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by rackjack 5y ago
Social media has turned everyone into a politician. People like it when other people they dislike get punished. By being punishing, people become more popular, and gain social power. Truth is irrelevant, because politicians don't becom
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by rackjack 5y ago
Pure functional programming languages take this a step further and say everything is just composition. (From my understanding)
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by rackjack 5y ago
I don't understand this saying.
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by rackjack 5y ago
In terms of generic textual documents, do you have a link? The only thing that comes to mind is Pijul: https://pijul.org/ I also found peritext: https://www.inkandswitch.com/peritext/
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by rackjack 5y ago
I would like to point out: vim is a text editor . It exists to edit text . This is all it does. That's it. It is not an IDE. Maybe you can mangle neovim into an IDE shape, but not vim, not really. Lots of complaints here boil down
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by rackjack 5y ago
Lots of people think learning vim is learning random letter-command mappings. This is true to some extent, but the idea that you're ONLY memorizing these mappings is not the right conceptualization, IMO. Instead, you are ingraining phy
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by rackjack 5y ago
MirageOS (unikernel) plug: https://mirage.io/ and repo: https://github.com/mirage/mirage
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by rackjack 5y ago
The cubes slowly popping into view as the page lags out is a special kind of unintentional modern humor.
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by rackjack 5y ago
I think 9 hours per day for 4 days a week would be very reasonable, since this is only a 10% reduction in work time and for me personally, work days are a wash anyways.
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by rackjack 5y ago
What is going on? The grandparent comment is merely noting the novelty of a filesystem utilizing a recently invented data structure. The parent is weirdly mentioning how they wouldn't trust a research filesystem for real work (who woul
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by rackjack 5y ago
It is both. The last time we had very free experimentation (read: disregard for human life and suffering) we got the Nazis, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, MKUltra, etc.. So institutions swung strongly in the opposite direction (the visible on
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by rackjack 5y ago
This has the same vibe as cooking a piece of beef until it's shoe leather
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by rackjack 5y ago
Abstraction is at the core of programming... complaining about people not "properly managing mutable state" is like complaining about choosing Java over C because they're not "properly" managing memory and instead u
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by rackjack 5y ago
Ooooooh wow, I remember digging into R internals a while ago for something and seeing `sexp`, and only NOW am I connecting it to Lisp's SEXP!! That makes so much sense! Does RData derive from LISP images? Because if so, that'd be
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by rackjack 5y ago
Should have (2019) in the title, I think
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by rackjack 5y ago
https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/object-pool.html Is this the kind of pool you're referring to? Just curious, I don't know a lot of gamedev.
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by rackjack 5y ago
Don't feel too bad about X11... iirc it's extremely difficult to be compliant with the standard, since they apparently codified the quirks of the different existing implementations into the standard itself. Wayland is purportedly
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by rackjack 5y ago
Text-only posts are down-weighted by whatever ranking algorithm HN uses, so only the high-quality ones will rise to the top (usually).
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by rackjack 5y ago
Does anybody have other texts on UNIX or proto-UNIX history? I found the comparison between `ed` and `vi` enlightening.
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by rackjack 5y ago
Example of the difference between American and Indian English: https://i.redd.it/fhmx835buxl51.jpg
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by rackjack 5y ago
one day OCaml will win ;-;
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by rackjack 5y ago
All math notation was created by mathematicians who wanted to quickly represent something, either to: - better see the structure of the problem; or - reduce the amount of ink they need to write the problem Very similar to how programmers us
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by rackjack 5y ago
In terms of Hacker News specific gratitude, I am thankful for the deep and diverse level of experience lots of people on here possess, and the moderators who enable these voices to rise to the top.
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by rackjack 5y ago
I like this website. It's one of the few I've seen do "scroll = animation" well.
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by rackjack 5y ago
Microkernels are not a good example. The assertion that they have worse performance in a way that can be meaningfully measured is a rumor, especially since we now have Fuchsia, not even mentioning other microkernels like seL4 and QNX.
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by rackjack 5y ago
I think the logic is something like this: People who do wrong should be punished. Otherwise, they will continue to do wrong. The wrongdoers, most likely, aren't going get prosecuted by the relevant government officials and the police a
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by rackjack 5y ago
In China there is 1 exam, the Gaokao. This exam in no small part decides your future. In the past, you had one attempt, and if you failed, tough luck. Now they let kids retake it a couple times. One exam. One billion people. One standardize
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by rackjack 5y ago
"What a useful thing a pocket-map is!" I remarked. "That's another thing we've learned from your Nation," said Mein Herr, "map-making. But we've carried it much further than you. What do you consider
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by rackjack 5y ago
Adventure Time is funny because you have lighthearted stuff like "Mathematical!" or "Oh my Glob!" and then you have "fighting the physical manifestation of death, but the 'apocalyptic heat death' kind, not
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by rackjack 5y ago
being alive gives you cancer

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