jrvieira

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by jrvieira 1y ago
Would that be your SSN in the US for example? I don't think most people would be in favor of that. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the UK, and the US have no government-issued compulsory identity cards for all citizens.
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by jrvieira 1y ago
Yes.
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by jrvieira 1y ago
hell, semantic web even. we wouldn't need AI
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by jrvieira 1y ago
Not all countries have centralized systems with comprehensive national databases, some purposefully fragment record-keeping across different agencies and limit their access accordingly. Privacy laws and constitutional protections vary widel
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by jrvieira 1y ago
I don't see how we can arrive at an alternative interpretation if we follow your argument to its logical conclusion.
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by jrvieira 1y ago
You can verify that you're above a certain age while remaining anonymous by way of zero knowledge proof, for example. There is no need to involve a government in a transaction of information that is outside its scope.
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by jrvieira 1y ago
That's not how "attack surface" works. Having your information centralized is what makes you vulnerable.
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by jrvieira 1y ago
You talk like we all live under the same government, and like it would be a good thing if we did.
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by jrvieira 1y ago
In this particular case, they definitely did.
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by jrvieira 1y ago
Why do you think that's the only way?
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by jrvieira 1y ago
Really? https://github.com/features The same since when?
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by jrvieira 1y ago
try not vibe coding. it's even better
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by jrvieira 1y ago
They probably just meant that protocol prevents them from giving you access to them.
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by jrvieira 1y ago
I feel like everyone already understands that argument and it won't convince anyone that it's any less of a lie.
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by jrvieira 1y ago
Modern machines do. But the dominance of imperative assembly is more about historical momentum and engineering tradeoffs than fundamental necessity. We don't have to go all-in on Von Neumann.
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by jrvieira 1y ago
It's capital -X and -Y -x disables X11 forwarding.
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by jrvieira 1y ago
how does it compare to neovim in terms of input lag?
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by jrvieira 1y ago
careful: in many programming contexts parallelism and concurrency are exclusive concepts, and sometimes under the umbrella of async, which is a term that applies to a different domain. in other contexts these words don't describe disjo
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by jrvieira 1y ago
"We want you to be good, not better than us"
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by jrvieira 1y ago
I partied when i was young, never DnD'd nor LAN'd. Now in my thirties I DnD and LAN, party not so much :)
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by jrvieira 1y ago
Unbounded integer types exist, which have infinite precision in theory and are only limited by available memory in practice. You can make the argument that "proper" integers are also bounded in practice by limitations of our unive
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by jrvieira 1y ago
wait, why?
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by jrvieira 1y ago
Yes, all floating numbers are rational. (It's also true that they are all reals but i get your point.)
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by jrvieira 1y ago
It's the old internet. I started having meaningful interactions again when I deleted most my social media accounts and rediscovered IRC and other platforms alike. I started consuming quality content again when i replaced youtube with a
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by jrvieira 1y ago
how does the taxpayer benefit from the inexistence of rehabilitation programs?
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by jrvieira 1y ago
I'm not alone in this and we don't need to go much further back than the early '00s! Great time to sample from. I had a Mac at the time so here's some from the top of my head that I remember being very popular: Quicksilv
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by jrvieira 1y ago
I suspect it's a long way from what it's meant here by "online personal projects i can interact with" and "median github/pypy/npm crap". Speaking for myself, I remember a time when personal ("ind
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by jrvieira 1y ago
Yeah that general doesn't seem too clever
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by jrvieira 1y ago
https://wiki.haskell.org/Safe_Haskell unfortunately this is as far as that goes
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by jrvieira 1y ago
i feel like lisp owes more to compositionality than it owes to abstraction per se, as an antidote to complexity

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