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by mst 2y ago
Given the intent to have relatively straightforward C code and a tiny runtime, you pretty much have to ditch them or you're not going to get anywhere at all. Plus honestly most of the uses of continuations that would make sense in th
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by mst 2y ago
I think that generally refactoring attempts have either failed or simply ended up bolting a bypass on the side that only helps somewhat , and most of the rest of the articles on the same site as the submission we're discussing contain
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by mst 2y ago
PLATO based lessons seem to have helped as an augment to normal style education. I don't think revolutionize is particularly on the horizon, but "doesn't really work" really depends on what you're defining your su
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by mst 2y ago
It's fantastic - I read very little book length non-fiction (because I largely read books in bed to relax, 10k+ word essays or entire documentation sites are a different matter), but it was gripping, thoughtful, beautiful, and so, so
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by mst 2y ago
Yes, although - My bull case is not that I particularly like their reforms, but that they demonstrate that substantive rather than incremental changes are possible at all. Also perhaps that they rip out things that are supposedly doing some
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by mst 2y ago
I opened the devtools to narrow the page. Given how much more aggravation I go through getting lots of sites that _do_ have formatting to contort into a shape I find comfortable to read, I found it hard to mind much.
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by mst 2y ago
foo, bar, baz, quux, fleem ... then I get stuck. Well, more usually, then I ask myself wtf I'm doing that needs that many metasyntactic variables and try and figure out an approach that doesn't. (I have no idea whatsoever where I
68.
by mst 2y ago
I tend to start off a project with typeless zero-build JS, because I've been working with dynamic languages so long that the types mostly don't actually help me find bugs in the early days, but if I don't convert it to reason
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by mst 2y ago
Much of it is such minimal translation. Much, not so much. I see JSX as basically 'compiling augmented javascript to javascript,' much of decorators is much like that as well, and things like e.g. vue's turning expressions on
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by mst 2y ago
Right, even the most opinionated of modern formatters don't go quite that far. The only thing I can think of that did is the Interlisp-D editing functionality provided by Interlisp Medley, where your code was stored within the system a
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by mst 2y ago
Having poked around https://evenrealities.com a bit: Yes. Not sure I can convince myself to spend the money to find out, but they're definitely going in the direction I was thinking of. Ta.
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by mst 2y ago
The systems *I* currently have at hetzner are, so far as I'm aware, on a "we don't charge for bandwidth but if you use a shitload you'll get throttled for the rest of the month" plan just like my ovh boxen. But I on
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by mst 2y ago
I keep my whois and NS entries elsewhere and my nameservers sufficiently distributed that I find the risk acceptable, but both hetzner and ovh are firmly in the "I have always felt I got a very cost effective 'exactly what I paid
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by mst 2y ago
Some people are wired to find disrespectful complaints and unconstructive criticism genuinely upsetting (which is unfortunate in a bunch of ways, but OTOH the same personality traits often also make for somebody who's fantastic at hand
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by mst 2y ago
I *really* wanted basically "google class without the frigging camera." Being able to overlay an 80x24 terminal over one of my eyes (and drive it with a bluetooth keyboard or whatever) would've been fantastic for me. Unfortun
76.
by mst 2y ago
People tend to vastly underestimate how much the time needed for a new hire to come up to speed costs the employer. This is true even of (theoretically simple) things like retail jobs, because even if you're proficient in the basic ski
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by mst 2y ago
> Proper preservation of where every folded token came from for byte-perfect reconstruction of the original code. I wonder if you could cheat by insisting the original code must have been run through an opinionated formatter so there&#x2
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by mst 2y ago
I can't immediately find it but somebody once said something like "on a long enough timeline, all languages become CommonLispScript with different syntax" and there's definitely some truth to that.
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by mst 2y ago
What I find truly fascinating is that given the complexity of most build systems (especially ones that use babel) basically every node project I encounter is in fact effectively transpiled, it's just it's "javascript compiled
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by mst 2y ago
This is explicitly for software that's made an active choice to not guarantee 100% compatibility between successive releases, so that outcome is a feature.
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by mst 2y ago
I don't think I agree. Part of the point is that this is for "rolling release" type software, so always implying there *could* be breaking changes is a reasonable approach - kind of a versioning equivalent of defensive progra
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by mst 2y ago
I've always been fond of blaming myself and asking everybody else to help make sure I don't cock it up a second time - when it works out I get lots of help, lots of useful feedback, and everybody else feels good about putting the
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by mst 2y ago
The article reads to me as pretty explicitly saying that the only real takeaway wrt k8s itself is "it was the wrong choice for us and then we compounded that wrong choice by making more wrong choices in how we implemented it."
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by mst 2y ago
"I am cutting this corner because I absolutely cannot make a business case I believe in for doing it the hard (but more correct) way but believe me I am still going to be low key paranoid about it indefinitely" is an experience th
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by mst 2y ago
Yeah, my hopes have the caveat of "this requires regulations to catch up to where technology is at rather than making everything worse" and in addition to my generally low opinion of politicians (the ones I've voted for absol
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by mst 2y ago
Huh. Genuinely nice to know EA circles are involving/including people who aren't already sufficiently steeped in the origin/history/context/whatever of the movement to find jargon like 'ratadj' as obvious
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by mst 2y ago
Thanks. Should've spelled that out in the first place. Too used to kicking around with people where it's a basically standard term (not always one used *positively* depending on which group of people, but I forgot it's not al
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by mst 2y ago
I was under the impression that playwright was (a very good) how your code behaves when actually running in a browser testing library, and vitest was a how your code behaves on its own testing library. But I'd tend to have relatively i
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by mst 2y ago
Circular dependencies almost always end up causing trouble *eventually* because the body of one of the modules involved has to be evaluated first (when the other participants in the cycle aren't a fully operational battlestation yet).
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by mst 2y ago
There are organisations like the Software Freedom Conservancy who, even if they themselves can't help, can probably help you try and find somebody who can. I'm not suggesting any particular maintainer *should* decide to fight, or

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