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by fouric 5y ago
Why not both? There's at least a factor of 3x difference between the volume of the most prolific programmers I know and the least. If John Carmack ships the product in 1/10th the time of Average Joe, I would call him a 10x enginee
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by fouric 5y ago
Exactly. Python : Lua :: CL : Guile. Python and CL are much more capable general-purpose languages than Lua and Guile, but the latter are better for embedding into larger programs, partially because of their limited scope and features (wh
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by fouric 5y ago
This comment made me think a bit about the natures of freedom of speech and spam (where "spam" partially includes the scenario that you're referring to). I've come to the conclusion that they're two completely separ
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by fouric 5y ago
Not OP, but: If at all possible, I would want a hard guarantee that my photo ID and all derived information (e.g. my real name (as in the case of Roblox, they don't care about your identity , just your age )) would be completely dele
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by fouric 5y ago
There are many other replies about how the trackpoint is ergonomically superior to a trackpad. I'll add some nuance: it's entirely possible that a trackpoint is most valuable when your workload is majority typing with some mousing
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by fouric 5y ago
Did you build that keyboard yourself, or buy it pre-made? If the former, where did you get the trackpoint? I have a Dactyl-Manuform that is nearly perfect, modulo the trackpoint (and wireless, better firmware than QMK, and a few other thing
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by fouric 5y ago
That's exactly it. I've been running Linux as my desktop operating system for over a decade and know how to use grep - I just opted for shorthand (or may have underclocked some brain cells - I was in a hurry).
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by fouric 5y ago
Care to give us a sneak peak - say, what your typical power draw is like? :) I'm particularly interested in this topic because I've been thinking about power a lot after the Texas blackouts (considering building a bike generator s
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by fouric 5y ago
> That's actually not quite it. That might not be the UNIX environment's true strength, but it's the only one that any of its advocates discuss. I've seen hundreds of people defend the paradigm, and you're the
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by fouric 5y ago
This "obsession with how quick something is to understand immediately and be productive in" is a good concept to have around, and it's something that's been tickling the back of my mind for a while. In particular, I beli
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by fouric 5y ago
I would be very interested to know what company this is so that I can never buy anything from them.
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by fouric 5y ago
HN is a community-driven news aggregator, where the community decides what stuff they want to see on the front page. "I want this on the front page" is done using upvotes, while "I don't want this on the front page"
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by fouric 5y ago
I'm a Common Lisp user, and I would like to refine your claim. I don't think that many true "language features", like borrow checking and a static type system, can be implemented in a Lisp (without writing an entirely ne
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by fouric 5y ago
It occurs to me that there are very different penalties for growing the standard library vs the language itself. Adding new things to the language (e.g. closures, conditions, a borrow checker, first-class functions, immutable variables, m
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by fouric 5y ago
> it's CL + custom macro/DSL systems per project How is this any different from building an overly convoluted architecture in any other language where you have layers upon layers of objects, getters, setters, proxys, callback
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by fouric 5y ago
A lot of people don't (really) seem to agree with number two here: > 2. Good software is useful The UNIX philosophy highly prioritizes simplicity (number 10 on this list), and there's always been a large group (and still is)
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by fouric 5y ago
The project explicitly bills itself as a "search engine", not an "interesting and unexpected material surfacer". Moreover, projecting emotions like "angry" onto a comment in order to discredit the content of th
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by fouric 5y ago
When you say: > the Linux phone distros are not there yet Is there any indication that Linux is going to catch up to Android/iOS in terms of security? From my perspective, not only has Linux userspace security barely improved at a
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by fouric 5y ago
> People whinge about being censored but don't care enough to run a website? People talking about "whinging" usually do so because they can't come up with a logical counter-argument. That pattern holds true here. >
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by fouric 5y ago
This is completely wrong. "Being heard" is being on FB and Twitter, as these platforms (1) are effectively public forums by nature of their massive, near-monopolistic reach, (2) claim protections of public forums, such as immuni
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by fouric 5y ago
> That would be like saying the US belongs to the Native Indians, the Vikings[...] That's not quite right. The government of Taiwan consists (consisted?) at least partially of the literal former government of the country now commonl
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by fouric 5y ago
This idea seems like the CICO (Calories-In, Calories-Out) argument, and is misleading/wrong for exactly the same reasons - neither the Earth+people (or even just the Earth) nor the human body just stock energy like that linearly. If yo
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by fouric 5y ago
This seems to imply that writing "02021" in a textual forum post does anything more than just make it significantly more difficult for another human to parse. I don't buy that argument - writing "1999" instead of &q
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by fouric 5y ago
It might not actually provide any benefit at all - it's entirely possible that ME/PSP are simply included because it's slightly easier/cheaper for Intel/AMD to design and ship a single unit than two separate units,
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by fouric 5y ago
There was a post on HN a few years ago that I believe linked to scientific evidence of this, but unfortunately I cannot find that post, nor do I remember the specific terminology that the paper(s) used.
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by fouric 5y ago
> That lead to a "we can add more features or we can make it fast" pick one and the business always picks more features. Right - the question to ask is "what are businesses incentivized to do?" and the answer is &quot
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by fouric 5y ago
A few months ago I read a comment lamenting about all of these "novel" airgap "attacks" that are just all variants on the same theme of "figure out a new side-channel to send data between two complicit devices over&
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by fouric 5y ago
> the legislation they passed within 24 hours allowing police to read/delete/edit social media posts of anybody without warrants You can't be serious. I hope you're not being serious.
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by fouric 5y ago
> We on the west do exactly the same thing for things like cigarettes, alcohol and gambling. At least in the case of alcohol, the guardians of a child are explicitly allowed to "override" that restriction (with some caveats e.g
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by fouric 5y ago
I anticipate this being downvoted by people who aren't aware of the nuance of the idea here (although, to be fair, that's because the nuance wasn't properly explained), so I'm going to explain it: Patents allow smaller i

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