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901.
by mst 4y ago
Shit. Also. This has actually been attempted. Urbit "infers" types from functions by executing them with type objects so the relevant bindings themselves return type objects. If you can skip over both the syntax and the creator, t
902.
by mst 4y ago
> The traditional achilles's heel of static analysis and type systems is Turing Completeness, traditional answers range from trying and giving up (Java's Object or Kotlin's Any?), not bothering to try in the first place (R
903.
by mst 4y ago
> If the text is just a view, it doesn't matter how it's written. Let everybody customize it the way they want. I don't care if you put opening brace on a new line, I don't even want to care. Interlisp did this.
904.
by mst 4y ago
I appreciate how clear you are about the chosen trade-offs and I am also quite impressed by the extent to which the install instructions include "and now here's how you check that worked" commands - I'm sure somebody rea
905.
by mst 4y ago
I agree that the supply will increase long term, but power generation capacity tends to have a fair construction lead time and I would not be surprised if it lags demand as EVs scale out.
906.
by mst 4y ago
Ah, so 'codes' is the setting for that flag that erlang's behaviour matches. Which in an old-school prolog makes complete sense, but if you can encode the 'chars' variant efficiently then that works out fine. For th
907.
by mst 4y ago
... now I want landlock redo
908.
by mst 4y ago
It was ... over-optimistic. I would -suspect- that we'll get full self driving -eventually-, but which of the companies attempting it will succeed first and how many years from now I have no idea.
909.
by mst 4y ago
Taxi quality varies wildly by location. In a lot of places that's absolutely true. In a lot of places that's a laughable idea that will probably never be true.
910.
by mst 4y ago
Same in my bit of .uk. Now, admittedly, the app I use most often is stunningly ugly and has almost zero features, but it -does- have the feature of 'reliably producing a taxi when I type my name and location into it' and so long a
911.
by mst 4y ago
The other thing to note is that early on the default configuration was optimised to score really well on trivial benchmarks rather than production workloads - including having important safety features turned off. A crashing MongoDB instanc
912.
by mst 4y ago
Which means a lot of the time they end up just caching as hard as they can and hoping that's good enough. (which is often, honestly, an entirely rational decision in terms of prioritising limited resources, but still makes me sad)
913.
by mst 4y ago
For those, like me, who weren't up to speed with why this argument is made, https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1967.htm seems to be a good summary of the problems with it. (if it
914.
by mst 4y ago
I continue to think that the difference in taxation between capital gains and dividends was a market distorting error. "Not growing noticeably but being steadily profitable" is IMO both underrated and overtaxed.
915.
by mst 4y ago
"Memetic Unit of Culture" would be an excellent Banksian Culture ship name. Edit: Got to be a GCU really.
916.
by mst 4y ago
Those two seem very different to me. Discord, to me, is "shiny consumer IRC that I hate" (I similarly consider Slack to be "shiny commercial IRC that I hate"). Whatsapp, to me, is "the thing I use to replace SMS whe
917.
by mst 4y ago
My chosen family (most of the people of my bio family I kept in touch with have passed on) are very much like that, but I keep in touch with them via a mixture of IRC, gchat and twitter DMs (fascinatingly the one member of my bio family I e
918.
by mst 4y ago
Yeah. I'm "remembers netgoth.org.uk IRC regularly having to add 'yes, livejournal is down' to /topic" years old.
919.
by mst 4y ago
There is a local company (morecambeeats.co.uk) that was set up during the covid lockdowns to provide -just- centralised online ordering to local businesses that already had delivery drivers. I first learned about them because I ordered a ke
920.
by mst 4y ago
So far as I've seen here in .uk they still have an inventory and most orders happen that way. (given them being a franchise this may not generalise beyond the locations I visit, of course)
921.
by mst 4y ago
Huh, they're still ridiculously cheap here in .uk still ... though perhaps only if you pick the least profitable things off their menu. Triple cheeseburgers reheated in the microwave with a brick of extra mature cheddar added between t
922.
by mst 4y ago
The other thing I've found is that in those cases, the toxicity of their reaction will (at least slightly) move the opinions of at least some people watching the conversation. So I tend to cut bait and move on at the point where it sta
923.
by mst 4y ago
Soft delete has always caused me more trouble than it was worth. Keeping a deleted recrords table via app code or triggers has always been more trouble than it took to build.
924.
by mst 4y ago
Once you've pledged away exec() access this doesn't seem like an issue?
925.
by mst 4y ago
jart, you are a crazy person. Nicely done and if we're ever at the same conference link this comment to me and I'll buy your next drink.
926.
by mst 4y ago
OMG OMG OMG squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee If you haven't played this, throw them a dollar, play it, then once you realise what utter brilliance it is send them more money to taste. The only thing whose dueling ridiculosity is on a si
927.
by mst 4y ago
My favourite reason is that I can move retry logic into the thing sending the HTTP request and my front end web handler thing can be significantly less stateful as a result, which makes restarting it a lot less annoying etc. etc. I'd p
928.
by mst 4y ago
I think "use a managed service until that starts to suck" is often not a bad heuristic - with a bit of luck by the time (if ever) it does start to suck you'll be familiar enough with the system that spinning up your own clust
929.
by mst 4y ago
"Makes dog walking more interesting" sounds like a killer feature to me. I'm glad you and the dog enjoyed the results.
930.
by mst 4y ago
I hate absolutely everything about this comment. If we're ever both at the same conference show me a link to this and I'll buy the first round.

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