richdougherty

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by richdougherty 4y ago
I think all of those things you listed are kinds of nudges. They are changes in the "choice architecture" that steer the user to an action. In the context of government, a nudge means influencing people to choose something desirab
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by richdougherty 4y ago
Excited to see one of my first programming books there: A Touch of Applesoft BASIC [1]. The book is very limited but it's what I had. I would have been so excited to have all these other books available. What an amazing time we live in
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by richdougherty 4y ago
It's probably a good default because it's more consistent with how NULL equality is handled in SQL generally. From the article: > In Postgres 14 and prior, unique constraints treated NULL values as not equal to other NULL value
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by richdougherty 4y ago
"That book was a really fun read." "That author is always a good read." https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/read > read (noun) > something (such as a book) that is read
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by richdougherty 4y ago
Wouldn't it be cool if the portable format used by Redbean was also a Docker image?
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by richdougherty 4y ago
This is just my take, but Cloudflare looks to be building a "moat" to make entry hard. This is built around two things: 1. economies of scale, 2. a network effect. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_
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by richdougherty 4y ago
About 90% of the treatment I had was in the year or two after my local dentist was bought by a large, publicly listed dentist corp. (This is in New Zealand.) I've switched back to another local dentist and no treatment needed in the de
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by richdougherty 4y ago
While we're talking about privacy and CDN delivery, check out Decentraleyes. It's a browser extension which keeps a local cache of common CDN-delivered files. https://decentraleyes.org/ I wondered if it supports f
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by richdougherty 4y ago
It needs to be at the end of the calling function so you can throw the calling function's stack frame away, since it's still in use. Getting rid of the calling stack frame is what proper tail calls is about.
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by richdougherty 4y ago
One way to look at it is they let you do "low level functional programming", where you can write code that jumps around without using stack space. If you think about all the standard statements in a language - if, while, async, et
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by richdougherty 4y ago
The spec for STC has a critique of PTC: - performance - developer tools - Error.stack - cross-realm tail calls - developer intent See: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-ptc-syntax#issues-with-ptc Apple's 2016 respo
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by richdougherty 4y ago
I agree, syntactic tail calls seems like a great compromise if automatic tail calls are too risky. I'd love to have them in the language. Here are some strawman syntax examples from the Syntactic Tail Calls proposal. Return Continue
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by richdougherty 4y ago
My Chromecast automatically turns my TV on and to the Chromecast input whenever I cast to it. This is when it's plugged into the HDMI ARC port on a Samsung TV, which I think is a CEC port as well. https://support.google.com&
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by richdougherty 4y ago
Crazy! This reinforces the idea of not agreeing to the Terms of Service when prompted. I've found you can easily avoid doing that on a Samsung.
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by richdougherty 4y ago
Also, don't agree to the Terms of Service when prompted. This should in theory give extra protection against ads, etc. There's no nagging on a Samsung when you do this and use a Chromecast.
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by richdougherty 4y ago
Less funny, but the creator of curl gets mistaken messages too. https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/02/19/i-will-slaughter-you/
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by richdougherty 4y ago
I'd love to know! I got this email. Your Microsoft account has been renamed. We just wanted to check with you that it's okay. - Old account name: <my email address> - New account name: <someone else>@ou
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by richdougherty 4y ago
"Malicious actors can take unauthorized ownership of online accounts even before their victims sign up for services, according to new research backed by the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)." "In their study, the res
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by richdougherty 4y ago
And a lot of the article is about no-till gardening... but in the end it apparently needed to be tilled.
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by richdougherty 4y ago
They're similar in that they both have a way to build a desired state for your infrastructure and some code for executing the changes to make that happen. In Terraform you describe the desired state using a fairly limited language call
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by richdougherty 4y ago
Can you explain a bit more?
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by richdougherty 4y ago
> Coroutines are much less coloured I think another commenter pointed out that they are still coloured though. Still, they're very cool - and you can use them for more than just lightweight threading. > As for the tailrecursive k
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by richdougherty 4y ago
I made a comment about this above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31218826 I won't repeat it all, but the main point is that having runtime support is much better than relying on compiler support, even if compile
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by richdougherty 4y ago
Kotlin coroutines are amazing. They're built on very clever tech that converts fairly normal source code into a state machine when compiled. This has huge benefits and allows the programmer to break their code up without the hassle of
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by richdougherty 4y ago
> Why can't arbitrary LSP clients connect directly to tsserver (maintained by MS) ? Can you explain a bit more about why they can't connect?
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by richdougherty 4y ago
I guess it's not valid, although the impact might be that big if it's only you calling your own endpoints. If you want to be really correct you could use your own content type under the vendor tree: https://www.rfc-edit
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by richdougherty 4y ago
Are you talking about the MathJax rendering used for instruction names?
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by richdougherty 4y ago
I think that's the process, yes. Features get proposed, discussed, implemented, then eventually when they're done they're moved into the spec and tagged with a version.
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by richdougherty 4y ago
The whole list of proposals and where they're at is here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/proposals You can see that "interface types" is at "Phase 1 - Feature Proposal (CG)", so still early day
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by richdougherty 4y ago
It looks like garbage collection is at the 'proposal' stage, one step before it would start to be implemented. "During this phase: "One or more implementations proceed on prototyping the feature to the point that a

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