eximius

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541.
by eximius 6y ago
I didn't say it ruined your discourse in your niche. I'm not saying Twitter can't be good to any people. I'm saying that as a tool for public discussion, it is vile.
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by eximius 6y ago
This POTUS is a huge abnormality that I hope can be forgotten to the annals of time and a jail cell. I would hope not to use him as an example of anything that represents normalcy, like accessibility of his tweets.
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by eximius 6y ago
I'd love to see ISPs become utilities, which would be the first step. Disclaimer: I work for Google, this represents my personal opinion, not that of my employer, etc. Google, the search engine, I could see being a utility. The rest is
544.
by eximius 6y ago
Twitter is a plague on public discourse. We'd be better off as a society if it were never invented. If I knew how to put the genie back in the bottle, I would advocate for it.
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by eximius 6y ago
Risk aversion and capital?
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by eximius 6y ago
You're not _wrong_, but I'm not sure that those reasons really mean anything. They were all new and arbitrary at some point and we're a long way from Unix. > it is completely flaunting established Unix norms. Also, _nix_ i
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by eximius 6y ago
What is special about /nix that would make it better suited elsewhere? Aesthetic? Clutter? I don't think there are any technical reasons why the root of the filesystem is important. The /nix folder is just another folder wi
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by eximius 6y ago
From memory of articles surrounding this, it was the failure to add a provision preventing warrantless tracking that was scandalous. It is unclear to me if that implies some court decision that allows it without that preventative measure.
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by eximius 6y ago
That's not precisely their statement even if it is their intention. I don't think anyone could argue that statement (though some may deny your axiom of lax performance requirements). I think people are taking issue with the claims
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by eximius 6y ago
Is that a Rust problem? How would you normally do it that fails in Rust?
551.
by eximius 6y ago
Can't agree. Rust's goal, if you can call it that, is to make you think about things you should be thinking about anyway. Coming from C, you should be thinking about lifetimes and mutability and sharing. If you dont, your program
552.
by eximius 6y ago
I mean, even Python has references to variables. You can't escape references (as opposed to values). The difference is one of model. Pointers are an exposure of the underlying computer architecture. Whereas references are more of a pro
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by eximius 6y ago
I would qualify a language as high level if you're not expected to deal with pointers in 'normal' use. Yes, Rust has pointers, but using them is NOT normal. C/C++/C#/D, etc are not high level by this criteria
554.
by eximius 6y ago
Subtle is literally an antonym for obvious. It can't be both. I think it is a clear, subtle difference, making it easy to miss by mistake and be surprised by it. Lack of ambiguity does not preclude surprise.
555.
by eximius 6y ago
Nothing is more infuriating than saving a 'gif' that instead gives me some obscure format none of my programs besides the browser can use. Only serve video if it's in a format as ubiquitous as Gifs.
556.
by eximius 6y ago
This is just the COBOL problem in newer clothes. Raise the pay and someone will decide it's worth their time.
557.
by eximius 6y ago
They don't have to be. But also it isn't clear the web is the right tool for that job just because there are some pros. I'd rather see better cross-platform native tools than more web tools. The web is bloated, overloaded, an
558.
by eximius 6y ago
For who? If the sites in the genres I care about remain, I am unaffected (except for, perhaps, economically in a bigger picture). For example, I don't care if ESPN's app is favored over it's website. I don't care if vari
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by eximius 6y ago
There's always Electron, Wasm, and the few smatterings of decent GUI frameworks being worked on. Also https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri which claims to be a... Light, more native Electron? Just depends what you
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by eximius 6y ago
No, this was intentional. The point was to see how the user base used the language before adding permanent language features.
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by eximius 6y ago
Do they work sufficiently well for the purposes we need it to, though? As another commented mentioned, the bulk of jobs require adequate coding skills with good soft skills. If you have the license, does that mean we can skip the whiteboard
562.
by eximius 6y ago
I was impressed with the quality, breadth, and insightfulness from their quiz. Obviously gameable, but still really well done.
563.
by eximius 6y ago
Triplebyte attempts to be this.
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by eximius 6y ago
In the beginning, I find it is best to avoid the escape hatches that lead to the runtime errors I assume you're talking about (i.e., `unwraps` and such). Eventually you'll learn when it's appropriate to use them. https:&#x2F
565.
by eximius 6y ago
On the contrary, they are explicitly saying that consciousness is a function of the substrate, making them indivisible. One is a property of the other, by their reckoning.
566.
by eximius 6y ago
Two thoughts: 1) without definition of 'AI' or 'conscious', all answers are correct. They do go into a bit of depth on what 'conscious' means, but not what 'AI' means. 2) there are a lot of related wo
567.
by eximius 6y ago
I guess that's fair. If anything happens to the network, you don't want to lose your logs in the mean time. :)
568.
by eximius 6y ago
Is the output of what you'd normally write to these boot drives significant enough to impact the network? I'm surprised you can't just stream it elsewhere to consolidate the cost.
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by eximius 6y ago
Minus the matrix bits, that's basically how I slogged through DiffEq. Showing up to class was pointless because the prof would make up an equation to exploratively solve and inevitably it would be poorly behaved and the lecture would e
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by eximius 6y ago
That's a rant I'd like to hear.

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