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by mftb 4y ago
Poorly. Quantity may be a quality all it's own, but that quality is poor. There is a lot of music that is not on Spotify, while other music is there but only inferior versions.
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by mftb 4y ago
I use Bandcamp. I started because many of the artists I listen too, put their music on Bandcamp. I briefly considered paying for Spotify, but at every turn they make it difficult to get to the music I want to play. Why would I pay for that?
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by mftb 4y ago
Just wacky I had to scroll this far to see Go mentioned. In certain contexts Rust is very impressive, in others Go is a much better choice. I'm really starting to hope that we'll see some of the important advancements in Rust pack
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by mftb 4y ago
While I realize that you're overstating both cases for rhetorical purposes, (that these undiscovered works are "better", and that Shakespeare is still "greater") I think that you're short-changing "discove
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by mftb 4y ago
> ...don't push it into my browser but make it a dedicated offline experience They didn't push it into your browser. You pulled it when you chose to visit their server. Sure you used to be able to set a few things like font and
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by mftb 4y ago
That's an interesting idea. I also think quantum may be to traditional computing as oil was to coal. The OP would probably just write it off as increased complexity though.
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by mftb 4y ago
I'm surprised this hasn't elicited more commentary. His thesis seemed to be pretty simple, that as we burn through our low-cost, high-return, surplus energy, our economics worsen. We then seek to remedy the problem through more en
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by mftb 4y ago
James says their winding down has, "escalated to a higher tier of support..." ;p
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by mftb 4y ago
I use several search engines, but my primary right now is startpage. It's been ok (If you'd asked me what color the page is I couldn't have told you).
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by mftb 4y ago
...and all the expressive syntax in the world just leaves the pointy-eared, spike-tailed, non-spherical cows, poking out all over the place. I pretty much agree with everything you said, and think it's a good analogy, but eventually co
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by mftb 4y ago
The smartest people have the best means to outsmart themselves. The bigger they are the harder they fall.
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by mftb 4y ago
I use a k845[0]. Excellent keyboard. Inexpensive. [0] https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/keyboards/k845-mecha...
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by mftb 4y ago
Well done, this is really cool.
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by mftb 4y ago
Hosting Go in Go is kind of an interesting idea! I enjoyed what I found on boring technology club and in general I agree, shipping is happiness, but! That's on the job. Outside of work I also do a bunch of stuff and there I do, uh... w
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by mftb 4y ago
Glad to see work continuing in this area. I've been keeping an eye out, since first reading about Gobekli Tepe (related site nearby) several years ago. If they're truly as old as purported, that's interesting.
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by mftb 4y ago
Yea, so pretty much every programmer needs to be aware of thinking about lifetimes. The classic issues are creating a local and then giving a reference to it, to something much longer lived, or even undying. In that last case, if your doing
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by mftb 4y ago
This looks pretty awesome, zero deps! I was wondering how I was gonna host other languages in my Go programs, this is a contender.
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by mftb 4y ago
Just riffing on what you all are saying, maybe an, "undo to last working state" might be, for many current environments, an easy to add minor improvement. It doesn't seem that hard to keep track of the last point in the undo
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by mftb 4y ago
What a cool thing and this thread also appears to be full of gems. I'm on a Lisp journey for the next little while, but I'll eventually get to Forth. Filing all this away for later...
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by mftb 4y ago
This was a really interesting thread. I see what you guys are talking about all around me, the mis-used liquidity or whatever you want to call it. I don't know anything about finance, so I don't know how to respond to the people,
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by mftb 4y ago
They can use SharedArrayBuffers[0] which wrap shared memory or they can pass ArrayBuffers. Node may not have the shared arrays yet, but the browsers do. [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScri
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by mftb 4y ago
Worker threads[0]. If you don't follow Javascript it's not surprising you hadn't heard about it, it's pretty new. Node also, thanks to v8, pretty much outperforms Python. [0] https://nodejs.org/api/wo
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by mftb 4y ago
All you people with your awesome HW! I recall my box just barely running OS/2, but Rexx worked fine.
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by mftb 4y ago
Yes Warp! And that was exactly it, I was blown away to control the GUI from the command-line. Good times, similar time-frame I was first playing with Linux, but there I was just excited to get my BogoMips to scroll by, after building it.
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by mftb 4y ago
lol, the other end of the HW spectrum! My i486 (could of been a 386, but not a Pentium) and I could only look on with envy!
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by mftb 4y ago
I remember Rexx. When I first installed OS/2 to try and power my BBS one of the first things I played with was writing Rexx scripts. I was sure I was going to revolutionize the command-line! By automating Presentation Mangager or was t
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by mftb 4y ago
Understood and when I was being forced to deal with it more often, I was not feeling so magnanimous either.
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by mftb 4y ago
Not sure but it's a reasonable question. I'm willing to give MS the benefit of the doubt and guess that they have generally implemented it in as light a way as possible, but that said sometimes it probably causes dire performance
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by mftb 4y ago
Thanks for doing this. Looking over some of the actual call sites and there commentary was interesting. For all the folks who say it's all totally innocuous (or even beneficial). Even if it is, I can tell you, I have no interest in my
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by mftb 4y ago
I like this answer, but it would be more compelling if a concrete case of planning and execution over a long time frame could be cited. The kind of concrete example I'm talking about is, "We set out to build x or reduce y, over 30

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