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by dmitriid 4y ago
Nothing is left in Erlang/Elixir from Prolog. Except some of the Erlang syntax.
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> If "giving foods a different flavor or texture" were a totally new idea that vegetarians came up with, so what? It definitely isn't. Their new idea is get on a high horse about plant-based foods, but then going out of th
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by dmitriid 4y ago
To quote myself: "Because it turns out people crave meat, and the market is happy to disguise vegeterian/vegan food as meat. Including trying to replicate both taste and texture. Funnily, meat is never (or very very very rarely) d
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by dmitriid 4y ago
A lot of mammals also eat meat, and most herbivores will not pass up the opportunity to get meat/eggs/fish into their diet, so...
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> You can already use WebGPU today, if you're targeting something other than the browser. Why would I? > There's already game engines & graphics libraries being made thru one of the WebGPU implementations, and you can al
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Yes, and hamburgers have nothing to do with ham, they're named after the city of Hamburg. Frankfurters also not made of Franks. And your point is? > OTOH, what exactly do people think they're eating when they have wieners?
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Those are not the natural forms of any animal's meat any more than they are the natural forms of vegetables. Ah yes. The non-natural form of "vegetables that taste like pork hamburger". Funnily how you never see meat pro
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> But you accept that Buffalo Wings contain no actual buffalo, right? Let's go back to your original statement, shall we: "Why do meat eaters disguise things as burgers, sausages, and nuggets?" No part of that statement
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> You're saying that vegan people have to use milk alternatives like almond milk. Which is certainly not the case. For vegans it certainly is the case. Vegans don't eat food that comes from animals. Milk is one such product.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
They don't "disguise" things as burgers, sausages etc. That's how meat has been prepared since time immemorial across all cultures. Why do vegans and vegetarians insist on disguising vegetables as meat - now that's
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Linux (and by extension Android, maybe Switch), Windows (and by extension Xbox), BSD (and by extension Playstation) all support OpenGL 4.6 and Vulkan. Yeah... no. On Windows you're better of using DirectX since its tge only offici
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Targeting all three can be tough, hence WebGPU which lets you write to a single API. And which doesn't exist (except behind a flag, will probably ship in Chrome 113). And the spec already has over 1500 issues (over 300 still open)
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Even still, MacOS needs a lot of modification before it's ready for development. Just like every single OS. Your linux box doesn't come with most of the things you listed pre-installed and preconfigured: your vim/emacs
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Everything I use MacOS for exists on Linux, too; why was I using MacOS? So. MacOS wasn't for you, and you extrapolated it to "if you are on MacOS, it doesn't work". Well, it keeps working for me (and a great number
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> If your primary use-case is delivering developer conferences Ah yes. All developers that go to developer conferences are there to deliver those conferences (whatever that means). > For pure development stuff, though? You're tor
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Apple ships a Unix without a modern Unix packaging system is ridiculous. Pray tell, what is a "modern unix packaging system"? - The multitude of apts yums etc. that still require sudo for even basic user software? - snap? If
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> If development is your main use-case, MacOS will most certainly not work. To quote Big Lebowski, "that's just, like, your opinion, man". I've used MacOS for development since 2008. PHP, Erlang, JS/TS, Python, J
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Because Intel has a certification program for Thunderbolt that makes many things mandatory that are optional (for no good reason) in the USB-C spec: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28744448
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> You have mistaken me for a crypto-absolutist, Well, if the shoe fits... > if there are going to be resales, _of course_ the venue would prefer to get a commission. That is a real market problem now There are so many things wrong wit
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> What they didn't know is how relevant should a notification be for it to be sent. Oh, they know. They definitely know. What they didn't know is the ratio "(engagement + monetisation)/useful notifications"
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> I listed the benefits in my previous message that you have apparently not read now. Oh, I have. None of those are tangibl benefits to either the venues or to the consumers. Or are not issues to begin with. All you propose is to build a
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> I don't know of any reason that a blockchain based offering couldn't find itself competitive in the marketplace So what are the reasons that a a blockchain based offering could be copetitive in the marketplace? And what wou
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Besides the gap [1] I see they keep cluttering the title bar with completely random functionality to keep you guessing where the hell can I click and drag the window. This new breed of dribble-raised "designers" should be fired en
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> This appears to be a mirror of OSX with the floating taskbar at the bottom with center aligned app icons, It looks worse because for no reason at all they have a gap at the bottom. You can bet that it will be click-through, so you have
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Can we just stop this and act like engineers and actually _try_ to understand each other? Let's do that. I only wish these blind crypto absolutists would actually look at real world from time to time. > Where did you understood
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> I don't know of any reason that a blockchain based offering couldn't find itself competitive in the marketplace The main reason is that you have shown exactly zero reasons why anyone shold adopt it in a space that's alre
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> You can have hybrid smart contracts, that rely on oracles So, trusting centralised data providers. > You could for instance have 5 independent oracles responsible for validating whether the concert happened or not. Ah yes. Because t
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by dmitriid 4y ago
And then you actually go into the docs.... And: oh, 8 GB RAM should work, but let's have a 32 GB swap. The CPU should be fine, but let's overclock it. Oh, you shouldn't use Geth to ensure ecosystem health, but all clients exc
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Ah yes. Adam. Noah. Isaac. And yet, literally no historical record shows that anyone ever lived that long. And if you believe that the Bible is the only historical record we have of those times, boy do I have a bridge to sell you.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Nothing against the talented devs working at Klarna, but if they have trouble handling the load, they can always add a couple TB of memory or a couple hundred CPU cores. Ouch. Burn :) A lot of fat has been trimmed from Kred and it&#x27

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