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> Indeed if Epic wins, iOS will become even more entrenched. Hm, care to expand on that? I don't see why that would be.
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Yeah, it would be fun to imagine a language designed with a video game style unlock progression. I remember programming in TI basic with a small number of global variables and subroutines. No scopes, no local variables, functions _couldn&#x
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Some problems you can fix in one place and be done with it. Harder problems you gotta work them every place you can make a difference. If livestock accounts for 14% of greenhouse gas, that seems like a viable angle of attack.
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The later in development a problem is caught, the more expensive it is. The farther it gets along the pipeline of concept -> prototype -> testing -> commit -> production, the longer it's going to take to notice, repro, iden
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Every greenhouse gas counts, whether it's part of the preexisting baseline or something recent we started emitting. The goal isn't a return to how things were, the goal is to keep the temperature from climbing too high too quickly
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True that it's rare that you need to pull out obscure algorithms or data structures, but in many projects you'll be _constantly_ constructing, composing, and walking data structures, and it only takes one or two places that are ac
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> The legislation would allow web developers to accept payments for their apps without going through Apple or Google’s app stores Is the word "web" there instead of "app" just a mistake? Because web developers can acc
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While version 3 of the dependency is innocent, commit 5678 is not. Something went wrong in the interaction between the code and its dependencies in that change and discovering that change quickly is valuable. From there you can start steppi
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Are you actually talking about static linking here, or just venting your spleen about sloppiness in software engineering practice more generally? Because tracking dependencies in source control (specifically, checking in lock files) is trem
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Could you end up executing a slow loris style attack on yourself by doing this? I guess a couple seconds won't matter unless the server is already redlining it and the tarpitted traffic is a small proportion.
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Closure compiler can produce truly impressive output, but it comes at a cost. There are additional rules for how one's code must be written – primarily that you must not use reflection/metaprogramming techniques. If any code, incl
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by rictic 6y ago
One person's model: People's tastes are largely driven by the foods they ate when they were young, which with notable exceptions, will prominently feature meat dishes. People on sites like this are likely to underestimate this eff
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> more so than ever before This is ahistorical. In many societies throughout history, an accusation of heresy was a mortal threat, or worse.
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The encoding used by GPT-2 and GPT-3 greatly obscures many of the textual properties of words. This at least partly accounts for why it has so much trouble with meter, rhyme, syllables, and some math. More info: https://www.gwern
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It's a good bit of rhetorical slight of hand. Anything that existed in any form prior to the date isn't new (even if it was only in an experimental, near-unusable form). Anything that exists today but hasn't yet had much impa
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There's more than enough solar and wind, it's just a matter of how much we as a society want it. The green energy revolution has barely begun, and we're still climbing the learning curve. More demand means a faster climb mean
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A bad translation can improve bad writing. By using unfamiliar phrasing and word choice it decontextualizes, allowing the player to imagine meanings and nuance where it isn't there.
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Python 3, Angular 2, Polymer 2. Not all full rewrites, but breaking changes with lots of the pain from a rewrite.
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Also video games that didn't get regular, free content updates. Top of mind because my partner and I are doing another playthrough of Terraria and there's once again a bunch of new content for us to go through.
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> Though the attempts at close compatibility mean it's not properly type safe despite its name. Every type checked language I've used, from Haskell to Java to Idris to C++ to Rust has ways to override the type checker (and eith
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Two more questions: Can the subsidy be used to accelerate making the service available to more users sooner, and at higher quality? Most likely yes, because with the design of Starlink, more satellites gives better service. A related questi
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Unlike other languages, typescript adds zero runtime overhead, and the APIs that one writes in TS are trivially consumable from JS. Consuming JS from TS is also made as easy as possible, including the option to set types aside entirely for
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The flash editor was high quality, and catered to animators.
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It's common practice to screenshot controversial tweets because they can be deleted.
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Wow, that's doing every filesystem operation as a separate fetch to the server? With no caching? Simple to implement, but about as slow as you could possibly get!
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Being worked on now as the Web Neural Network API: https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webnn/blob/master/expl...
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It's hard to square the claim that they've made enormous investments when you compare feature support against budget. Apple's operating budget is 200x Mozilla's ($85B vs $0.45B), and yet Safari lags significantly behind
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> Can such a thing even exist? Yes, cross-language code sharing is being worked on. > I think we'd better install wasm libraries (both language-specific and language-agnostic) like we install browser extensions. How would a site
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Something I found myself saying recently: "When the parent process is about to die it's tries to kill its children, otherwise the orphans stick around holding onto their ports which is super annoying."
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The momentum of an existing mostly-working system. Namecoin is dead but there are a few projects pushing forward, including ENS and Unstoppable Domains. There's opportunity for a significant privacy and authentication improvement over

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