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by rendall 1y ago
Market success does not necessarily prove conceptual neutrality; it just shows which designs fit best within the existing ecosystem of compilers, toolchains, and developer expectations. That is the lock-in the article describes. Calling the
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by rendall 1y ago
The article argues that our very sense of what counts as "better" or "compelling" is shaped by the assumptions baked into C-style hardware. Saying no alternative has disrupted them because modern CPUs are efficient enoug
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by rendall 1y ago
The article is no more about transistors or literal frame-pointer hardware than a discussion about the QWERTY keyboard layout is about the metallurgy and mechanics of typewriter arms. It's about how early design choices, once reinforce
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by rendall 1y ago
You raise fair points about the history and flexibility of hardware design. Stacks and subroutines definitely predate C, and C has run well on many architectures without dedicated frame pointers. Those are valid technical observations. But
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by rendall 1y ago
This was pre-Musk, so, not sure what their policy is now.
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by rendall 1y ago
github uses it too https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/working-with-files/u...
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by rendall 1y ago
Or you could just downvote without comment. That's an option.
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by rendall 1y ago
Everyone take a moment to read and absorb Novati's rebuttal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45524707 Novati makes two relevant points: 1) Article author did not reach out to Novati for comment. 2) Codesmith ran a
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by rendall 1y ago
> One interesting side effect is that I changed the most number of lines of code company wide that year and got my name on the "blame" for most of the JavaScript files that existed at that time. So over the years I kept gettin
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by rendall 1y ago
I just... sent a scan of my passport. I mean, they promised to delete it right? Nothing could go wrong?
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by rendall 1y ago
I once accidentally set an incorrect birth year on Twitter. They locked me out of my account and insisted that I upload a government ID to unlock my account.
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by rendall 1y ago
> ...and anti-trans writer Jesse Singal This is a really dumb article, starting with this example. Singal is not anti-trans and never has been. He wrote critically of methodologies used by key papers that are cited in support of affirm
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The World War II Liberator Pistol(en.wikipedia.org)
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by rendall 1y ago
When English speakers speak English, American refers to people from the USA. Spanish speakers from South America are the only ones who complain about this, but they are free to use whatever terms they would like, when speaking Spanish. If
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by rendall 1y ago
> I assume you mean USAian. In English, the word American refers to someone from the United States, and almost all of the languages of the world use some equivalent term: amerikkalainen, Amerikaner, Américain, americano, американец
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by rendall 1y ago
Whom did he accuse? Kramnik is known to accuse other players. I've never heard this about Nakamura.
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by rendall 1y ago
This is such an important idea. I'm afraid that most people do not think beyond "bad opinions should be legally suppressed" and unfortunately that includes many of the purported guardians of our social morals.
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by rendall 1y ago
Well I'll be danged.
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by rendall 1y ago
> Go read pg’s comments on downvoting. Hmm. That sounds an awful lot like "It's true! Google it!"
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by rendall 1y ago
Enh. That button is often used for "your post gives me bad feelings" but it's supposed to be for "your post is bad for the community"
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by rendall 1y ago
I wish the article had gone deeper into this idea of zoning being responsible: an exploration of the specific policies and laws that made this happen. As written, it's just an assertion.
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by rendall 1y ago
What is expensive about its upkeep?
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by rendall 1y ago
Unfortunately, Fielding's dissertation itself alone gives inadequate guidance to construct or even fully identify a REST API, and so a over the subsequent years a mishmash of sometimes contradictory blog posts, discussion forums, milit
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by rendall 1y ago
Literally everyone including everyone in "the medical community" would like to know the cause of autism.
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by rendall 1y ago
Well, time to pick up Tylenol shares on the dip.
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by rendall 1y ago
Comparing other stars and planets tells us how unusual (or not) Earth is. That perspective matters for understanding climate, habitability, and even life itself. Most of the imaging and signal-processing tech built for astrophysics ends up
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Today 476AD Romulus Augustulus, Last Western Roman Emperor, Abdicates(romanancienthistory.blogspot.com)
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by rendall 1y ago
I was thinking that a webpack (or similar) config that converts markdown to HTML (or your favorite framework) is good enough and maintainable? What does Hugo et. al. add on top of that?
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by rendall 1y ago
> ...the only reason is that the hiring team liked someone else better... Or they liked you just as much as the one they hired, but you lost the coin toss. Or, they hated you because they misunderstood something you said. Or...?
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by rendall 1y ago
I can see these words impact you.

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