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by dmitriid 4y ago
> East (China+Russia) People that keep bunching Russia with China are deluding themselves that Russia is anywhere on China's radar except as a source of cheap resources (gas, oil, wood)
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> If you need hours to figure out if a log line is relevant or not, then you have much more important problems to take care of. I don't. > Has nothing to do with zealotry, just common sense. Ah yes. "does it change the sem
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> I much rather prefer to evaluate the impact in advance rather than having to find and figure it in production. See, this is exactly the zealotry and demagoguery I am talking about. 99% of use cases: we need to add a single line of logg
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> You have completed ignored my question and the explanation of why I asked I did not. I wrote that it amounts to demagoguery. The reason is simple: a pragmatic language lets you write a single `Logger.log` line without pseudo philosophi
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by dmitriid 4y ago
I think they were an inspiration for most modern languages. Either directly or indirectly.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
This amounts to demagoguery. Because yes, it's a fact that in a "pure functional program" you need to re-engineer half of the program if you need to put the log somewhere where it's "oh so pure", and where yo
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by dmitriid 4y ago
I've had a bad experience with zealots. Your original statement lacks any nuance except "E are bad because no pure functional programming". Any attempts to clarify resolve to basic "it's for the good of the whole pr
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by dmitriid 4y ago
It's also the difference between being pragmatic and being in a cult.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Could you give an examples of a game that used a custom game engines that couldn’t achieve what they wanted in Unreal or Unity? A game that doesn't require a multi-gigabyte download and a top-tier GPU and CPU to render stuff in 2D
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Given that he and his team are developing a language and a game in that language at the same time it makes sense to focus on the primary platforms they work on, and expect their game to currently run. Their primary platform is Windows, and
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> I could call the lamp next to the couch several different things depending on the context. Or just call it dude :) https://reddit.com/r/tumblr/comments/548b3p/everything_is_du...
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Thanks! I'll check them out!
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> author estimates 5 sec for this codebase??? This expectation comes from jai compile times for the game Jonathan Blow is developing: https://www.twitch.tv/j_blow It takes about 2.5 seconds to compile and link over 168k
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Can't wait to see how this progresses. So far the only source of knowledge have been Blow's streams, but he's the author, and he knows his language inside and out. It will be immensely interesting to see other people's e
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Yeah, I was thinking along the lines of "General American"/"California English": - General American https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/united-states-of-accents-... - California English ht
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> What would you want it to do when you add a second light bulb? Tell you the old command is no longer unique or turn on both? I think when the command is generic "lights" it should turn on all lights. But both are valid behavi
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by dmitriid 4y ago
That's the issue though: there are too many quirks even for the most simple of interactions.You have to be constantly aware of quirks, and issues, and workarounds. It's like walking on broken glass.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> or something along those lines nearly always works fine for me and is no more distracting than having a conversation with somebody in the car with me. Until you have several Freds in your contact list. Until you have friends with forei
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Mastodon stores toots in HTML and presents that HTML to API consumers. What. The actual. F. How? Why? Who ever thought this was a good idea? I would often complain about Twitter API, and how bad it was, but this is just beyond awful.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> The number of times my friends have got alexa to turn the light on first time is functionally zero. I have a room called "Study" and the only lights there are called "Main Lights". - Hey, Siri, study lights 100% - D
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Driving or in the kitchen when cooking seem the be the most successful. Since the voice assistants are incredibly stupid I find it extremely stressful and distracting to ask them for anything while driving.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
You want utility. The big players want a product that can be monetized and milked for revenue.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
So, cycling became popular in the Netherlands later . And the Netherlands also was busy building roads for cars only, especially post WWII. And yet, "US is unique, everything about the US is unique, we are unique, and the wind blo
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> I haven’t audited Uniswap’s smart contract code, but if I did I feel I could be pretty confident they won’t steal my money. Funny how there now have been multiple contracts which successfully passed multiple audits, have survived bug
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> The infrastructure is almost non-existent because the vast majority of Americans don’t use bicycles to travel, not the other way around. No. Please read about Netherlands again. > The Netherlands is an extremely dense, flat, tempera
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> yelling low-research insults without anyone pushing back on them... You'd think that in the past 14 years anyone would come up with a well-researched eloquent push back to the multitude of actually well researched eloquent questio
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Dedicated, competent and highly-funded attackers are at work. Central/commercial banks, Treasuries, etc. cannot abide any fire-exit First-world tech bros drinking cool-aid and shoveling money by the truckload with zero understandi
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Bicycles aren’t very useful vehicles compared to cars, which is why a very small share of the US population uses them on the roads in the first place. It's because the infrastructure for biking is almost non-existent. Thanks to pe
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by dmitriid 4y ago
And then there's the issue of the language itself: - can you even design it properly? - is it tested? - is it debuggable? - how does it integrate with the rest of your program(s)? with the rest of your system(s)? - what's the perf
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by dmitriid 4y ago
No. This is him backpedaling on all the shit he's said and done because advertisers are stopping ad spend on Twitter.

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