dunefox

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721.
by dunefox 5y ago
Yes, I always trust random reddit comments more than newspapers.
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by dunefox 5y ago
I agree that adding a crypto coin the way they did it is idiotic as well. But I wouldn't ditch an encrypted app for one that will 'eventually' be E2E encrypted. matrix.org is E2E encrypted and secure now and it's being
723.
by dunefox 5y ago
> But I am saying maybe add a few more devs. Absolutely, then such an important issue probably wouldn't stay open for this long.
724.
by dunefox 5y ago
That is idiotic. It's strictly, objectively worse than Signal and not even acceptable in the worst case .
725.
by dunefox 5y ago
Threema seems great so far. Not many users though, sadly. Element (matrix.org) is good as well, but it's not polished and lacks users as well.
726.
by dunefox 5y ago
I mean, they invested a year into covert development of a crypto wallet inside Signal. Maybe that time could have been spent better.
727.
by dunefox 5y ago
Surely you mean 45°? 90° is rather extreme.
728.
by dunefox 5y ago
> but the time to first animation on my computer is like 10 minutes Have you tried 1.6 already? I find it's substantially faster.
729.
by dunefox 5y ago
> a college kid with a part time job ("arubaito") at your local konbini Is the japanese word for a part-time job really the german word 'Arbeit'? Amusing.
730.
by dunefox 5y ago
> my_foo, myfoo, and myFoo are interchangeable. MyFoo is different because the first letter is capitalized. God, that's horrible.
731.
by dunefox 5y ago
I don't know, I like working with strings.
732.
by dunefox 5y ago
Also no unicode support which is a huge con.
733.
by dunefox 5y ago
Guile suffers from being a great language then?
734.
by dunefox 5y ago
Neither.
735.
by dunefox 5y ago
As with package managers, there seem to be half a dozen different, competing type checkers for Python now...
736.
by dunefox 5y ago
> Where do you draw the line between animals and plants? Exactly there: between animals and plants.
737.
by dunefox 5y ago
It's almost as if burgers from McDonalds and good burgers are completely different things.
738.
by dunefox 5y ago
That could be said about any tool, framework, language, library, etc. Invest enough time and you can do everything with malbolge but that doesn't mean it doesn't suck.
739.
by dunefox 5y ago
> worm farmer This reminds me of the protein farmer at the beginning of Blade Runner 2049.
740.
by dunefox 5y ago
What about 1 != 2?
741.
by dunefox 5y ago
Sometimes the only excuse you need is interest.
742.
by dunefox 6y ago
You mean as in linear and logistic regression, two popular classical ML models whose parameters can be optimised using gradient descent?
743.
by dunefox 6y ago
A messenger is useless if people don't use it.
744.
by dunefox 6y ago
> I don't understand why people have such an issue running multiple messaging clients on the same phone. Simple: there's a messenger everyone is on. WhatsApp. There is no need to install anything else. One of my friends who stu
745.
by dunefox 6y ago
> I think it would be less so if they just generate and present the backup security key at account creation, telling users to use this when they want to login on a different device and drop the whole ad-hoc 'scan a qr code' pro
746.
by dunefox 6y ago
Why?
747.
by dunefox 6y ago
And there's the inevitable Nazi-adjacent comparison. Didn't take long.
748.
by dunefox 6y ago
> What would you use instead, then? Julia, for example.
749.
by dunefox 6y ago
"Sensible choice due to the ecosystem and tools" and "loving the language for its features" are two very different things.
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by dunefox 6y ago
> But if I need to build something that will be rock solid I need to move more slowly and carefully, and Java works well for that. Rock solid with features like null references, AbstractFactoryFactories, extremely over-engineered class a

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