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by geocar 8mo ago
These "types" are hindley-milner types and have almost nothing to do with what C calls a type. Your "feelings" may help you make snap judgements that can keep you alive, but they cannot help you code and they will conspi
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by geocar 8mo ago
> If you're gonna make a website for your programming language, you NEED to put an example of the language front and center on the landing page. Did you consider the possibility that this sort of thing was done to avoid wasting time
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by geocar 8mo ago
> We can't say that a function equals a set Why not? Can we not so easily speak of the set of all inputs and the set of all outputs? Why not exactly then is a function not a set of morphisms/arrows? To me, x->x+1 and {(x,x+1
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by geocar 8mo ago
> you're putting yourself as a gate keeper to the means of production. Liar. I am only the gatekeeper of my own efforts. If you had any clue how to code yourself you I could not prevent you from making your own code. > If your fo
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by geocar 8mo ago
> The issue is that “commercial” includes plenty of not-necessarily-capitalist entities as well I see no issue, and believe me, I have the deepest empathies for people who participate in capitalism under duress. If you could explain why
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by geocar 8mo ago
> When talking about permacomputing, for example, I don't know why one wouldn't encourage, in any way possible, commercial viability that would lead to the stated goal. Because capitalism is what destroys the world. Fucking duh
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by geocar 8mo ago
Try searching for thunderbolt lto. I know MagStor has one with usb-c presentation.
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by geocar 8mo ago
LTO9 is like 45TB for <$100 (I got a bunch for €55 a piece), so 4.5TB for <$10 is being generous. And even if you didn't think they lasted 30-40 years and made copies every 3 years, it's still cheaper, not to mention you hav
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by geocar 8mo ago
> I can’t think of a single time I’ve needed a sorted list of only numbers. Gosh. Let me try to convince you. I use permutation arrays all the time: lists of indexes that can be used across multiple vectors. This is much faster than the
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by geocar 8mo ago
> You are confused about what I'm doing. Absolutely. And if you're not confused by what I said, that's not obvious in the slightest. > I'm not telling anyone what to do. So you say. > I'm saying what categ
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by geocar 8mo ago
> Well, [google] does not manage usenet groups and mailing lists. They do. Sort of. Google used to nntp, and manages the largest usenet archive; They still have one of the largest mailing list servers in the world, and they still perform
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by geocar 8mo ago
> Is the server somehow unable to inject an ID if the sender did not send one? Yes. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2821#section-6.3 refers to servers that do this and says very clearly: These changes MUST N
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by geocar 8mo ago
> That clearly means it’s not required. You and I have different definitions of "clearly" It is not required for the protocol of one SMTP client sending one message to one SMTP server, but it is required for many Internet Mai
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by geocar 8mo ago
> So add a message id at the first stop That should have already happened. Google is not the "first stop". > hard ban the sender server version until they confirm SMTP clients do not announce their version. Also I don't
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by geocar 8mo ago
> How is not having a message-id a security risk? CVE classify a lot of things that have nothing to do with security. Not having a Message-ID can cause problems for loop-detection (especially on busy netnews and mailing lists), and with
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by geocar 8mo ago
> isn't a valid excuse to reject a client either. Yes it absolutely is: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119 is quite clear. 3. SHOULD This word, or the adjective "RECOMMENDED", mean that th
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by geocar 8mo ago
That's some gnu bash shenanigans. There is no /dev/tcp in unix Lots of shops didn't have gnu installed: telnet was what we had.
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by geocar 8mo ago
oh cool —–—– ——— ——— –—–– cheers for that never even noticed
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by geocar 8mo ago
⌥- produces a – as well. That's sometimes easier than typing `--` and hoping for the best.
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by geocar 8mo ago
Got it: So none. As to why I prefer one thing that doesn’t exist over another thing that doesn’t exist depends on my priors. You might as well be asking my opinion and making fun of it before you know the answer. What do you think the impac
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by geocar 8mo ago
I mean, at least they eventually came to their senses, but it does not inspire confidence! https://developer.chrome.com/blog/sanitizer-api-deprecation/
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by geocar 8mo ago
> multipart/related already exists. Which web browsers render multipart/related correctly served over https?
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by geocar 8mo ago
I think the problem is what is an image? I made an attempt to enumerate them[1], and whilst I catch this issue with feImage over a decade ago by simply observing that xlink:href attributes can appear anywhere, Roundcube also misses srcset
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by geocar 8mo ago
> I would be very interested to understand why netflix does not go 3/4 route. I would speculate that they get more return from putting money in optimising costs for creating original content, rather than cloud bill. I invest in Netf
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by geocar 8mo ago
> A $120M spend on AWS is equivalent to around a $12M spend on Hetzner Dedicated (likely even less, the factor is 10-20x in my experience), so that would be 3% of their revenue from a single customer. I'm not convinced. I assume som
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by geocar 8mo ago
Who are you thinking of? Netflix might be spending as much as $120m (but probably a little less), and I thought they were probably Amazon's biggest customer. Does someone (single-buyer) spend more than that with AWS? Hertzner's re
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by geocar 9mo ago
> What if the library you use calls dlopen later? That’ll fail. Nonsense. xemacs could absolutely call dlopen. > There is no universal, working way to do it. Only some hacks which work in some special cases. So you say, but I remember
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by geocar 9mo ago
> But you can't take .so files and make one "static" binary out of them. Yes you can! This is more-or-less what unexec does - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21394916 For some reason nobody seems to l
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by geocar 9mo ago
ELRS?
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by geocar 9mo ago
> No it isn't. If you want to claim this, cite statute. Robles v. Domino’s Pizza

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