mpoteat

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   by mpoteat 7y ago

   Am I having a stroke? This article has a lot of words but doesn't seem to have any actual meaning. A parody about business buzzwords?
2. 182.▲
   by mpoteat 8y ago

   Bitmain makes huge margins on selling equipment, not mining. They make shovels in the gold rush.
3. 183.▲
   by mpoteat 8y ago

   The language description declares it is safe, but since you can dereference raw pointers, the language is not memory safe. Maybe it should be made clear that you are not claiming memory safety.
4. 184.▲
   by mpoteat 8y ago

   I imagine the machines are also quite loud, which would be sensory input. I haven't read the paper, but I wonder how they handle that.
5. 185.▲
   by mpoteat 8y ago

   I don't see transparency as necessarily a virtue to optimize over everything else, or even a terminal good in itself. Consider: Would it be wise for a CIA agent to run an "Everything I know" site? No, because they could be t
6. 186.▲
   by mpoteat 8y ago

   This may be against a TOS, but I'm sure if you changed your User Agent to match a common web crawler you would observe... something.
7. 187.▲
   by mpoteat 8y ago

   I wonder if this formalism can be applied to Typescript. I occasionally come across tricky typing problems with higher order functions like "flatten" that this might be helpful for.