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by mpartel 8y ago
Another recent example: lockdown of ARM-based Windows machines, preventing the installation of other operating systems.
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by mpartel 8y ago
I realized I glossed over the fact that this would put other AWS/GAE customers's money at risk too. This complicates matters somewhat, and some (I believe a negligible number of) customers might switch to an unblocked competitor.
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by mpartel 8y ago
Amazon and Google are certainly within their rights to refuse this. Allowing domain fronting is likely to put quite a lot of their money at risk, so this outcome is unsurprising, but it's still the less ethical one. This might be the o
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by mpartel 8y ago
Could you elaborate? Setting us back by a decade seems like a pretty bold claim. And I say this as someone that, on balance, despises the Microsoft of the past (for monopolistic behaviour) and present (for spyware and normalizing hardware l
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by mpartel 8y ago
Stealing from the (relatively speaking) super rich can be, in some circumstances, according to a sufficiently utilitarian moral framework. One could argue that's what progressive taxes are all about. I admit it's hard for me to qu
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by mpartel 8y ago
And a monopolized OS market has probably cost zero lives. I'd let corporations get away with way worse if the profits were always used like this.
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by mpartel 8y ago
I didn't believe you would, but I fear it's a likely outcome if all that 99% of people ever use is a locked down system. Then misguided (or bribed) lawmakers will almost certainly start getting ideas about banning unlimited comput
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by mpartel 8y ago
Curated stores are fine and can indeed improve quality, but it'll be a tremendously sad day when they'll be mandated by law. Adding a 30% tax and central control on all software just because we believe users can't be taught t
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by mpartel 9y ago
C does not have particularly strict typing
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by mpartel 9y ago
LineageOS runs fine without Play Services. It's actually the default mode. It just limits your app choices. My needs are simple so I don't really mind, and I appreciate the improved battery life and speed. It turns out many apps f
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by mpartel 9y ago
I don't think so. They've released their internal guidelines here: https://opensource.google.com/docs/iarc/ In this case, the person seems to have opted for the easier "go/releasing" route
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by mpartel 9y ago
I made https://github.com/mpartel/ee-altgr-keymap which is essentially the US layout plus AltGr+A -> ä AltGr+O -> ö You could easily add å if you want.
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by mpartel 9y ago
Sounds error-prone if the notification ever fails to reach some subset of the caches. A long expiration time (e.g. several hours) is probably almost as good, but also "self-healing".
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by mpartel 9y ago
There's the high-cpu variant with only 86.4 GB of RAM
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by mpartel 9y ago
Looks like we reached maximum thread depth so replying here. I agree, the side-effectful choices are either a global, some DI container, or just passing it down. For loggers, I think global lookup from some (pluggable) logging library is ju
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by mpartel 9y ago
Ok, the point about special syntax is fair, but as I said, I'm happy with the use cases that have trickled down to mainstream, and I'd argue there aren't _that_ many truly useful ones. I realize this is very analogous to how
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by mpartel 9y ago
The standard library doesn't, and most crates don't, but I'm pretty sure nothing prevents you from writing libraries in a style where all IO requires mutable access to some explicit unique "World" object, similar to
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by mpartel 9y ago
Fair point about 'sequence'. There are probably a bunch of these I use regularly in Scala without realizing it. Though as a counterpoint, 'Future.sequence' wouldn't really lose _that_ much if it didn't return a
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by mpartel 9y ago
Don't mutable and immutable references with lifetimes count? Sure, one could argue whether the borrow checker is really part of the type system, but it's a compile-time check either way. Yes, in the standard library, an immutable
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by mpartel 9y ago
Not sure about LINQ, I thought that was "just" syntactic sugar for a bunch of collection methods. Are you refering to extension methods as an unfortunate prerequisite? But I think I get your general point: things like 'Contro
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by mpartel 9y ago
In my subjective opinion, Haskell has taken abstraction way past the point of diminishing returns, at least for the problems I tend to work on. A large portion of advanced Haskell type system features seem to be about emulating things you c
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by mpartel 9y ago
I am. I think the OP is fundamentally right about the sweet spot being pretty far from either extreme, I just disagree slightly about where exactly :) Subjectively, I use ordinary generics all the time, but see the need for HKTs only occasi
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by mpartel 9y ago
Having programmed in languages ranging from Ruby to Coq, for web apps and games, I feel the sweet spot is somewhere in the neighborhood of Java/C#, i.e. include generics but maybe leave out stuff like higher kinds and super-advanced ty
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by mpartel 10y ago
Many have realized: http://store.steampowered.com/search/?snr=1_4_4__12&term=rem...
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by mpartel 10y ago
How would one prove after the fact that they asked that question? They could just lie.
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by mpartel 10y ago
For software engineers maybe. Not everyone has that much choice, unfortunately.
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by mpartel 10y ago
Imagine something like this, wrapped in a nice and simple GUI and supporting a large and ever changing varienty of cloud providers and VPN protocols. That could strike a decent blow against spying and censorship by being significantly harde
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by mpartel 10y ago
While widening the scope in either duration or number of people would certainly help, I think this is still useful. It should still tell us to what extent the current benefits system leaves short side gigs and new small businesses on the ta

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