dunefox

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by dunefox 6y ago
> I don't need it to be #1. I don't either, but a chat app is useless if I can't use it to chat with people and almost nobody I know will consider Signal. It's either WhatsApp, Telegram, or SMS (horrible).
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by dunefox 6y ago
It works reasonably well for me for most normal, constant background noise. It's not perfect obviously.
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by dunefox 6y ago
It's not perfect, but it's the simplest option for me for normal background noise that works reasonably well as long as you don't change much. Definitely an option if you want to play games or work at the same time as talk.
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by dunefox 6y ago
Sometime last year I tried Session and while the idea sounds great it needs a lot more attention before I can use it in anger - but I'm a fan of the idea.
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by dunefox 6y ago
Or, you know, one can increase the voice activation level so that that's not the case?
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by dunefox 6y ago
IMO no location offers any protection against NSA et al. The US spy on friend and foe alike.
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by dunefox 6y ago
Facebook logs all metadata that is available from WhatsApp as well. I'd rather have my metadata on matrix servers than on FB servers - at least it's not connected to my phone number, which is tied to my real identity. Also, matrix
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by dunefox 6y ago
> I can pull it together today and see if it's consumable by others. That would be great since I have no idea at all.
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by dunefox 6y ago
Do you have an article or the code somewhere for all this? I'd like to try setting it up as well.
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by dunefox 6y ago
The opposite of using Amazon Smile is not using it. It costs you nothing and benefits charities.
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by dunefox 6y ago
Germany as well, so no.
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by dunefox 6y ago
> opting for AmazonSmile contributions won't move the needle on your charity It's better than the opposite, which is nothing.
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by dunefox 6y ago
Matrix does not offer the same UX at all. I say this as someone who uses both. Telegram is just better as a frontend in every way.
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by dunefox 6y ago
You might like Flix then: first-class datalog constraints https://flix.dev/
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by dunefox 6y ago
> • Functions with names like >!! and ->> To be precise, those are just function names, not syntax. But even Clojure having a more complicated syntax than Common Lisp or Scheme is much simpler than Java, for example. Instead of
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by dunefox 6y ago
Source?
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by dunefox 6y ago
> Bad drivers are mostly a danger to themselves. Source? It seems only logical that the number of accidental deaths goes up with the number of bad drivers on the road - not just because they kill themselves.
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by dunefox 6y ago
No, on the contrary: deaths through those drivers can be eliminated. It only makes sense to look at total number of deaths, including by alcohol, drugs, inexperienced drivers, elderly drivers, distracted drivers (smartphone, etc.).
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by dunefox 6y ago
But as soon as you actually need to implement an efficient library you must use C/C++/Fortran. Julia, for example, allows you to stay in Julia and get comparable performance.
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by dunefox 6y ago
First-class logic/constraint programming like in Flix ( https://flix.dev/ ). This would make complex logic easier and powerful.
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by dunefox 6y ago
So, either Jail or death. Why would anyone return there?
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by dunefox 6y ago
That makes sense. What did you use Flux for? I'm getting into it for natural language processing, hopefully during a PhD sometime in 2021.
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by dunefox 6y ago
Common Lisp with SBCL compiles to very efficient code, it can be comparable to C, for example. For multicore support, I'm sure there are good libraries available - lparallel maybe? ( https://lparallel.org/overview/
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by dunefox 6y ago
Can recommend, it's pretty elegant, fun, and efficient. Also: https://github.com/JuliaPy/PyCall.jl "This package provides the ability to directly call and fully interoperate with Python from the Julia languag
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by dunefox 6y ago
Electron afaik wasn't created because "people forgot" but because it's by far the easiest way to create a platform independent UI that's heavily customisable.
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by dunefox 6y ago
On the dynamic side there was always Lisp. Very efficient, very dynamic, extremely cool.
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by dunefox 6y ago
"Alternatively, Flix can be thought of as a functional programming language with a very powerful embedded query language. A Flix programmer can use first-class Datalog constraints to simply, elegantly, and efficiently solve fixpoint co
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Flix – Next-generation reliable, concise, functional-first programming language(flix.dev)
122 points by dunefox 6y ago|84 comments
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by dunefox 6y ago
God, I hope so.
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by dunefox 6y ago
Written in Common Lisp which is pretty cool.

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