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by dejj 6y ago
For me, code reviews force that discipline. My workflow is to edit code, figure out bottom-up how it really works, then look at all the mess, realize I could never get review approval, and stash it. Then I start over top-down, make the same
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by dejj 6y ago
I liked Surgical Reading better: https://every.to/superorganizers/surgical-reading-how-to-rea...
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> every person on the planet—all 7.5 billion of us—would get roughly $1.3 billion. This is Cunningham's Law applied to attract publicity.
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TIL the word “avuncular”. It’s perfectly cromulent.
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by dejj 6y ago
The comic looked like abstrusegoose.com. Sometimes his puns are subtle. This one is not. 8th frame should have been like 4th frame.
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You probably want go with 0.1+0.2 != 0.3
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Bromide (linguistics)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by dejj 6y ago
> colours are ordered by usefulness And then I finally realized they’re RGB vectors and additive: 000: black 001: red 010: green 011: yellow 100: blue 101: magenta 110: cyan 111: white
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by dejj 6y ago
Better :) I see 3-4 items per page now. More is better. Don’t really care about stars or forkcount. “Visit page” has a linebreak when the dev’s name is longer. And there’s a column of white background on the right into which layout is over
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by dejj 6y ago
There’s so much space for icons and borders, you had to abbreviate the titles even (viewed on mobile device). I prefer HN’s style.
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by dejj 6y ago
Consider "commoditizing the complement" ( https://www.gwern.net/Complement ) e.g. a news site making their content linkable through social media for ad revenue at the actual page.
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by dejj 6y ago
Do you have some form of information escrow in place? E.g. could archive.org store a page of all your short-url mappings?
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by dejj 6y ago
And even higher in the vicinity of radioactive cattle: https://www.jakepoz.com/debugging-behind-the-iron-curtain/
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by dejj 6y ago
Nice work! Can this be also on learnxinyminutes.com ( https://github.com/adambard/learnxinyminutes-docs ) ?
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What’s the diff of features compared to VSCode’s language server interface?
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by dejj 6y ago
Enter Mercury-Prolog: https://mercurylang.org/about.html - "Modes" are dataflow directions (use them for polymorphic dispatch!) - "Purity" is an effect system - "Unique" is linear types - has b
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by dejj 6y ago
> So Google, FB, Twitter - the 'huge' entities, need to set guidelines I agree, but let me refine: Dissenting opinions in civil society are arbitrated by civil courts. So we need the 'huge' entities to commit working
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by dejj 6y ago
Knuth writes in the beginning of The Art of Computer Programming that he will deliberately lie to the reader, to further her understanding of the main subject. > if you believe that the ability to censor public discourse is necessary to
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by dejj 6y ago
Do you mean these: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Scuttlebutt - https://radicle.community/
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by dejj 6y ago
Eli also conflicts with this compiler construction toolkit: http://eli-project.sourceforge.net/
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How do you undo any dents that may occur during a joyride though?
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by dejj 6y ago
Then how are you comfortable routing it through a cheap service instead? Asked more precisely: how do you determine reliability from price?
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by dejj 6y ago
> Old printed books will be the equivalent of the sunken ships they cut up for uncontaminated steel today. It's not so much contamination, but value drift. Did you ever try reading Shakespeare without commentary? So many things of t
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by dejj 6y ago
> water feeding system can be led all the way to the ocean If you're thinking pipes, the water might become toxic after 500km or so.
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by dejj 6y ago
Would be awesome to use voice commands mapping physical controls. Say, “Ok, Tesla, put AC control on slider 1”. This also keeps the kids in back from messing with the AC (dads appreciate).
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by dejj 6y ago
They sneakily replaced scalar addition by point-wise vector addition. [1,3] <+> [1,3] = [2,6]
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by dejj 6y ago
> you don't know which type you will actually get ahead of time Sounds like it's statically kinded, and dynamically typed. Or is it a place between kinds and types at which Idris operates?
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by dejj 6y ago
> pass types as parameters to be altered during execution Wouldn't that be at odds with static typing?
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by dejj 6y ago
Never seen it before on film. The Manchurian Candidate isn't it. Can you give me some pointers?
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by dejj 6y ago
It reminded me of Brad Pitt's character in "Ad Astra", when he talks about "compartmentalization". As a human, you become part of a machine that is society / the military. You become part of "an effective

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