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by jmull 2y ago
I think we need to consider the perspective of the linux maintainers. Learning and mastering a new language and applying it to an existing code base is quite a lot of work. That takes a lot of time away from other things they might be worki
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by jmull 2y ago
Sure. But then that linux dev is no longer a linux dev. They are a linux C dev who needs to find a full linux dev, explain the issue, and get them to handle it. Now, if rust is only in a few corners of linux, then there isn’t much distinc
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by jmull 2y ago
> and to reiterate, no one is trying force anyone else to learn Rust nor prevent refactorings of C code I have no dog in this race, but basic logic says if the linux kernel contains rust code, then a linux kernel dev will either need to
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by jmull 2y ago
> and neglect any other human walking by this back alley Not just the back alley. The back alley itself has nothing specifically to do with it. The test would have to be something like the crow attacks this person but not anyone else aro
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by jmull 2y ago
The PET (with monitor) started a $795. The C64 was initially released at $595, which is pretty much the same considering that didn't include a monitor. But I would assume most of C64s were sold at a much lower price. I don't know
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by jmull 2y ago
I would say no because it seemed to me at the time that people understood the damage the PET’s killer poke could cause was more theoretical than actual. I took it more as a kind of lesson that software could sometimes break out of the norma
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by jmull 2y ago
I think a more useful way to put it is: State is a value in a system that may change over time. I would like to add “… that can be accessed from more than one scope”, but that doesn’t quite match common usage of the term so might just cause
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by jmull 2y ago
Is there anything here that isn’t purely speculative? What are the signs that OSS is actually in decline? BTW, I’m not sure there’s anything wrong if OSS is in decline. Overwhelmingly, people do it not to get paid or help industry but becau
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by jmull 2y ago
Dude, I am not. :) I know what the article is about, but I was replying to a specific comment, which took a different turn. I'm not going to restate the context in every comment I make. If you care to, you can go back and read it for y
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It wouldn't and I don't think they are really trying to say that it did. It's just that you have to start your analysis somewhere, and, obviously, our own evolutionary branch (i.e. homo sapiens) is the most relevant.
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by jmull 2y ago
You can define "censorship" any way you want, but if you use it for cases where liberty is increased then you're pretty much making it useless for discussion. We normally use it as the flipside of freedom of speech. It just
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by jmull 2y ago
> yeah but you can still disagree with them for doing so Of course. I'm not telling anyone what to say or think. I was just pointing out how the poster's "censorship" argument is contrary to free speech, not supportiv
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by jmull 2y ago
The idea that a private social/sharing/communications platform should be required to carry the messages of the head of government is strongly authoritarian and quite unconstitutional. It’s incredible to me that people will argue t
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by jmull 2y ago
I kind of roll my eyes at these kinds of self-helpy cliche lists. But this one's pretty decent, probably because it's actually real. > consigning yourself to the binary greatly limits what you can achieve This is the good one h
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by jmull 2y ago
The proposal here adds pipe syntax to SQL. So it would be reasonable to call it SQL, if it gets traction. You want to see some of the big dogs adopting it. That should at least be possible since it looks like it could be added to an exi
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by jmull 2y ago
I guess I can’t blame you for this response. Diet has psychological, social, evolutionary, physiological, hormonal, economic, aspects (and more). Not only does that make it difficult to eat on a rational basis, people don’t even seem to be
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by jmull 2y ago
Yes. Talk to your doctor. IMO, far better to address your weight before it causes health problems than after. (My brother was in a similar situation as you. BMI out-of-control his whole life, really. No real health problems, though he f
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by jmull 2y ago
This is kind of amazing. We actually have the miracle “weight-loss pill” we’ve always dreamed of. I get it, not actually a pill, but the point is there appears to be a straightforward way to attain a healthy weight that will work for a larg
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by jmull 2y ago
Just looking at the "inline transformations animation"... How is typing "Add the WhileExpression struct here" better or easier than copy/pasting it with keyboard and/or mouse? I want something that more quickly
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by jmull 2y ago
HM... The redesign of the "Save" operation is better than the original, where the checkbox list is positioned in context, and there is an indicator for the async operation. But I think it would be better if it kept the toast. Wh
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by jmull 2y ago
> My point is that perfect word prediction does require intelligence and therefore being a word predictor does not, on its own, rule out being intelligent. Remember, we’re talking about LLMs here, not something that does “perfect word pr
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I tried it. E.g., first prompt was "I am the newly elected mayor of Cheyenne Wyoming. What should I do?" The advice seemed decent enough, but was very general, vague and unfocused. chatgpt resists being specific or active. You hav
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by jmull 2y ago
If you don’t value simplicity and choosing good abstractions, I don’t think Go will help you that much over JS. JS’s ecosystem is very large, and a lot of it is junk (or worse). But it has very good things as well. Go’s ecosystem has good t
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by jmull 2y ago
> But why? When the common wisdom is to always take the problem at hand, analyze it, and then choose the tools, why would I ignore that and go Sounds like they are choosing the right tool for the job. When considering languages, famili
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by jmull 2y ago
I get your point and I don’t doubt the project you’re talking about was a mess, but the file system is a database, and can be a very good choice, depending on exactly what you’re doing.
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by jmull 2y ago
I thought this bit from the replacement device marketing was funny: > And thanks to Gemini technology on Google TV, you can now get full summaries, reviews and season-by-season breakdowns of content, so finding your next marathon-watch j
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by jmull 2y ago
This kind of apocalyptic manifesto concerns me on two fronts... One, it makes me worry about the mental health of the author. They are clearly really not having a good time living in our reality, and I hope they can find a way to relieve th
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by jmull 2y ago
It's kind of vague, but... it sounds like this is essentially a breadth first search (where the graph being searched is represented by a grammar)? Hard to tell.
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by jmull 2y ago
...well, except this is good policy. If you reflect on what value procreation may have to society, and the role parenting plays in realizing that value, and how parents accomplish this, you may come to realize that its good when parents are
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by jmull 2y ago
> I'd like if we could have an honest discussion about if we just want to ban pet dogs altogether. We can discuss, but the answer is going to be "No". Humans and dogs have had a shared society for thousands of years. Peopl

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