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901.
by hnfong 3y ago
Quick, which language is this written in? a = [1,2,3,4] for b in a print(b) end
902.
by hnfong 3y ago
Google trends says there's a decline. Admittedly this is interest from the general public, not the feature set or the active developer community, but still, it reflects something . https://trends.google.com/trends&#x2F
903.
by hnfong 3y ago
FWIW, two of the most famous Legalists, Han Fei and Li Si were Xunzi's students. In a sense, the Legalists and Confucians had a strange marriage, and they kept the name Confucianism because the credibility of the Legalists proper took
904.
by hnfong 3y ago
That's an interesting observation. Let's say you have a personal belief that something is going to happen with probability x. Would you actually want to tell others that the probability is y, because that's what the data says
905.
by hnfong 3y ago
The common theme among Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, besides friendly relations with the US as GP mentioned, is that they are all within the cultural influence of "Confucianism".
906.
by hnfong 3y ago
IOCCC is "test cases for free", so if C compilers haven't added these code to their testing suite they really should.
907.
by hnfong 3y ago
Probably IPC.
908.
by hnfong 3y ago
Hindsight is 20/20. "Could have not happened" means without hindsight, you could see the possibility that it might not have played out. nVidia didn't know for a fact that deep learning architectures would have been so su
909.
by hnfong 3y ago
Heh, by your argument a full fledged desktop OS doesn't need to support keyboards because hey, a lot of desktop systems don't have keyboards (touchscreen kioks), doesn't need to support sound (not everyone wants it), doesn&#x
910.
by hnfong 3y ago
Women don't date homeless men either. That doesn't make having a roof over your head a status symbol.
911.
by hnfong 3y ago
There's a difference between "I'm 4x safer", and "I'm expected to be 4x safer than the average person is now". The GP is arguing that there is a way to actively become safer than the average person by avoi
912.
by hnfong 3y ago
It's really silly to argue that something with >50% market share (in the US at least) is a status symbol... Maybe the top end models, but definitely not in general.
913.
by hnfong 3y ago
I think the GP's point is that if one feels the need to use a status symbol, they're already pretending to be someone they aren't. Of course a status symbol works to a large extent, otherwise people wouldn't be spending
914.
by hnfong 3y ago
Not if there's a "moat". Which could be unique expertise in making the thing, or through some government enforced monopoly like trademarks (i.e. "brand") or copyrights.
915.
by hnfong 3y ago
I bought apparel from Uniqlo a couple months ago and was pleasantly surprised at how well the system worked. It felt like magic. It took me a moment to double check, be amazed, and realize that checking out was really as simple as throwing
916.
by hnfong 3y ago
> every piece of existing code constrains future development If that were literally true, then every new development would rationally necessitate a total rewrite of the codebase. You might have meant that parts of the existing codebase
917.
by hnfong 3y ago
So, "yes, we're writing the same thing, but because monads I'm still pure and you're not"?
918.
by hnfong 3y ago
That corroborates our suspicion that lisps (and lispers) are "write once, read never" languages. For most of us less insane folks, we like to be able to read our code. Interestingly, Paul Graham seems to not have taken this approa
919.
by hnfong 3y ago
Are you saying data loss is a positive feature of MongoDB because it forces systems that use it become more robust to deal with the data loss?
920.
by hnfong 3y ago
That's just wrong. 1. It's tautological that you can't make money without some form of sales. And it's tautological that if you're employee you cost money. Sure you can sell anything even a rock (see "Pet Rock&
921.
by hnfong 3y ago
C++ 20 - Number of pages : 1853 ( https://www.iso.org/standard/79358.html ) Python language - Number of pages: ~206 ( https://docs.python.org/3/download.html ) Python standard library - Number of
922.
by hnfong 3y ago
The "security vulnerability" you refer to is that somebody who steals your device can brick it. https://xkcd.com/538/
923.
by hnfong 3y ago
Fair point. I must point out that in the original article, the author lost their MacBook and then complained it was locked after it was returned. (It would be analogous to getting it stolen then having the thief reactivate the lock.)
924.
by hnfong 3y ago
Imperial exams arguably started in the Sui and Tang dynasties, in the 6th century AD. The 722-222BC in the article you linked to is the "wrong period". That period was a time where Chinese states transitioned from feudalism to emp
925.
by hnfong 3y ago
> The vast majority of people You said "anyone". GP gave examples.
926.
by hnfong 3y ago
> Many, many users of these devices have rarely, if ever, had anything stolen from them. You don't want the thief to steal a locked device. You want the devices to have a reputation for not worthing as much on the black market if st
927.
by hnfong 3y ago
That's the medieval equivalent of leetcode. The problems that the imperial Chinese government had to solve was pretty much the same as the problem the Big Tech companies are trying to solve with leetcode. In earlier times, it used to b
928.
by hnfong 3y ago
Peer review is basically Github anonymous PRs that has the author pinky swear that the code compiles and 95% of test cases pass. Academic careers are then decided by the Github activity charts.
929.
by hnfong 3y ago
It's just the good ol' power law at play.
930.
by hnfong 3y ago
If I make a commercial app that serves Youtube videos without ads, can I get the DOJ to investigate when Youtube blocks my app? I mean, it even makes sense, Youtube is more closer to a monopoly than iMessage is. :-/

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