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by davesque 5y ago
I actually have a vague memory of the first time I realized that the couple of characters that were appearing before me on the screen were meant to represent a smiley face turned sideways. It was some time in the mid 90s in Boulder, CO. B
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by davesque 5y ago
This level of pretense is really mind boggling to me. It underscores how certain regimes/people fear objective reality more than anything. And it's a very inconvenient position to take since objective reality is everywhere.
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by davesque 5y ago
I couldn't say without confirming, but the Solidity ABI memory format is very standard. At the time Fe was founded, there were no plans to use anything else. I don't believe that has changed.
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by davesque 5y ago
Fe founder here. I'm not currently actively working on the project and haven't been for a while. That being said, a useful bit of context is that Fe was also originally conceived as a response to Vyper. In fact, it used to be call
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by davesque 5y ago
Fe currently doesn't support the offending type and I'm pretty sure the rest of the types support the same names internally. Smart contact development isn't like native systems programming where the details of the ABI are not
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by davesque 5y ago
Sure. I guess I won't name names, but it happened something like ten years ago. It was for a pretty large online stock trading platform. It was a previous era of my career when I was a full stack web dev. The interview question inv
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by davesque 5y ago
Had an interviewer literally laugh in my face at an answer I gave once and exclaim "Oh my god!". Never forgot that.
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by davesque 5y ago
Very neat article. Since I got into and out of Haskell a while back, one of the complaints I always had about breaking into the space was that it was too abstract. Some of the core concepts of FP seemed really arbitrary when described wit
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by davesque 5y ago
Yep. Also related and relevant is how the brain works with regard to encoding falsehood; essentially, there's no delete button. Once a statement of possible fact has been discovered, it takes more energy and reinforcement for the brain
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by davesque 5y ago
> leaving FB to carry on as a kind of AOL for an ever-decreasing userbase until it's sold off for far too much money to some other large corporation which should know better. Mapping FB onto AOL here feels like an effective way of s
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by davesque 5y ago
I remember when compact discs came out, in a way it felt like a downgrade from cassette tapes. Tapes were smaller, more durable, cheaper, record-able (CDs fixed this later but it took a while), and didn't skip when you played them whi
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by davesque 5y ago
> "Wearing socks with sandals." > - It's fine Please let's decommission this AI before it gets out of control.
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by davesque 5y ago
It may just be incidental or irrelevant, but I find the video of the steak cutting to be incredibly unconvincing. It looked like they just pushed apart a piece of well cooked meat like you could do with a spoon and slow cooked pork.
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by davesque 5y ago
Yeah, that all seems like a great idea. I'm sure Singapore has its issues, but sometimes I think it's funny how logically other countries seem to approach their problems. It's almost as though they actually want to solve
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by davesque 5y ago
Perhaps. Although can't you superimpose almost any narrative onto any story? Listen, I definitely understand that Mr. Cixin is likely hinting at certain things symbolically in his stories. Clearly, the CCP requires no less of highly
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by davesque 5y ago
Yeah, the other day this really hit home for me. I don't know why I hadn't previously thought about it in such clear terms. Being a congressperson has to be one of the most morally hazardous occupations in the world. I mean, yo
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by davesque 5y ago
There's a flip side to this. Not sure if it's mentioned in the article since I only skimmed it. The complementary point is that it really is stupid to try and make other people look stupid. And it's stupid because it&#x2
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by davesque 5y ago
Shoutout to anyone using user agent styling in 2021.
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by davesque 5y ago
> it needs to be done because that type of person will always exist. Could be. Though I wonder if this is really true. It might do to think of a counterexample; something that people once thought would always exist but has effectively
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by davesque 5y ago
It's funny how you assume I was suggesting that we should go backward in time. No, I'm just saying there's clearly something wrong with sanctifying our will to power in the form of corporations. Great, so we've figured o
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by davesque 5y ago
Lately, I've become convinced that it's simply because so much of our lives is controlled by corporations and their priorities. Whenever I look around and try to figure out why everything looks so bleak; e.g. why does every buildi
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by davesque 5y ago
There are a lot of ways that this comes off sounding like bullshit advice a la "make $300k a week with this one simple trick after taking my course" style advertisements. There are a million things that could go wrong over a ten y
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by davesque 5y ago
Huh? Did we read the same book? You know, the one where one of the main characters remembers her father being beat to death for refusing to recant his belief in Einstein's theory of relativity during a CCP struggle session? And that ou
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by davesque 5y ago
The thing I think sucks about this design decision is that I always like to have a phone case with a card sleeve on the back. Seems like the camera band makes such cases inconvenient or maybe even impossible to design.
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by davesque 5y ago
> Never seen anyone using a Pixel out in the wild Maybe you just haven't met anyone with one or even noticed people who do own them. I've owned almost every pixel phone. In my opinion, they're some of the best Android ph
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by davesque 5y ago
Really surprised to hear this. I've had really bad luck with face unlock. I find I have to type in my PIN half the time anyway. On the other hand, with my previous pixel that had a fingerprint reader, I never had any issues with i
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by davesque 5y ago
I highly agree with this sentiment. After all, it seems in a way that emotions are a reaction to the environment and to one's circumstance. If those are poor, shouldn't the emotions also be poor in a healthy person? Otherwise, wha
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by davesque 5y ago
Shouldn't it then be possible to account for and correct for the emergent evil? That's the point of government regulation is it not? Maybe then an appropriate, self-critical response from Facebook would be, "Yeah, our system
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by davesque 5y ago
Lol...well then. Consider that it's possible that the time in history I'm talking about really was much more different than you realize. I could be wrong, but I'm assuming you didn't come of age during that time (the e
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by davesque 5y ago
I think he's likely to trigger a lot of ire with this tweet. However, given what I know about his history, I think I know where this is coming from. Carmack himself did not finish school and was motivated early on to get involved in

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