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by rualca 6y ago
> However there is actually the Curry-Howard correspondence that states (...) This is what I don't get in these silly "anti-static typing in python" rants: the all-or-nothig logic with the goalpost moved to an impossible t
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by rualca 6y ago
> Static typing inherently requires you to prove things about your program Doesn't it just require you to express the interface you're already using and expecting to use? > The problem for python is that it originated as a l
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by rualca 6y ago
> Barrier for entry for new developers. What's the barrier exactly? And keep in mind typescript's growing popularity and momentum, which states quite clearly that the javascript community is more than willing to tolerate added
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by rualca 6y ago
While on the subject of static typing, is anyone aware of any good argument against it?
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by rualca 6y ago
> Nobody over-promises (or under-promises for that matter) when the meaning of units and prefixes are clear. This sounds like a lame excuse for fraud. Megabytes had a very specific meaning. Afterwards, for any random reason, that definit
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by rualca 6y ago
> Except when it, of course, isn't. $10M is certainly not ten megadollars. The unit of currency is the dollar. There is no units of currency that corresponds to 1M dollars. The SI system of units devised a systematic way to define d
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by rualca 6y ago
Superb submission! I've been using vim for over a decade and I never knew about gx or gf. Thanks!
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by rualca 6y ago
> I'm struggling to believe this. If seems you didn't even did the most basic cursory search on the issue. Here's literally the first hit on a google search for "dam sediment". https://www.hydroreview.
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by rualca 6y ago
Veblen goods are not exclusive to america.
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by rualca 6y ago
It makes as much sense to criticize adidas for being "a giant boring multinational" as to criticize nike. However, it makes no sense to compare adidas to the carlyle group.
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by rualca 6y ago
> There is nothing efficient about GME at $100, let alone $400. You've somehow left out the fact that short sellers are on the hook for over 100% of gamestop's stock, thus whoever is buying stock right now is placing themselves
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by rualca 6y ago
> Intellectual property is a good example of the contradictions of capitalism. It destroys the principles of freedom, but in truth is necessary to perpetuate the capitalist system. Your assertion is quite wrong and far-fetched. Intellect
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by rualca 6y ago
> Elbakyan's project really is a shining beacon of anti-capitalist action (...) The scientific journal racket is all but capitalism. It's largely rentism disseminated and fostered by entrenched state and institutional interests
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by rualca 6y ago
> What reasons are there to believe that someone who‘s in the middle of a lawsuit (...) The lawsuit is literally about how Amazon's infosec employees have been fired in retaliation after repeatedly alerting leadership to vulnerabili
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by rualca 6y ago
> Every company has Policies. Zero companies have Realities which match their policies. This means nothing. Throughout the years I've grown a dislike of company policies. They feel like a tool designed to discard accountability down
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by rualca 6y ago
Honest question: where do you place the goalpost with regards to news on corporate malpractice? If not from whistleblowers, which have a long track record of being persecuted extensively and subjected to very personal and very damaging reta
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by rualca 6y ago
> It breaks my heart how few people in HN appreciate/understand BTC. Isn't bitcoin nowadays a big pump-and-dump scheme where a hand full of collosal industrial players manipulate the market at will?
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by rualca 6y ago
> I'm not fine with making an API use HATEOAS And that's perfectly fine, but don't call what you're doing REST because it really isn't.
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by rualca 6y ago
> I think the reason JSON caught on outside of the javascript community is because it provided a succinct way to represent tree structures of common types (numbers, strings, dictionaries, and lists), using a syntax familiar to anyone who
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by rualca 6y ago
> Sincere question: how does HATEOAS helps with this? The whole point of HATEOAS is to address this. This is pretty much why it was developed and presented. Why on earth is anyone discussing REST not picking up on it's reason to exi
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by rualca 6y ago
> Please, just don't do it. Yes, I read the dissertation. It's just not a good idea, it has never given me any practical use whatsoever and has always made dealing with the API more annoying. If you believe REST is not a good i
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by rualca 6y ago
> They obviously need (and apparently lack) some kind of system for notifying people when prices are spiking unusually high so that exactly that can happen. I fail to see how this classifies as a free market solution. If customers are no
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by rualca 6y ago
> Those are voluntary though. It should be made quite clear that "voluntary" regulation is no regulation at all, but mere suggestions and tips that anyone is free to follow or ignore. Thus, citing ERCOT is pointless, and would
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by rualca 6y ago
> Another name for the group/phenoma they're referring to is "coastal elites", who use the derogatory term "flyover states" to refer to where OP is from. The term "flyover state" is not necessarily
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by rualca 6y ago
> Just a crazy thought. Well said. It's a shame that basic things like the importance of treating everyone with respect is required to be reinforced in public forums.
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by rualca 6y ago
> This is a statement rooted in fear - that if you don't entertain programmers with things that they enjoy, they will leave. This is not a matter of "entertaining" engineers. This is a problem of providing good or even dec
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by rualca 6y ago
For the wear and tear of thermal cycling to pile up, it's not required to have reboots or shutdowns. All it takes is to have temperature fluctuations that in turn developt stress fluctuations, which induce fatigue wear on materials. Lo
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by rualca 6y ago
>>Running an alternative OS "natively" on a Mac doesn't seem very appealing to me. It's almost guaranteed you will never fully get (...) working flawlessly This statement is rather miopic. I still recall when this
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by rualca 6y ago
> Can electronics actually wear out? It depends what you mean by "wear out". Hardware does fail with time. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisker_(metallurgy) * https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by rualca 6y ago
> What is this idea that “engineers need to be kept happy?” Are you honestly asking why people who happen to have a profession need to be happy? And what's this idea that happiness is something that is only desirable in children? Do

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