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by flossly 3mo ago
Strongly typed is not a well defined term. But by most people definitions, Python certainly is NOT strongly typed. My take at a definition... Strongly typed languages make a serious effort to use the type system to prevent whole categories
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by flossly 3mo ago
Signalling = markets. Capitalism is allowing the winners of the markets to make the rules that everyone has to abide by, sidestepping "democracy" with anti-democratic "lobbyism" and creating a power hierarchy based on ne
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by flossly 3mo ago
There's a really insightful book on this topic (by pretty much the name you suggested): https://www.minorcompositions.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/1...
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by flossly 3mo ago
I really liked the article. Sure maybe the title of the original article is a little clickbaity; but are article titles not supposed to be "drawing your attention"? The author is doing really cool things, like a worker-coop for so
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by flossly 3mo ago
Nice article... Bloat is not "since generative AI coding" new. We always had it. As the author says: > “It does sound like Facebook’s ‘move fast and break things,’ which didn’t age well either.” Which indeed did not age well, b
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by flossly 3mo ago
In many cases "transport encryption" would also fit that definition. E2ee is quite well established imho. The server at Hetzner (a.k.a. "someone else's computer") is NOT to be trusted in e2ee schemes. Until today I&
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by flossly 3mo ago
It's a definition question. E2ee means in this cases that "the server" cannot decipher the data: the keys to that are only on the client and never shared with the server. This setup simply does fit the definition. And trying
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by flossly 3mo ago
I used Bastion before. I'd not be too happy using an interpeted language like Python (that has eval capabilities) for this kind of purpose. We used it a lot at first, but as our setup got more mature we rarely needed to SSH to our appl
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by flossly 3mo ago
There seems to be a multiple-of-19 "code" in the Quran. Many of these observations require the Arab alphabet to be interpreted as numbers; in Mohammed's days the Abjad system was used for this (similar but simpler than the Ro
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by flossly 4mo ago
Adult men are also the ones first to head out to retrieve food from dangerous places. > it's well documented It's well documented that food distribution places were specifically made dangerous.
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by flossly 4mo ago
Agreed. But to do so at govt level, those govts first need to free themselves from the infiltration of lobbyists that make these kinds of policies "unthinkable" for their coward politicians. This is, IMHO, the big difference with
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by flossly 4mo ago
Or mass media.
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by flossly 4mo ago
This. What I've learned for VitD conversion in the skin the sun needs to be more than 45° "high". Below that it's not much effective. Those long summer evenings in northern Europe are thus not all that useful for VitD.
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by flossly 4mo ago
From what I gather it's more that nazi/fascist/racist/extreme-right is used to shut people/parties up or paint them as impossible. While the left/socialist/labour has alienated their base by not listening
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by flossly 4mo ago
Upsides will be seen into societies that are not capital-above-govt, but govt-above-capital. China for instance: they will show advantages of AI (amongst other technologies). Sure they've got surveillance there, but there's also s
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by flossly 4mo ago
My Claude is looking into the PDFs, and makes changes, then looks again, etc. I did not even tell it to. It just knows how to use it all...
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by flossly 4mo ago
An LLM turned all my Latex projects to Typst and I'm not looking back. Much easier stack (I stopped installing Latex-stacks myself, and switched to Overleaf, because it was just too finicky). Much simpler language. Just works.
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by flossly 4mo ago
I think C is hard for newcomers. Zig/Rust have a better story there.
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by flossly 4mo ago
Years ago I heard Oracle's db had an edge on PG when it comes to DELETEs. I guess that's still the case...
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by flossly 4mo ago
This first Rust/Zig kernel that allows Linux drivers to be ported over with ease (LLM assisted) could pick up a lot of run-on-bare-metal usage. Linux is the only FLOSS kernel that has broad hardware support.
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by flossly 4mo ago
What's the principle behind this law: it feels so arbitrary. Who gets to decide what LLM-services can be exported and what not?
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by flossly 4mo ago
This is discussed many times. How to stop smoking in youngsters by XYZ. But never: just force them to transparently list the junk they --currently secretly-- put in.
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by flossly 4mo ago
Yes! They should provide a list of all chemicals used to grow it, both in spray and in soil and in wash. So you get for a banana: Ingredients: banana, <a list of chemicals you cannot pronounce longer than the fist two chapters of the Bib
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by flossly 4mo ago
Tobacco, wine and fresh bread are usually few of the consumables that in many western countries do not have to disclose their ingredients. Why do we allow this? Just behave like all others. Now we want to push for smoke-free societies: but
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by flossly 4mo ago
Where did i say "higher level tools"?
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by flossly 4mo ago
That's the difference between academia (like to make simple things look complex -- but very correct in wording/modelling/approach) and engineering (like to make complex stuff look easy -- sometimes cutting some corners).
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by flossly 4mo ago
Dunno. I think the pic is useless. SQL is not in the foundation of all those langs. SQL is still very useful after all these years: that's the point that anyone will agree on. Not low level. Not "fundamental" (by most definit
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by flossly 4mo ago
And this I think is best not done in SQL/ the relational-data paradigm. It's better to understand the problem in terms that do not tie you in to a specific technology. And once you have a clear picture of what need to be built, th
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by flossly 4mo ago
I was reacting to the parent post. And F and LL are very different. I'd say F is a more subjective metric.
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by flossly 4mo ago
I find SQL a very thick "wrapper masking low-level logic". Think of the query planning, the index-maintaining, the upholding of guarantees, the writing-to-disk and caching that you are all not doing by using a RDBMS! I'd say

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