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by moomin 2y ago
Gotta love the fact they go “Hey, look how great France’s infrastructure is.” and then immediately advocate for yet more private infrastructure deals without mentioning that France’s infrastructure was largely government funded (using those
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by moomin 2y ago
Anyone remember J#?
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by moomin 2y ago
I mean, for one-off projects the RPi is plenty cheap. You’ve gotta have some scale for the cost difference to compensate for the convenience of working with a broad-based platform.
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by moomin 2y ago
Since we’ve brought up the question as to whether Molyneux is overly enthusiastic or just dishonest, I invite you to rewatch this 2009 demo and make up your own mind: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CPIbGnBQcJY&pp=ygUMUHJv
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by moomin 2y ago
I feel like the guy has skill, but it’s unreliable as to whether he’ll employ it, get preachy or wander off entirely.
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by moomin 2y ago
Uncharitable, yes, but bluntly, he’s got form. Look at Dodge in Reamde. And I dunno about age improving it. Niven and Pournelle’s politics just looks kind of ridiculous now, even if you don’t know exactly who they had a bee in their bonnet
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by moomin 2y ago
I think the problems started with Cryptonomicon. The book is great, but it’s very apparent the final act of the book is just missing. He clearly ran out of time and just slapped something together and it was hugely well received (and with g
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by moomin 2y ago
Yeah, it’s where I stopped as well. Although honestly I should have stopped when it became clear the Baroque cycle was just going to be him talking about stuff he found interesting with no coherent narrative.
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by moomin 2y ago
Unfortunately the political plot is “Hillary Clinton fails to engage with reality and it falls to genius billionaire Elon Musk and a self-insert modelled on Neil deGrasse Tyson and a self-insert to save the day.” which has, and I think this
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by moomin 2y ago
I recall when the book originally came out a lot of people said the scenario was implausible, so I have questions: * If you’ve only simulated 1000 pieces, what is the likelihood they just don’t hit each other? (Space is pretty big.) * How b
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by moomin 2y ago
Honestly hated Seveneves, it marked the point where I stopped reading Stephenson. With that said, I agree the final part of the book is the most interesting by far.
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by moomin 2y ago
Indeed, by revenue the U.K. is a bigger manufacturer than it has ever been. But it’s all things like jet engines and other high value items. Whether that’s a good or bad thing is a matter for protracted debate.
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by moomin 2y ago
I guess my question is how much a custom bridge is needed with the C++ integration. (I understand the bridge will always be better in some sense, but I’m also interested in what it would be like to just ignore it and target the C++ API dire
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by moomin 2y ago
I’m honestly not usually that interested in feature lists for languages I don’t use, but this really does look quite compelling. Ownership semantics and C++ integration? Sign me up. I’d be interested to know how good this integration is in
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by moomin 2y ago
Honestly they should pay me for the use of my home as office space. It’s not free to maintain.
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by moomin 2y ago
The joke is, this is what it comes down to: a question of who has the most negotiating power. It’s not a question of what’s best for the employees. It’s not even a question of what’s best for the company. It’s all about who has coercive pow
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by moomin 2y ago
I’m reminded of the thesis of “Parasite”: that niceness is a privilege those on the breadline cannot afford.
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by moomin 2y ago
Sum types are finally coming to C#. That’ll make it the first “Mainstream” language to adopt them. Will it be as solid and simple as Haskell’s implementation? Of course not. Will having a backing ecosystem make up for that deficiency? Yes.
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by moomin 2y ago
No lies detected. I love Haskell, but productivity is a function of the entire ecosystem, and it’s just not there compared to most mainstream languages.
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by moomin 2y ago
And it is welcome to leave the EU and cut whatever deals they like if they think that's gonna benefit their citizens. But they're not going to do that, because the value of being in the EU vastly outstrips the inconvenience of thi
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by moomin 2y ago
A good way of thinking about the EU is as a solution to the prisoner's dilemma.
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by moomin 2y ago
Now I’ve never used it, but there’s always a case with an engine with its own objects to have a language that understands those objects natively. Unreal Engine started out that way.
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by moomin 2y ago
If you really do want your code to be searchable, here’s a couple of practices I’ve adopted: 1) Eliminate spelling mistakes. Eliminate alternative spellings. UK vs US English? Pick a side and stick to it. 2) Eliminate contractions. Or keep
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by moomin 2y ago
I feel like just linking to the article that explained why gut microbiome research is so difficult.
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by moomin 2y ago
Pretty sure Rust's compile times are a function of the complex type system and generic instantiation. Everything's a trade-off.
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by moomin 2y ago
As for the pronunciation, thanks for the tooling, but we’ll take it from here.
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by moomin 2y ago
Yeah, the took an age delivering it, then it came out and most of the early reports were “It’s still not ready.” and then I think Microsoft just gave up. I think not supporting Linux was a tactical error, though. Some people will put up wit
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by moomin 2y ago
I note that if future generations had decided the columns were great and should stay the letter would never have been found.
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by moomin 2y ago
It is a source of wonder to me that every programming language I know has to go through this process where the design half-asses time handling and end up coming back decades later with a whole new API which, inevitably, fewer people use tha
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by moomin 2y ago
I haven’t heard that one before but it’s on the nose. I have heard Euclid’s much older “There is no royal road to geometry”.

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