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by nrr 2y ago
I like the idea of PowerShell, but my constant lamentation is that it doesn't go deep enough to be considered a true shell. Many of the things that I lean specifically on bash or ksh or cmd.exe or yori.exe for ultimately lead to breaki
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by nrr 2y ago
Conspicuously missing are Ada's arrays, which I feel properly take Pascal's to 11 due to the fact that describing their index bounds need not also prescribe that arrays statically allocate that much storage, as in `type Unsigned_B
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by nrr 3y ago
Do they have 20,000? Where are you getting that figure from?
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by nrr 3y ago
Out of curiosity, where did that number come from? I can't verify it.
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by nrr 3y ago
Bingo, but Tesla also likely wouldn't have built those without sizable grants to do so, just as Electrify America did with settlement money. I'm unsure whether that's a high-enough margin part of their business to warrant tha
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by nrr 3y ago
The challenge is balancing competing incentives: you need the infrastructure to be built, but you also need people to consider EVs as their next vehicles. The additional challenge is building the trust in the infrastructure required to make
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by nrr 3y ago
It could be, but given that I'm not paid to hyperfocus, destroying my productivity seems like a sensible alternative in light of necessarily needing to work with other people. The timer is pretty unobtrusive. It goes off, I write one o
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by nrr 3y ago
The odd part is that the recurring timer actually calmed me down. I can't perceive the passage of time, so having a prosthetic that forces me to ground myself periodically in the moment has been a blessing. I use an Apple Watch, and it
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by nrr 3y ago
As something of a corollary, set a timer to go off every 15 minutes (or otherwise regularly enough that it isn't obtrusive to you) such that you're poked to checkpoint what you're doing throughout the day. This was necessary
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by nrr 3y ago
"… even if the execution could be better." The execution could be so, so much better. I also think a lot about how some parts of PowerShell were inspired by CL on IBM i, and I find that I'm similarly frustrated when I can&#
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by nrr 3y ago
"We should be expanding our horizons beyond what 1970s programmers found convenient …" You're right; we should be going back to the Lisp and Smalltalk machines of the 1980's. In that sense, I've found PowerShell to
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by nrr 3y ago
Funnily enough, Plan 9 implements a kind of proto-capability security environment given how namespaces work. You have to squint a bit at it, but the semantics are mostly there. Of particular note, the maxim "you can't attack what
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by nrr 3y ago
Wait, touch panels don't need inventory management?
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by nrr 3y ago
The raisons d'être between the CLR (and C#) and Swift are entirely different. Apple has explicitly set out to adopt Swift as a successor language to C, Objective-C, C++, and Objective-C++[0][1]. This stands in stark contrast to Micro
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by nrr 3y ago
Again, you aren't wrong, and it's actually a lament of mine that these peripheral processors aren't themselves under the purview of the kernel's scheduler for their tailor-made tasks or that the code that runs there isn&
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by nrr 3y ago
I don't disagree, but for the sake of having productive conversations, it's easiest to acknowledge that this is a matter of one's frame of reference. Are you technically correct? Yes. How much does that matter at the end of t
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by nrr 3y ago
No. I classify storage (read: DASDs, not main memory) as universally cursed.
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by nrr 3y ago
I'm unsure whether it's worth splitting hairs over the definition of what a distributed system is. If you have to linearize concurrent access to shared resources, that's where the bulk of your pain will come from. In the dist
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by nrr 3y ago
I don't necessarily disagree, but the proposed mechanisms for controlling that market supply seem hard to enforce with the current millage regime. Any hushed talk of expropriation also risks eliciting thoughts of eminent domain. It&#x2
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by nrr 3y ago
Sure. The long and short of it comes down to how appraisals work, especially in the context of supply-constrained housing markets. Buyers with means in supply-constrained markets don't really care about a seller's asking price (re
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by nrr 3y ago
It's mostly that I find property values as a proxy for acquisition prices somewhat disingenuous because it perpetuates thinking of single-family houses as the housing model given that's what presently exists to be valued. If you
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by nrr 3y ago
I think my hangup is that there's a conflation between a property's value (which, right now, is some appraisal of a parcel given nearby comparable parcels by some metric) and a home's acquisition price. In the SFH case, they
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by nrr 3y ago
Is it? I can see lower acquisition prices being necessary for growth, but property values as we know them presently are tied to land, the increased value of which is the push to densify. You also want the natural increase (well, Prop 13 per
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by nrr 3y ago
Is lowering property values a favorable outcome?
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by nrr 3y ago
This is a weird nostalgic blast from the past for me. A teacher of mine in high school had a cart of these for his English composition classes, and I never got a chance to dig into what was actually inside one.
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by nrr 3y ago
That's correct. The muddled subtext (sorry about that) is that managers tend to mangle these things that are meant to be good in order to inflict yet more psychological damage.
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by nrr 3y ago
The irony is that the Agile manifesto was a response in part to trauma induced by bad management. To quote an excerpt from "History: The Agile Manifesto:"[0] »Kent Beck tells the story of an early job in which he estimated a progr
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by nrr 3y ago
You'll note that I didn't address the VMS rewrite at all.
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by nrr 3y ago
"The NT kernel, a rewrite in C of the VMS kernel (which itself was written in assembler), presented three APIs to userland: Win32, POSIX, and OS/2." Not quite. I'd rephrase this as "NT presented three userland perso
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by nrr 3y ago
I don't disagree that more resolution is needed, but we do need to start somewhere when it comes to what truly is rural. For me, the occasional farm interspersed between single-family homes (or the occasional subdivision of single-fami

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