kamaal

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by kamaal 4y ago
I think its Rich Hickey who said something to the effect that tail calls are so fundamental that the underlying platform should be providing them.
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>After Kalinga war ... Do you have a parallel example from Abrahmic kings? No, I don't have any example of any king in Europe, Middle East or North Africa who fought a war as destructive as Kalinga war. And that's just one
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>but horrific destruction have happened when Abrahmic religions came on the scene with "holier than thou" philosophy which made destruction of others a religious duty. Both true and false. Most of the killing and destructio
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by kamaal 4y ago
The hard part is getting significant amounts of material into space. Once you do that you can do anything there. Go to Mars, build O'Neil cylinders or even make your own asteroid mining factories up there.
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>Not everyone was taught financial literacy before being dumped into a high stress job. Financial literacy is quite literally adding and subtracting numbers. For somebody who gets in to FAANG sort of companies with mad algorithm skil
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>They're not loyal to you, so why should you be loyal to them? This always comes up in such discussions, but who exactly is They here. Company isn't a conscious entity, its the people. And those people are likely saying t
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by kamaal 4y ago
I was not able to even install/build LunarVim. I think these packages need to ship with homebrew or atleast some sort of an installer. Building them seems to be very hard for people who just want to use it, and not go down hacking rabi
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by kamaal 4y ago
I guess it's also about distance. Monitors are right in front of our eyes. I probably wouldn't hurt looking a tree or hill, or anything that is outside because they are at a distance. And of course you aren't going to stare a
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>Someone, somewhere, has to actually buy the computers. Exactly, so as long as it's not you, you should be fine. Let AWS figure out how they wish to do it for you.
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by kamaal 4y ago
Would be curious to learn the specs of current day mainframes, and cost. What sort of work is typically done on such machines these days.
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by kamaal 4y ago
Not sure about 'mainframes' specifically. But one of the easiest way to retire anything, is to stop doing new work on the older systems. Any new project should go on the new tech. Soon enough you will see the older systems gone. I
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>is it really necessary to micro optimize exercise to this extent? Not sure much for a beginner, but even for advanced beginners yes. The heart is very hard to optimize machine. More it gets efficient, the harder it is to make it mor
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>The only advise I have is to not think of any job as below you. This. I had two tries at starting up last decade, failed. Good for me, I had some back up plans. Beyond all, I realised, a regular salaried job is a privilege. There is
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by kamaal 4y ago
On the other hand, may be it should not be things like obsession at all? Many important things in life like fitness, diet etc are very repetitive and hence boring to some extent. There are times when you just to have to get through the grin
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>“False negatives better than false positives” Nice idea, but doesn't work with underlying constraints. Nobody has infinite time and resources to interview and hire people. What that means is the more 'False Negatives'
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by kamaal 4y ago
Sorry but your parent post is right. It's not realistic to day dream yourself to a real product. I realised this from the waterfall model days itself, where elaborate documents used to be written before we even wrote a single line of c
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by kamaal 4y ago
We need to use rust to remove unsafe elements from the Kernel.
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by kamaal 4y ago
Wow! Nice to see Perl 6 in use these days!
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by kamaal 4y ago
Nearly all of those soldiers were natives.
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by kamaal 4y ago
Pretty sure in the recent times COVID has worsened this. I do exercise often these days. But its nothing like the morning workout, lunch time socialising, and tea time walks with colleagues before COVID. These days apart from the workout in
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by kamaal 4y ago
Or may be we need to view things as a series of events, than just one big bang event that triggers every thing after. Things are always building up to one major event. Those events are as much responsible, as much as the last event before t
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by kamaal 4y ago
Even if it took 3 minutes to load it wouldn't matter because I plan to work on the project for days if not hours. OTOH, like you mentioned feature parity just puts VSCode in a different league altogether. 3 minutes(the imagined extreme
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>You call that user friendly? User friendly is what most users find it easy to use. Your argument is more on the lines that you are a legacy user who does't want to move. The whole idea of using vim/emacs was when intellise
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>His constant need for media attention That's pretty much most of the world today, every wants to post pictures on social media for likes, appreciation, comments etc. >>his shit posting on Twitter, Well again the same thin
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>I honestly don’t get widespread cheating like this… Well its about pretending to be something you are not, people are all about this. Cheating is really a habit and to a certain extent a lifestyle and not an event. Cheating continue
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by kamaal 4y ago
Ah Perl! The old friend, you can always rely on to do quick scripting work. I've written non-trivial quantities of Perl in the past, and maintained other people's Perl code too. Contrary to popular opinion, I've always found
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>I know many experienced Unix people hate this trend, but there’s a reason some of the most actively evolving language ecosystems install more and more of their binaries into the user’s home directory. The future is containers, which
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by kamaal 4y ago
This reminds me of my friends who are generally disappointed when the English team with their favorite 'premier league' players loses to other teams in the world cup. Turns out great players in a league are playing in a specific t
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by kamaal 4y ago
Just a theory. May be you are hungry because the bigger you get the more food is needed to maintain the energy levels at current weight? If you tend to over eat even 50% of the times, you are now getting bigger, and more hungry(to maintain
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by kamaal 4y ago
>> I don't understand why these companies need to exist when we have other free and amazing resources online like Khan Academy which teach all topics to all ages of people. Cram school culture, FOMO and dreams of children making

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