kmicklas

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by kmicklas 9y ago
And when all your physical security tools are electronic the first step to physical security is IT security :)
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by kmicklas 9y ago
Which one do the others release?
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by kmicklas 9y ago
Yeah but knowing where to find them (the good ones) is not an easy task. There is definitely economic value in the curation of material, and in the personal oversight provided by courses.
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by kmicklas 9y ago
Some good thoughts in here. However I feel like when I learned Haskell (which was actually my first serious foray into programming) the hard parts were not this high level functional language philosophy stuff, but rather not knowing how to
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by kmicklas 9y ago
> Now imagine a thousand years from now, new phenomena or understandings will generate concepts that can model free will that is both non-random and non-deterministic. This abstractly makes sense, but I think the free will supporters sti
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by kmicklas 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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by kmicklas 9y ago
Can someone explain to me how this can be passed off as anything but pure evil?
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by kmicklas 9y ago
The limitations discussed in that paper should be fully addressed by a modern FRP framework like Reflex. The existence of STEPS is actually one of the very few things that keeps me motivated to continue programming - maybe all that complexi
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by kmicklas 9y ago
At first I was amazed there is no mention of Functional Reactive Programming. Then again this is from 2006 when there were no fast, powerful, and practical FRP frameworks. I suspect we will see somewhat of a revolution in terms of client si
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by kmicklas 9y ago
-id- is offspring, -et- is the generic diminutive.
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by kmicklas 9y ago
English doesn't have a single very common diminutive suffix like most European languages, but it actually does have very many derivational noun suffixes that correspond to diminutives or augmentatives in other languages and all have sl
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by kmicklas 9y ago
> magnify the intensity or size of an adjective or noun, respectively Not respectively.
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by kmicklas 9y ago
> French aggregated many influences from centuries at a crossroad This describes English perhaps more so. > and it seems it kept a lot in order to be able to add subtle layers of information by using particular sets of words fitting t
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by kmicklas 9y ago
I suspect that is not the reason people do not send gold back and forth.
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by kmicklas 9y ago
Even fitting the interpreter in cache, there's obviously still some overhead to interpreting instructions rather than executing them directly. Also, I suspect most of the memory related slowdown with interpreters is due to the indirect
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by kmicklas 9y ago
> their general more precise use of language This isn't really true, it's just a snobby idea the French have somehow successfully convinced us of. (It goes along with the idea that they have the most "refined" culture
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by kmicklas 9y ago
And yet somehow they managed to ignore the majority of what has been learned in the last several decades of language design progress.
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by kmicklas 9y ago
Rust yes, Go just has Google.
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by kmicklas 9y ago
> If you're going to "push back", there should be a reasonable expectation of resistance from people who want an honest, earnest and intelligent debate. Otherwise, IMO you're just putting on performances. I'd lik
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by kmicklas 9y ago
Wew... You're asking me to explain why it's racist???
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by kmicklas 9y ago
I mean people who say stuff like that are almost without fail racist sexist shitheads but I had to dig a bit further for proof: https://devinhelton.com/hate-group-history https://devinhelton.com/principles-o
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by kmicklas 9y ago
Just check his other posts: Racist: https://devinhelton.com/hate-group-history Sexist: https://devinhelton.com/principles-of-formalism Libertarian nutjob: all of them
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by kmicklas 10y ago
Some linguists (mostly Western) have advocated transitioning to a mixed system of characters and pinyin. I don't think that will ever happen because an uglier and less harmonious writing system could not possibly be devised. Chinese wo
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by kmicklas 10y ago
There's lots of alternatives to Pinyin, some based on the Latin alphabet, others not like Bopomofo.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
I'm afraid I'll kill my ears if I turn up the volume loud enough to hear on the subway (NYC).
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by kmicklas 10y ago
Counting the syllables I get something like Turkish: 16 English: 26 Given the inherent loss in efficiency in trying to accurately translate very specific phrases out of context, that doesn't seem like such a big difference. (And I&#x27
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by kmicklas 10y ago
By the time you discover QuickCheck, you might as well just use Haskell :)
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by kmicklas 10y ago
If the software engineer and the (American) service worker aren't in the same galaxy, then the service worker and the average global worker aren't in the same supercluster.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
Of course, but that doesn't mean both aren't being economically exploited.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
> Everyone knows its problems, and everyone knows about Rust. I guess they've at least heard of it, yeah, but how many of them have actually tried Rust (or any other language with a modern type system)? > It's just that some

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