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by loxs 6y ago
Are you joking? You are 1 month in and you already declared a victory? Wait at least for 2 years before that. So far I've lost 10-15kg 4 times before gaining them back. Every single time :)
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by loxs 6y ago
Modern JS frameworks and all the websites using them :)
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by loxs 6y ago
Yeah, with Rust lifetimes it's much easier to reason about, compared to eg Java. Also, in something like Haskell it's not that your data does not change. It does change and people employ really complex idioms to facilitate that. I
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by loxs 6y ago
I agree to a great extent with the article, except for the dislike for mutability. I used to be like this (dislike it), then I found Rust. Now I prefer imperative, eager computation with (safe) mutability and even some lightweight OOP (the
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by loxs 6y ago
> Limited divisibility of coins. Bitcoin has a limit of 21 million bitcoins, but more importantly, it has a limit of about 2^52 satoshis as the atomic unit. If Bitcoin were to really become Earth’s only payment system, this would provide
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by loxs 6y ago
Also I don't get it, what's the problem with shipping a statically linked binary? Yeah, it goes a bit against the debian way, but it will facilitate things like out-of-the-box init scripts etc.
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by loxs 6y ago
I just migrated fully from OCaml to Rust. Couldn't be happier. I cannot even start to explain how big a difference a stable and mature ecosystem (including tooling) makes. Language-wise, Rust leaves some (small) things to be desired wi
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by loxs 6y ago
It's probably not "concerted"... more of Google and Microsoft doing damage control because of the expected Apple ARM domination of the near future.
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by loxs 6y ago
"They didn't 'ban' strip clubs, just mandated that strippers cannot get naked - just dance."
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by loxs 6y ago
Link please? I mean, to something explaining what is interesting and how is it used. I can find the repo on my own but it's not immediately insightful
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by loxs 6y ago
To me this is more of an argument against. Although Python was my first language, I've had my share of burnouts because of its lack of types and difficulties in refactoring big code-bases.
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by loxs 6y ago
This sounds like "wishful programming" without type safety (or needs writing types as libraries). The only place where I've seen this working well is in TypeScript and it has a massive community (and Microsoft) behind its bac
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by loxs 6y ago
I am more interested in having a great ecosystem and tooling. Probably I just want a better, faster and safer Java/C#/Go. All of these seem to be quite true with Rust.
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by loxs 6y ago
Is there a good reason to invest time in Nim for someone who already knows and likes Rust?
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by loxs 6y ago
I had to look at the Wikipedia list of Netflix shows to believe you. Probably Stranger Things is one exception and maybe The Witcher will endure, though it's really questionable how much The Witcher counts as "theirs"
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by loxs 6y ago
This, among many questionable practices is why I don't empathize with Spotify in their fight with Apple, where Apple slowly dismantles their presence on iOS.
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by loxs 6y ago
Chances are, almost everyone, including me and you will act exactly the same given the right circumstances. At this point I don't even think of it as something "bad". It's just the way it is. Edit: proof... https:/
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by loxs 6y ago
Are you by any chance one of the (described in the article) tetrachromates?
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by loxs 6y ago
"Another consequence of all this is that I see very little color in the stars. That makes me sad." WTF, Am I color blind too? I pass regular color blindness tests with ease, but I have never seen any color in the stars. Not with t
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by loxs 6y ago
I didn't see any (uBlock origin + NoScript)
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by loxs 6y ago
Depending on the project, I have (not) done all of these and given adequate system (mostly types) design, it's been absolutely OK.
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by loxs 6y ago
Absolutely. Somebody, somewhere used to say that Erlang is neither static, nor dynamic typing, but somewhere in the middle. I can agree to a large degree.
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by loxs 6y ago
Regarding dialyzer: Yes, it's sane to use it although it's a massive PITA, especially when you have to collaborate with people who do not write type annotations or use such libraries. Regarding testing - I think it depends on the
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by loxs 6y ago
Yes, for me the big revelation was when I learned OCaml (coming from Erlang) it was such a massive relief, it felt like half of my brain got freed to think about things that matter. After that, once it clicked, most languages of this calibe
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by loxs 6y ago
It is, but is_number is not, which I am replying to. Probably should have mentioned, my bad...
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by loxs 6y ago
These are runtime checks and have nothing to do with what most people understand under the term "static typing/types".
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by loxs 6y ago
After many conversations on the topic with good to great Erlang programmers (I also have 7 years of experience under my belt) I come to the conclusion that they just "don't get it". Probably there is a subset of extremely sma
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by loxs 6y ago
Yeah, and probably Zuck has better data than both ;)
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by loxs 6y ago
This is one of the many internal paradoxes of democracy that makes it extremely fragile (in the grand scheme of things) and unlikely to survive for a very long time.
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by loxs 6y ago
As an outsider (from a different continent), it doesn't seem at all likely that there is a chance for Biden winning. It probably looks the same from where Zuck is sitting. We might, of course, both be wrong :)

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