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by d-us-vb 6d ago
This feels a bit too optimistic regarding programming. Or perhaps betrays an imprecise definition of programming. To me, programming is about expressing algorithms. But algorithms may be totally illegible and still work fine. Math on the ot
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by d-us-vb 6d ago
There’s an ongoing debate about whether articles are a proper part of speech; the only articles in English are the and a. Some grammarians prefer “determiner”, which includes a, the, some, other, no (as in “no man”) etc. A determiner is jus
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by d-us-vb 9d ago
The bad press was because after some people tried to call them out for not shipping features that were claimed in the release, those people were banned from further contribution/commenting on github.
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by d-us-vb 11d ago
Probably, actually. “Primitive” societies survived the ice age. Modern societies depend on a relatively fragile system of infrastructure and many of the individuals in modern society are utterly dependent on it. Technology only works within
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by d-us-vb 18d ago
private podcasting is right up there with using ChatGPT in your head .
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by d-us-vb 1mo ago
But it runs on Qt, which is most certainly not.
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by d-us-vb 1mo ago
I suspect the u ubiquity of electron persists more because maintaining both web and desktop interfaces is somewhat simplified, and as a corollary, you don’t need a separate JS and C/C++/QML team. Qt has gotten pretty good, but Jav
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by d-us-vb 1mo ago
As I’ve come to understand it, standards simplify intensionally, not extensionally. For those who select a part that is compliant with a standard, more standards to choose from is better because engineers are able to make better tradeoffs;
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by d-us-vb 2mo ago
Richard Hipp's recent talk at Software Should Work explains that AI agents have been testing SQLite and they've gotten a deluge of new bug reports from the fuzz-like testing they can do. But they do not do this in house; hobbyists
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by d-us-vb 2mo ago
The question is whether the method is sufficiently novel or specific enough to the problems/difficulties of solving a specific domain’s problems to warrant a patent. It’s one of those kinds of patents i assume I’m violating every 100 l
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by d-us-vb 2mo ago
For these kinds of project, there are a few reasons: 1. Less opportunity to get distracted by other capabilities 2. More opportunity for experimentation with a new medium 3. Targeting an aesthetic rather than a technical specification 4. T
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by d-us-vb 2mo ago
I'm not assuming anything. I'm explaining that they can be, because the original comment made it sound like autistic people can't understand social behavior at any level.
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by d-us-vb 2mo ago
I didn't say it wasn't sociopathy; it most certainly was. Autism and sociopathy are not mutually exclusive. And as they were executing their plan, I do not see any point where their "autism was turned off". Autistic peop
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by d-us-vb 2mo ago
Autistic people are unusually good at studying patterns objectively. While each individual person is... an individual, studying a sample from a population yields patterns, and thus the justification for the "social sciences". Whil
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by d-us-vb 3mo ago
You’re confusing the difference between understanding and comprehending. The former is partial but useful within a context, the latter is total and is the result of mastery. One may understand an abstracted interface and how it works from t
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by d-us-vb 3mo ago
Personally, I would tell you that whatever understanding you gain may still have bugs. Unless your understanding is as complete as a formal treatment of the code, then there may still be bugs in the code due to shared misunderstandings betw
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by d-us-vb 3mo ago
User names match... are you the original author? Why commenting in the third person?
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by d-us-vb 3mo ago
I don't think video in a text window is a silly toy. Sounds like another useful tool in the toolbox.
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by d-us-vb 4mo ago
This organization is going out of the way to avoid spraying insecticides. It seems far more effective than increasing predators because ecosystems tend to adapt to predation.
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by d-us-vb 4mo ago
Remarkable 2 is pretty good, though last time I used it the search feature for large pdfs was pretty janky. The BOOX eink devices are also perfectly fine; they're really just android tablets with a special build of android for eink dev
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by d-us-vb 4mo ago
PineNote isn't really a consumer device. PINE64 has made it abundantly clear that the PineNote is a developer playground device; they're waiting on the community to refine the software support and flesh out the ecosystem for it.
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by d-us-vb 4mo ago
Oh, yeah that does make sense now that I think about it.
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by d-us-vb 4mo ago
“Pontifications by email” makes it clear enough. Email is an automated message delivery system, and the pope delivers messages from above, soooo… Such are many of the names coined by creative minds using the early internet.
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by d-us-vb 5mo ago
Even Terry Davis wasn't that bold.
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by d-us-vb 5mo ago
Dotcl sounds like a lisp macro that interprets TCL. :D
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by d-us-vb 5mo ago
I feel like that isn’t exactly a very useful definition of plaintext. If you mean “ASCII” say ASCII. Plain text is text intended to be interpreted as bytes that map simply to characters. Complexity is irrelevant.
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by d-us-vb 6mo ago
Forth is at this point more of a culture than a language. It's a culture about keeping designs simple so that they're understandable. Without this, Forth is only powerful for programmers who can keep a lot in their heads, but lots
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by d-us-vb 6mo ago
The credit goes to Luhmann. Ahrens wrote a book about Luhmann's system, but Ahrens' book was more about the practical side of study habits and the nature of knowledge as much as it was about the practical side of actually using a
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by d-us-vb 6mo ago
That wasn't the issue. The problem was that most of Windows system utilities are not managed, but the WPF move was trying to make a patchwork quilt of managed vs. unmanaged utilities, making the entire system very difficult to reason a
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by d-us-vb 6mo ago
No, the issue, as outlined in the post, is real problematic behavior of real people on the internet who are inclined to tell anyone who is skeptical regarding the data (whatever it may be) that they should more or less discount their person

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