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by dismalaf 9mo ago
I'm only on a few programming related discords and not going to lie, even those are slightly toxic. So bye discord.
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by dismalaf 9mo ago
> I doubt the monks realized the gravity of their choice so long ago. I mean, the star chart was probably something equivalent to a text book for us. Many texts were uniquely preserved at St. Catherine's since they had Mohammed&#x2
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by dismalaf 9mo ago
> Christian monastery in Islamic Sinai if the timing of the article is correct https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ladder_of_Divine_Ascent According to this article his writings pre-date the Islamic conquest (639). Of
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by dismalaf 9mo ago
Except this wasn't "scraped off to make yet another Bible". St John Climacus' writings are some of the most interesting in the history of Christianity. Probably the most mystical of all Christian writings and give an am
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by dismalaf 9mo ago
Is it really necessary to have reverse colonialism to maintain a high quality of life? We're essentially offloading the cost of raising people from childhood and much of their education to get fully grown workers who will accept lower
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by dismalaf 9mo ago
Haxe is a great language but it feels like the ecosystem has been stagnant for 10 years. No Vulkan bindings, no SDL3, still trying to be a web language that happens to compile to native code instead of getting with the times and going full
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by dismalaf 9mo ago
Dunno, LLMs writing code still feels like they memorized a bunch of open source code and vomited them out in worse condition. It's not that impressive that Claude wrote a C compiler when GitHub has the code to a bunch of C compilers (s
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by dismalaf 9mo ago
Want to split hairs eh? Duck typing achieves the same thing as "generics", just at runtime vs. compile time.
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by dismalaf 9mo ago
Yes -> https://mruby.org It's also incredibly easy to extend the main Ruby implementation with C, C++, Odin, Zig, Rust, Fortran, etc... Literally a few lines.
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by dismalaf 9mo ago
Looking through that list of features, Ruby (the dynamic language I know best) has all but 1 built-in (and the other can be added with Gems). I'm guessing Python probably has them all too (but I don't know Python that well). The
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by dismalaf 9mo ago
> SDL would have been understood as an engine SDL is funny in that it kind of is an engine, à la Raylib, with SDL_Renderer (2D only), but most people use it just as a platform abstraction layer.
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by dismalaf 9mo ago
It is still developed, although it feels a bit like it was mostly "done" 10 years ago. https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc Quite a few recent commits and their blog/X account mentioned their LSP now being
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by dismalaf 9mo ago
> because I remembered Godot as "a bunch of C++ libraries for gamedev". Yeah it's never been that, it's always been an editor-driven engine. Started life as a proprietary game engine by a consultancy, then open sourc
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by dismalaf 9mo ago
I switched to Linux circa 2010 when I needed a word processor but didn't want to go to the store to buy Office (was pretty young and poor at the time). After some Googling I found LibreOffice and Ubuntu. I had used Suse Linux years e
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by dismalaf 9mo ago
Religion? Iran's legal name is "the Islamic Republic of Iran" and it is widely called the Islamic Republic. I just used this name to differentiate from the Iranian people or Iran as a country filled with people who don&#x27
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by dismalaf 9mo ago
??? There's an obvious trail of money from Russia and Iran that influences current world events. Which is why there's no outrage over Iran murdering tens of thousands of protestors. I'm on the side of the Iranian protestors
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by dismalaf 9mo ago
Which is why I generally vote for people who believe in freedom versus an overreaching state.
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by dismalaf 9mo ago
No one considers eugenics science. Just because some guy in the 1800s said it was science doesn't make it so. Next you'll say Scientology is science... Or astrology, or whatever. We have a pretty defined view of what science i
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by dismalaf 9mo ago
> Jordan Lasker, who often writes about race and intelligence under the name Crémieux It's funny because this guy is center-left, he just happens to actually be intellectually honest. Anyhow, either we do science or we just admit t
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by dismalaf 9mo ago
> It is not a great experience to change your Default Browser on Android It actually is, it just sounds more like it's Edge that isn't a great experience. I've had Vivaldi as default for awhile now and it's great, ev
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by dismalaf 9mo ago
It's not the pricing gap, there's Android phones more expensive than the most expensive iPhone. There's just also tiered alternatives. It's the fact Euro carriers are less likely to subsidize or finance the phone. And
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by dismalaf 9mo ago
Most online RPGs (Genshin for example) check for world updates everytime you log in, it's not tied to app updates.
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by dismalaf 9mo ago
> core features that differentiate Android devices, like USB-C and RCS It's obvious you've never used Android if you think these are core features LMAO. No one cares that much about connector type, more the fact it's usin
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by dismalaf 9mo ago
Europe wants a lot of things that they end up never actually doing.
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by dismalaf 9mo ago
Local company complies with the law. In other news, the sky is blue...
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by dismalaf 9mo ago
I said "resist arrest while being armed and reaching for a gun" I didn't say "have a legal firearm". There's some key points in there.
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by dismalaf 9mo ago
This attitude is cancer to OSS. The social aspect of OSS isn't required from anyone. Maintainers don't owe anyone a thing. The ability to fork and have your own source with the right to use as you wish is literally the defining
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by dismalaf 9mo ago
- OSes is easy, Suse and Ubuntu are European. As well as a bunch of smaller ones. Programming language toolchains? You must be very NPM-brained, stuff like C and C++ is generally quite decentralized with OSes taking care of packaging. Th
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by dismalaf 9mo ago
The comments here are hilarious. Every competent military in the world has DCO programs... Otherwise they'd never be able to attract talent for specialised fields.
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by dismalaf 9mo ago
Given how many undersea internet cables get cut it's probably smart to not rely on them for critical infrastructure but I don't see how it's actively harmful.

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