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by excursionist 7y ago
For something as important and simple as voting, I'd think we could develop an unhackable, fully open-source, formally verified voting system...?
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by excursionist 7y ago
> It silently transforms an O(1) space algorithm into an O(n) space one, and adds an enormous constant time overhead. It doesn't silently transform O(1) to O(n), the code is explicitly O(n^2) space worst-case. The only 'silent&
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by excursionist 7y ago
Citations needed. As others have pointed out this is not a comparison of optimized Dyalog APL with C. This is a comparison of Dyalog APL with a pre-built command-line tool with unknown optimizations.
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by excursionist 7y ago
> Justice is now escapable because it's been deemed "too difficult to pursue" Only if you're rich enough.
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by excursionist 7y ago
I mean, when your whole core development team leaves, you have bigger problems than programming language choice.
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by excursionist 7y ago
Haskell syntax is great except for the indentation/layout rules. There is no simple definition of the grammar with regards to the layout. It's only specified as a headache-inducting operation of a state machine [1], and the implem
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by excursionist 7y ago
Claiming there are no fundamental material/economic problems, such as with housing, and pretending homeless people are just a lost cause of mentally ill substance abusers is certainly not going to solve any problems, except maybe putti
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by excursionist 7y ago
Mental health and substance abuse issues don't spontaneously emerge on their own. Lack of money, housing, personal life, etc. are huge contributing causes.
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by excursionist 7y ago
The problem is many many books survived the test of time and a lot of such non-fiction books are outdated/incorrect by modern standards.
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by excursionist 7y ago
When you buy a closed device that you can only partially control this is what you sign up for. The only reason this can happen is because the people who this affects, materially support Apple in their ability to do this. Play stupid games w
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by excursionist 7y ago
That doesn't seem like as big of a problem, because you, as the user of an open source library, can take steps to prevent such things from affecting you. Most places I've worked at have their own repos with copies of any maven&#x2
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by excursionist 7y ago
> It's only a matter of time until it's a critical piece of software that can cripple a nation or beleaguer it's people. Hopefully this pushes more people to use open source software.
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by excursionist 7y ago
A lot of things affect people's interest in a project. RMS being the original creator of GNU is definitely a big plus towards interest in hearing him speak. I don't see anyone who would be a better fit. Furthermore leading GNU is
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by excursionist 7y ago
> One can't divorce community issues from technical issues when the project in question has a "philosophy" page. Anything can have a philosophy. Just because someone is a communist or a feudalist shouldn't prevent the
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by excursionist 7y ago
I see claims of users not being 'empowered' and not being able to 'trust' GNU software.. because of Stallman? Sorry, but what does the controversy surrounding Stallmman have to do with user empowerment and trust? Has Sta
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by excursionist 7y ago
What I find really strange is that the murder of one US/Saudi journalist is apparently worse than the mass murder being carried out by Saudi Arabia and US in Yemen. Why is that? Is it because Saudi Arabia did not get explicit approval
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by excursionist 7y ago
That would kinda defeat the purpose of this 'Node-GUI' project. [EDIT] This project literally brings Node/JS/CSS on top of Qt - Node-GUI without Node/JS is, you guessed it - Qt.
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by excursionist 7y ago
> Production code should be understandable by an on-call person at 4 am. If business logic is buried under layers of lenses, monad transformers and arrows, good luck troubleshooting it under stress. And real systems do break, no matter t
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by excursionist 7y ago
I'm not sure how this helps. The amount of rubber used is not as important as the surface area being deteriorated, which doesn't seem to be any different from conventional tires.
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by excursionist 7y ago
I remember a story going around about people dying from rat urine on soda cans [1], but the veracity of the claim is questionable. [1] https://www.hoax-slayer.net/leptospirosis-death-warning-rat-...
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by excursionist 7y ago
That makes about as much sense as making builtin functions UPPERCASE. Also, what tradition?
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by excursionist 7y ago
> Type identifiers should be in PascalCase [1] I don't get why some languages adopt the 'PascalCase for types' approach (which is fine), but then a bunch of the built-in types such as 'string', 'set', &
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by excursionist 7y ago
I wish hackernews gave some kind of notification when someone replies to your comment.
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by excursionist 7y ago
What is the methodology for determining that an account is part of a state-funded manipulation campaign? Also, is 'state-funded' necessarily worse than 'privately-funded'? How does twitter know who funds an account? Twit
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by excursionist 7y ago
Do these 'state-sponsored' accounts have a footer '- sponsored by X' in their posts? How are you determining what is state-sponsored?
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by excursionist 7y ago
I don't see anything in the snippet you reference that makes it clear that these are bots being banned.
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by excursionist 7y ago
700M not 700K
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by excursionist 7y ago
> Java generics is a syntax sugar. That's not true, Java generics are not just syntactic sugar. > They don't add anything substantial. They add parametric polymorphism and type safety. > You can use Object (or another bou
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by excursionist 7y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by 'proper generics', but Java does have compile-time generics, ie List<T>, <A, B> B foo(A bar), etc.
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by excursionist 7y ago
Elm has parametric polymorphism.

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