patrec

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901.
by patrec 7y ago
It's hopefully not hard for you to think of ways of giving offense that will greatly increase the likelihood of not dying a natural death in 2019's UK. Was that equally or more true in 1979?
902.
by patrec 7y ago
Does your list of "all possible measures" include "significantly increased likelihood of meeting a grisly end"?
903.
by patrec 7y ago
Why replace a good, short and clear word with a bad and long word that adds no information, but fewer people will understand? [Edit: I think I'm wrong about the adding no information, depending on country there might be other types of
904.
by patrec 7y ago
Whilst I'm sympathetic to the overarching point the author is trying to make (Lenin bad, more so than is generally appreciated), confusing Georgy Chicherin with Boris Chicherin does not build confidence he is the best person to make it
905.
by patrec 7y ago
I like ^Z, since it's about the only keybinding that's not used by common terminal software. To actually send a program to sleep, just double up: ^Z^Z # In ~/.tmux.conf Change prefix key to Ctrl+z unbind C-b set
906.
by patrec 7y ago
iterm2 (macOS only, alas) will make a local or remote tmux session work like a native tabbed iterm window.
907.
by patrec 7y ago
> Semour Papert and Mitchel Resnick are luminaries who helped define the landscape of computation and play for kids. Have Papert or Resnick done anything in the field of compuation and play for kids that stands up to critical empirical e
908.
by patrec 7y ago
I think that's true. Also given the dominance of C in the unix eco system, it's a more important problem to solve.
909.
by patrec 7y ago
Sure, but memory safety is irrelevant when considering C++ as a C replacement (C++'s memory safety, terrible as it is, is not worse than C's). I'm purely curious as to why you'd be able to write something in either a) C
910.
by patrec 7y ago
What features does Rust have that C++ lacks that allows it to be used as a C replacement when C++ can't be?
911.
by patrec 7y ago
If you provided something that cost $100 to produce and there are two easily and legally segregable types of customers, one who will pay the bills in 99.9% of cases and whom you charge $110 and one who pays the bills in 30% of cases, how mu
912.
by patrec 7y ago
What's even more puzzling than people figuring out complex processes with multiple non obvious steps to successfully remove increasing amounts of (slow acting) poison from plants in relatively short amounts of time is the contrast to m
913.
by patrec 7y ago
Only someone with no typographic taste whatsoever would prefer 10_000 over 10'000, so personally I'll rather cry about only C++ getting this right.
914.
by patrec 7y ago
I don't know, I'd rather not have people serving life sentences periodically spending up to a year on the lam and adding to their tally with little fear of repercussions. The high likelihood of being re-captured cuts both ways.
915.
by patrec 7y ago
Incremental compilation tends to conflict with fully deterministic builds. But you don't need incremental compilation for the final artifact.
916.
by patrec 7y ago
Assuming you develop on linux (or macOS) -- have you had a look at nix? There is a steep learning curve, but once you're there you'll never want to go back.
917.
by patrec 7y ago
Wouldn't someone have noticed the chemical corrosion – even if not specifically looking for it?
918.
by patrec 7y ago
How about outside Esperanto events?
919.
by patrec 7y ago
> Esperanto is a language where you can communicate with people that don't speak English ;) Both claims are ridiculous. Have you ever met a single person in your life who was fluent or at least good conversational in Esperanto but c
920.
by patrec 7y ago
If regular child rape trips of peers and colleagues really are casual dinner party conversation topics at top academic institutions like Harvard and common knowledge no one bothers to do anything about, one begins to wonder what else our be
921.
by patrec 7y ago
> I really hope the consternation over this is from people who work a lot with mathematical apis/systems and not devs doing more heinous things with 64bit ints. No, it's typically IDs. And my observation is that inexperienced d
922.
by patrec 7y ago
> JSON numbers are arbitrary precision. > On the other hand I am not blowing dev and qa time on learning/developing tools to replace curl/jq/browser/text editor. What a pleasant surprise it will be for you when you
923.
by patrec 7y ago
I'm pretty sure Moon (who is a famous old-school lisp hacker) will have at least some prototyping quality implementation somewhere, the design is to detailed for a mere thought experiment and there are longer code snippets around: htt
924.
by patrec 7y ago
Yes, it's sad. Even more so since there is not even a potential competitor in sight.
925.
by patrec 7y ago
Does this idiom (which turns out to be broken on rename op failure for most FSs) work reliably with ZFS (on the same filesystem)? def atomically_write(filename, data): with open(filename + '.tmp', 'w') as
926.
by patrec 7y ago
Concerning the latency problem over ssh: switching to mosh would probably help a lot (and any downside to using mosh goes away when one is using tmux anyway).
927.
by patrec 7y ago
Does anyone happen to know if ZFS also suffers from renames being non-atomic? Since ZFS is the only candidate for a reasonable file system we have anyway[+], I'd be a lot less sad if it turns out that way out of this dumpster fire is j
928.
by patrec 7y ago
It's kinda depressing that after a quarter of a century of work in the region of a hundred thousand dev years and billions of dollars of investment the world's most used operating system fails at the most basic tasks like reliably
929.
by patrec 7y ago
There are various problems with nix and the pragmatics of the language (error reporting combined with lack of static type checking, inconsistent naming conventions, evaluation speed, tooling, etc.) – but the core language itself is, IMO, ac
930.
by patrec 7y ago
Indeed – I have a hard time believing that the vast majority of people who want one of these things wouldn't also want the other.

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