imwithstoopid

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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
I would suggest that this is what Racket is they don't call it Lisp because it came from Scheme but they wisely realized the first step to making changes is to stop calling it Scheme otherwise purists will just rain fire on it and insi
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
I would argue perl has a superior practical elegance so you can write perl in a kinda-sexp style if you really want to (no one does, which tells you something)...but you get a kinda-sexp built-in syntax for hashes whereas lisps make you con
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
Nvidia is in an excellent position - they have CUDA as you point out, and they are moving that into server room dominance in this application space Google has TPUs but have these even made a tiny dent in Nvidia's position? I assume any
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
people seem to forget that Treasury initially took the same tough-love approach in 2008 and then utterly cratered when they realized there was never really a choice this isn't 2008 but the logic is the same...Yellen will talk tough as
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
I recommend looking up the Battle of the Chosin Resevoir....worst military defeat ever suffered by the US (worse than Bastogne imho), the Chinese didn't even have one gun per soldier...some didn't have boots...they DEMOLISHED the
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
I'm more than happy to go through that list, but I suspect I will be downvoted anyway for merely explaining my own beliefs (which is what you are asking for) - Ukraine - a contrived proxy war and we are very generously and bravely assi
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
> What do you propose nginx does? Should they embed rust, go, c, visual basic, turbo pascal, nim, and 37 other scripting runtime? Should they pick 3 to support? no, pick one that is a decent compromise and move on no one is going to di
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
> Every time you see a Lua scripting engine (neovim, nginx, a million other places), you could potentially have any langauge you please but people like code reuse, so its almost always better to communicate, collaborate and share at the
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
> but isn't server-side wasm basically solving the need for source translation? hypothetically...but it would also move part of your integration testing into the realm of wasm I can't think of why this is better than just trans
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
> for the real goal of of interoperable modules working together CORBA, Beans etc predate the modern web but its telling that no one has really bothered to try to recreate them...what is the demand? server-side wasm just doesn't see
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
here come the "Me Too!!" announcements from everyone trying to catch some of the energy of this new market how long until IBM, Tesla and Oracle announce Me-Too LLMs?
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
> So he missed out on one of the best stock market rallies in history not alone though...every VC who poured $30 million into a cashflow-negative startup eight years ago has also missed out on turning it into $100 million with the click
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
$1 million will be a king's ransom compared to Gen X's retirement plans last time I checked known stats on Gen X retirement savings, the national average was under $100k...Gen X is the first generation that is almost entirely depe
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
I don't want people borrowing money to buy corn flakes I am willing to pitch in to help that said, why would I not be surprised to find out many of these people have a newer and more expensive phone than me? a nicer car? sorry for the
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
this doubles as a job interview the Dean is wrong in asserting that the students will need to encompass and address disagreement later in their careers to serve their clients the students protesting will take up work at places like SPLC whe
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
I doubt the DEI mob will stand down, this will just embolden them and escalate future confrontations I see mention of "free speech training"...the school should expect this to turn into a complete circus countdown until students d
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
Ford and GM still make their margins off of oversized ICE vehicles Tesla and Rivian have no choice but to make EVs work or die trying...GM and Ford can and will revert back to their bread and butter of ICE SUVs this is why I don't beli
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
there are over 400 million firearms in the US in the hands of an estimated 100 million individuals over two million background checks for firearms purchases are performed each month, and this number is rising, and the number of people who a
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
> I'm not familiar with this situation, but I'm assuming that whoever is doing this isn't there to "clean" your windshield, and that the entire "transaction" is imbued with the implicit threat of violen
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
why are so many comments here just cheapshots from macos users? I'm happy that you're happy in Apple's walled garden...but what does this have to do with Gnome?
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
sorry I'm with the parent poster on this one - Indeed was bloated
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
interviewed there once was confounded by the high headcount, also confounded by the amount of commercial RE they held in Austin even after these layoffs, their headcount seems curiously high for a listings site