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by ginsider_oaks 22d ago
That name's already used by an even older technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_%28listening_device%...
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by ginsider_oaks 1mo ago
more like suing the driver because the (self-driving) car hit a human.
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by ginsider_oaks 8mo ago
> Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. from the preface of SICP.
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by ginsider_oaks 8mo ago
would it be better if they didn't skip the hard part? (i.e. if they re-designed it from first principles) does something being hard to do make it more virtuous? would it be better if they didn't have fun coding it? is something wo
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by ginsider_oaks 8mo ago
lawnmower
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by ginsider_oaks 1y ago
or even better: :'<,'>s/^/> /
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by ginsider_oaks 1y ago
if you use ublock origin you should be OK, it warns you when you try to access lubuntu.net
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by ginsider_oaks 2y ago
I remember someone making a card game GALGA [1] in Haskell and compiling a high-level "rules" DSL to a low-level "animation" DSL and "primitive" DSL for handling animations and state changes respectively. [1]
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by ginsider_oaks 3y ago
funnily my friend just discovered that you can split it into thirds a few day ago and now does it whenever he eats a banana
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by ginsider_oaks 3y ago
list languages and array languages are quite different. in LISP, the lists are heterogeneous i.e. each element can contain different types, which is also how you can e.g. make a tree out of lists in LISP. typically in array languages all el
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by ginsider_oaks 3y ago
> Most of them shouldn't have a right to vote in the first place [in my opinion]. > > These are simply more opinions [...] > > > No, not opinions. Demonstrable facts. you're going to have to explain this one to
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by ginsider_oaks 3y ago
The point is that the first list is a series of (flawed) reasons that the author, and probably many others, have been discouraged from blogging. And even if you know they're flawed, it can still get in your head and discourage you, so
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by ginsider_oaks 3y ago
Lojban[1] is a constructed language which is (or tries to be) syntactically unambiguous. Of course even fewer people speak Lojban than Esperanto, but there's still a sizable community. [1]: https://mw.lojban.org/papri&#
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by ginsider_oaks 4y ago
just give me the NSA putting backdoors in my chips rather than this two-faced nonsense.
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by ginsider_oaks 4y ago
Sure, just make the fields of the struct private and you can make a public constructor: https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/mod/struct_visibil...
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by ginsider_oaks 4y ago
They're not conflating. mgaunard says: > The alternative that the parent said was making all of your state be a union > with some kind of error, and making sure all accesses handle the fact the > variable might be in a erroneo
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by ginsider_oaks 4y ago
What is stopping someone from publishing SNKRX to a site like itch.io and selling it for 1€ instead? And if nothing is stopping it, why hasn't someone done it yet (that I know of).
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by ginsider_oaks 4y ago
I'd like to present a counterexample: SNKRX[1]. It costs 3€ and is under the MIT license, you can find it on github[2]. It sold >100,000 units[3], and AFAIK no one's massively undercut the author. I guess he's kind of unde
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by ginsider_oaks 4y ago
Are noise and procedurally generated textures mutually exclusive? The Wikipedia article for gradient noise[1] says: > Gradient noise is a type of noise commonly used as a > procedural texture primitive in computer graphics. [1]: http
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by ginsider_oaks 4y ago
it sounds like the danish word for carrot: "gulerod" which translates to "yellow root".
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by ginsider_oaks 4y ago
the actual copying isn't a problem, it's distribution. if i buy access to a PDF i'm not going to get in trouble for duplicating the file unless i send it to someone else. when someone uploads their copyrighted text to a web p
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by ginsider_oaks 4y ago
Wow, I do something similar, however it is much more limited in scope (and all on pen & paper for now). I also share the author's last name.
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by ginsider_oaks 6y ago
is any rust code some way immune to unsafe blocks?