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by patrec 5y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. To be frank, I would not have expected to see someone highly competent attempting to build a core product with Raku, let alone what looks to be an not entirely trivial compiler. I didn't realize that in ad
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by patrec 5y ago
But doesn't lispworks also have threading support on arm and would allow you to attach to a remote image?
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by patrec 5y ago
Interesting, I'd have assumed that LispWorks would be a much nicer development environment than CCL. Are you trying to save license fees, or do you actually find CCL nicer to work with?
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by patrec 5y ago
> Humans evolutionarily think about movement with a 2 dimensional mindset because for much of our history we only needed to think about 2d movement. That might depend on whether the aquatic ape hypothesis is true ;) More seriously, in ad
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by patrec 5y ago
> A note on my experience with tree-sitter: It's awesome in every way except one. One more: the Rube-Goldberg build setup. You need rust, npm, node and a C compiler as well as Docker or Emscripten. Tree-sitter is mostly written in R
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by patrec 5y ago
I'm sorry that you went through this. I think even a really short recording (under 20s), of a distraught, close person at some critical junction would feel very unsettling to me especially with the knowledge that it shouldn't real
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by patrec 5y ago
Wow, that's bad. It seems obvious that something like Alexa would transmit some amount of data not intended for it and that would be listened to by someone for training purposes. And probably enough data that someone remotely privacy
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by patrec 5y ago
Can you give some examples (because that sounds interesting, not because I don't believe you)?
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by patrec 5y ago
I think derivation as a new term of art is reasonable, because it's something that did previously not exist. In particular it's not an "elaborate build script. The actual derivation is basically just a json file¹ with a path-
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by patrec 5y ago
Yeah, naming a key-value data structure `set` was a really poor choice. A derivation isn't really a build script though.
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by patrec 5y ago
Yes. I find the core language elegant, but I'm not equally enamored with the "batteries". I agree that this is a big barrier to learning how to do something useful with nix, I'd say much bigger than understanding the act
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by patrec 5y ago
I think the author is quite wrong that the nix language is not very good and hard to learn. In fact it's not only the best external DSL I've seen, but also one of the few cases where inventing a new language rather than just repur
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by patrec 5y ago
> Sounds like a pretty expensive privilege. I'd be suprised if his Microsoft Regional Director and MVP status isn't worth much more than 4 figures to him. Those seeking to initiate engagements with Troy might care more about th
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by patrec 5y ago
How can $10 per TB not strike you as expensive? You can easily download that much a day on consumer broadband that will cost you far less than $10/day.
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by patrec 5y ago
You're right that silverware will tarnish much more quickly because of the addition of copper (and possibly other metals) -- so a bad example from me. But whilst pure silver is much more resilient to tarnishing, it will still slowly ta
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by patrec 5y ago
Let me guess, you don't own any silverware?
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by patrec 5y ago
Alternative headline: ivy league PhD candidate attempts some gate-keeping for his future field of employment.
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by patrec 5y ago
> Please stop non-browser development and let me pay a monthly fee for a decent browser! Unless you are a billionaire, you can't afford to. Developing a decent browser takes enormous amounts of money, good luck funding that of volun
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by patrec 5y ago
> Nuclear has been mostly replaced with renewables, while fossil fuel generation has been in slow decline as well. You may disagree with that policy, but please get your facts right. Do you have a good source? I believe you are correct t
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by patrec 5y ago
> I had someone try to send a Twitter reset code with the goal of getting me to show the code on the video. Wow -- that seems like it would be a very low risk/effort for pretty decent chance of success attack. Experienced streamers
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by patrec 5y ago
Dunno. IMO, the only good thing that can be said about The C Programing Language is that it's short. The AWK Programming Language , on the other hand, is indeed a classic.
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by patrec 5y ago
> It doesn't seem to have worked for Elizabeth Holmes or Bernie Madoff. Penalizing mass murder also doesn't seem to have worked to prevent 9/11. The question is how representative the perpetrators are in these cases. I&#x2
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by patrec 5y ago
> you don’t want to be on the opposite side of this treatment. How high is the risk, if you make an effort to behave well?
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by patrec 5y ago
> As a society, we believe in the deterrent value of punishment (which is proven not to work). Do you genuinely believe that high-IQ white collar criminals are exactly the type of person unable to do even the most basic risk-reward anal
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by patrec 5y ago
Personally, I find it desirable that people who commit massive fraud in the health care sector get punished severely (based on whatever charges they are actually convicted of), because chances are someone will actually be physically harmed
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by patrec 5y ago
Have you investigated whether this is useful for language learning? Presumably it ought to be easier to try to emulate (and compare and contrast) speech in "your own voice" (with a native accent) than someone else's. Another
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by patrec 5y ago
> Why would I want a powerful language? You clearly don't, since your aim is to write boring and forgettable code. I don't think there is anything wrong with that -- you can write boring code to solve interesting and worthwhil
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by patrec 5y ago
> Unit tests should be small, specific enough tests that they should not ever require using the database. > I don’t know if it’s laziness, IDGAF, ignorance, stubbornness, [...] My impression is that most people who think along these l
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by patrec 5y ago
Can you give a plausible use case? Filenames can't be arbitrary bytes anyway, since they cannot contain '\0' and '/'. What's a realistic example where it's really useful to be able to stuff arbitrary
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by patrec 5y ago
And how would that be even remotely useful? Unless something changed recently, FUSE has so much overhead it's only useful for niche applications and prototyping.

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