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by hjek 5y ago
> You still can, and do, model state in stateless systems; Yea, in functional programming it's easier to focus on the essential state inherent to the problem, and avoid introducing accidental state. > Relatedly, "Immutabilit
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> Careful. Functional is often harder to debug. The very "state" functional likes to avoid is often an excellent x-ray point(s) for debugging. Wat. Yes, if your bug relates to a certain state, then you'll have to debug the
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by hjek 5y ago
I think you could also just run `torify mumble` on the commandline. Edit: Ok, that doesn't work. You're right, there should be a Tor button in Mumble.
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Most of the B12 from cow flesh is from supplements given to the cows.
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> This laptop I'm typing from now was installed 2014-07-06, It goes beyond anecdotal evidence. I mean, if you look at the Arch news feed[0], there are a good few updates since then that are labelled "requires manual interventio
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I agree that it's not good, yet anecdotally I've realized that a device has been compromised by running `top`, on Windows and on Linux. It's not a good heurestic because it's only disvoverable post-compromise.
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> Unfortunately "install a piece of software" also includes allowing javascript to run in your browser. Per-process Spectre mitigations could be helpful there, but I don't understand the technical details to know whether t
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Should be HTTP 420. Except that'd be a client error.
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Didn't recognize the author until near the end: > My position on China is we need “One Billion Americans” in order to stay number one forever, and I’m not going to change that view. Current Affairs has an interesting article on the
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> Energy consumption has nothing to do with increasing planet temperature, As long as we're using fossil fuels, planet temperature does in fact have something to do with energy consumption. You seem to be arguing that because re
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> What is the "correct" amount of energy for humans to spend on such a thing? Perhaps the "correct" amount is less than what it would take to increase planet temperature by 4°C?
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> Nobody messes with them. Well, some environmental activists try by turning off oil valves[0], just like environmental activists are upset with Bitcoin. > You have big entrenched organizations such as the oil industry doing far more
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Now "the antifa Biden voters are stealing our hamburgers" again.
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It's using more energy than most countries: > Current estimates put bitcoin’s energy requirements at around 130 terawatt-hours (TWh) annually, which would rank it in the top 30 electricity consumers worldwide if it were a country. S
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Bitcoin is an incredibly dangerous idea because of its contributions to the climate crisis.
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Yo dawg. I heard you like browsing the web, so I put a web browser in your web browser so you can browse the web while you browse the web.
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> But Cellebrite has lots of customers besides U.S. law enforcement agencies. And some of them aren’t so nice. > But a lot of vendors [...] sell not only to the U.S. and other countries that respect the rule of law, They lost me at th
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... which is a menu item you can reach through the canvas rendered by a giant blob of non-free JS.
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> can run in background, Syncthing runs fine in the background. > can be launched on startup, You can launch an app on startup regardless of what GUI toolkit it's using, or whether it's using one at all. Are you saying that
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I like what Syncthing are doing: They just pop open a web browser window for the UI. It's like making an Electron app, except without having to ship an entire browser with your app. I have no idea why it's not more common.
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To "murder" is often used in the meaning of to "kill intentionally and with premeditation". Was that not clear from the context? > there are a ton of other things you can eat and enjoy that are vegetarian or vegan and
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> I don't believe you can, because I understand how cheese works and nut paste doesn't work that way. Totally agree. It's not quite the same. I'm prepared to occasionally abstain from certain well-tasting foods or use
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> For example, I am not a carnist. I don't even know what that is. "Carnism is the invisible belief system, or ideology, that conditions people to eat certain animals." ( https://carnism.org/carnism/
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> pretend-vegans [...] For pushing pretend-animal products? I would agree that people who endorse pretend-vegan products are pretend-vegans. There are many products labelled as "veggie" that still contain egg, such as Quorn. Bu
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> For me, anyone who eats pretend-meat or pretend-dairy is a pretend-vegan. I love that you can get all the taste without the violence and suffering. Eating is not always a single-person activity, so having vegan substitutes for meat and
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I'm using a low-spec laptop, so I usually notice these things before others. With Firejail I don't notice any performance hit at all on any of the apps I've used: Telegram, various windows games under Wine, Chromium.
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I'm glad you've found UML useful.
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Yea, sure. Say we're talking about someone's leg. If we use words like "muscles" and "flesh" to refer to their leg, then that's different than using the words "steak" or "meat", because
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Those tools exists already. I used PlantUML[0] at my programming course. UML is nonsense, of course, but it was part of the curriculum, and it was more tolerable doing UML in Vim than in a graphical point-and-click editor. [0]: https:&#x2F
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HN looks good in regular text-based browsers. I use Links[0]. [0]: http://links.twibright.com/

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