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by foerbert 6y ago
I don't think they mean they didn't like leaving the space because people moved into that space, but because they did so in an unsafe manner. I've observed much the same thing. After a certain distance, you will find people t
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by foerbert 6y ago
You mean leaving comments about highly related products/software/whatever with a different feature-set and approach? That sounds... perfect. It can spark all sorts of discussions and ideas about the decisions and tradeoffs made in
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by foerbert 6y ago
I don't think it's just that. I have a half-dead Chromebook with linux, and I use Firefox on it. Some years back I ran Chrome on it because it worked better, but at some point I started seeing issues with Chrome and tried Firefox
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by foerbert 6y ago
This is a new system that replaced a previous one not that long ago. This isn't some crazy old thing running COBAL on a VAX somewhere that nobody understands anymore.
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by foerbert 6y ago
This is hardly the first, nor will it be the last, time a term has shifted and taken on multiple related meanings. I don't have deep enough knowledge to say for sure, but on an initial glance it kind of looks to me like the socialism y
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by foerbert 6y ago
You're using a rather glossed over small to dismiss the large. You are right - it's somebody with some food sharing one time. That's what it is, in the small. But in the large, what do you call it? You want to describe a soci
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by foerbert 6y ago
I don't have a particularly strong viewpoint on this, but I find it noteworthy that in your example the user themselves is asking for a specific version of the software. You don't seem to be intending for users to ask for simply t
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by foerbert 6y ago
I don't think I've ever seen anybody else suggest using fixed-length strings in place of unbounded strings. I don't think I'd suggest that either. It's like suggesting C++ folks use c-strings in favor of std::string
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by foerbert 6y ago
I'm really not fond of string handling in Ada, but I can't imagine seriously arguing that C-strings are better. Ada strings can be a pain to work with - but that's basically just my problem. And I haven't found it to b
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by foerbert 6y ago
To be fair, Parasail is absolutely not a major focus for Adacore. I'm also pretty sure it's a personal project they picked up from a hire - but maybe don't quote me on that. I suspect it would end up 'odd' almost no
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by foerbert 6y ago
You aren't receiving pushback from people who are attempting to deny your experience. I don't think anybody here doubts the experiences you have mentioned. Instead people are questioning your analysis of the root cause. You can be
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by foerbert 6y ago
I'm not sure this is the best link, but I don't have anything better in mind and it was the first thing that popped up, so... Anyway, there's a language called ParaSail[0] that's doing stuff in that direction. A little b
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by foerbert 6y ago
One possible explanation is that this has an obvious environmental aspect. If somebody is doing something for environmental reasons, it doesn't seem surprising that people are thinking about it from an environmental perspective. Obviou
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by foerbert 6y ago
I think you may be overestimating how much people will care about the time difference. Simply put, it's extra additional context that will almost assuredly have to be put forward as a defense by you, after they have already formed thei
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by foerbert 6y ago
Is it? I find it hard to believe that. If that was true, the market for these products would be vanishingly small. Every potential customer would be merely in the process of transitioning out of the market. I'm certainly a counter-exam
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by foerbert 6y ago
I think you and OP are talking about different things. For most products, and virtually all that aren't particularly modern, they suffer from being set up as direct replacements for meat. Take fake deli meats, for example. There are op
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by foerbert 6y ago
This is probably highly variable. None of the gas stations I can think of off the top of my head are near anything particularly nice nor interesting, and often are pretty inaccessible if you discount the road.
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by foerbert 6y ago
I don't think they mean the literal information encoded in the RNA. The fact the RNA exists is, itself, a signal. It shows that there was previously a signal that caused the RNA to be transcribed. And then once you start including conc
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by foerbert 6y ago
I still find this view of programming languages to be too limited. It's still very C-focused, in the sense that it seems to assume every language is trying to do the same things C is in roughly the same ways C does it. Yet this just is
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by foerbert 6y ago
I don't think it's a real fundamental though - at least not for computing in general. It is true for C, and it is likely true for the many languages that implement things like C. But it's not inherently true that the 'fu
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by foerbert 6y ago
I don't think it simplifies quite that far. There are languages that are capable of catching such errors ahead of time. Now that I think about it, there are even more that catch the initialization error - or at least do so more automat
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by foerbert 6y ago
It didn't come across that way to me. I suspect familiarity with the topic is to blame here. As I mentioned, it basically went through and gave a short answer to all the first common questions you see in any discussion about a new tech
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by foerbert 6y ago
I think you have misinterpreted the intended audience. It seems to me it's clearly intended as "hey, did you know this was a thing?" for a passing yet curious layman. It rather briefly covers the main basics questions one mig
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by foerbert 6y ago
Interestingly, I think you just managed to help me figure out why I dislike Twitter so much for these sorts of things. I'd never thought about it so much, but everything just snapped into focus with your comment. Too simplified, no nua
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by foerbert 6y ago
What market force do you see driving the use of excess energy to sequester carbon? What force is going to ensure enough carbon is sequestered? Climate change is a kind of prototypical example of a tragedy of the commons. Capitalism has not
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by foerbert 6y ago
I find this view to be somewhat whitewashed, at best. There are multiple obvious, and meaningful, barriers. The effects of carbon dioxide production are not simply a collection of linear relationships. One tonne of CO2 today doesn't ha
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by foerbert 6y ago
I suspect some of the reasons you and the person responding to you are not quite seeing eye to eye is that "immigration" has wrapped up both legal and illegal immigration. It's possible the US is relatively open to legal immi
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by foerbert 6y ago
If only it were that simple. There's two major reasons I see why that doesn't happen. First, a 'no' vote is still taking a position. It requires additional explanation to differentiate "no because I couldn't un
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by foerbert 6y ago
I don't think they mean to try to anticipate the instincts of a child and act accordingly, but rather that children will be more likely to just do whatever seems right to them, rather than paying so much attention to social conventions
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by foerbert 6y ago
Adapting to advancing hardware isn't impossible. It's been awhile since I've looked so details are a little hazy, but I know the Mill architecture had an answer to this. I believe they were using effectively two-pass compilat

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