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by nine_k 2y ago
Lines of code is a poor metric, because languages use lines differently. A much better measure would be the number of nodes in a parse tree, of semantically meaningful non-terminals like "a constant" or "a function call"
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by nine_k 2y ago
It's a nice interpretation. I prefer a different approach: "smart is good; clever isn't smart". If you have to express something in a clever, that is, highly contrived but actually working way, it means that you lack the
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by nine_k 2y ago
Not that it's impossible to remember, bit it's definitely contrary to most traditional use of the symbols employed in it, though not without logic. My favorite is the functions from io package, called 0, 1, and 2 (yes, numbers) wh
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by nine_k 2y ago
OTOH if you can't read the sign where to turn right, you can keep turning left, make a full circle, and check the signs again, and again if needed, in under half a minute. All without creating a problem to anyone around you, and being
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by nine_k 2y ago
"Weird nonfiction" is a weird name for it, because it still pretends it's nonfiction. I'd rather call it in a more distinct and weird way, say, "ficnontion".
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by nine_k 2y ago
Thank you, that's a nice take! As J.L.Borges aptly noted, a serious artist produces not only successors but also predecessors. (Regarding Miyazaki, I could not miss an animator who was praised so highly by Kurosawa. I learned about the
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by nine_k 2y ago
In a tall building, you have more floors that house energy consumers, for the same amount of the roof space. This means that the energy captured offsets a smaller share of the electricity consumed by the building, and the complexity may not
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by nine_k 2y ago
Some of them do, even here in NYC. A quick look on Google maps e.g. over roofs of Brooklyn, where buildings are much lower and roofs are wide, shows a large amount of solar panels on more flat buildings, like stores, warehouses, or hospital
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by nine_k 2y ago
The description of the payloads and of the hiding methods was educational though. Other malwares likely use similar techniques after the initial penetration.
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by nine_k 2y ago
The landlords may install such panels, and pocket the savings / profit from generation. BTW from my back-of-envelope calculations, the panels are the cheapest part, the inverter / charger costs more, and batteries to sustain sever
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by nine_k 2y ago
(Ideally it should be #!/usr/bin/env descend, to folloe the style.)
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by nine_k 2y ago
What do you mean "graphics are bad" in Ravenfield? It's not photorealistic, but it's a game . Tetris is also not photorealistic. But it's a great game about plastic soldier figures using plastic toy battle gear to
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by nine_k 2y ago
Audio amplification also exists on operatic stages, even very prominent [1]. Moreover, you can get very good, wonderful, excellent recordings of basically any classical opera, both old and modern performances, for a pretty acceptable price.
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by nine_k 2y ago
I'm only comparing development experience and, so to say, the conceptual environment. Verily, Rails can be a pretty good and compact way to serve backend APIs for a React-based frontend. But the API boundary is the "narrow waist&q
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by nine_k 2y ago
I would say React is (so much) better because it's functional, immutable, one-way, almost declarative. In comparison, stuff like ActiveRecord is very imperative, shared-mutable-state thing. For React-based code you usually take a langu
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by nine_k 2y ago
Consider the fact that, say, at the time when Verdi was rabidly popular, late 19th century, there was no iTunes, no TV, no CDs, cassettes, or vinyl records, and no music radio. Live performances ruled supreme, among all classes. It's t
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by nine_k 2y ago
Speaking of modern terms, I suppose the Iliad's "books" would be named "episodes", and the Odyssey would be "the next season".
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by nine_k 2y ago
In 19-century Italy, opera was about as popular as pop music today. As an artist, you certainly can change (some of) the world if you do art which people care about. If you do refined academic portraits, or [adjectives expunged] postmoder
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by nine_k 2y ago
All the 1000 of your mailing list subscribers? Or maybe 10k. You start needing alternatives when you're already established and have a following. With this comes large enoug influence and thus the ability / risk to step on some bi
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by nine_k 2y ago
While you're tiny, you need discoverability a lot. But even if YouTube bans you and deletes all your videos, you lose relatively little. The bigger you are, the more well-known, the larger is your following, and the more the whole ente
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by nine_k 2y ago
Mail lists go far, but retweets go wide. Different tools for different purposes.
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by nine_k 2y ago
If you are a "YouTube creator" , you have already firmly planted your castle on Google's land. The positioning of onself as bound to a particular website run by someone else is needless loss of independence. Position yoursel
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by nine_k 2y ago
> Immigrants and children of immigrants are over-represented That's exactly the bias. Immigrants are self-selected for higher risk tolerance, higher endurance, often wider or deeper knowledge, and readiness to think hard and wor
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by nine_k 2y ago
> the barrier for entry was incredibly high Hmm, for some values of "incredibly". John Carmack, a juvenile delinquent, dropped out of university and went on career programming, soon upending the game industry. Linus Torvalds
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by nine_k 2y ago
Indeed. If I google for 30 seconds, and see a stark contradiction with what somebody offers, I try not to conclude that that the guy in question is a fool. This is always possible, but rarely true. Instead I conclude that likely my unders
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by nine_k 2y ago
That's an appreciable integrity assurance! Mine is simpler: Syncthing with staggered versioning for important data, periodic Restic backups of the home directory (excluding caches), keeping several recent backups and a couple of older
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by nine_k 2y ago
If what you say may have legal implications, it might be wiser to just say "no comments" for some time, while seeking proper counseling. "Not DMCA" and "not GitHub" is plenty already. But maybe it's a poss
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by nine_k 2y ago
Indeed; I know and use it. But it's per file, and not very configurable. It's not very helpful is you e.g. have a 1 GB file that gets appended 100 kB every day; Syncthing would store a new full-size copy in each version (immediate
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by nine_k 2y ago
With 30+ years of history, GNU userland is also "traditional". But it's not BSD, and Apple is not a big fan of GPL.
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by nine_k 2y ago
Syncthing is great, but it's peer to peer, and it requires block storage ("filesystem"). It also has no idea of point-in-time snapshots. Syncthing, is, as is unison, rsync, etc, basically a mirroring tool. By contrast, Borg,

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