just that sync interop was removed. That would've been fine . It's the double-whammy of
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by crote 4mo ago
And combined with its inability to provide mature native APIs and its hostility towards libraries containing ports, this essentially kills the language. Elm's current story for interacting with the wider web ecosystem is "reinvent
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by crote 4mo ago
... which is totally fine, but that's also why you can hardly call it "stable".
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by crote 4mo ago
On the one hand, it's good to see Evan's doing fine. He has some pretty good ideas about language development, and Elm has inspired quite a bunch of very interesting projects. On the other hand, seven hears of absolutely nothing
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by crote 4mo ago
On top of the already-mentioned JS interop breakage, Elm 0.19 also dropped native Websocket support[0]. The API had issues (fair), so it was dropped rather than improving it due to wanting to do it perfectly (okay, I guess), buuut due to th
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by crote 4mo ago
The obvious counterexample is NOBUS[0] vulnerabilities, and intentional backdoors like the Clipper Chip[1] or Dual_EC_DRBG[2]: if you genuinely believe you are the only one who could possibly exploit it, there's no reason to avoid
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by crote 4mo ago
Simply disabling the button leads to people thinking something is broken, so you need to add a visual "disabled" state - which should probably be separate from the "you are currently pressing the button" state. In most
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by crote 4mo ago
Who says the emulator is "unauthorized"? For example, smartphone app developers routinely run their apps in emulators first to make the development process more convenient, only running it on a physical device for confirmation whe
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by crote 4mo ago
In practice switch bounce often lasts tens or even hundreds of milliseconds, and you need to space out the read process to cover the entire bouncing process if you want to avoid registering fake presses. Using basic averaging means your m
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by crote 4mo ago
Basically, yeah. A company like Spotify pays fractions of a cent per stream. If you're not a Taylor Swift, residuals are essentially a rounding error. Going to tours, concerts, or signings makes the artist far more money. We'v
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by crote 4mo ago
I think it is quite tricky to argue that StudioCanal did anything wrong. Sony isn't a naive child, they've got whole armies of lawyers analyzing the deals they sign. If Sony knowingly signs a horrible deal (such as a Netflix-l
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by crote 4mo ago
They don't need the rights to sell a movie perpetually, just the rights to sell perpetual movies.
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by crote 4mo ago
> Studio Canal sold a product then took it away If that's the case, why isn't Sony suing Studio Canal? The proper license for Sony to get is one which doesn't allow Studio Canal to take it away after sale in any way . So
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by crote 4mo ago
So the default assumption should be that big companies are actively trying to defraud you? The difference between "rent" and "purchase" has always been very clear: with the former you have to give it back, with the latte
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by crote 4mo ago
If we live in a world where words have no meaning and the definition of the Constitution can be interpreted to be literally anything depending on today's mood of the Supreme Court, why even bother writing a Constitution at all? Why n
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by crote 4mo ago
Sure, but it leads to allowing for the possibility of interpreting "..the right to bear arms.." as "you are allowed to own the limbs of an Ursus arctos ". There's plenty in the US constitution which is vaguely word
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by crote 4mo ago
> Their cars and phones are still second rate So are modern Western cars - and arguably also phones. If I'm forced to drive in a bug-riddled impossible-to-repair privacy-invading spaceship either way, why would I go for the overpric
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by crote 4mo ago
Volvo's ultimate owner is the same state-aligned Chinese conglomerate. The question isn't "why ban Polestar", it is "why ban Polestar without banning Volvo ". They are both headquartered in Sweden, they are
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by crote 4mo ago
> In war, people who tolerate military conscription and discipline will conquer those who're slaves to pigheaded "you're not the boss of ME!" individualism. Sure, right up until it leads to fragging. During the Vietna
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by crote 4mo ago
If there's anything worth defending, people will volunteer to defend it.
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by crote 4mo ago
> It wasn’t slavery as they were paid Being paid some amount of money doesn't magically make it not slavery. Obvious counterpoint: what if a plantation owner "paid" each slave a single modern-day penny a year, would that
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by crote 4mo ago
> just as we don't re-prove Fermat's little theorem every time I use it in a proof Exactly! There's a shared foundation, and everyone builds upon it. A mathematical paper is a whole bunch of Lego blocks being added to that
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by crote 4mo ago
> what if an intuitive understanding of the true “boundaries” of mathematics (if such things exist) is beyond the capabilities of a human mind? By extension: why should we assume that a human would still understand the problems - or the
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by crote 4mo ago
"Dear 13th-century Magical Oracle, It is possible to transmute lead into gold?" "Yes. This pile of giant incomprehensible spaghetti[0] is the irrefutable proof that it is possible." What did the alchemist truly learn f
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by crote 4mo ago
> It's entirely reasonable that the set of useful mathematical proofs is a proper superset of human intelligible useful proofs. If you can't explain something in a way that a child could understands it, you don't fully und
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by crote 4mo ago
> I think the point is to prove the statement. I couldn't disagree more. A lot of mathematical "problems" are almost entirely pointless. Nobody genuinely cares about the moving sofa problem, or about square packing, or a
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by crote 4mo ago
It was available for free as part of its 20th anniversary update: https://overclock3d.net/news/software/half-life-2-is-availab...
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by crote 4mo ago
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/halflife is the HL1 engine, is it not?
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by crote 4mo ago
> Giving things away for free is not the same as making it public domain or relinquishing your (copy)rights. Obviously. But it does kill the usual "piracy is bad because companies lose money" argument - especially for a 22-ye
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by crote 4mo ago
Valve already gave Half-Life 2 away for free, and released the source code of the HL1 engine. Is it technically illegal? Yeah, but Valve isn't losing out on any money, and there's no way they're going to risk the negative P

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