mordocai

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by mordocai 10y ago
As far as vs Go or Swift or Lisp, Rust is much "closer to the hardware"(as discussed in other threads nothing is really close to the hardware anymore) than the other languages, go and most lisps use GC which causes problems in man
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by mordocai 10y ago
One thing I don't understand and maybe someone can take the time to explain. Why does it have to be this "Dark Matter" causing the mass differences we've been seeing? How do we know it isn't undetectable-through-nor
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by mordocai 10y ago
This is excellent. I hadn't read it before. Seconded that everyone should read it.
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by mordocai 10y ago
Being close to the issue is often a disadvantage. I don't know enough to say whether that is the case here, but I trust the opinion of a non-profit organization established to defend my rights over an ex-NSA security firm CTO whom I ad
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by mordocai 10y ago
Pandora's Star is the first book of a series that explores many of these themes as well.
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by mordocai 10y ago
I thought https://apisyouwonthate.com/ was pretty good, assuming REST API.
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by mordocai 10y ago
All of the things the governments are trying to do won't (and shouldn't) work though. We can work around their attempts. If the government wants data, it should get it at rest not during transmission. They can get a warrant to get
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by mordocai 10y ago
I would wager humankind would have progressed quite a bit less personally.
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by mordocai 10y ago
Only thing I'd add is that homoiconicity is a big selling point that python doesn't have either. So "macros, a focus on recursion, and homoiconicity" might be the short list of things lisp has that python doesn't. (
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by mordocai 10y ago
> But having one main syntactic and data structure- the list- is what makes LISP annoying too. You have to translate other syntax and data structures into lists. This is what macros (especially reader macros) are for. Just translate it o
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by mordocai 10y ago
wordpress.com. They deal with the security updates so you don't have to, and they have support for ssl now.
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by mordocai 10y ago
I'm not swayed by the arguments. I think legible print handwriting and computer typing is what should be taught. However, this article is all i've read about the issue so what do I know about it? My daughter is about to enter scho
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by mordocai 10y ago
I can practically guarantee that iphone, windows phone, blackberry, etc also have similar exploits out there being used by nation state level attackers and the people who sell to them. But yes, android is a bit more "wild west"&#x
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by mordocai 10y ago
The main problems we ran into with shrinkwrap were: It shrinkwraps everything in your current node_modules directory. This includes platform specific dependencies that may not work on other platforms but now will cause npm install to fail i
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by mordocai 10y ago
It might be good to point out to you that the general industry cares very little about things like this. Racket could have literally the most advanced and robust type system out of all programming languages in existence, and still be used b
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by mordocai 10y ago
Did not know that! Thanks.
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by mordocai 10y ago
> * All current package managers are either language or OS specific. What if you have an application with code written in multiple languages? guix and nix both work cross-language and cross-distro. Still OS specific though since only lin
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by mordocai 10y ago
Those 5 lines probably had 100s if not thousands of lines backing them. Maybe best to say 'fewer lines of code executed' as it doesn't really matter whether those lines are in a library or in your project, they still have a c
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by mordocai 10y ago
> Maybe a computer you can trust but I wouldn't say any computer. I consider the shared PC you'd find in a hotel business center to be the digital equivalent of a diseased hooker. I'd be impressed if it didn't have a
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by mordocai 10y ago
This is 100% why my site is not ipv6
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by mordocai 10y ago
The industry as a whole
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by mordocai 10y ago
Anyone know why i'd want to use this over duckduckgo? Is it more private or something? Their about page doesn't seem to offer anything compelling over duckduckgo.
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by mordocai 10y ago
We have had very good success with sensu. We like it better than nagios, but I haven't used many others so can't really say that sensu is better than everything.
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by mordocai 10y ago
I don't know if the data is there to make that claim.
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by mordocai 10y ago
Yeah, it is also cheaper than I can buy lunch by going out or getting delivery.
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by mordocai 10y ago
Soylent? I mean, it isn't really for "engineers too busy to take a break from coding". That's just the way the journalist chose to phrase it (and I found it hilarious as a soylent consumer). Its basically the same idea a
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by mordocai 10y ago
I'm am perfectly happy to be called nerd/geek but call me a bro-grammer and you will definitely piss me off. (and I'll hate myself a little for inspiring someone to call me a bro-grammer)
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by mordocai 10y ago
> The reason there are fewer of them is because fewer of them are interested. Which is at least somewhat due to societal pressures though.
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by mordocai 10y ago
You can only modify it legally if you have an active license though, assuming I'm reading the software license correctly.
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by mordocai 10y ago
So you are only allowed to point out problems that you yourself don't suffer from?

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