ludamad

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by ludamad 5y ago
I actually take a hint of offense that you say "Ł still is the same letter, a direct counterpart to L". By what measure? It was always a separate phoneme. Just because it shifted to w doesn't mean it wasn't distinct to p
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by ludamad 5y ago
For the record, it's a stark pronunciation difference as ł has drifted to a very different "w" sound
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by ludamad 5y ago
I'd like a few pounds of goodwill please
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by ludamad 5y ago
Re: Streisand effect effect vs Streisand Streisand effect. They both work, I thought of it as Streisand (possessive of specific person) "Streisand effect" (concept). Also the doubling on the left seems beneficially sillier
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by ludamad 5y ago
Ah yes, the Streisand Streisand effect, the effect of being the Streisand referred to in the Streisand effect and having your private details brought up in metaconversations
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by ludamad 5y ago
The mathematical part of me thought this tackled some optimization problem with trade-offs related to taxes. Cool software nonetheless :)
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by ludamad 5y ago
Code is law! also vigilante justice by powerful actors, though
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by ludamad 5y ago
What why? Surely you mean stock buybacks in very specific scenarios such as after a bailout? Isn't it just the inverse operation of printing stock?
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by ludamad 5y ago
These days, integrating an HTML engine into a project is feasible in a weekend. It gets weird measuring the time to write software already written
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by ludamad 5y ago
Yeah they can always coordinate, but these things are never so clean. They'd also need to be convinced it wouldn't undermine the network faith in a way against their interests, beyond being a well hated figure. And that no fork wo
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by ludamad 5y ago
It's awkward to LARP that it is all at your whim - because at some point someone will ask too much in a vacation request and you do suddenly need to explain the factors very not much in your control (before proceeding to then rip up th
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by ludamad 5y ago
Generally this blog has a startup slant - can't always
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by ludamad 5y ago
As management especially, joke clearly . There is far more weight on you to not mislead than for the "keep a serious atmosphere" that some might take it as
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by ludamad 5y ago
I saw this start during my internship at Red Hat in 2012 :) cool to see it kicking around
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by ludamad 5y ago
Expectancy bloat in the ecosystem is a thing, but it's also democratic. So long as it's an unspoken requirement due to massive usage of typescript, I don't think it's undue influence. I don't always like the change
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by ludamad 5y ago
It would be nice to have another long feature freeze with languages adding features on top of JavaScript again. That seemed like a great way for ideas to stew for a while - I went from 'oh finally' on new JS features to 'oh o
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by ludamad 5y ago
"TS should not have any influence" I argue it had a positive influence. Do you argue it had an undue influence?
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by ludamad 5y ago
Alternatively, mosquitoes not existing would have affected humanity much earlier, making even appreciation of high fantasy in question :)
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by ludamad 5y ago
Isn't it already clever since programmers frequently hear "cast to an array"?
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by ludamad 5y ago
Probably not but a value system I imagine is. The interesting question is at what point do we have AI ethics for how to treat AI?
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by ludamad 5y ago
... sounds familiar, what's the next modal?
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by ludamad 5y ago
It reminds me of the stories of old where a person has great but humble qualities. To enforce that these qualities are worth their own virtue, the protagonist gets their wishes fulfilled by a deus ex machina
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by ludamad 5y ago
If it's all you practice, yeah you'll have had habits in longer software development. However, hackathons are good for figuring out how to reduce friction when you do need to sprint
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by ludamad 5y ago
2/10 and 12/10 seem to be the dials people get set to after reacting to news/experiences
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by ludamad 5y ago
"We expect to make Scientific Word an open source product eventually. Since both Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Notebook contain the proprietary computer algebra system MuPAD, they cannot be made open source. When the open source
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by ludamad 5y ago
I'm curious about how much easier it is to optimize compiler time for macros rather than templates here. In theory they wouldn't be all that different, but in practice it doesn't seem so
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by ludamad 5y ago
Indeed, I was trying some avenues to be less introverted. Those shut down. I became worse off, but it really is a matter of what we consider the baseline
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by ludamad 5y ago
Overall, English has the same sprawl that Latin had. I suspect that frequent written communication has made drifts more subtle
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by ludamad 5y ago
"Whatever they're saying in the video, I'd like to remind everyone that the first games were played on machines that only had text mode. We're coming full circle?" You can watch the video with 2x speed and captions.
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by ludamad 5y ago
There's a key difference here in that these people agreed to be in the public sphere. Taken to the extreme though, I can see this affecting who wishes to go into politics

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