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by klibertp 3y ago
> It is sometimes possible that a young Indian employee might call you “Sir” There's nothing wrong with that - it's awkward the first 3 times, a non-issue ever after. My problem is with the use of flowery, deferential language
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> that's through some Java interop hackery Honestly - you don't want to go there. Really. The JVM is known for a high cost for native calls, and JNI is pretty painful to write for in the first place. The Android NDK doesn'
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> Religious beliefs undergo natural selection too. All memes do - that's why their name is based on genes. What's interesting is discovering clusters of memes that are self-reinforcing and are passed down consistently, without
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Because a page looking off for a subset of people is worse for the brand then the page not working for them at all. On the other hand, making the page work for everyone (including lynx users?) is simply uneconomical - and when the business
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It isn't. And it would be hard-pressed to be, since there's no JVM backend. It could work on iOS via the C target, but you're probably better off with Swift. It could work in the browser via the C target and emscripten, but a
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by klibertp 3y ago
As I understand, D is a pragmatic vision of how C++ could look like if it was not C++ (that is, not designed by committee, without decades of backward compat needed, without the need to support some exotic hardware, etc.) It aims to complet
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If the last sentence wasn't enough to tell you the GP is being sarcastic, then the "infantilization" you mention might not be completely baseless...
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You've got nerves of steel. It can, and will, hallucinate sudo rm -fr / as a step necessary for configuration at some point (it's even easy to justify by, say, missing the mention of this having to be in a chroot or a contain
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Starvation? With Russia so reliant on China? Russia can feed China easily as long as China keeps Russian state from collapsing.
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Argument from character - exemplified by a post history - is a fallacy. Other than that, sorry to break it to you, but "America" (the USA govt, more specifically) is really bad for almost everyone other than US citizens. Which is
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Same here, the first thing I thought after reading the title was "wait, again?!" - knowing what inciting people to hunt witches usually turns into, I thought that guy is utterly fearless, at the very least. Though, maybe he count
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> explain to your superiors that direct word for word translation doesn’t work I see. That's gotta be hard in a setting where a superior is always right and knows it all by default, even if they don't. I can imagine all the har
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I think "Friendly" was/is popular explanation where devs tried to translate their subculture into something generally digestible.
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by klibertp 3y ago
Late to the party, but I believe Raku deserves a mention. I replaced most of my shell scripting with Raku. It offers a lot of features that help, one of the biggest wins being Grammars. They make parsing and transforming parsed data a breez
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Docs - oh boy. 90% of contributors to Racket are educators with many decades of experience teaching. The quality, depth, organization, interlinking, examples, references to papers... basically everything about Racket docs is at the level
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No... I just honestly didn't notice it's there! Will need to check if it works next time, thanks for the tip :)
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There are supposedly many introverts frequenting HN and longing for any help they could get in building their network. Some of them probably reflexively upvoted the article without looking at it first. Since it's impossible to un-vote
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Glad to hear you liked it :) This is the post that kind of opened my eyes and let me identify the issue: https://gbracha.blogspot.com/2009/07/miracle-of-become.html There are workarounds, of course - now that I kn
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It's slowly getting traction - Kotlin on Android has a "live update" feature (in development, only available in alpha release), for example. Multiple less mainstream languages also offer the feature. Nim got it in the last ma
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> The 'fantasy' system [...] Have you thought about using Logtalk to implement this? The idea (or the parts I think I understood) is very interesting and out of systems environments I saw I think only Logtalk and Mozart/Oz
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Now I really regret not encountering MOOs back in the day. It looks like it captures the fun parts even better than the LPMUD I knew. You're right that restarts of the server wiped out some objects (some were persisted, of course, but
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On the MUD I spent most time on, when the feature of making haircuts (and later tattoos) landed it was a Big Deal. There were very few designs, you had to go to a remote location (through dangerous areas) and pay a lot (in the in-game curre
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It's entertaining to create a world. It's excruciating, painstaking work to finish it and make it into something others can enjoy. Plus, people like different aspects of MUDs. Creating it from the inside (like in LPMUDs) with othe
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by klibertp 3y ago
(Started replying to Griatch, went on a tangent, it'll fit better here I think. Skip the first paragraph to go straight to LPC advocacy :D) Last time I looked at Evennia it wasn't even in alpha, it just started out (and I was a je
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How nostalgic. It's like 15-20 years old at this point, no? From what I remember, I didn't like the Web-based content creation system back then. I grew up playing and coding LPMUDs - which are basically a text-based Smalltalk envi
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Probably because due to the nature of the issue even actual unbiased source will likely be perceived as biased. The issue is contentious enough for strong tribes to form on both sides - linking to any source in that situation means taking
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...aren't you afraid someone will take a golf club and hit you with it? Honestly, the fear of saying this phrase to someone who just happened to play Bioshock and saw Ryan's monologue is enough for me to never-ever use it. I don&#
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$HOME/.local and $HOME/.config use is increasingly popular, many apps already search these locations in addition to the usual $HOME/.emacs.d/ etc. I use those locations for my stuff, too. My `ls` is an alias that,
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This is a valid approach, but not because of its "speed". When you start a project, you have a great many things you don't know and need to learn. This is the case in 99% of projects out there. By definition, you cannot at th
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They'd have to hack it, or pay/donate a lot to get all those books, though. Z Lib only allows you to download 10 books a day as a free user. The problem now is that the only way to donate seems to be crypto, or some Chinese gift c

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