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by hk__2 3y ago
> The answer is a more functional style, partial application and immutability solves so much of what people are talking about, but nobody wants to learn to use functional languages. People still use default arguments in functional progra
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by hk__2 3y ago
Thanks; it’s not very clear that "AI help" excludes "AI-assistance".
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by hk__2 3y ago
> Even Python has its own minefield — and hilariously the only proper default value is “None” What’s hilarious here?
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by hk__2 3y ago
> Any story using AI help must clearly mention this within the first two paragraphs. What’s AI here? Is the spelling correction tool in Google Docs "AI"? Are the suggestions from my iPhone "AI"? This is the kind of ve
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by hk__2 3y ago
What was your motivation for making a different tool?
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Trivial, but not trivially default constructible(quuxplusone.github.io)
10 points by hk__2 3y ago|5 comments
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by hk__2 3y ago
> If you tell me that your friend wears a pendant with Libra zodiac sign I'd estimate probability of her being a Libra higher than 50% too. It doesn't mean identifying as a Libra is something natural, innate or objectively mean
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by hk__2 3y ago
I cited consumer behavior as an example, but open any book about sociology and gender studies and you get plenty of examples on how there is a large gap in things we want/do/feel between men and women. That’s obviously a construct
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by hk__2 3y ago
> But you often have to bend backwards to explain the complexities of reality where sometimes women oppress women and men who oppress women at the same time oppress men even more. Not really, in all systems of dominance you have oppresse
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by hk__2 3y ago
> The context manager ones (__enter__ and __exit__) are really useful, especially if you're coming from something like Ruby where you're used to having blocks. See also @contextlib.contextmanager [1], which makes simple cases l
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by hk__2 3y ago
> In what way is the statement you quoted false? "We all mostly want the same things, feel the same things and do the same things" is contradicted by any studies on consumer behavior that takes gender into account. Of course de
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by hk__2 3y ago
> How could it be a construct of our modern times if their themes are consistent throughout history of humankind? OP didn’t talk about "our modern times".
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by hk__2 3y ago
> We all mostly want the same things, feel the same things and do the same things, both good and bad The irony is that it’s clear from this affirmation that you are a man, because any woman knows how false this is. This is the same for p
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by hk__2 3y ago
> There is a big question to ask yourself when you see a new evolution: would I get sad if this disappears or be missing it? That’s the wrong question because it takes time to get used to that evolution. If I asked you in 1997 if you’d b
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by hk__2 3y ago
> The lesson I take away from this incident is that we probably shouldn't be allowing anonymity for core contributers in critical open source projects. This attack worked and the attacker will likely get away with it free of consequ
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by hk__2 3y ago
See also "Everything I Know About the XZ Backdoor" submitted 4 days ago but updated since then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39868673
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by hk__2 3y ago
> for an application we are developing, we needed functionality X. We knew that we'd need X in other projects, too, so we made it a library This is the mistake: you should make it a library when you do need the functionality, not wh
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by hk__2 3y ago
Of course; how else could they have been on the HN frontpage? (I’m not saying this negatively)
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by hk__2 3y ago
> Is that common to only communicate only through email/github? Yes. I’ve joined half a dozen open-source projects of various sizes (from 100 to 30k stars on GitHub) without ever calling anyone; written communication is the standard
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by hk__2 3y ago
> Or… just have downstream users run autotools as part of the build? See point 3: > 3. A corollary of (1) and (2) is that autotools is bad and the autotools culture is bad.
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by hk__2 3y ago
> Anything wrong with that? It has all the downsides of the pub/sub architecture highlighted in the proposal.
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by hk__2 3y ago
> I haven't lost interest but my ability to care has been fairly limited mostly due to longterm mental health issues but also due to some other things. Recently I've worked off-list a bit with Jia Tan on XZ Utils and perhaps he
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by hk__2 3y ago
> If you're using an AI summarizer, maybe check the output more closely? No need to be aggressive; I’m not using an AI summarizer. I pointed out this is a different use-case, and then gave an example based on my own experience. I’m
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by hk__2 3y ago
> A well made thermos (like my zojirushi) will keep stuff cool for more than one day. And coffee hot from dawn till dusk. No batteries or cables required. As pointed out in the introduction of the article, this is not the same use-case;
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by hk__2 3y ago
> If you are able to take home leftovers, there is less incentive not to end up with leftovers I feel that having leftovers is never desiderable, with or without the ability to take them home. In France the restaurants are obligated to a
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Upsy Desky: control your standing desk from your home automation system(upsy-desky.tjhorner.dev)
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by hk__2 3y ago
This whole discussion feels like "why would you need debuggers, you should not introduce bugs anyway". Even if you are careful you will eventually end up in a situation with leftovers; it may be your fault, but it may also be the
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by hk__2 3y ago
> Yes, and that's a feature, not a bug, we're here to share our opinions, this is not a peer-reviewed forum If it’s your opinion, you may want to introduce it with "Personally, I would never …" instead of writing &quo
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by hk__2 3y ago
> No system is perfect and a culture of taking home leftovers does not necessarily reduce waste overall. Well not being able to take home leftovers does increase waste, because as others have pointed out there will always be cases where
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by hk__2 3y ago
You could also add a checkbox to make the URL private, like what Qualys SSL Server Test does. I’m not sure people want to sign up on yet another website (what will you do with my data? Where is your privacy policy?) just to generate domain

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