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by rixed 1y ago
To be fair, Blender did not start as a FOSS but as a proprietary software.
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by rixed 1y ago
> within the browser alone What do you mean by that? My understanding of the above suggestion is that the author dreamed of a world where something like flash would have become the standard, so part of the browser, without the (proprieta
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by rixed 1y ago
There is no such thing as "supporting [top/bottom] posting". You have a text editor and a cursor, the real alternative is not "top" vs "bottom" but "I care about the context of the discussion" vs
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by rixed 1y ago
Maybe I'm too archaic but I do not share the author's hope that algebraic effects will ever become prevalently used. They certainly can be useful now and then, but the similitude with dynamic scoping brings too many painful memori
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by rixed 1y ago
I haven't followed those discussions (assuming there have been any kind of public discussions) but I guess the justification behind this is that IA is such a strategic industry for the USA that no state should dare to interfere. Like,
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by rixed 1y ago
« (1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in paragraph (2), no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision system
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by rixed 1y ago
it doesn't say if it's implemented in rust i had to click on the link to find out please future hn posters start every submission also with an exemple so i can see if i like the syntax
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by rixed 1y ago
Yes, writting CGI with python the configuration language was so much better than with perl the shell replacement!
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by rixed 1y ago
Not only duck types (ie structural type hierarchies) can be statically verified but they can be statically infered as well, as demonstrated for instance by ocaml since 1996. "Here is a nickel, kid, get yourself a better programming lan
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by rixed 1y ago
Maybe it's not worse, maybe it's just as bad, who knows? I'd try to get my kids away from TV or comics just as hard as I tried to get my kids away from their phone. There are of course real and worthwhile culture artifacts on
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by rixed 1y ago
Any user without commit permission should be able to create tickets and comment on them. What's wrong with debbugs? :)
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by rixed 1y ago
Same here (speaking more specifically about debian)
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by rixed 1y ago
Ideally, the same language would allow programmers to see things at different abstraction levels, no? Because when you are stuck with bytes and allocators and doing everything else manually, it's detious and you develop hand arthritis
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by rixed 1y ago
At the contrary, to me the term evoked exactly what the author meant. And after the series of detonations of the communication devices in Lebanon some time ago, the analogy with anti-personnel mines takes an even more concrete and sinister
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by rixed 1y ago
I don't see the contradiction between the two propositions "government is for the ruling class" and "there have been some progress". There are even economic theories that start from that tenet (globally referred to
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by rixed 1y ago
> transmission costs are half of your energy bill Wait, what? Wikipedia[0] seems to disagree: > Long-distance transmission (hundreds of kilometers) is cheap and efficient, with costs of US$0.005–0.02 per kWh, compared to annual averag
557.
by rixed 1y ago
...and because we decided to call "expert" any dev with 3 months of experience. Now, how much of this is actual expertise and how much wealth extraction, I really don't know.
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by rixed 1y ago
I actually don't believe it. Most people work not only for the pay check but also for some concrete project they want to see completed (or a customer problem they want to see fixed, etc). Omo economicus is a very simplified theoretical
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by rixed 1y ago
I would date this turnpoint decision back to when L. Page said in a meeting that, from now on, Google had to have as many engineers than Microsoft.
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by rixed 1y ago
I understand your concern I think, but still believe you are a bit harsh. In this case the author is not pretending to be always right, and seems to refrain from hard cut judgment based on those perceptions. Also, it's impossible not t
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by rixed 1y ago
It would still, like the broken clock, be correct sometimes. Our ability to understand others comes from, and is limited by, the fact that our feelings and behaviors are a mix from a shared palette.
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by rixed 1y ago
Are you suggesting that reading other people's minds is as error prone and vain than giving human emotions to animals?
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by rixed 1y ago
That's quite a judgment about the author, based on a single blog post. You could argue that one reveals much more about their personality on a blog post that's about their though process, than one does when walking in a room and b
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by rixed 1y ago
You got it backwards. Mmb used to work flawlessly in Linux as in other X11 based unices "back in the day" before some DEs decided they would do it differently to be more palatable to people used to $OTHER_OS I don't remember
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by rixed 1y ago
Rings true to me. The notion of ownership has been extended to almost everything and it makes no sense that anyone can claim ownership of an ancient obelisk. Or rather, we should distinguish between "I'm the caretaker of", &q
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by rixed 1y ago
Actually, that's interresting. According to wikipedia[0], the frenchs did think about stealing it during the Napoleonic wars, but didn't. Some time later they "suggested" to the Ottomans that the obelisks be offered, in
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by rixed 1y ago
Did you eventually made your work available somewhere?
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by rixed 1y ago
The dilemna is not about technology or not but about anonymity or not. Anonymity offers some protection against authoritarianism but also encourages some bad tendencies (no fear of consequences).
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by rixed 1y ago
To me that's the other way around: I would assume any non-WP link to direct me to some corporate blog, half automatically generatrd and full of trackers, whereas I trust WP to give me a broad and relatively neutral point of view with m
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by rixed 1y ago
I believe you just summed up 90% of popular wisdom about software engineering. With enough patience you will see many fads pass twice like a tide raising and falling. OOP, runtime typing, schema-less databases and TDD are the first to come

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