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by dvdkon 2y ago
I don't see how foregoing composable expressions makes the language any more like English or more natural. Gliimly is like Assembly (generally seen as very "unnatural"), if it had fewer cryptic mnemonics and more SQL-like com
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There are plenty non-web vector map renderers, but they generally provide a full GUI widget, not a simple "extent -> png" function. I don't think creating that would be too much work, though: Just set one of those librarie
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The benefit of such a powerful lightsource is that you can get roughly the same amount of light you'd get from a summer sun. That seems to be what you need to stave off seasonal affective disorder. For waking up you'd need some ki
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> "RustCamp" would likely be adjudicated as a trademark violation if it went to court. Used in what context, though? As far as I am aware, each trademark is only granted for a specific list of market segments. Anything beyond t
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IANAL, but this post's author seems to think that trademark rights afford their owner much more power than they do. I can say that I find Skittles too sweet, and I bet I don't have Mars Inc.'s express rights to use their trad
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That repetitivness can be seen as a downside, not a virtue. And I feel that Rust's ADTs make working with the resulting syntax tree much easier. Though I agree that a little code generation and/or macro magic can make C significan
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There are multiple approaches to easily making basic single-sided PCBs at home, but the rest is hard: Multi-layer PCBs, vias, through-hole plating, solder mask... Those are all things that even hobbyists need, but generally require annoying
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I know about these tendencies, but I can't be sympathetic to them. (Re)gaining hearing is a physiological improvement; those with implants can even "turn off" noise. What these deaf people may lose is a specific deaf culture,
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This sounds like a good way to think about some disabilities (specific recognised ways of "not being normal") and very misleading and unproductive for other disabilities. A blind person can't participate in society to the sam
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A TCP connection to the IMAP server is kept open, with the server sending a packet whenever anything interesting happens (see IMAP IDLE), waking up the client app. This is how all push notifications work nowadays, IIRC, since you can't
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I find it sad that so many frameworks leave the developer to duplicate server-side and client-side validation. There are obviously some things you can't reasonably validate on the client, but I'd like to see more automated ways to
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I like the feature that allows you to put a block's output into another block. I've been toying with the idea of self-modifying/self-introspecting documents for some time, and I think they're a good concept for ad-hoc fi
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Before the modern age, people were far more accepting of supernatural and/or unproven narratives about our world. Nowadays we demand evidence for anything out of the ordinary and faeries in a purportedly realistic story would feel wron
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Android already supports RISC-V, so while migrating an SOC to it is not painless (third-party binaries, device-specific drivers...), the hard work of porting the operating system itself to the ISA is done.
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> That is exactly the opposite of OMT's copyright interpretation. They are entitled to their opinion, but I don't consider a database to be a derivative work of a schema (this should be clear, since databases of facts aren&#x27
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Are you talking about just the OpenMapTiles spec, or some adjacent software? I'm certain that you can build software to some specification without ever agreeing to the spec text's licence, and that a CC-BY licenced spec doesn&#x27
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I think if XHTML was pushed forward, the second problem would be swiftly solved: We'd have a lot more systems that considered webpages as XML documents rather than just templated text. And text-based systems could easily validate their
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In the past I've tried various free accounting tools, but sadly none of them could track account/card numbers (EDIT: while processing bank statement exports). I don't need to track my many bread and pastry purchases, but I&#x
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by dvdkon 2y ago
Maybe you meant to comment elsewhere instead? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41512930
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Nobody wants downtime, but it's easy to spend too much effort on avoiding it, taking time from actually important development. Plenty of customers don't mind occasional downtime, and it can mean the system is simpler and they get
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I'll agree with you about the speed and type-safety, but I think the syntax is great , venvs are fine, and I don't understand your complaint that "everything is global". Python does have function-level variable scoping
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Most Czech banks offer free domestic instant payments, and many small businesses who were previously cash-only now take them as an option. I heard there's also a SEPA equivalent. If the electronic retail payment industry hadn't al
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I was talking more about the package lookup when running code, via e.g. `node script.js`. I think it looks in all parent directories of the CWD, or maybe of the script? It's not too complicated, but it is "more magic" IMO. Ac
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I actually like Python's package management (with just pip and venv). It's different to all other modern solutions, taking a per-shell rather than per-project approach, but that doesn't mean worse. The advantage is that it&
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Java is popular as a first language, but I think it's just due to its (bygone?) general popularity. I don't think a language that forces you into a one-class-per-file mindset from day one has any business being used for teaching;
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A more reputable source, with a link to the original recording: https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/09/starliners-speaker-beg...
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People generally expect more from self-declared democracies with free speech in their constitution, as they should.
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Nowadays NICs only have access to encrypted packets, so such a backdoor would have to be in the CPU. I'm not saying such a thing doesn't exist, but I think it's pretty clear its use would have to be very targeted for nobody t
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I used this for taking notes last semester, and I think it's the best free software option right now. The UI is intuitive and, more importantly, the drawing feels good. The absolute best might still be Styluslabs Write, which has very
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"Bring your own keys" can mean a "log in with OpenAI" button. Having users navigate through a third party's arcane dev portal isn't a good experience, but that third party can make it painless for users if they

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