jgilias

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by jgilias 6y ago
This is... Humbling.
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by jgilias 6y ago
Thank you for writing this! Her reasoning wasn't this deep though. It went mostly along the lines of idillic prehistoric humans solving every issue with mating until patriarchy driven civilizations came along and messed up the world.
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I once met a girl who among other interesting ideas was dead convinced that ancient humans were not warlike at all and that there is no archeological evidence of war from a time before written records. And that the natural human instinct wh
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by jgilias 6y ago
I don't think that Stoic physics can really serve as a fundamental problem for adopting Stoic ethics to daily life. Case in point - the Neostoicism movement of the 16th century combining Stoic ethics with Christian theology. I think th
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by jgilias 6y ago
Ok. I think I'd rather go for .NET MAUI when it comes out, as native has a better look and feel pretty much always. Apparently though .NET MAUI is set for .NET 6 which doesn't have a release schedule. So there's that. I haven
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by jgilias 6y ago
So, it gets stressed that this doesn't have a dependency on xamarin.Forms. Ok, but what's the advantage of this versus using the UI building capabilities included in .NET 5 directly? To paraphrase - what's the selling point o
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by jgilias 6y ago
Given that it's quite impossible for a giant iceberg to appear in either Armenia or Florida, I initially felt quite perplexed by the heading. Geography lesson learned. Are there any other Georgias one should know about?
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by jgilias 6y ago
I decided to bite the bullet and try Doom Emacs as a Vim user. I highly suggest it. I hadn't used Emacs before, so it was all new, but I really relate to what you're saying about the uniformness of all the 'apps', that w
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by jgilias 6y ago
Looking forward towards Amazon Snowtot. In all seriousness though, the discussion later in the article explaining how the postal service was a lot more personal in those days explains it. Just take any piece of literature from around then t
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by jgilias 6y ago
Thanks a lot for the in-depth explanation! May I pick your brain a bit more on this topic? 1. Do you know what were the main arguments for and against using typeclasses vs modules for abstraction? It's interesting to read that traits w
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by jgilias 6y ago
After reading some of these comments I went around searching for info and found that in the Rust book it does feature SML and OCaml prominently as influences[0]. However, the things mentioned: algebraic data types, type inference, pattern m
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by jgilias 6y ago
Yeah, but Rust isn't exactly a counter example, I think. It's heavily inspired by Haskell, its type system, as well as FP in general. So, it sort of inherits (pun not intended) its parallelization capabilities from that.
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by jgilias 6y ago
I'm not trying to say that some licenses are better than others. They just have different implications. And I often see that people fail to properly think about those. Yes, MIT implies that anyone can just take your code and run with i
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by jgilias 6y ago
Too often people choose licenses for their projects without giving enough thought to potential implications. AGPL and GPLv3 in particular seem to be the kind of licenses you should think really, really hard about before choosing to use them
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Haha! In think they called it that way because you do use the space key very often. Much like in the game.
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A huge part of why I've come to like it is because I use the Doom configuration that comes with sane and very usable defaults out of the box. A Vim user can hit the ground running with it. I don't think I could've persisted l
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by jgilias 6y ago
You too! I already see myself sticking with it. Not that I'd delete my .vimrc though. That is still the preferred choice to just 'quickly edit this file here'.
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Decided to try Doom Emacs a few days ago as a long-time Vim user. Man... Any comparison between the two is completely besides the point. Vim is a great text editor that one can extend. Emacs is a computing environment that happens to revolv
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Emacs Helm Is Back(github.com)
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The Twitter thread explores some ideas why this may be the case. However, quickly skimming through it, they miss the most obvious one. For the people who are busy working on something they find important, most often 'status' is no
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by jgilias 6y ago
Just one of the great things Aaron Schwartz was involved in. So sad we lost him so young. I really do believe the Internet would somehow be a different place now if he was still around.
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I also believe this kind of thinking can have very real practical applications. As a trivial example, say you look at a criminal organization and treat it as a living system. Then you can identify what kind of failure modes there exist in l
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The Living Systems Theory(en.wikipedia.org)
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There's something called the Living Systems theory that postulates that there are significant parallels between subsystems, workings, failure modes and so on, between different levels of living systems. Where the levels are cells ->
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by jgilias 6y ago
Excel is a great case study. Turns out, if you give people an accessible and widely available Touring complete environment, they will manage to do pretty much anything with it. On another note, it's interesting to observe that the prob
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by jgilias 6y ago
This feels a bit like that XKCD strip about fourteen competing standards. But I'd love to be proven wrong!
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Mostly by keeping the organization lean. Which means that customer support staff is near non-existent and in case you need support you're pretty much on your own with their wiki and the forums. That, or hiring one of their third party
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by jgilias 6y ago
MikroTik may be an option. I use one in a small office setting without any big complaints.
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by jgilias 6y ago
I completely agree that the goal is a good one. Downlink bandwidth is one of the most restricting bottlenecks limiting what we can achieve with satellites. It's absolutely worthwhile to revisit this idea from time to time. Someone shou
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There was a DARPA project called F6 for validating a similar concept. Spent a few million USD and ended with nothing much to show. Turns out formation flying is hard. Especially with satellites with limited orbital alignment capabilities, a

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