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by jgon 6y ago
SPOILER: It actually drives the climatic finale where Waterhouse performs an "epic hack" while in jail, modifying the linux kernel on his laptop to output the results of his cracking the encryption on the location of a cave full o
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by jgon 6y ago
Nuclear weapons and basically nothing else is why there has not been another world war. The UN has had absolutely no part in this outcome and I struggle to think of any positive thing it has been successful at, beside possibly peacekeeping
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by jgon 6y ago
As far as I understand Guile-emacs is pretty much dead in the water, it hasn't seen any substantial development in quite a while. Your best bet for better emacs performance is the gccemacs branch, that integrates the libgccjit and buil
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by jgon 6y ago
This article is written by a famous retired goalie and it contains a lot of good points in it. Everything the author says about the modern method of scoring goals being to "scrum" in front of the net is pretty accurate, and it ho
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by jgon 6y ago
Time to post the evergreen thoughts of Alan Kay from his 1997 OOPSLA talk: https://youtu.be/oKg1hTOQXoY?t=1491 We've spend the last 25 years hacking a document renderer and scripting language aimed at 5 line form valid
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by jgon 6y ago
Of those 3 I was only somewhat happy with Anathem. I couldn't finish REAMDE and Seveneves convinced me that I may not read another one of his books again, unless it debuts to unanimous critical acclaim or something similar. I thought
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by jgon 6y ago
He chose to move where he did because he was raised there and moved back to take care of his ailing mother.
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by jgon 6y ago
It was turned into a pretty good short film as well if anyone is interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh5QHtGmXn4
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by jgon 6y ago
Doesn't this become less and less of an issue the more bits you add to your pointers? Like with 32 bits, you can't have one memory address per person on the planet earth, at 64 bits, you can have 1 pointer per atom that makes up t
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by jgon 6y ago
To use an analogy to get at the point I think he is making, a bunch of medieval peasants reading the bible and nothing else isn't what we would call literacy. And I know the immediate response is that, in fact, those things are what le
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by jgon 6y ago
I was motivated to post this because of some of the discussion occurring about the Google monopoly case. A recurring theme seems to be that we just need to rely on individual marketplace decisions to deal with Google and that a large enough
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The Twilight of Ethical Consumerism(atmos.earth)
1 points by jgon 6y ago|1 comments
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by jgon 6y ago
Everything about this whole post is so symptomatic of everything that is currently wrong with Mozilla. Fundamentally the leadership has become grossly out of touch with reality. Building a browser is basically making a product which is blu
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by jgon 6y ago
I think that's ok though. I think that we handicap ourselves by trying to find universalizing systems and rules, and then throwing our hands up when we can't do so. I also think that this sort of thing is tacitly encouraged by inc
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by jgon 6y ago
After the murder. They were fired the very next day after murdering a man. When we call it an "incident" our sanitized language steals all of the context and meaning of the event. When a person drinks too much at a Christmas par
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by jgon 6y ago
The very first sentence points to a PZ blog post about a Windows vulnerability that affects the Chrome sandbox, not an issue with their own code.
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by jgon 6y ago
Do you have any examples of major companies that are remote that aren't scaling their remote pay with the COL where the employee is located? Every single instance I've seen of companies announcing "we support remote" has
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by jgon 6y ago
British Columbia is part of Canada and thus borders America. It has a city of ~3 million people (Vancouver), which is an hour's drive from Seattle (pop ~4 million) and the US west coast. It has one of the most active ports in North Ame
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by jgon 7y ago
This is a pretty complete misunderstanding of what the previous commenter was saying. You can probably find 20+ year old C++ code that will compile just fine with the latest compiler and it will take less time to compile and the end result
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Two Strangers Trust the Rides of Their Lives to the Magic of the Universe(bicycling.com)
2 points by jgon 7y ago|0 comments
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by jgon 7y ago
A disaster, and yet I remember reading about attempts to replace it when I was still in University, and now here I am over a decade into my career and Wayland still isn't ready for primetime, especially if you use a video card from the
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by jgon 7y ago
Right but if you derive it from Error it isn't checked and same as if it is derived from RuntimeException. Deriving from Exception is checked but then you aren't fitting in with the hierarchy that pron is recommending, or at leas
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by jgon 7y ago
Maybe I am misunderstanding your point here, but isn't making RuntimeException be the base for internal problems the issue the parent poster was talking about? Divide by zero is an obvious case, but what about when invalid or misconfig
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by jgon 7y ago
U S E F I R E F O X That is all.
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by jgon 7y ago
I really enjoyed it and it motivated me to explore some of these techniques in my own projects!
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by jgon 7y ago
I think this is a really fair summary of the technical differences between the two standards written from the perspective of a person who favors R6RS. I especially agree with the point regarding error signalling and the lack of effective f
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Who Killed the Knapp Family (Poverty in America)(nytimes.com)
5 points by jgon 7y ago|4 comments
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by jgon 7y ago
The industry has had roughly 4 decades to make those self-regulating adjustments, how much longer should we wait?
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by jgon 7y ago
It's also hard to pry apart what "pays for itself" and what doesn't. Quebec doesn't just have incredibly high taxes, they are subsidized by the rest of the productive provinces in the country to the tune of about 1
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by jgon 7y ago
Smalltalk and especially Squeak is something I'll always love, congratulations on such an awesome project! One question I have is does the GraalVM open up any possibilities towards extending Smalltalk to a more multi-threaded domain us

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