dilap

63 ms·

721.
by dilap 6y ago
OK, that actually makes me much more sympathetic to Google exercising a lot of editorial control of the Play store.
722.
by dilap 6y ago
Nothing was stopping the Supreme Court from hearing the (e.g.) Texas v. Pennsylvania lawsuit; it's up to the court itself to decide standing (which also isn't even a legislative concept, but that doesn't matter either way). I
723.
by dilap 6y ago
That's a good point actually. I'm on iPhone; is distributing software via side-loading on Android actually practicle, or is it such a pain that it becomes non-workable in practice?
724.
by dilap 6y ago
Well, it's hardly unprecedented; Gore v Bush anyone? And in general election fraud, complaining about election fraud, and occasionally even doing something about it have a long history in the US. Per polls, something like 20% of democ
725.
by dilap 6y ago
I am very grateful there is a web browser. But whatever is the next web browser can't even be invented today (perhaps), because we no longer have free computing platforms.
726.
by dilap 6y ago
True; on the other hand, the Supreme Court didn't even deign to hear the Trump election challenges, so I think it's fair to wonder if they are really on the side of MAGA-style conservatives. Time will tell if the courts prove to
727.
by dilap 6y ago
What good does that do you if the best hardware is locked down and they won't allow decentralized apps, though? If the web were invented today, there's not a chance in hell Apple would approve a web browser as an app. If you reall
728.
by dilap 6y ago
I think a better analogy is saying, oh, you've banned newspapers, but who cares, you can still talk to people in person. Which is to say, it's true, & that's a good thing, but that doesn't mean that the censorship it
729.
by dilap 6y ago
I'm not addressing the broader question of Trump's tweets, just the specific one of why Twitter might have chosen to censor those tweets in particular.
730.
by dilap 6y ago
The NYT homepage currently describes what happened as "Mayhem Incited by Trump." If you were to read that and go to Trump's twitter feed and read the above quoted tweet, you would now be left with two competing ideas: Was Tru
731.
by dilap 6y ago
I think you're spot on with your description of instincts. Which of course means sometimes they can lead us wrong, especially if we're applying them to domains very different from those they were trained on.
732.
by dilap 6y ago
Even saying you thought it was an accidental release would get you in trouble with Twitter or Youtube though. Social media loses a lot of its utility if you're only allowed to say things that are blessed by official, mainstream media.
733.
by dilap 6y ago
> Just thinking out loud, given Zig's errors primarily allow the compiler to enforce that errors are handled, and exhaustively, beyond that why can't error payloads just be passed as an input argument pointer to the function ca
734.
by dilap 6y ago
Thanks, that was a nice talk. But the answer there is basically, "if you care about payload, don't use zig's built-in error handling." Which, obviously, you can do, but I'm not convinced it's a great answer! Ev
735.
by dilap 6y ago
While I don't have much experience with Zig, I agree -- from my little bit of playing around, it also hasn't been a big deal. (The biggest thing I've hit that I want is a way to return information with an error. If that were
736.
by dilap 6y ago
My experience using ripgrep and fd is that this is also true in real-world programs. :-)
737.
by dilap 6y ago
Neither of those fix the scope leak, tho.
738.
by dilap 6y ago
Yes, you're right. From the manual: > [Once a variable is set to undefined], it is no longer possible to detect that the value is undefined. undefined means the value could be anything, even something that is nonsense according to t
739.
by dilap 6y ago
I've also found the std library code to be very clean and readable. Try taking a look at e.g. <zig>/lib/std/array_list.zig
740.
by dilap 6y ago
Certainly possible. & of course git is always improving. But still, I do think ability to do path-based partial checkouts and have something like git-lfs integrated natively remain compelling potential features.
741.
by dilap 6y ago
Well, I can just report my experience with a git repo w/ a bunch of binary files in it. It got really really slow to clone (like multiple days -- we gave up on cloning and just copied the checked-out folder around); git lfs fixed this.
742.
by dilap 6y ago
True, you can put large files in git, but after a while your .git will become huge, clones will become extremely slow, and (if you're hosted on github), github will threaten to delete your repo. ;-) Then you have to use something like
743.
by dilap 6y ago
Very cool stuff! I think built-in excellent support for large files & large repos could be a huge driver of adoption vs git (which, of course, has poor support for those things). (At work we use git, but split into many repos, which is
744.
by dilap 6y ago
I didn't say it was trivial, just not a crazy amount! :-) No doubt calories in/calories out must ultimately be obeyed, and you could w/ strictly controlled feeding achieve any weight you want by titrating calories, but I thin
745.
by dilap 6y ago
I've been reading about Smalltalk and Squeak for years and only just now realized the relationship between their names. Anyway... My only real exposure to Smalltalk was via obj-c. That combination of simple languages was truly amazin
746.
by dilap 6y ago
That's a good point (especially for anyone considering making store-bought honey a staple of their diet), and an interesting observation, but even so, they would still, at the extreme end of 50% larva, be getting something like overall
747.
by dilap 6y ago
It's about the model, rather than the storage per se. AFAIK, svn doesn't model dependencies between patches, so it doesn't get the benefits. Have you ever had to laboriously cherry-pick a series of commits solving some bug be
748.
by dilap 6y ago
This is why I'm really excited about the potential of Pijul. In pijul, commits are diffs, and you avoid all of the rebase/cherry-picking craziness of Git. Still alpha software, so tons of roughs edges, but the potential is incre
749.
by dilap 6y ago
Definitely differences, but I'm not convinced it matters so much, at least in healthy people. E.g., lots of people eat a whole lot of white rice and seem to do quite well on it. The Hadza, a tribe in africa, at certain times of the yea
750.
by dilap 6y ago
Bread, pasta, fruits, and vegetables: all things we've been eating for at least a couple thousand years; no fat or mostly saturated fats. Twinkies and Oreos: signicant quantities of novel ingredients that have only existed in the last

More ›