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by fouric 6y ago
> * Doesn't have macros > * Has types Your words betray your ignorance. Common Lisp has a type system. Have you ever written it? Do you actually know anything about it? Moreover, macros are a plus - you clearly have not actuall
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by fouric 6y ago
I think that the JSON analogy given in "An Intuition for Lisp Syntax" might be more appropriate for a modern: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24892297
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by fouric 6y ago
Why should I use SML over Rust or Lisp? Rust's performance is almost certainly much better, with a larger library ecosystem. (Common) Lisp has macros, which allow me to implement pattern-matching; an even simpler BNF (as short as one l
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by fouric 6y ago
...which is much better than the current state of the web, which is "(nearly) everything is funded by advertisements".
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by fouric 6y ago
I strongly disagree - it is my data and I should be able to do whatever I , not you, want with it - even if it's something extremely stupid like publish my SSN to the internet. I would never use that right, but I will still fight fo
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by fouric 6y ago
There's no good reason for us to not be able to have 150k (or unlimited) rules now . The fact that we have this completely arbitrary and far too low restriction clearly shows that Google is not making even a passing attempt to enable
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by fouric 6y ago
It would also be interesting if we could convert lead into gold. Technically true, but not a novel observation, and an incredibly difficult problem. Edit: specifically, none of the interesting parts of this problem/idea are in the phra
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by fouric 6y ago
You might find that the ReMarkable (2) tablet provides a feel that is similar enough to paper that it works for you. On the other hand, the second version costs $500, a luxury purchase for many people.
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by fouric 6y ago
Please actually just state the country.
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by fouric 6y ago
Don't forget Epstein! "US media and political elites are engaging in a child sex trafficking ring" was (still is?) a conspiracy theory for years, if not decades.
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by fouric 6y ago
The WHO parroted the CCP's line that there was no person-to-person transmission at the beginning of the pandemic[1]. [1] https://mobile.twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152
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by fouric 6y ago
How is this anything but a renamed and unnecessarily-difficult-to-understand structure editor?
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by fouric 6y ago
I get the impression from reading this article that the proposed legislation would require websites to pay for bandwidth . Is this true? Because if so, it's absolutely insane - it would make DDoS attacks so much more effective by di
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by fouric 6y ago
Antifa is very much a real organization (with [1] being only one of the cells), made up of very real people committing very real acts of violence[2]. The "terrorist" label is completely warranted - a terrorist is someone who attem
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by fouric 6y ago
I still don't understand what the "fundamental technical limitation is". It seems more like you're making the argument that "an executable format that is universal, transparent, and standardized" is a predicat
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by fouric 6y ago
Those are all controlled by three companies, at most: Google (Meet, Hangouts, Allo, Duo), Microsoft (Lync, Skype, Skype for Business, Teams), and whatever company controls "Messages".
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by fouric 6y ago
Common Lisp has had multiple dispatch for decades. Yet another Lisp feature "taken" by another language - why not just start with a Lisp and improve it (e.g. Typed Racket, for performance) rather then repeatedly creating new lan
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by fouric 6y ago
Would you describe these "fundamental technical reasons"?
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by fouric 6y ago
> That's not exactly a ringing endorsement, is it? Sure, the malware situation on Android is better than Windows. It's still far worse compared to iOS. > If you believe this has "worked out well" for Android, you a
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by fouric 6y ago
Similarly, asymptotic complexity is not always an adequate approximation of energy consumption. More code leads to more cache misses. More code leads to more energy consumed transmitting that data over the internet, and wireless radios are
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by fouric 6y ago
The things you mentioned are better when presented visually. Visual representations leverage the visual processing system of the human brain, and for graph-like data are near-objectively superior to linear textual representations. However
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by fouric 6y ago
Malware is less of a problem for Android now than any point in Windows' history except for possibly the past few years, so I think that sandboxing has succeeded rather well, given that Windows has had 34 years to evolve defenses and An
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by fouric 6y ago
...neither of those attacks you gave are unique to smartphones. Someone can leak personal information through any number of other channels - for instance, entering someone else's personal information into a website that send out emails
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by fouric 6y ago
I'm aware of what he did. That doesn't make him an authority on anything.
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by fouric 6y ago
This is a really easy problem to solve - add a scary sign and/or void the warranty when a user decides they want to use an alternative app store. Then they at least have the option - and if they take it and suffer, they're the on
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by fouric 6y ago
> If third party App Stores are ever forced onto iOS devices, that market vanishes completely. Crashes, slowdowns, battery drain, malware, and information theft will become the norm. This is a wild projection. Having alternative app st
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by fouric 6y ago
Can someone explain why this is newsworthy, or why Snowden's words in particular are valuable?
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by fouric 6y ago
> We started Relativty because after watching Sword Art Online This little fact alone makes the background story way funnier than most tech origin stories I've heard. And being able to do PCB layout and system design at 15-16? Kudos
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by fouric 6y ago
What has the EFF done recently in China?
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by fouric 6y ago
The Wikipedia page[1] on affirmative action says that it includes "promoting diversity", which means artificially adding diversity by discriminating against majorities, which is consistent with my personal experience and the way

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