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by jhpriestley 7y ago
I checked into it myself - perhaps OP was referring to this Trump claim, which is supported only by a single tweet? https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.statesman.com/news/20200330...
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by jhpriestley 7y ago
source on the government being criticized as xenophobic for moving too fast? I follow politics pretty closely and did not see any such criticism. Was it from a major figure or publication?
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by jhpriestley 7y ago
Spacer components + flexbox + components defined in JS/JSX is basically a copy of how TeX does things (single unified macro language, hspace/vspace, boxes and glue algorithm which is pretty much flexbox). Feels like we could have
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by jhpriestley 7y ago
Stockpiling essential medical equipment sounds a lot cheaper than autarky.
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The goal is not mass testing, what good is mass testing if it just tells us that the virus is spreading rapidly because people can't afford to stay home?
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simulated execution is absolutely torture, yes.
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by jhpriestley 7y ago
I think there was a text input element that you actually typed into, which showed the cursor and handled IME. After composing a character, that character would be rendered into a div and the input element moved to the next position. I'
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by jhpriestley 7y ago
I've implemented text editing on top of contenteditable, and directly via key events etc. The latter is far less work. contenteditable gets you 60% of the way there but is so buggy and inconsistent that you have to override all its beh
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by jhpriestley 7y ago
Please link to any mainstream source that directly compares the Obama and Trump policies. "deniers ... focus on what the authors call a "snapshot fallacy," picking a historical document or fact and stripping it of its histori
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by jhpriestley 7y ago
You seem to be suggesting that the answer is Obama (false). Look at yourself, you are justifying mass detention and the punitive separation of children from their families.
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Yes, of course, the problem is not the concentration camps, but the people getting too worked up about concentration camps.
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by jhpriestley 7y ago
questionable choice quoting a notorious segregationist and homophobe like Buckley.
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by jhpriestley 7y ago
The working class went for Clinton though? By a large margin?
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by jhpriestley 7y ago
your intel CPU allows you to iterate through the stack and jump to a location in the heap though (as long as you don't mark the page NX). These features are used by most gc and jit implementations respectively. wasm requires all functi
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by jhpriestley 7y ago
you mean you can compile code into a separate module, right? Which could then access the original module only via marshaled calls through the javascript layer? I guess anything can be compiled into anything but I wouldn't prefer to tar
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by jhpriestley 7y ago
pretty hard to enable lisp without eval or garbage collection
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by jhpriestley 7y ago
try 2000 years ... look up the Nika riots for instance
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by jhpriestley 7y ago
I've been less optimistic about WebAssembly than most HN commenters, but I was still surprised by this paper. WebAssembly is being used at all on less than 0.2% of sites; those uses boil down to just a couple of hundred of unique modul
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A Study on the Prevalence of WebAssembly in the Wild [pdf](tu-braunschweig.de)
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I think that the term "politics" makes it very abstract what we're talking about. If you substitute in some salient issue, like "jailing children", then it kind of changes the tone. It's just politics -> It&
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by jhpriestley 7y ago
Painful would be the 35 percent GDP contraction that Cuba endured, without regime change, after the USSR fell, under continuing US sanctions. Or the hyperinflation and food rationing that Venezuela has endured, without regime change, under
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by jhpriestley 7y ago
Trump's whole schtick is to come in with an incredibly aggressive posture (cancel NAFTA!), extract some concessions, then take a victory lap. When the concessions don't come he gives up quickly (see the government shutdown). He ha
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by jhpriestley 7y ago
For some reason the wikipedia article does not mention the more efficient Myers diff approach. I have recently implemented it here: https://jasonhpriestley.com/array-distance-and-recursion (for edit distance but Levenshtein
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by jhpriestley 7y ago
I think you're a few bits short of specifying a website here
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At least one pretty well-known economist does echo heraclius' point: "The fact that two incommensurable collections of miscellaneous objects cannot in themselves provide the material for a quantitative analysis need not, of course
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by jhpriestley 7y ago
Working long hours together serves purposes besides productivity, like signaling commitment and building social cohesion. "Unproductive" hardship is common in social organizations, e.g. fraternity hazing, military bootcamp, variou
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by jhpriestley 7y ago
There are infinitely many strings that produce a given hash. Infinitely many of them will also produce a secondary hash that you check against. There is no general-purpose scheme to compress arbitrary data, regardless of available computati
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by jhpriestley 7y ago
I think the emphasis on embedded languages is interesting. A lot of modern code is stuff like js-in-jsx-in-html-in-yaml etc., a fact which isn't really addressed by most tooling. It seems like you're aiming to make a more flexible
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by jhpriestley 7y ago
The web browser also "puts glyphs into positions." Neither HTML nor TeX source specifies positioning in the source format though. The same TeX document can be re-rendered at different page sizes, font sizes etc. Really not sure wh
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by jhpriestley 7y ago
It looks like we've discovered the same approach in parallel. I even wrote a haskell version first, https://github.com/jhp/sneathlane-haste and then a js version using generators https://github.com&#x2F

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