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by gwd 3y ago
I've been studying Mandarin since around 2010. For various reasons, about 8 months ago I started studying Biblical Greek. After about a week, once I'd got the letters down, it was amazing HOW MUCH easier it is to learn when you
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by gwd 3y ago
Looks really interesting! Some of us are allergic to "curl | bash" though; would you consider creating a homebrew package?
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by gwd 3y ago
Well yes, and I'm also more likely to install a random golang tool than a random python tool. :-)
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by gwd 3y ago
3. Someone who deliberately chooses to use Rust is someone who cares enough about the program being correct to put up with the borrow checker and all that entails. This increases my expectation of the quality of the resulting program. 4. T
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by gwd 3y ago
> However, I'd argue that it is good that it was decided that this is a copyright law matter, because this gives authors _much_ more protection than contract law Copyright law may give the authors more power; but unfortunately, ex
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by gwd 3y ago
> Like riding a minibike without a helmet is stupidity. It's what kind of risk we're talking about. When I'm supervising my 4-year-old, I definitely want to prevent him from getting life-altering brain trauma. But if he
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by gwd 3y ago
> Probably a bad time to be an actor. I don't see why -- the distance between "here's something that looks almost like a photo, moving only a little bit like a mannequin" and "here's something that has the s
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by gwd 3y ago
I mean, yeah, but if that's the way big bureaucratic organizations get sometimes. Bigger means more likely to have a brain-dead policy like this, but also more money... so, do you give up the money, or do you accommodate their policy
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by gwd 3y ago
FWIW, in my project the main reason we don't issue security advisories for "unsupported" code ("experimenal" or "tech preview") is to reduce the burden for our downstreams: many of our immediate downstream
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by gwd 3y ago
> Not at all, I'm engaging in good faith here. OK, I think I see what you were getting at. The first thing you should do is ask, "Is there actually any reason to believe this?" I sort of took that as a given, because I
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by gwd 3y ago
> This is inside out. What evidence was presented to you that made you believe Christianity was right? It sounds like maybe some people are taking this as a challenge from me to atheists. I'm not really; just like Dennet is in TFA
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by gwd 3y ago
A reasonably mature thinker holds beliefs in terms of Bayesian estimates, and as Dennet says, one should always be willing to entertain evidence that contradicts your current Bayesian estimates. That doesn't mean you don't have b
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by gwd 3y ago
"Unicorns exist" and "unicorns don't exist" are both factual statements of which one can have a belief. Right now you probably hold one or the other. Sure, if you'd never heard of unicorns, such a thing would
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by gwd 3y ago
I think the more important question is, "How would I know if I were wrong?" As a thinking Christian, and I've thought very carefully on what kind of evidence could be presented to me to show that Christianity was wrong; I&
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by gwd 3y ago
I'm not sure what the syntax is now; the release notes say "see the spec for details[link]", but in the link I don't see anything in there about using integers as a range expression.
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by gwd 3y ago
You wouldn't write that exact function. You'd have some complicated pipeline that ended up in a map; and it might be easier to follow the logic using map / filter / fromentries.
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by gwd 3y ago
One could also say that ownership is theft: you're putting up a fence and preventing other people from using a resource, backed with a gun. More reasonable people acknowledge that there are obligations both ways: Society has an obligat
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by gwd 3y ago
Share-able weights are an interesting one, because although you can't re-generate it from scratch, you can modify it and share it. They're sort of halfway in between source code (which allows you to regenerate a binary from scr
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by gwd 3y ago
It means you can do some dinner prep mid-day, including potentially starting something long like a slow-cooker, pressure cooker, or oven so that you don't need to start the "total cooking time" clock after you arrive home. Ad
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by gwd 3y ago
It is worth pointing out that (at least according to the corporate training I have to take every year) this is considered illegal by the US government for a US citizen to do even not on US soil; if the Feds get wind of it and feel like ma
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by gwd 3y ago
ISTR somewhere someone saying that moving it to the pack would break their really low latency processing requirements. Distance / latency options are fundamentally limited by the speed of light.
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by gwd 3y ago
With Google Glass at least you were actually seeing their real eyes. I always got the vibe that the attitude came from the fact that 1) looking at you also pointed a camera at you 2) you could never tell what the person wearing the glasses
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by gwd 3y ago
> It's a technical solution to social problems: polarization and intolerance. Those never work. Except in this case, polarization itself isn't "organic", but being pushed by large organized entities; and these entitie
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by gwd 3y ago
A more specific implementation of "Make the change easy, then make the easy change". Another tool that's useful (if you're doing email-based development at least) is always floating minor fixes and refactoring to the beg
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by gwd 3y ago
It sounds like you've gone massively for breadth, at the expense of any depth. "We need users to help us grade the languages" sounds like you're asking people to pay you for the privilege of working for you. Why would
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by gwd 3y ago
> it's not that difficult to migrate between them. If you've never used the fediverse before, you don't really know that, do you? I've heard of the "move your account" functionality before, but I don't
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by gwd 3y ago
From my perspective, the biggest barrier to entry for federated services right now is the fact that right up front, before you've ever even used the network, you have to make this massive decision with no real information to base the
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by gwd 3y ago
> Some folks might not trust those authority figures and their advice. Part of this might be just normal human nature; but a big part of it is that authority figures are often simply not reliable. They set and enforce rules based on fea
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by gwd 3y ago
I'm using sqlite and litestream in a side project of mine; it's "in production" in the sense that there are a handful of friends and acquaintances using the system, and I'm hoping to scale it up to more people in th
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by gwd 3y ago
The "1 in a million" number I believe got directly from the CDC website a number of years ago. I couldn't find a specific number there there now, but you can look at the statistics from the National Vaccine Injury Compensati

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