mostlylurks

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by mostlylurks 3y ago
The nordic layout(s) offer such a mechanism to allow people to type in letters that you'll find in various other European languages, even though the extra letters used in the languages themselves (ÅÄÖÆØ) are present as their own keys.
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
As a European, no I don't. á isn't used in my language, but my layout offers it via a dead-key-then-base-letter mechanism, and it is correctly treated as one unit when pressing backspace, anything else would feel incorrect. It wou
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
Many of the freely available things I consume online are funded by voluntary support from dedicated groups of fans, on patreon etc, and which spread mostly by word of mouth. This requires neither a subscription for the content in question n
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
Modules are obviously the best solution for this purpose, but not the only one. Even in C, which has neither modules nor namespaces, you can avoid prefix collisions with a little bit of macro usage by making the prefix configurable in such
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
The written word may be superior to speech in conveying information efficiently, but only if you assume that the recipient is willing and capable of engaging with the medium. Unfortunately, that does not apply to most people you will encoun
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
> It doesn’t matter. It’s garbage content and immediately recognizable as being AI generated. Is it? How do you immediately recognize a book as AI generated before buying it, if the author isn't doing something silly like releasing
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
> This is only a problem for someone terminally online. Is it? Even those whose social life is entirely IRL, they still have to increasingly interact with various businesses, banks, healthcare providers, the government, and often more di
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
A piece of human-written content and a piece of AI-written content may have similar value if we cannot distinguish between them. But if you can add the information that the human-written content was written by a human to the comparison, the
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
What you say is not in conflict with AI-generated content being white noise. Even if you find some piece of AI-generated content useful, it is still white noise if it is merely combining pieces of information found in its dataset and the re
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
That argument might work for content which serves a purely informational purpose, such as books teaching the basics of programming languages, for instance, but it doesn't work for art (e.g. works of fiction) because most of the potenti
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
The fact that the US even has a booking system and restricted access to national parks is indicative of a larger issue, that issue likely being that the number of national parks you have is far too low, and that they are too distant from wh
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
AI by no means necessitates de-anonymization, though I have no doubt that that will be the narrative that politicians and corporations will run with as an unquestionable truth. All you need is something that implements a mix of a reputation
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
Not super relevant for lodash in particular, but another reason for why someone might want to do this is dependency hell. At least with code you write yourself, you know that the author(s) won't keep changing the API (very common in th
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
Calling these "FP wrappers" is doing quite a disservice to functional programming, which by no means necessitates that functions are curried, and which is basically the idiomatic way of writing javascript / typescript these d
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
> Is functional style dead? No, the javascript ecosystem is just full of people who have taken some pattern that occurs frequently in functional programming, such as currying, to itself be functional programming, and thus write wrappers
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
I wonder if anyone has built a system with the philosophy of the opposite extreme. "Oh yeah, space is cheap, so I just let my automated system make 10,000 commits per second. It'll be fine."
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
You can also do the same with templates quite easily, but the resulting compile times are going to be absolutely atrocious.
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
>bus Mandarin chinese: 公共汽車 (gōnggòng qìchē)
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
The word for grandma is "isoäiti", at least in sentences like "I went to visit my grandma last weekend". Monikers such as "mummo" are borrowed from Swedish, which means that not too long ago, the finnish langua
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
Do they still call it Jīqì"rén" if it's not human-like? Like a vacuuming robot or a robotic arm at an assembly line?
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
>no [...] Non, niet, nein These are all from the same language family (the indo-european language family), so it's no wonder that there are still noticeable similarities in a word this fundamental even after thousands of years of di
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
> First, words aren’t really related to sound. No, but they are related to a naturally occurring medium of language, of which there are only two notable ones: the human voice, and signing. Written languages are simply codified representa
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
I am not. Not everyone subvocalizes, and for some people, like myself, an inner monologue narrating what you read is voluntary. I might choose to have the latter if I'm reading a book for enjoyment, but if I'm just reading comment
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
It is not detachment from reality. Those of us that are comfortable with compiling some of the programs we use from source don't by any means expect ordinary users to be capable of doing the same. It's an option that works for us
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
Array programming doesn't really have much effect on how relevant a type system is for a particular language. At most it will let you make operations generic over the rank of the inputs (scalar, array, array of arrays, etc), which is n
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
Perhaps, but this must not be falsely equated with a situation where every user must either tolerate ads or pay for content. The non-obvious distinction lies in that it is actually quite feasible for a small subset of dedicated fans to supp
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
The crucial difference is that with FOSS, unless a piece of software has some particularly gnarly and/or finicky dependencies, you can easily bypass whatever is in your package manager's repositories and just use the version you w
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
> An early abstraction that would've grouped those coincidentally similar pieces of code would then have to stretch to cover both evolutions. This seems to be the underlying assumption behind most uses of the "duplication is ch
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> I've watched too many "common" functions grow over time with way too many arguments, too many conditionals, and way too confusing for anyone to easily follow. This is not the fault of the abstraction. This is the fault o
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by mostlylurks 3y ago
"Not possible" is an exaggeration. For a retained mode GUI library, you could, for instance, have the event loop of the library run on a separate thread, and provide functions to modify the widget tree and read events that have oc

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