s3m4j

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by s3m4j 8y ago
Have you tried writing code with a magnet and a needle ? https://xkcd.com/378/
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by s3m4j 8y ago
Steam and torrents take advantage of all my gigabit bandwitdh. But generally if I'm using all of my bandwitdh, it's that I am consciously downloading/uploading stuff to do just that.
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by s3m4j 8y ago
Also the "attack surface" of paper is so large as to be humanly impractical. A computer system howevever complex always has an attack surface that is actually practical.
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by s3m4j 8y ago
There were concerns, there has been several inquiries into it, right after the vote happened. And it's been known for has long as democracy that we shouldn't mechanize voting. That video is from 2014 well before the 2016 US electi
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by s3m4j 8y ago
120 years give or take 10 years. But the free market is always right. Right ?
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by s3m4j 8y ago
Disregarding the validity of your argument in itself, trust issues cannot be solved by black boxes. Humans laws have to be enacted by humans, because the real world is messy and rules and laws need "messy wiggle room".
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by s3m4j 8y ago
That's why I emphasized "choice", using sh for scripting is a valid choice .
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by s3m4j 8y ago
Zsh and fish are, imo, much better environments than bash. And bash, once tamed, due to its ubiquity, is a better choice for scripting.
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by s3m4j 8y ago
Considering the etymology and historic origin of "artist" as a skilled artisan. It's not even that novel an idea. Lots of things we consider art pieces are named after the buyer and not what we consider now the artist.
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by s3m4j 8y ago
It's not about apprentices, it's about people, technicians, actually making the 'objects' for and in place of the artist whose name is linked to the 'objects'. Because often those artist don't have the
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by s3m4j 8y ago
Counterpoint, to take a loan you have to trust the system to both do right by you, and not collapse from under you. It might be difficult now to trust those two things.
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by s3m4j 8y ago
https://github.com/mrakgr/The-Spiral-Language/commit/1dee010... That one is really in the "mad scientist" mindset. I love it, I wish him and this project good luck.
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by s3m4j 8y ago
To this day, knock on wood, I have had success at voluntarily avoiding those issues ^^ (aside from school assignements)
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by s3m4j 8y ago
In my experience, it's been easier to push UTC time all the way from the db to the user javascript and operate on time then, than trying to manipulate time before sending to the user. YMMV, and it's only web dev.
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by s3m4j 8y ago
wat
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by s3m4j 8y ago
It's also in the Wikipedia page about python that it is not a "weakly typed" language. It's literally in the resume box in the corner : "Typing discipline : Duck, dynamic, strong". Edit: I was going to mentio
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by s3m4j 8y ago
I also searched for something like "self-perpetuating system/bureaucracy" but didn't find an accepted term.
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by s3m4j 8y ago
Why do you reduce the choices between "building useless piece of hardware" and "bombing innocent people" ? There are lots of choices here. Just a sample : less tax or invest more in health and education.
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by s3m4j 8y ago
> "We can solve any problem by introducing an extra level of indirection." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_softwar...
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by s3m4j 8y ago
That was my thought as well, there's always something "big" going on. IMO, it would be difficult, near impossible, to coordinate votes with events, going through the bureaucracy involved etc.
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by s3m4j 8y ago
Machine performs its jobs flawlessly, detects racism.
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by s3m4j 8y ago
I think it's already been ruled (at least in Europe), that it isn't illegal to download from public streaming platform since "streaming" and "downloading" are the same thing. I'll go check. Edit: After c
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by s3m4j 8y ago
Which is great with twitch. Instant benefits : no chat, video decoding outside browser. On some laptops it makes a big difference.
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by s3m4j 8y ago
I keep expecting the maintainers to change the name some day... I mainly use it to archive content from Arte. I'm usually not in the +7 days cycle their website has.
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by s3m4j 8y ago
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0572/#alternative-spelli...
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by s3m4j 8y ago
Just yesterday I was talking with my teacher about how he was tired of students (and parents) asking if he would add x and y languages to the curriculum.
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by s3m4j 8y ago
I wince every year when it's tornado season and I see those flimsy houses being flung out by the wind. Just dig the earth, make proper foundations and build walls . It's not like you don't know how to do it, there's som
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by s3m4j 8y ago
Not agreeing or disagreeing, but I read both this and his other post about JSON as configuration file and I have not seen him propose and argue for an alternative.
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by s3m4j 8y ago
Just a few seconds ago I was wondering if anyone of importance (technical importance) did in fact talk positevely about blockchain(s). If anyone is or knows someone like that, I'm interested.
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by s3m4j 8y ago
They were sent over a network. Every baud counts. And then the output had to have a fixed width (not necessarily a fixed length, since it may have been printed on paper ) because of "display" size.

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