konjin

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by konjin 6y ago
No, it will need security updates. Which Debian stable provides for seven years currently.
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by konjin 6y ago
The packaging nightmare also means that when you stand up a system it won't need upgrades for a decade Leave an arch system without an upgrade for a month and you're playing Russian roulette.
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by konjin 6y ago
We should fight to keep real bullying around. Turns out sticks and stones and broken bones are a major part of getting skin thick enough that you can accept people won't always like you and they have no obligation to.
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by konjin 6y ago
The implication is that it is trivially easy to implement what is impossible in other languages in lisp. So you never have to try and follow the moving target of an ever evolving ecosystem. You just pick a language version and build your ow
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by konjin 6y ago
You don't need an ecosystem with lisp. That's been both the reason why it's survived for so long and why it will never be popular.
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by konjin 6y ago
Sorry which is which? Because right now Chrome engine has more control of the web then IE did in it's heyday when Microsoft was ruled to be a monopoly.
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by konjin 6y ago
Finally the Roman numeral converter I programmed in university will be useful.
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by konjin 6y ago
Yes. They even had an open source client that you could contribute to and run your own copies of.
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by konjin 6y ago
If you take anything away from that: brackets are the most compact way to serialize a tree, for some reason they are called s-expressions. The parse tree for lisp is the syntax tree, you just rename each bracket node to whatever the first a
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by konjin 6y ago
Describing reality is not disgusting.
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by konjin 6y ago
>Also correlates with lifespan, probability of divorce, crime. All such boring stuff. Yes, doing pointless soul crushing work makes you the money you need to create the next generation of automatons that do the same.
552.
by konjin 6y ago
IQ is a measure of how willing you are to do something extremely boring and pointless. A perfect predictor for success in the average office job and education.
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by konjin 6y ago
People who lead groups want power. You can get more power when you lead more people, or you can get more money and turn that into power. Which is why I'm a huge fan of sortition as a way to run groups of people larger than a dozen.
554.
by konjin 6y ago
Because I didn't want to write down every corp with more than 10 people in it.
555.
by konjin 6y ago
People do, people who end up leading large groups of people don't.
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by konjin 6y ago
It does. I remember when I said that Mozilla offering women's outreach was the start of the end for them and being called a misogynist for it. Their current market rate speaks for itself.
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by konjin 6y ago
People don't want to listen to Stallman because he talks about motivations. The number of times I've had people downvote me for pointing out all organizations will act to maximize profit regardless the cost to others is extraordin
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by konjin 6y ago
None of those things are new or interesting. Maps were used in the 70s and you can find a chapter about them being parrapalized in Kthuths original Art of Computer Programming.
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by konjin 6y ago
All good, it's just that I've heard too many people suggest VPN as this magic bullet that solve all our problems.
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by konjin 6y ago
VPNs are the dumb persons idea of a secure internet. You've just sold all your secrets to a third party. Tor is a slightly better solution, but again, not by much. You're hoping that a randomly chosen VPN will not have an interest
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by konjin 6y ago
It's actually really easy: force people to pay per packet. The problem is that we don't have any global system that has solved fast micro-transactions at a global scale without the concept of a permanent identity. At the dumbest l
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by konjin 6y ago
Quite frankly teaching the average person about how the grid works is as hard as teaching the average astrologer about astronomy and even less worth while. The number of times I've been downvoted to invisibility and flagged makes it co
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by konjin 6y ago
Yes, and look, France has the only working energy market in Europe. Turns out telling businesses what they can and can't do just means they hire smarter people to do what they want in more convoluted ways.
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by konjin 6y ago
Regulation and nationalization are two different things. Only in America could the two be conflated. A market does not work for a natural monopoly.
565.
by konjin 6y ago
Regulation on electricity works no where. Germany being the best "European" example of how a government has managed to destroy a market to the point that the only reason Germany has power for half the year because France is next d
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by konjin 6y ago
It's like saying that ice is cheap in the winter then complaining when the refrigeration companies have gone out of business by the summer. Yes, producing electricity when it's needed is more expensive to producing it when it&#x
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by konjin 6y ago
>Do you think building solar farms causes existing gas plants to collapse or something? Yes it literally does. My employer has shuttered three out of their fleet of nine gas power stations because they are no longer peak competitive with
568.
by konjin 6y ago
Because people want easy solutions. Being told that "we have locked in enough climate change already that by 2100 industrial civilization will be impossible anywhere and by 2200 so will agriculture." is not something anyone wants
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by konjin 6y ago
I work as a quant for a power company. I have very much looked at what the prices are doing and the answer is "making my employer filthy rich and making the grid unsustainable over the next decade". Solar and batteries are eating
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by konjin 6y ago
People don't want to hear it but saying 'solar is cheap when the sun shines' is like saying 'coal is cheap at the mine'. You need to send it to where it is needed and when it is needed. Storage methods need tens o

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