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by ezrast 6y ago
With the exception of Dvorak, every English-centric layout I've looked at (Colemak, Workman, Carpalx, probably a couple others) moves only the letters around, keeping punctuation in the same place as QWERTY. This means the right pinky
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by ezrast 6y ago
I'm not a power vim user but sticking to the default keybinds on Dvorak isn't so bad. JK are still right next to each other, and HL are on the right index and pinky, respectively, so the basic spatial relationships between the key
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by ezrast 6y ago
Having to install and set up third-party pre- and post-processors is the extra work I mean. I'm sure it's not super difficult, but it's also not very accessible to those like me who aren't already familiar with Java tool
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by ezrast 6y ago
Kotlin is indeed very Crystal-like, and I enjoy both languages, but I really miss union types in Kotlin, as well as deeper type inference. For example, in Crystal you can write def foo_then_bar(a, b) a.foo b.bar end
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by ezrast 6y ago
In practice, it is. You can turn GC off with a compiler flag, but then the standard library will leak all over the place, so it's probably a bad idea unless you're doing something very specialized.
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by ezrast 6y ago
Crystal does some of what you want: https://tio.run/##ZVDBbsIwDL33KywmrRcaUXbbhHbeaYdpJ4RQaA1kCk... Note how the language is pretty smart about flow-typing variables as you narrow down their types. `x` here is typed as a ta
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by ezrast 6y ago
Phel is a compiler, because its output is code. PHP is an interpreter, because its "output" is the effects of executing code. (edit: to the GP's point, PHP does contain a compiler within it, because it translates source to by
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by ezrast 6y ago
I realized this comment carries more pith than meaning, as it were, and thought I'd expound. Communities censor in benign ways all the time. Most successful online forums regularly remove posts that are spam, self-promoting, or flameba
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by ezrast 6y ago
Censorship of things I don't like is okay when performed at the level of an actual community that nobody is forced to be a member of.
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by ezrast 6y ago
Take a look at the "daily new deaths" graphs for each of those countries on the site you linked. All four of those countries fall to near zero over the summer. Their first-wave lockdowns worked, eventually. The USA's did not;
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by ezrast 6y ago
Which countries would those be?
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by ezrast 6y ago
How do the many countries with more severe, briefer lockdowns and far lower excess fatality rates than the USA figure into your analysis? Also, doesn't the conclusion in your edit (strong vs weak lockdowns are "the fucking same&qu
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by ezrast 6y ago
Impressionable readers should be aware that the initial supposition ( "the only violence was caused by a group of antifa..." ) is acutely counterfactual. Rioters have largely been unshy about documenting the experience on social
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by ezrast 6y ago
It's a privacy and professionalism issue. Sales folks and others who need to maintain a businesslike facade are uncomfortable meeting potential customers in their makeshift home offices, disarrayed by homeschooled kids and other pandem
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by ezrast 6y ago
ReasonML is merely an "alternate syntax" to OCaml, meaning it's a separate language that parses to the same AST. Traditionally it's been used along with Bucklescript, an OCaml-to-Javascript compiler developed by the same
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by ezrast 6y ago
> The people who were working there were forced discuss or be "activists" by other coworkers. Source? I have no idea what this is referring to. Effective neutrality due to lack of will or resources is one thing. But a declarat
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by ezrast 6y ago
Having a place to store files where they won't get deleted when you make a typo sounds useful to me.
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by ezrast 6y ago
Wildcard expansion skips filenames beginning with a dot, though.
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by ezrast 6y ago
I don't really see the parallel. The poster I responded to seemed to be asking the question in a personal capacity, not from a position of power over others. When you front an organization representing, and being represented by, hundre
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by ezrast 6y ago
Liberals aren't out here forcing each other at gunpoint to protest every cause that exists. If you don't want to engage on an issue, don't engage. The person being discussed above (Rowling) is being called out for making repe
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by ezrast 6y ago
When I'm president of the world I'll keep the weekend at two days but shorten the work week from 5 to 4. This feels sort of like a 20% reduction in work but actually you'd only need ~7% more time-efficiency to make up the pro
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by ezrast 6y ago
If we were to extend the first graph a bit more to the right, the linear improvement would quickly trend downwards into negative latencies, a sure sign that it's not the right answer. But if linear is impossible, then super-linear is j
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by ezrast 6y ago
An interface is a kind of relation between things that would otherwise be separate. So yes, I'd say that establishing the interface by itself increases complexity slightly. However, there are lots of situations where one may want to su
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by ezrast 6y ago
I'm not saying the type makes no sense, I'm saying the article doesn't communicate any value to people who aren't sold on the idea of monads before they go in. Like, if you're explaining functions to a newbie progra
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by ezrast 6y ago
Thanks, those are good examples. The linked article underscores my point though: the author takes four disparate ideas and reduces them to the exact same code in each case. All that code tells me is that there are monads going on; that&#x27
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by ezrast 6y ago
I don't have a negative attitude towards the concept of monads nor one informed by its funny name (where did you even get that notion? Programming is filled with jargon). I do have a bit of a negative attitude towards evangelists who e
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by ezrast 6y ago
Blocking shares from outside your organization would be a fine solution for the many folks who just use Google Drive for personal storage or team coordination. Inter-organization communication isn't a primary use case the way it is wit
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by ezrast 6y ago
End goal? No. The end goal is eliminating oppression, and the ideal is to have strong enough cultural norms around this that specific laws are unnecessary. A step in the process? Maybe. I don't know if this kind of legal enforcement is
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by ezrast 6y ago
This NBER study suggests that protests had, if anything, a slightly favorable impact on infection rates: https://www.nber.org/papers/w27408
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by ezrast 6y ago
Extrapolating from the numbers here, probably low 6 figures as of a couple years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/74nt43/jepsen_...

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