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by pygy_ 5y ago
When you look at a Ramda-based JS code base, all there is to look at is function calls. Such code eschews most statements. Piping is a common operation, though, and having dedicated syntax makes the code more readable. For those code bases
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by pygy_ 5y ago
I'm tying loose ends in my head that probably have long been tied in other ones... Reading this next to the comment making a parallel between the black hole event horizon and the cosmological horizon... Wouldn't this give credence
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by pygy_ 5y ago
I didn't expect justifications. I just wanted to point out how wrong you were, and how petulant your reaction was when it was pointed out (several times), just in case it may help open your eyes. Obviously it didn't.
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by pygy_ 5y ago
Neither are being pedantic. There's a pretty large difference (a complete categorical one, actually), between not existing and having been influenced. Your dismissive tone all around is pretty jarring too. You were factually, categor
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by pygy_ 5y ago
Contraction : A portmanteau word is similar to a contraction, but contractions are formed from words that would otherwise appear together in sequence, such as do and not to make don't, whereas a portmanteau is formed by combining two
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by pygy_ 5y ago
Yes, the value of USD value is proportional to the power of the US government (and its judiciary/police/army)... The power to let the private sector flourish, mainly. The value of Crypto comes from the decentralization (no need fo
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by pygy_ 5y ago
More generally, it is very hard to turn a useful, indirect metric into a useful target, because of perverse, unforeseen incentives. It is the correlation/causation problem, often times the metric is not causal to your success.
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by pygy_ 5y ago
There’s only one way to know for sure...
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by pygy_ 5y ago
Even then, frame shifts are one off events, so you’d end up with a single instance of an oncogene that would quickly get recycled.
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by pygy_ 5y ago
This is a free, indie interactive fiction about network troubleshooting. I mean, it could have been made as a server-side app, but going SPA makes sense here from a practical standpoint.
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Hehe :-)
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I actually bounced from the text at that point as well. It taints the whole thing and makes it feel contrived.
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by pygy_ 5y ago
This is unintentional given the history of the name of the project explained in another comment on this page, but "mal" in French means "evil", tying into the famous aphorism.
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by pygy_ 6y ago
You are getting downvoted for mysterious reasons, you are of course correct, and this is why the plaintif was awarded $1.1m...
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by pygy_ 6y ago
The VGA versions of the games could be played on EGA hardware, the 320x200 x256colors graphics were displayed, dithered, in 640x200x16colors mode. The EGA versions had distinct 16 colors graphics. I guess you had the VGA versions
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by pygy_ 6y ago
... with a pulley in the middle? High voodoo you’re playing with here...
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by pygy_ 6y ago
There was initial backlash against complex numbers in the math community. i was deemed "imaginary" IIRC by its detractors, for the same reason the primeval atom was dubbed the "Big Bang": mockery, to accelerate its dis
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by pygy_ 6y ago
Insect-level intelligence in robots would already be extremely dangerous IMO. Especially if they were equipped with reasonable models of our "fast thinking" pathways, which aren't that smart to begin with and are already easi
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by pygy_ 6y ago
The Turing is not about intelligence, it's about being able to credibly ape humans. You don't need to be able to credibly describe what it's like to fall from a bike or to fall in love in order to be intelligent... But you ha
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by pygy_ 6y ago
Maybe not outsmart or outcompute, but outpower (unless you count any biological activity as computation). Viruses have nano-level biological leverage and that's enough to wreak havoc. The threat I'm most worried about is automated
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by pygy_ 6y ago
Impromptu was pretty nice as a scripting env for Core Graphics (I sued it as such at some point). I also coordinated an effort to save it from being deleted from Wikipedia, along with Andrew Sorensen's "Study in Keith" video.
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by pygy_ 6y ago
Yes, it sucks. They've also pulled some form of EEE with the whole Web platform by allocating so much manpower to Chrome and related techs. According to https://www.w3.org/community/wicg/participants Google h
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by pygy_ 6y ago
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/WebRender_Where I had missed the "with approved hardware" bit regarding Win10 :-) Still, it does run in the wild on all major OSes.
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by pygy_ 6y ago
Yes, the last major piece AFAIK was WebRender (hardware-accelerated compositing), which has been shipped last autumn.
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by pygy_ 6y ago
I'm afraid Firefox has gotten to a point where it is too niche to recover. The last time I checked, 80+% of https://webcompat.com's reports were sites that were broken in FF, not because it is less standards compliant
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by pygy_ 6y ago
The analogy is apt. You’re not growing, if you were your energy consumption would raise in proportion. Your adult body is in a dynamic steady state.
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Adding to this: Getting back dev mindshare was IMO critical for their success. 90% of https://webcompat.com/ is sites that are broken in Firefox, not necessarily because FF isn't standard compliant, but because many We
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by pygy_ 6y ago
It became clear to me with the recent layoffs. Their strategy to grow their user share seemed twofold: better tech (through Servo/Rust) and dev-oriented features (their market share among devs was much higher than among the general pop
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by pygy_ 6y ago
So the goal is to troll anti-racists. That makes it an anti-anti-racist symbol. I'll let you factor out the double negative.
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Even if it is meant as a troll, it is still a way to signal kinship, among folks whose views are not exactly a secret. Haha, only serious... Hence, ultimately, a racist (if layered) symbol in this context. It's not been flashed as a jo

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