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by naturlich 7y ago
They cannot compel you to divulge a password, but they can mandate a thumb unlock, just as while they cannot compel you to divulge a safe combination, they can mandate you give them a key. Information versus material.
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by naturlich 7y ago
It's strongly possible the causality goes the other way.
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by naturlich 7y ago
They didn't explode when we shook hands (/tentacles/general-graspy-bits)
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If all software maintainers disappeared, which projects would you take over?
2 points by naturlich 7y ago|2 comments
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by naturlich 7y ago
This is more of a practical writeup on state machines than a theoretical one: http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/state.html You might also know these as flowcharts when applied to program flow control. I don't think I
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by naturlich 7y ago
That was the second part of my answer: a graph on paper. Draw nodes of execution and represent the branch as two arrows coming from the node and heading to new nodes. Label the arrows with the predicates of the branch. This is both defin
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by naturlich 7y ago
Indeed, I'd recommend the "interesting proof" vignettes by 3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkmNXy7er84&list=PLZHQObOWTQ... These are my favorite videos of his
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by naturlich 7y ago
You don't need to know category theory. You just need to understand a few things that came from it, like `Maybe`, which is the most obviously useful and trivially easy monad. Just forget about the fact that it's a monad and any
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by naturlich 7y ago
I agree that that is the pragmatic approach given market constraints, but the market is not providing greater value in driving this hack-and-patch approach.
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by naturlich 7y ago
The difference in those targets is that they're uncertain, and that that uncertainty compounds as you reach further into the future. I don't think the nanopass-in-reverse approach lends itself well to resolving uncertainty, becau
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by naturlich 7y ago
The alternative is to do nothing and that will result in death and destruction. If the ability to harm the environment and other people is a freedom people are up in arms about losing, it's a shitty freedom to have in the first place.