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by knome 11mo ago
I appreciate linux for the inverse reason. Because everything is either a nice text based config file or a command line tool, scripting changes to settings and automating things is a breeze.
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by knome 11mo ago
a pure function doesn't have side effects. it doesn't read from nonlocal state or trigger distant changes nor perform any manner of io. a pure function doesn't change its inputs, it simply uses them to craft it's outputs
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by knome 11mo ago
closures and objects with a single invoke() method have been considered equivalent in many views for some time.
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by knome 11mo ago
It would be fantastic if it were possible to dictate a headlight height for standard lights. just because your SUV is twelve feet off the ground doesn't mean the lights need to be positioned there.
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by knome 11mo ago
you can already do whatever you want to the steam deck. it's just linux with a readonly base that gets atomically updated. but you can rip it out and do whatever. it's your hardware.
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by knome 11mo ago
when I program, I am visualizing the machine I am building in my head. some language semantics are cleaner than others, allowing the bits and pieces to flow together more naturally, composing in elegant ways that do not require pointless ef
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by knome 11mo ago
It can be quite useful to have nondestructive sorting in imperative languages as well. Hence python introducing 'sorted' even though '.sort()' preceded it.
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by knome 11mo ago
you may consider defining your acronyms on first use for the sake of programmers who are unfamiliar with them.
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by knome 1y ago
having a high profit-per-employee is not the definition of rent seeking. valve is certainly not rent-seeking. it offers service that is valuable to users, and take care of online infrastructure for games published through it, indefinitely,
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by knome 1y ago
title is nonsense and unsupported by the justification the author attempts to create.
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by knome 1y ago
This is not correct in the least. As one of many, many examples, a galapagos turtle reaches sexual maturity at 20 to 25 years of age, and lives 100 to 200 years.
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by knome 1y ago
I've generally seen symlinks, but it wouldn't really matter. It's just checking argument 0, the program name, and branching off that.
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by knome 1y ago
You should check out erlangs binary literals.
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by knome 1y ago
What time period and area did you come across this usage? As I ever saw it used, 'reverse engineering' generally referred to creating docs from executables or watching network protocols rather than from source.
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by knome 1y ago
>why not a protocol type it was a sin that python's type system was initially released as a nominal type system. they should have been the target from day one. being unable to just say "this takes anything that you can call .he
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by knome 1y ago
the control changes sound like you might have gotten caught in some kind of a-b testing
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by knome 1y ago
A determined instigator could easily continue pushing modern yellow journalism with little problem under the system you propose. They simply need choose which negative stories they print, which opinions they run. How do you frame misreprese
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by knome 1y ago
Azure and GitHub build pipelines are written in yaml and have conditionals, variables, template expansions, etc
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by knome 1y ago
>That wouldn't be a bad thing The government should be the government, and corporations should be corporations. Nothing good will come of having them bleed together. Like church and state, you keep them separate for the good of both
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by knome 1y ago
creating your uuids client side has a risk of clients toying with the uuids. creating them server-side risks having a network error cause a client to have requested a resource be created without receiving its id due to a network error befor
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by knome 1y ago
I remember them having a 3D page unwarping tech they built as well so they could photograph rare and antique books without hacking them apart.
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by knome 1y ago
Yes, it's one of the contenders for the etymology of the insult. To be crude but accurate, we're looking at semantic drift from a jerk being a jerk off to a jerk ass.
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by knome 1y ago
It is hardly surprising that people don't bother differentiating between those that think they are inherently superior by dint of their race versus those that think others are innately inferior by dint of their race. The one implies th
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by knome 1y ago
>There are more prime numbers than there are squares of integers. all integers have a square, while not all integers are prime. in any given span, you'll see more primes than squares, however. more dense?
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by knome 1y ago
given this is from a group determined to copy and archive your data with or without your permission, their opinions on the usefulness of ROBOTS.TXT seem kind of irrelevant. of course they aren't going to respect it. they see themselves
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by knome 1y ago
erlang doesn't crash the program, it crashes the thread. erlang has a layered management system built in as part of OTP (open telecom platform, erlang was built for running highly concurrent telephony hardware). when a thread crashes,
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by knome 1y ago
json makes for a great flat file format these days, with jq around to munge the data in it. csv is pretty bad for errors. mostly use it to dump data when I need to pass it to someone that will want to shove it in excel.
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by knome 1y ago
This has nothing to do with copyright. It is an issue of patents.
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by knome 1y ago
https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/networking/19/375... this, too, mentions Yeager as the initial developer, and that CISCO licensed and enhanced his work from Stanford.
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by knome 1y ago
If you enjoy linotype machines, I'll suggest you watch 'Farewell ETAOIN SHRDLU', a documentary on the last night the New York Times ran its hot press system

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