lapinot

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by lapinot 3y ago
Thanks for lecturing me about the web. As is pretty evident in this subthread, there are definitely people here on hn that seem to be overly sensitive to self-proclaimed policing. Once again one last time: my response was calling the parent
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by lapinot 3y ago
Wth are you talking about? My comment had nothing to do with trigger warning or any kind of sensitiveness, which you seem quite eager to hit on. I guess i'm not used to this kind of americanization of the debate and i must've
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by lapinot 3y ago
Couldn't you have said "compartmentalized", or "dominated by hostile silos" or anything else that doesn't involve comparison of the state of online chatting with wars that have killed humans? I agree things wer
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by lapinot 3y ago
This article is about the cute generating function trick. Not exactly sure why you're showcasing the usual recursive fibonacci in haskell.
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by lapinot 3y ago
There have been some tensions between some sequoia-pgp devs and Koch (which are mentioned in tfa). So it might also be some of them. I don't know anything first hand tho.
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by lapinot 3y ago
Your argument is a straw-man. You're conflating taking inspiration from something and adopting it verbatim (your first two examples are particularly hilarious in this regard). Also i've yet to find a compelling argument defending
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by lapinot 3y ago
The good old "we have always been that way". If perhaps hard to imagine for you, there are tons of social structures where wealth cannot be used to purchase power (ie where currency buys you some stuff but not labor from other hum
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by lapinot 3y ago
Indeed, just like committing homicide and having a baby cancels out.
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by lapinot 3y ago
This! This is so infuriating. Now i guess most major city have some poorly secured db that contains all the time/place points where every user of mass transit has checked in/out. I'm not exactly sure what is the strong push f
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by lapinot 3y ago
More than defeatist, its relativist. Minimizing the trusted computing base is an important tool for higher security guarantees. It's obvious that whatever the size of your TCB, a bug is a bug. In any case, i believe TDR's rant was
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by lapinot 3y ago
> Occasionally it works for people in developing countries is, in my opinion, a terrible argument for allowing such behavior. I think the point GP was raising isn't that it's ok, but that it's part of a wider problem and i
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by lapinot 3y ago
> In fact, the standard library encourages Seq instead over List. Uhu? Never heard about Seq before! Seems to have been introduced in 4.07 which was released 5 years ago, which is basically yesterday in terms of stdlib api. Set and Map,
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by lapinot 3y ago
I'd be curious about data supporting this claim. Browsing through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anthropogenic_disaster... seems to suggest otherwise, but its also not relative to population.
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by lapinot 3y ago
> an impractical contrarian outsider I guess you didn't read much of lowtechmag, which is definitely just about the opposite of "impractical", being much centered on actual experimentation, detailed technical analysis etc.
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by lapinot 3y ago
This will never happen, "legacy call" of functions manipulating the control stack in weird ways can never be meaningful. OTOH the reverse is not always true but a good system should have it: transparent recasting of pure code as e
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by lapinot 3y ago
Agreed, except if you're willing to go into weird territory and go fully dual, programming terms and continuations alike (Downen & Ariola's great introduction to mu-mu-tilde language, not the earliest, but one of the most read
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by lapinot 3y ago
They don't use official APIs (if you do you need to register a dev account and this sort of thing would most likely be against the TOS), just like yt-dlp they reverse engineer all sorts of apps youtube has (the webpage, the mobile webp
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by lapinot 3y ago
What is it with the disdain for mental health, privacy or political mindfulness? Big tech don't feel like paying attention to people even if people use Youtube more than other streaming services combined. Maybe the issue is that big te
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by lapinot 3y ago
Necessary rebuttal: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2013/12/high-speed-trains-...
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by lapinot 3y ago
Afaik the important difference between "ast walker" and "bytecode vm" is that the former is recursive, that is, it will more or less use the host call-stack as user call-stack, while a bytecode vm manages its own datastr
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by lapinot 3y ago
> a world where the Bandcamp founders would need to sell out in order to have am assured secure life for themselves and offspring. "need" is a bit twisted, i'm not sure anyone "needs" a million or so. If they rea
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by lapinot 3y ago
https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore
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by lapinot 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37702095 it's probably more than a $10k implication..
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by lapinot 3y ago
Yes indeed! When i said it's a pita, i mostly meant that LDAP is a pita (needlessly complex spec with complicated query language and the whole schema extension zoo). openldap is pretty fine as far as it can be. Personally i'm usin
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by lapinot 3y ago
What's wrong with openldap? I mean, apart from being a pita, i thought it was the widely used central auth directory (behind all sorts of sso frontends).
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by lapinot 3y ago
I get them too but i guess this means that my locked down browser config (resistfingerprinting, strict ublock policy, privacy badger) is working. Behavioral security checks which are pretty common nowadays mean that either they can fingerpr
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by lapinot 3y ago
> I wonder if the author has ever heard of vis[0] Yes. https://github.com/martanne/vis/wiki/Differences-from-Kakoun... https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/wiki#onboarding > which
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by lapinot 3y ago
To add to the other answers: dimensions also appear in higher-order PDE: you typically go from an nth order 1-dimensional equation (an equation mentioning the n-th derivative of your unknown function) to an n-dimensional 1st order equation.
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by lapinot 3y ago
Obviously! Assassination or imprisonment could also be considered censorship and tor or tails won't help. There are always edge cases. They are pretty explicit about their threat model and go into great lengths explaining it. https:&#
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by lapinot 3y ago
Some do, using s-expr as config files is pretty common in the ocaml ecosystem (ie dune).

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