johnnyjeans

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by johnnyjeans 3y ago
I disagree. I actively avoid languages that rely on package managers simply because they only give the illusion of being beneficial. It ends up being more boilerplate I have to learn to use an ecosystem, because they don't actually sol
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This is the primary reason I'm averse to languages and ecosystems that rely on package managers. I have never had a good experience where these things aren't just constantly breaking. Stack/cabal, cargo, pip, npm/yarn, g
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by johnnyjeans 3y ago
> Add to that the fact that you're posting on a largely American forum where access to healthcare is largely predicated on insurance Why do so many Americans think universal health care means there is no private insurance? In most c
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They're primarily exciting because they exist at a fringe of research and challenge prevailing biological dogma that specialized organs (specifically the animal kingdom's specialized organs, the nerves) are required for complex be
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No, it's not even remotely comparable. Neither electricity nor water changes propagation rules in response to stimuli and pre-emptively employs techniques to adapt to changing conditions.
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> in china you cant even have a VPN without going to prison This isn't really the case. Technically that's the law, but like many others it isn't actually enforced. It comes into play when the party wants to make an exampl
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by johnnyjeans 3y ago
I think Forth beats Lisp out in these domains. To program at all in Forth is to write a DSL and to metaprogram. It is extremely common to come into a Forth codebase in an enterprise environment, and it looks nothing like anything you'v
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by johnnyjeans 3y ago
Most things aren't decriminalized, just psychedelic truffles (which are legal) and cannabis. Official policy is to tolerate everything, unless someone is being a nuisance. The Netherlands is an interesting case. Despite amphetamine, MD
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not new at all
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by johnnyjeans 4y ago
Did you write this post with a chatbot? > Methamphetamine is not a substitution for amphetamine. I did not say it was a "substitution" which means something entirely different in this context, I said it was a substituted amphet
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by johnnyjeans 4y ago
> Amphetamines and methamphetamine are closely related. In the field of biochemistry, this is virtually meaningless. A single substitution group is capable of producing wild changes in pharmacokinetics. The left and right-handed enantiom
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Lisdexamfetamine is the right-handed dextroamphetamine with an L-Lysine amino acid attached to the nitrogen atom. Regular adderall is a mix of the left and right handed enantiomers of amphetamine.
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by johnnyjeans 4y ago
Of course you make a good point yourself, compilers generally weren't free (as in beer) back then. What makes Ada stand out is that it was quite a bit pricier. The "small developer" license of AdaCore for example is $25k&#x2F
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people "avoided" it because up until fairly recently in its history, the only available compilers were priced to sell to the US Department of Defense and the language was too complex for other people to bother implementing a stand
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It's difficult to encapsulate specifics because it's a large amount of small details in the design decisions that end up adding up to a lot. You don't need Docker, you don't need Nix, you don't need NFS or SSHFS or
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by johnnyjeans 4y ago
As with everything else, it depends on who you are and what you do. Email, typesetting, remote shells are all well within the bounds of what workflows work great out of the box.