discardable_dan

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by discardable_dan 4y ago
I think you'd find most people who work in those companies agree with Stallman at a fundamental level, and broadly support Free Software and the ideas around it. Very few of them support Stallman or think his behavior is helping anythi
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
Cancelled or not, it's a bad look to put a super-cringy and offputting old guy in charge of a group in serious need of recruiting and support.
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
As an undergraduate, Stallman came to visit and I got to spend about 3.5 hours around him in a crowd of no more than 20 people. He acted like this the whole time. Come to find out, this is basically how he acts all of the time, to everyone.
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
To be more accurate, this to protect an AST parsed into source code that is _readily available_ for anyone who wants it, because... it's open source. Anyone with knowledge of GCC could write a patch in a week or so to dump the AST into
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
Arguably, that exact behavior led to Clang existing.
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
No, phone games are targeted at casuals. AAA games are targeted at people who have some 40-60 hours of spare time over the next three weeks to spend on video games. This is coming from someone who now has no free time for video games, and o
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
Er, I rather meant that Python doesn't have a first-class lambda definitional form. You are right that you can get the python runtime to make closures.
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
This analysis is spot on. The author is annoyed about the absence of many things that, in most programming languages, would be seen as outright absurd. People have come to realize multi-methods, monkey-patching, and mutable interfaces break
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
MRIs would need to take a fraction of the time for this to be viable.
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
I really hope they don't follow the rustc 'OO' style of defining passes as traits. Pattern matching gives incredible tools for compiler pass writing, and the ideology of Rust compilers is ripe for being brought into the fold
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
I wonder if one day in the grim and distant future, we'll displace aliens using this registry akin to how US land was repossessed from the native people and then occupied by US citizens. That'd make a good sci-fi book.
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
Funny, cuz trans women are assaulted and killed by the dozens in men's rooms and there might have been two cases ever of a man dressing as a woman specifically to enter a female bathroom and assault a woman.
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
She has openly and repeatedly called for laws and policies that restrict and damage what it means to be a trans person. She has openly and repeatedly insisted that "biological sex" should dominate "gender preference" for
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
Her original article was a long diatribe that basically amounted to insisting trans women should be forced to use male bathrooms, which has on multiple occasions directly resulted in their assault / murder. I guess personal safety is j
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
I agree. I lived in SF in 2015 and I never, ever saw anything remotely like this.
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
This is frightening. I don't understand how Amazon isn't liable for these things.
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
I've stopped buying huge swaths of things from Amazon for this reason. I'm basically down to buying four categories of things: 1. Items whose brand absolutely don't matter so long as they work as intended (e.g., books, home g
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
I doubt many Amazon goods from those sellers legitimately adhere to local standards. For example, I outright refuse to purchase silicone for food use from Amazon.
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
A single person could make something that looks comparable, if not better, with SquareSpace in like two weeks. The logo is the only nice thing IMO.
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
Out of curiosity, do you use Google for search?
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
> As for coffee, like many other parts of life (movies, food, and music especially), I find that I like it very good or very bad—as long as it’s not down the middle, I can find a time/place to enjoy it. I agree, but I think it'
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
This writing is insufferable. If I removed every errant newline and "bear with me" sentence, the posts would be half as long and twice as interesting.
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
Demos are on the way back. A lot of indie games on Steam feature them.
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
Honestly, the gameplay looks like a slightly-polished Diablo 3. It isn't that exciting to me. What's more-interesting to me, though, is your comment about people discovering a path to get a normal experience. Diablo 3 was reworked
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
This is, honestly, why I'm focusing my children on Nintendo products. They do sometimes charge for skins, but by and large they don't succumb to the same "pay me to play" traps as other platforms.
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
Junk mail has a massive ecological footprint.
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
The process you are discussing is better summarized as: "a Nash equilibrium is not necessarily Pareto optimal, and vice versa." That's the issue with making it about ethics versus success: most successful people just aren&#x2
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
You should read up on Nash equilibriums. In general, the equilibrium only holds with information sharing. In the real world, winning due to a lack of information sharing is called things like "good business." Academia, and cheatin
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
While the idea is interesting enough, the name itself seems less-than-ideal due to cultural appropriation and all that. Especially when names like "anti-site" or similar would communicate the idea better.
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
Yes and no. I would agree, but housing is, for the most part, fungible (at least for people with tech salaries). If I sold my house, I could pay for rent in my high-cost area for the better part of a decade with just the income off the sale

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