ebruchez

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by ebruchez 4y ago
> reëlection I love the use of the diaeresis.
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by ebruchez 4y ago
I would say that I generally have more trust in openness, transparency, and independence than in closeness, opacity, and subservience to a single party. Therefore, a priori, I would assign more trust to documents and research produced in th
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by ebruchez 4y ago
> how is it different from China again It's a matter of degree. Not everything is black or white. Things can be better or they can be worse. Since there is no way to just argue one's way out of it, I'll just point you to t
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by ebruchez 4y ago
> USA doesn’t have rule of law Total nonsense. The US doesn't have perfect rule of law but then nothing is ever perfect. Failures like the ones you are presenting have been widely reported, are largely controversial, and nobody wh
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by ebruchez 5y ago
That was the whole idea of the Dart VM, by the way: to bridge the gap between the maximum performance you could get out of JavaScript and what you could get of a more statically-typed language. My recollection from a few years ago was that
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by ebruchez 5y ago
> one of our friends suggested bosch because we wanted a quiet appliance We've been very happy with our Bosch. Don't ever buy a cheap dishwasher.
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by ebruchez 5y ago
TSMS is not the reason China wants Taiwan, and there is more to Taiwan than TSMC: a wonderful people, a thriving liberal democracy, and great local culture, for example. I understand why there is so much focus on HN on TSMC, but it's d
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by ebruchez 5y ago
We used to say it often in class, and we (or the teacher) would sometimes ironically trip on that very sentence :)
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by ebruchez 5y ago
> Learning to ski or snowboard requires falling thousands of times This is not the case for skiing at least. My young kids (who are are not exceptional) have been skiing for the last few years. They rarely fall. It might happen once duri
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by ebruchez 5y ago
The CuriousMarc YouTube channel [1] features a current series where they work on some Saturn transmission equipment (Apollo Comms). They also also restored an AGC (Apollo Guidance Computer). Those were incredible designs for the time, but y
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by ebruchez 5y ago
That's the exact premise of Scala, by the way: more object-oriented than most object-oriented languages (including Java), and yet enabling functional programming.
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by ebruchez 5y ago
> Maybe “actual true direct pure democracy” should do. That would certainly be clearer :)
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by ebruchez 5y ago
> it certainly is not direct democracy You appear to make up your own extreme definition of what the words "direct democracy" should be and what they should mean. But it's not like that. There are ways words and condepts a
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by ebruchez 5y ago
I'd say "clearly" not.
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by ebruchez 5y ago
> Before agriculture, life wasn't bountiful. It was short and harsh. Not saying it's necessarily right or wrong, but Yuval Noah Harari, in his book "Sapiens", has a perspective on the transition of humanity to agricul
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by ebruchez 5y ago
> Both Scala and Kotlin are sufficiently similiar to Java to provide no real benefit Sorry but "no real benefit" seems to come from a position of ignorance. I can only talk about Scala which I know pretty well. While Clojure is
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by ebruchez 5y ago
You are not missing much. That's a… weird site, to say the least.
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by ebruchez 5y ago
Your podcast is the best, Adam! I enjoy every episode of it.
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by ebruchez 5y ago
Yes there is, although it's not in widespread use yet. [1] For Scala, there is, separately, Scala Native. [2] Both have ahead-of-time (AOT) compilers that compile down to the target architecture. [1] https://www.graalvm.org&
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by ebruchez 5y ago
I come from the other side of the mountains in Switzerland. Aosta is an occasional destination people on that side. There is great local food, a cute town, and of course the beautiful scenery.
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by ebruchez 5y ago
> ZMK instead of adding BT support to QMK? Why? QMK is licensed under the GPL, which disallows linking with proprietary Bluetooth stacks. That might be one reason.
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by ebruchez 5y ago
> it seems moot to use it now It's true that some features of Scala have made it to Java, but I am not sure the gap between the two languages has shrunk much. For example while Java has added first-class functions and closures, it i
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by ebruchez 5y ago
> Some languages take off really fast and disappear just as fast (scala, clojure). I don't know about Clojure but I don't think that Scala has "disappeared". The hype has subsided, certainly. I for one certainly hope
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by ebruchez 5y ago
I intend the following as friendly feedback. Personal is fine but that doesn't have to imply impossible to use. The main problem is that it's not discoverable, at least on MacOS where there are no scrollbars. I found the horizonta
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by ebruchez 5y ago
Kids have varying abilities and are receptive to different things at different ages depending on personality / ability. Mozart was playing piano concerts at 5 but the vast majority of kids wouldn't be able to do that no matter the
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by ebruchez 5y ago
I don't know the answer to that but Scala is also a precedent for using square brackets for generics (AKA type parameters). However in Scala arrays don't use square brackets so that confusion is avoided.
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by ebruchez 5y ago
I seem to remember (Sun workstations) that Mosaic was white while Netscape was gray.
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by ebruchez 5y ago
> mid-2020s > in a couple years This means around 2025.
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by ebruchez 5y ago
For amazing clarity, read Bertrand Russell and Karl Popper.
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by ebruchez 5y ago
> highly likely Citation needed.

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