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by endgame 10mo ago
Absolutely fascinating history. I thought I knew DNS fairly well and I had no idea that locality-based domains were even a thing. Ah, what happened to the site design? It used to have a lovely background and monospace text.
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by endgame 11mo ago
And one feeds the other, in that it's hard to raise a kid who can play constructively outdoors if all of his friends are hooked on Roblox.
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by endgame 11mo ago
This paper is up to Oleg's usual high standard, and is a very important step to read if you're catching up on the history of effect systems in Haskell. As a user, I think effect libraries in Haskell trade off between five main con
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by endgame 11mo ago
Ancient wisdom: closures are a poor man's objects; objects are a poor man's closures. https://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/...
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by endgame 11mo ago
NYT (opinion), 2017: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/opinion/dont-quote-them-o... Forbes, 2019: https://www.forbes.com/sites/yuwahedrickwong/2019/04/19/econ...
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by endgame 11mo ago
Parallel construction, but to work around GMO labelling as opposed to LEOs revealing their sources.
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by endgame 11mo ago
It is a fantastic read. I find myself quoting section 5.3.1 on Well-Behaved Functions (WBFs) quite often, especially rule 2: "If the specification doesn’t say what to do raise an exception." This really helps systems from muddling
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by endgame 11mo ago
Other countries have very similar regimes these days.
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by endgame 11mo ago
I think this is one of the deepest problems with modern UIs - event delivery is no longer reliable. You type "abc" and only "ac" gets delivered to the application, or "b" ends up sent to another window. Maddeni
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by endgame 11mo ago
It was an absolutely bone-headed poke-the-bear move and we should count ourselves lucky that it was only a chunk of the library and not the whole archive that got nuked. IA holds priceless and irreplaceable data, and while the library initi
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by endgame 11mo ago
There have been a few mentions in this thread of portable gaming PCs like the Steam Deck and the ROG Ally. Has anyone here tried using them as a primary machine? I've been thinking that since I travel with a portable keyboard and mouse
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by endgame 11mo ago
Lenses also let you take interesting alternate perspectives on your data. You can have a lens that indexes into a bit of an integer, letting you get/set a boolean, for example.
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by endgame 11mo ago
As I said in the other thread: Australian users of alternative app stores should make a complaint to the ACCC: https://www.accc.gov.au/about-us/contact-us-or-report-an-iss... In the past, they forced Steam to implement
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by endgame 11mo ago
Not viscerally, but this was meant to be an obviously unserious proposal.
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by endgame 11mo ago
I did, thank you.
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by endgame 11mo ago
Australian users of alternative app stores should make a complaint to the ACCC: https://www.accc.gov.au/about-us/contact-us-or-report-an-iss... In the past, they forced Steam to implement proper refund policies, and th
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by endgame 11mo ago
Everyone carries a GPS in their pocket; why not use it for good? We can have people's clocks continually update so that 12:00 is solar noon at their current location each day, and avoid the jarring transitions into and out of DST. Don&
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by endgame 1y ago
The first one was because the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) took them to court, but yes, they're both very good features.
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by endgame 1y ago
My bank is migrating online banking to an app-only platform. I could see attestation following very shortly afterwards.
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by endgame 1y ago
I had Ed's posts on hand, but I don't think that's true. It works at mortal levels too. If you write `map f (map g someList)`, laziness means you'll materialise at most one cons of the intermediate list (although GHC wil
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by endgame 1y ago
If you have immutable data and want code reuse, you need laziness otherwise you give up a lot of performance. In Haskell, a careful choice of implementation for `sort` means that `take 10 (sort someList)` will only do enough work to return
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by endgame 1y ago
It becomes much harder to force attestation on people if there's a significant user base that runs alternative operating systems.
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by endgame 1y ago
In a vacuum, the policy had really high opinion polling. In reality, the technical implementation will undoubtedly be a privacy and surveillance disaster. In a vacuum, people thought "social media" meant "Instagram and TicToc
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by endgame 1y ago
Whizz-bang cryptographic solutions to this class of problem (digital ID, electronic voting, etc) have at least three major problems that I consider fatal: 1. The contract to build the thing will go to the lowest bidder, who is all but guara
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by endgame 1y ago
How does it look worse than Deus Ex: The Recut Remastered, which came out six years ago? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmOCsiZgAbg
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by endgame 1y ago
The FBI agrees with you: https://www.pcmag.com/news/fbi-recommends-installing-an-ad-b...
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by endgame 1y ago
I wish I had a good answer for you. I've been dissatisfied with Dhall, Nickle, Cue, and possibly others. Dhall's type system is both too strong (you have to plumb type variables by hand if you want to do any kind of routine FP idi
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by endgame 1y ago
But the large volume of copyleft does make it much easier for all the BSD/MIT/X11/ISC ("permissively licenced") stuff to show up in e.g., enterprise Linux distribution releases, under the "we have to do it anyw
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by endgame 1y ago
This is the world we're building for everyone, if passkeys + attestation get baked in everywhere and the bigtechs hold everyone's authentication keys.
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by endgame 1y ago
I think that the cleaner argument is that the ability to have private conversations is a fundamental human right, and in the current technological environment, that means strong encryption.

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