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by qznc 6y ago
(author here) Initially my draft had the title "CMake and the Diamond". When the article was finished, I decided to make it more clickbaity because I'm not Paul Graham or Scott Alexander. Rumors are that words like "How
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There is only one frontend though. The advantage of multiple compilers is that people find subtle differences which humans miss by only reading the spec. Since D has only one frontend, it does not get that benefit although it can technicall
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The great thing about threaded discussions is that you can ignore the branches you don't consider worth a discussion.
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Who said anything about blockchain? It is one thing to formalize contracts as functions. Also formalizing the world state is a much harder problem and Ethereum tries to solve it by declaring the blockchain "the world". This is the
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If you are used to Java: It's like making a class implementing an additional interface from the outside. class MyEntity { RenderingCache cache; } now MyEntity implements Drawable { void draw(Canvas canvas) {
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So using Markdown or something similar disqualifies? Even if i write the HTML template and generator script myself?
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Which implies that at least one of you is dishonest or irrational or too lazy to continue the debate. ;) See: Are Disagreements Honest? by Tyler Cowen & Robin Hanson, 2002
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Quick self test: Do you eat healthy food, floss your teeth, get enough sleep, care about your relationships, and exercise somewhat? This is boring simple common sense advice everybody knows but I have not met anybody (myself included) who a
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Scott Alexander wrote he has no clue if counseling works: > I tell patients to have a consistent weekly meeting with their spouse, maybe a Saturday date night. During the meeting, each of them has to say one nice thing about the other, a
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An accident happens in a traffic jam. A person gets injured. If it was a Tesla, the driver gets sued. If it was a Honda Legend, Honda gets sued. This changes the legal situation for car manufacturers dramatically and has technical implicati
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I disagree that languages "pretty much the same thing". However, I do agree that language choice is overrated. Other factors, e.g. which one you know better, weigh heavier.
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You would constraint yourself to a subset of C++ which is not C. For example, forbid all raw pointers and only use smart pointers. Now your memory is freed automatically via RAII and use-after-free errors are much harder to create.
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C++ still has a lot of rope to hang yourself. For example, there is the stuff Rusts borrow checker prevents. Or that members are initialized by declaration order and a wrong initializer list can lead to undefined behavior. Or all those impl
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Well, traditional payment systems provide sufficient security for lower fees (though not 1 cent, i believe).
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When code is king: Mastering automotive software excellence(mckinsey.com)
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Vitalik recently blogged [0] that prediction markets might be there most important thing in Ethereum. > it is one of the Ethereum applications that have provided to me the most concrete value. [0] https://vitalik.ca/gener
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Does Backstabbr have variants? I like vdiplomacy because it has lots of variants: https://vdiplomacy.com/variants.php It uses the more old-school webdiplomacy interface but I'm fine with the dropboxes.
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I think it applies here. The problem which conceptual integrity is that short-term incentives oppose it. A developer gets personal benefits for shortcuts (Yay, a 10x rockstar developer!) while the costs are shared by all. A classic tragedy
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The point is not to always choose boring technology. The useful concept are the innovation tokens. If you spent your innovation tokens on other stuff (org change, process change, new customer, new product), then you should at least keep the
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On the other hand, Debian is a large community of volunteers providing a distro on democratic principles for a long time successfully. Comparable distros are either companies (Ubuntu, RedHat, SuSE) or heroic deeds of one or few people (Slac
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I also made myself a deb packager script in 100 lines: https://github.com/qznc/simpledeb It doesn't cover anything fancy like post-install actions though.
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If everyone is responsible then nobody is.
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I agree with you about the "preordained goal that consent must be found" but I'm not convinced that a technical aspects, like Arguman, can help here. You need the humans in board.
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Ignored? Lots and lots of people installed Signal or Telegram. Some of them will stay.
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My hope is that this triggers a second backlash.
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The distinction between effort (man hours) and lead time gets lost often. Clueless managers ask for the first and take it for later.
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Software Architecture: How You Make Them Care(beza1e1.tuxen.de)
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I increasingly enjoyed my education because I got increasingly more choice. During school, I was so happy once I got to remove Latin from my curriculum. Later the poetry analysis stuff disappeared. At university it got reduced to a broad fi
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> The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. ―Tom Clancy Sometimes making sense is the whole point of a story. It turns the random events around us into a narrative which is plausible. How well the causal rela
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Bitcoin every consumption halves every two years since the mining profit halfs. Thus mining bitcoins becomes less profitable and thus more energy efficient over time. In the other, if the price increases faster than the mining yield drops,

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