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by k_bx 7y ago
> As if covid-19 was not enough already. And war with Russia, yes.
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by k_bx 7y ago
Would you be willing to pay my AWS bills? It'll improve the open-source community!
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by k_bx 7y ago
I am a Linux user and get it. What I don't get is if Linux.Org would start paying my AWS bills, explaining it by saying "it makes Linux better by more people using it". Don't you see an obvious strangeness here?
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by k_bx 7y ago
Doesn't make sense to me, sorry. I imagine paying for servers to run free Jitsi for all the people is tens of thousands of dollars per month (if not hundreds). Are you saying that it makes more sense than hiring additional developers f
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by k_bx 7y ago
Yeah, that'd cost you a substantial amount, probably more than paying for a Zoom subscription. Now imagine someone is just paying for you, for free, no ads. Isn't that weird? All I'm saying.
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by k_bx 7y ago
I don't know about yours, but my Linux servers are pretty damn expensive.
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If Facebook would be ads-free, free, and open-source, would you use it? I'd be scared as hell. Imagine this line: > We are fortunate that our friends at GoodCorp fully fund the project. GoodCorp uses Facebook technology in products
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by k_bx 7y ago
Sorry, I thought this is obvious, but I guess I have to re-state my question. The business model is unclear to me, they don't even make money on ads like Facebook, so it might be something worse. What's the point for them to put a
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by k_bx 7y ago
Can anyone explain how Jitsi is funded? Who's paying for the resources? Seems unwise to use software like that that's provided for free.
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by k_bx 7y ago
What I don't get is why DDG has no "google it" button. I mean, typing !g is not convenient, esp on mobile.
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What's interesting, for me, a Ukrainian guy, it became better than Google as a default. Google ignores my settings that set to only Ukrainian and English results and constantly throws Russian at me, be it Russian Wikipedia (horrible pl
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by k_bx 7y ago
I've recently made a small things called github-agent. Essentially it lets you keep your github issues as local markdown files. This helps keeping issue descriptions extensive and full of details as you work on them, since you can use
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by k_bx 7y ago
Because it only takes one user to make language more popular. For example, Grammarly's first developer used Lisp as his main language, their linguistics is still written in a Lisp-family lang. As a Haskell developer, I'd be more c
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by k_bx 7y ago
> - no private repos (the standard PKG manager assumes GitHub). You need to use another package manager Yes, but a minor point I'd like to make is that because of how Elm is organized, you just put stuff in your src folder and it i
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by k_bx 7y ago
From the info I got on one of the conferences on energy saving, the coal is used in addition to nuclear because of the spikes in electricity usage. So nuclear is only covering whatever is the lowest level throughout the day, while coal plan
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by k_bx 7y ago
Ukraine's biggest bank Privat Bank figured that having the system on iPad is pretty superior to computers, they got LTE, batteries and even camera to make client's photo. So now their computers are mostly not used.
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by k_bx 7y ago
This is a totally valid point. There are now initiatives like https://tech.fpcomplete.com/haskell that gather tutorials for essential stuff, but I think we're far from being beginner-friendly. I don't think there&
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by k_bx 7y ago
If 9 seconds is "Blazing fast", I wonder how would something like Elm experience of usually building stuff in around 0.2s be named. I think 9s is an embarrassing number, especially when you mostly compile JS to JS.
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What's interesting is that it seems that there's already a shortage of truck drivers out there, so it's not only displacement, but also filling of jobs which don't have enough people willing to take https://ww
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by k_bx 7y ago
Thank you! From a person who falls asleep and hits his head at airplane's wall every time I sit near the window. This thing would definitely help.
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by k_bx 7y ago
> 2. Writing good issues I've made a small MVP of a utility that syncs issues to/from local folder as a git repo, so that you can use your favorite editor (like Emacs) to keep extensively good issue descriptions https:/&#
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Propositions as Types: Some Missing Links(k-bx.github.io)
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Only a portion of his shows gets demonetized, far from all
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The article doesn't mention one more thing that automation might bring: flexibility in working hours. Automated trains could work an extra hour for routes and districts that would benefit from it, or it could also be not working, e.g.
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by k_bx 7y ago
Luckily, all that stuff will be outdated with somewhat proper records https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/282
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Interestingly enough, I think that Category Theory is more of a saviour here than anything, reason being this: most of the harm from over-using type classes comes from the cases when their usage can be avoided, and a general rule of thumb i
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by k_bx 7y ago
By "playing by the rules" I meant that Elm doesn't give up the big considerations that lie outside of the purely linguistic features, unlike other ML-family JS languages. I don't claim Elm to be a part of JS world, and y
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by k_bx 7y ago
By "playing by the rules" I meant that Elm doesn't give up the big considerations that lie outside of the purely linguistic features, I've listed some of them. PureScript is a tremendous language, and I'd be happy t
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by k_bx 7y ago
That's a good question! Some things are hard to predict (compile times), some are easier (their abuse would grow, very soon Elm would loose the first "newbie friendliness" point).
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There's one very important thing that people miss when they mention Elm vs PureScript (or others) which bothers me. Here's my message: Elm is playing the JS world's game (obeying the rules) and it's winning it! - you can

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