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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
If the facts can differ then they’re not facts. What you’re then dealing with is propaganda.
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
Opinion and preference are the same thing. And thus personalised search results, choice of shows in the streaming era, and so on, are just a result of that personal bias.
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
The thing is, people I’m friends and thus likeminded, we watch the same shows and still have those kinds of conversations. And people I wasn’t likeminded with never used to watch the same shows, even pre-streaming era, so I’d never had thos
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
What even is a “shared reality”? For example my mum and I could watch the exact same movie and showing at the cinema and still come away with a completely different opinion of it. And even when TV was limited to a small few national OTA (ov
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
Wow. Just “wow”.
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
How is an LF two tokens? Or were you referring to the Unicode symbol? I took their example to mean an actual LF ASCII character but now Ive read your comment, maybe I was being too charitable?
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
I really think we’ve missed a trick using JSON instead of SExpressions as the default marshaller for AI tool use.
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
We get their intentions. We just disagree with the effectiveness of it. Posting rhetoric on an anonymous message board is not making a stand. If and when they’re doxxed by US media outlets, and slapped with life-changing court orders, with
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
> A right to unlock would mean that you get full access to your own hardware. That very much depends on the wording of such a law. My point is that you can guarantee that console makers will look for a loophole to cripple their “unlocked
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
Even when the PS3 supported Linux, Sony didn’t give OtherOS full access to the GPU. So I doubt you’d get any benefit running Steam on a hypothetical Linux-powered PS5.
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
People don’t disagree with your moral position. The problem is you’re bringing a butter knife to a drone fight. There are more effective ways protest this law than posting punk-rhetoric on a nerd forum for a project that will likely fly und
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
I’m not a lawyer and even I know that argument would never hold up given the plethora of other laws that have been implemented through software. Not to mention copyright and patent claims too.
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
> yes, "fun" is subjective, and your points about Objective C and Pascal were actually mentioned directly in the footnotes, including the "false start" nomenclature I didn’t get as far as the footnotes because the art
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
Maybe you shouldn’t open with such provocative statements if you are already aware they’re not fair? Posting flamebate and expecting people to read until the footnotes isn’t going to get you favourable feedback.
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
I tried to read this with an open mind but the premise of the article is so reductive I gave up quickly. There’s a whole plethora of reasons a language might fall in or out of favour. From ecosystem lock in (eg Objective-C was mandatory for
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
Stick insects are a common “starter pet” for infants school (kindergarten) kids in England
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
The point of open source is to address and concerns around copyright. And this source is not open source by the definition most people use when they refer to “open source”. It’s still proprietary but source available. However I will say, th
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
I agree the current process is shit. But that’s not the point I was countering. To be honest, I think the way Windows handles uninstalls is shit too. I don’t think either desktop OS has got it right. Their respective app stores are an impro
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
Lots of possible reasons: - You used a trial version of a software, or other time limited license, and want to keep the output from that around. - You are upgrading and that particular app requires uninstalling the old version before instal
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
Not the OP, but when I was kid I used to draw game level for 8-bit systems back when I wasn’t allowed on a computer (screen time). My point is, people get enjoyment out of game design too. It’s not just about nerding out on technical specs.
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, of Sex Pistols (amongst others) often said his Punk movement was as much a protest against the Prog Rock musical elite as it was a movement against other norms. He would say that you didn’t even need to learn
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
The Rovo MCP server manages scope credentials securely with “bring your own LLM”. Yet somehow they still fucked up with their own agent
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by hnlmorg 3mo ago
It’s actually impressive just how badly Microsoft fcuked the online experience in Minecraft. It’s so bad that Occam’s Razor should suggest malice; because an organisation that large and that profitable surely cant be that incompetent at man
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by hnlmorg 3mo ago
That example does a pretty good job of showing how toxic both CEOs are/were
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by hnlmorg 3mo ago
I’m not making any assumptions. > Ads are not really the same. They can’t be as tightly targeted to what resonates with someone. The EU referendum in the UK proved your point false. > Programmatic ads are certainly much better and clo
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by hnlmorg 3mo ago
It’s unfortunate that you’re being downvoted because this comment is true. And it just goes to show how far we’ve sunk that people have forgotten the problems of ad tech in the age of LLMs.
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by hnlmorg 3mo ago
I picked Go for the language, so your argument is incorrect. Go’s shortcoming is also its strength. Language design is a constant battle of tradeoffs. And I happen to find many of the decisions C++ and Rust made weren’t analogous with my pr
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by hnlmorg 3mo ago
Got any recommendations?
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by hnlmorg 3mo ago
I’ve written a lot of libraries too. The problem is generics only solve a very small part of the equation: compile time checks for composite types. But to use composite types in anything non-trivial in Go, you then need reflection. Which is
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by hnlmorg 3mo ago
Haskell had generics from the beginning. Whereas C++ only added templates to its specification in 1998.

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