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by nikofeyn 6y ago
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
on a related note, i am getting a massive amount of propaganda via youtube's ads. i have personalization turned off on youtube and google, so these are i guess from youtube's default ad pool or whatever. the ads i see are all sort
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
it's crazy that we've reached the time where this is a question. it just feels like web browsers are just worse operating systems but that's somehow where everyone thinks things should be. i generally hate using web-apps. the
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
these all sound interesting but the first result of laws of form on amazon shows an edition that claims the first ever proof of the riemann hypothesis, so now i am suspicious because that is obviously a falsehood. it's possible that
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
how is it not an RTOS? and national instruments and red hat are both large companies that would seem to disagree with you. national instruments has completely replaced pharlap and vxworks in their newer products with their linux real-time O
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
that's not really true anymore. it may apply to things like pharlap or vsworks, but there are more modern options that give you a nice real-time linux environment. https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us&#x2F
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
the surface pro 2 was released seven years ago. whatever your experience was then, it isn't relevant now. the surface pro line has undergone big design changes and improvements since then.
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
the price is crazy, marketing or not. what if a customer actually wants the wheels?
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
car wheels do not have brakes.
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
roger penrose is a famous mathematician, who did a lot of work in mathematical physics. he is also famous for a highly visual approach, such as penrose tiles.
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
apple has plenty of messy approaches though. they simply aren't interested in creating anything that will itself run or allow creation of anything that is intended to be used outside of their devices and ecosystem.
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
you know, i actually take back my statement to a degree. i agree with you, especially on the examples you provided. what i was thinking of is most languages. having used various ides for python, elixir, and f#, i have been rather unimpresse
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
as others have said, the little schemer (for functions) and also the little mler (for types) are purpose built to thinking about functions and types recursively. also, the coursera course programming languages by dan grossman is an ex
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
racket doesn't have any less of a solid integration into emacs (racket-mode) and visual studio code (magic racket) than most other languages.
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
even in software development, even simple automation is very, very difficult. to automate a thing in the scenario that everything works is easy. to automate a thing in the more likely scenarios of everything not working is really challengin
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
it has been proven time and time again that companies and politicians have engaged in quid pro quo. this "oh, but companies are private in the u.s." is a bunch of bull. that's exactly what they want you to think, meanwhile, t
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
> Actually, most of the propaganda here and in social media has been anti-chinese. Obnoxiously so. yes, exactly. hacker news, even more so than other sites i visit, has a very anti-chinese bend to it. however, the parent article is indee
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
i am not underestimating it all. just because other animals are violent doesn't matter or contradict what i said. additionally, a lot of what we see in the animal world in terms of violence is fighting for food and survival. yes, natur
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
> Software developers want to know whether their existing marketing methods are effective. so what?
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
> I agree that the standard assumptions about aliens are vastly negatively biased to the point of absurdity. could you elaborate?
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
this is a difficult article to get through. > Aside from a disproportionately large brain, we're fairly ordinary mammals. we're rather inadequate mammals. it is our brain in conjunction with our propensity for violence and abil
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
what is that direction?
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
> I can't say it's because I wanted to make the world a better place. i see you saying this, but i don't think you believe this. the way you ended your essay sounds like you do want to make the world a better place through
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
hideo kojima's ego and level of marketing allows him to thrust himself into the limelight more than is deserved, in my opinion. he is simply outclassed by the likes of fumito ueda and hidetaka miyazaki in terms of gameplay, and ueda an
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
this is completely absurd. why is this posted and allowed here?
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
how is the maintenance of these planes being addressed? in general, i wonder how much maintenance in overall infrastructure has been canceled or delayed and how that's going to affect things long term. it really brings into question th
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
it's unlikely an apartment building's management is familiar at all with HIPAA. it's more likely incompetence or like most things in the u.s., a lackadaisical attitude towards the viral outbreak. i doubt HIPAA applies to a gl
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
here's my other comment that talks about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23008968 even among dynamically typed languages, python is terrible. it has no real way to build up new types in a principled way, and
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
> I see we've reached the point in python's popularity where it is cool to hate it. Happened with C++, Java, Javascript, PHP, and now... Python, of all things. Maybe the least bad of all of those. first of all, this is a non-ar
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by nikofeyn 6y ago
> The vast ecosystem of python libraries is an incredibly powerful argument for using it. vast ecosystems exist in other languages as well. python is not magically the only language that has libraries. in my experience, python libraries

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