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by mantap 7y ago
It would be amazing if someone could design a programming language around debugging. There are many languages that are designed around preemptively catching bugs using a type system, and I do use static type systems, but this in no way obli
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by mantap 7y ago
Yes exactly you have to separate the abstract idea of s-expressions in memory from their textual syntax (parentheses). S-expressions in memory are a really really good idea and chronically underused in modern programming languages. The pa
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by mantap 7y ago
If they composed the image then they would own the copyright. Copyright of photographs comes from creative expression not pushing the shutter button. The exception would be if the subject was moving, e.g. at a sporting event and pushing the
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by mantap 7y ago
Newspapers don't tend to target the average consumer though. They carve out a readership, because people want to read what they want to read.
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by mantap 7y ago
The NSA had a benevolent reputation with regards to primitives, not in general. The thinking was that the NSA would not structurally weaken encryption standards, because USG uses these primitives too, so they would be shooting themselves in
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by mantap 7y ago
Yet restaurants in UK (including burger king) do sell food labeled as vegetarian or vegan, and UK commercial kitchens are definitely smaller on average than in the US. So either enforcement is lax or compliance is just not a big deal.
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by mantap 7y ago
I don't think it's really a conspiracy theory. Recall that before the Dual_EC affair, the reputation of the NSA was that they were a benevolent force that helped strengthen DES against differential cryptanalysis before it was publ
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by mantap 7y ago
Even the hot dog stand near me (UK) has separate equipment to cook vegetarian hot dogs. I don't think it's a big deal, that's just one of the obligations of selling food to the public, to honestly label things.
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by mantap 7y ago
Is that different to DNRs? It's the job of doctors to make life and death decisions. It's fine to not trust doctors; after experiencing some medical errors I don't either. But often there's no choice other than to trust
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by mantap 7y ago
In the end it's apple who loses. Customers can use Linux or Windows, but how is apple going to sell $6000 workstations and $5000 displays without even the option to install aftermarket nvidia cards? OK so Apple doesn't trust nvidi
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by mantap 7y ago
It's usually only obligatory to accept cash for settling a debt, e.g. if you have eaten in a restaurant, the restaurant is obliged to accept cash, because you can hardly give back the food you already ate (at least in the same form). B
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by mantap 7y ago
I thought this story was going to end with "and that kid was Richard Feynman"
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by mantap 7y ago
The string encoding is actually the best part of python 3. There's a large number of small feature regressions that really irritate me, like the removal of comparators, and gratuitous changes like the removal of print statements and mo
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by mantap 7y ago
My favorite knots to add to your list are adjustable grip hitch (AGH), siberian hitch, and zeppelin bend. The AGH is super easy to tie and very versatile. The Siberian is useful for tying a rope around a static object such as a pole or a tr
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by mantap 7y ago
IPA is also amazingly useful if you want to learn another language or even just learn to say someone's name correctly. Having a notation for sounds helps you to understand and speak foreign languages, because you can think of what som
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by mantap 7y ago
I know but I find it hard to believe that Colo provides no benefit. I'm guessing a large part of their AWS bill would be bandwidth since this kind of a pathological use case for AWS (streaming individual video with no possibility to us
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by mantap 7y ago
Amazon is a bad fit for this use case. Amazon's value proposition is: "you are making money, pay us a big chunk of it and we will help you scale up with less effort and fewer staff. It doesn't seem surprising to me that makin
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by mantap 7y ago
Stadia is a product designed for people who live in big cities and there's nothing wrong with that. It will work in not just SF, but any city large enough to support a datacenter, e.g. London, Paris, Singapore, etc. Anybody who doesn&#
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by mantap 7y ago
Most people game at 60fps or even 30fps. If 60fps is an unacceptable slide show you are most definitely not in the target market.
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by mantap 7y ago
iMessage is literally the single most important selling point of iPhones in the US. Apple is never going to do that.
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by mantap 7y ago
In mathematics the word used for these kinds of problems is "inaccessible", e.g. Reimann Hypothesis or (previously) Fermat'a Last Theorem. I don't know if Carmack's chances are as good as Wiles' were but certai
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by mantap 7y ago
IMO he's wrong about at least the importance of it, you can point to many tasks that are clearly not hard coded because they are recent inventions yet are difficult for a general AI (with zero task specific architecture) to perform,
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by mantap 7y ago
Yeah indeed chromium is a more efficient 2D rendering engine than what's available natively and performance of JS is comparable to Java. Electron apps being slow is mostly a developer laziness problem, not a technology problem. Making
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by mantap 7y ago
It seems like transistor density (N per unit area) would be a more useful measurement.
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by mantap 7y ago
I've given up on wireless mice and have gone back to wired. It feels futuristic! Just plug it in and it works immediately! No pairing, no charging, no dongles, and it's lighter.
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by mantap 7y ago
Maybe trashy is the wrong word, but rather "low-effort" or "repetitive". A whole lot of news articles are just regurgitated Reuters or AP. There's nothing wrong with that and it is a valuable service. But I am compl
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by mantap 7y ago
Not OP but I don't own a single device that uses USB-C. Every USB device I have uses USB-A, including a mouse I bought last month.
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by mantap 7y ago
In my experience the most valuable websites have few ads and the most trashy websites have the most.
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by mantap 7y ago
Honestly, given the lack of tooling they have now, it is pretty much perfect from a user's perspective. You are only going to use WASM if you absolutely need the performance. It's just too painful otherwise.
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by mantap 7y ago
WebAssembly is still very immature. It unsurprising that it has such a low adoption right now. I think the real problem with webassembly would be if it becomes too popular and starts to become a JS competitor rather than a complement to J

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