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by pmarreck 2y ago
Most forums frown on sharing such information, but seek and ye shall find. Also, it's good to leave speed bumps in place due to the ethical concerns. The last time I did it I had to basically procure an old Kindle app and get the conte
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by pmarreck 2y ago
Which is why I try to decrypt everything I purchase, or obtain a decrypted version after purchase. (The only grey-area exception is if I own the physical copy of the book, I consider it ethical to download the ebook, but this is of course d
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by pmarreck 2y ago
> and get into the gray areas of the piracy culture that's creating much of the DRM problems This is an interesting framing, mainly because it can be flipped 180 degrees around. "Shinier and more impregnable DRM just creates pr
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by pmarreck 2y ago
I own Kindles and I have bought a lot of ebook content from the Amazon store over the years but they don't seem to realize that the more restrictions they put in place, the more they are incentivizing just someone going to the effort t
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by pmarreck 2y ago
By all means, read the paper then! It's quite readable, and one of the best papers in software development IMHO
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by pmarreck 2y ago
If all cultures are forcibly considered equal, one corollary to that is that a culture itself can also never improve, or fail, because then a comparison to itself from a different age would also be forcibly considered to be equal. In that s
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by pmarreck 2y ago
> Like the race or location If all you have is a racism hammer, everything looks like a racist screed I guess. The only point I saw made is that cultures matter. There should be nothing wrong with that. You're reading malevolence i
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by pmarreck 2y ago
I find this insane, considering how important I find it now. Honestly, I didn't take enough CS to get into functional langs, but I did learn what a lambda was. The importance of it all came later, after years of struggling with bugs in
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by pmarreck 2y ago
It's massively closer than any other solution in this regard (nods to other Nix-inspired distros like Guix, Lix, etc.) Honestly, I believe every software developer owes it to themselves to read the original Nix paper. It's quite d
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by pmarreck 2y ago
Drama needs to be worked against, not expanded upon. A lot of what I’m reading seems to make me feel that drama was… not avoided by this person, putting it charitably. And I'm someone who I believe still sponsors them! Asahi Linux is a
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by pmarreck 2y ago
Never heard of the Inko language. Interesting.
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by pmarreck 2y ago
Plausible accusation, but I don't think those are mutually-exclusive. I think there is a non-zero-sum space where both sides benefit. But yeah, "The Social Dilemma (2020)" is a perfect example of suggesting that things may ha
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by pmarreck 2y ago
AI? Social media? If it's AI, it went a little too far IMHO. It's also from August 2023 ago, which is an eternity in the AI space.
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by pmarreck 2y ago
I hope Apple's answer is simply: "No."
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by pmarreck 2y ago
so basically just `sed -e`?
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by pmarreck 2y ago
FWIW, Nim (the programming language) is certainly interesting and possibly underrated. https://nim-lang.org/
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by pmarreck 2y ago
> Most programmers do not know what lambda calculus is I would frankly be shocked if a 4 year syllabus in CS these days just skipped any mention of Alonzo Church, especially considering that it's fundamental to functional programm
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by pmarreck 2y ago
> \ for anonymous functions this didn't faze me in the least because it's just a more easily typed λ, the lambda character, which has for a long time now (many decades) been used to describe anonymous functions (i.e. "lamb
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by pmarreck 2y ago
Here's mine, FWIW: 1) Nix. I finally came around after one too many bricked Linux installs, and learning Docker and being kind of unhappy with it. And while I still haven't completely mastered it, you can learn enough in a reasona
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by pmarreck 2y ago
> The problem is that the "bullies" have co-opted that system to use it for their own ends. This happened gradually so it didn't become obvious until the most recent "bully" decided he didn't even want to pr
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by pmarreck 2y ago
Did not know about non-JVM compilation. Does it include the JVM as part of the binary then? Links?
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by pmarreck 2y ago
Secure Enclave, having to use only signed apps and kernel extensions, stuff like that I imagine.
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by pmarreck 2y ago
Python is not compiled, it is interpreted, and it has many warts. Kotlin depends on the JVM and is also not compiled. Rust? Now you're talking. Except that it has warts, too.
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by pmarreck 2y ago
> I believe that this long game of Swift being "good for everything" but "better for Apple platforms" will be detrimental to the language. T uh, wasn't .NET open-sourced under exactly the same pro/con, excep
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by pmarreck 2y ago
Not sure but https://angband.live/ lets you play Angband (a purely terminal game) in the browser, or watch other people play it live, which is kind of neat
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by pmarreck 2y ago
I hate to sound like a conventional cis-man, but this is exactly the sort of situation where conventional cis-man energy is needed: Where are the CDC people growing a spine to stand up to this? This is obviously bad. The reason why bullies
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by pmarreck 2y ago
M4 Mac with unified GPU RAM Not very cheap though! But you get a quite usable personal computer with it...
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by pmarreck 2y ago
VSCode does this as well.
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by pmarreck 2y ago
Perception, not facts, primarily drive markets
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by pmarreck 2y ago
Just learned that the CEO died of mysterious causes. My jam was Audiogalaxy. One thing that has always pissed me off is the heavy-handed way the Big 3 labels have dealt with this.

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