newacctjhro

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by newacctjhro 7y ago
Just like the Catholic inquisition was a desperate attempt to exercise control all the while the Church was losing the ideological battle.
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by newacctjhro 7y ago
> Now this might seem like a hack, but it really is not. Most languages would either ask the programmers to explicitly call free() or implicitly call a magic runtime.deallocate() within a complex garbage collector. The compiler actually
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by newacctjhro 7y ago
I mean. He wanted to rebuild a forest. That's pretty ambitious but he needed money. Some evil company gave him money. Why should he refuse? Do you think that, in order to avoid giving Vale some PR, it would be better to refuse the mone
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by newacctjhro 7y ago
This might work for hard sciences, but not for mathematics. Or, I dunno, paleontology or sociology or other stuff.
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by newacctjhro 7y ago
The difference is that web apps are on a tight sandbox.
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by newacctjhro 7y ago
Go needs to allocate a growing stack on the heap, needs to move it around, etc. It's not as efficient as Rust's async.
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by newacctjhro 7y ago
This makes sense. Thanks for the insight.
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by newacctjhro 7y ago
This kind of stuff should be on the stdlib if it's meant to be idiomatic.
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by newacctjhro 7y ago
> Otherwise it's impossible to answer questions like: "If the Lagrangian formulation put space and time on equal footing, and if the Hamiltonian formulation gives a preferred role to time (generating time evolution), could we
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by newacctjhro 7y ago
Doesn't Pocket require a sign in too?
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by newacctjhro 7y ago
This stuff feels like a proof of concept that isn't really integrated to the rest of the language (Kinda like OCaml's OO). For example, it's unfortunate that Type, UniqueType and BorrowedType are different kinds (in Rust, the
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by newacctjhro 8y ago
This is called compatibilism and yeah it seems to be a mainstream view in the academic debate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibilism https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compatibilism/
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by newacctjhro 8y ago
bitcoins introduce an artificial scarcity with its mining algorithm (there's only so much bitcoins out there)
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by newacctjhro 8y ago
FISA is a rubber stamp court with zero oversight. In America they spy on dissidents too. It's just a matter of calling them terrorists. https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/privacy-and-surv...
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by newacctjhro 8y ago
> Ugh if you read the article, you would know that the UB described here is the same in Rust. Rust doesn't have a formal memory model yet, but it's already known that UB in Rust is quite restricted: https://doc.rust-
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by newacctjhro 8y ago
> Same is true for DE's I think. Many of the things that differentiates DE's could probably be offered as configuration within one DE, with less workload but no or very little reduction in diversity. Perhaps if this DE is KDE.
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by newacctjhro 8y ago
> If you want the service supervised, there's supervisord or daemontools or while true ; do flakeyserver; done. Or systemd, which is fine for many use cases.
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by newacctjhro 8y ago
That's cool! Do you know how RenrakuOS compares to Singularity and Midori? (IIRC they were also managed and ran .NET stuff)
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by newacctjhro 8y ago
Hey, does MNT Reform run coreboot?
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by newacctjhro 8y ago
It wasn't an easter egg, it was advertising. Preinstalled in my fucking web browser.
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by newacctjhro 8y ago
Dude, Wordpress supports RSS, and it powers the web. For those that use it, RSS works just fine.
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by newacctjhro 8y ago
Resolution isn't really brute force search, in that it doesn't search all possible solutions at random; the search is directed by the programmer's rules. But yeah, it involves quite a lot of backtracking, that happens when th
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by newacctjhro 8y ago
You can't take the code as-is and turn it into proprietary code. You need to build a derivative work that contains the permissive code plus some other proprietary stuff.
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by newacctjhro 8y ago
This confusion/imprecision is only common among non-technical people. When a software project describes themselves as open source, in the overwhelming majority of cases they actually mean this https://opensource.org/osd
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by newacctjhro 8y ago
I would add Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming. It's about programming paradigms in general, and helps in contextualizing functional programming in a broader context https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr
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by newacctjhro 8y ago
it's probably better to use capabilities (as in: having a secure handler to some resource means having some kind of access to it), instead of ACLs. As in Sandstorm (see https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/usin
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by newacctjhro 8y ago
And it's due to bloat; the same kind of bloat that leads people to add megabytes of javascript and other resources to simple articles.
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by newacctjhro 8y ago
Unsafe Rust has a little less rope than C because there are less cases that can lead to undefined behavior (see https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/what-unsafe-does.html and https://doc.rust-lang.org/refe
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by newacctjhro 8y ago
You're building equity with the difference between rent (plus repairs etc) and the mortgage. The renter isn't.