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by s_kilk 9y ago
That's cool, this thread has definitely piqued my interest in Pascal!
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by s_kilk 9y ago
How do users of languages like Pascal get by without any/many libraries? Do they need to use the FFI to call out to C functions constantly? I mean, I certainly buy that $VINTAGE_LANGUAGE could still be great to develop in, but I'm
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by s_kilk 9y ago
I was recording a podcast through Discord, and got hit by this particular outage. To be fair, it’s the first I’ve seen first hand so
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Facebook do own Whatsapp, but if people are staying in Whatsapp then they're never engaging on the Facebook platform, and thus never generating ad revenue. It's strictly a loss for Facebook, unless they can figure out how to monet
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by s_kilk 9y ago
(From memory, don't quote me on this), The BEAM bytecode is apparently not well documented, so the standard practice for compile-to-beam languages is to emit Erlang terms, then use the erlang toolchain to compile down to bytecode. I th
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Thanks ;) The article certainly suffers from __that__ kind of long-winded (some call it long-form) writing.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
No, the "sin" is in Valley programmers broad refusal to acknowledge the social impacts of their work, their refusal to believe that technology, which is inseparable from the context it is used in, could possibly have any negative
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Absolutely, (I moved over to Elixir from Clojure) and hence it seems like a strange blind-spot. When Rich talked about Systems programming and Runtimes, I expected Erlang/Elixir to come up as obvious examples along with Smalltalk and C
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by s_kilk 9y ago
I think it's interesting that Rich seems to miss out on Erlang (and Elixir) entirely, even when he gets to talking about Situated Programs and Runtime Tangibility, not even to speak of Concurrency.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
> and a strong evolutionary pressure will be "don't scare the humans." Why would that be the case?
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by s_kilk 9y ago
> Why can't we put that money, effort, manpower, and will into actually addressing climate change and make crazy projects like vast man-made Mines-of-Moria-style underground tunnels and huge artificial reservoirs unnecessary? In par
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by s_kilk 9y ago
I wonder if Unicode will eventually just contain every conceivable image that anyone would ever want to reference.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
I'm not even so sure that it's Futurism with Thiel so much as just unbridled avarice. If it looks like a greedy scumbag, and quacks like a greedy scumbag, well...
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Key quote: ``` Yarvin told Yiannopoulos that he had been “coaching Thiel.” “Peter needs guidance on politics for sure,” Yiannopoulos responded. “Less than you might think!” Yarvin wrote back. “I watched the election at his house, I think my
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The Moldbug Variations(thebaffler.com)
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Facebook employees ’embedded’ in Trump campaign digital media operation(thinkprogress.org)
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by s_kilk 9y ago
I haven’t touched macOS/iOS development in a while, but I feel Objective-C has a certain graceless charm which just isn’t there in Swift.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Ah, now that’s intriguing! Thanks
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by s_kilk 9y ago
My money's on Go.
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Kim Wall 'stabbed 15 times' onboard Danish inventor's submarine(theguardian.com)
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by s_kilk 9y ago
At least it'll be cool when the revolution comes, because we'll only need to nationalise one company.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
You're making a fundamental mistake in conflating legality with democratic will.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
It's frankly disgraceful that the Spanish state has turned to violence to suppress the democratic process.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Temperature change is also effected by distance from water. For example: +4 degrees C global average would mean about +2 in Ireland, while inland USA soars to +8.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Not sure I agree, I thought High Castle did a decent job of undermining notions of historical and moral determinism, in that it manages to get the audience rooting for Obergroupenfurher Smith by the end, blurring the moral lines a fair bit.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
> I found a really nice Funk/Acid Jazz/House/Soul playlist on Youtube (50 videos) Link? :)
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by s_kilk 9y ago
I'll take Snow Crash, but wouldn't a TV series of Gibson's "Bridge Trilogy" be sweet?
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by s_kilk 9y ago
For what it's worth I only use VimFX and such for basic navigation and the link-opening keys. I just tried Saka Key and it's real good, a mighty fine replacement for my use-case.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Agreed. I've payed out north of $100 several times for old print copies of books which simply aren't available in digital form (not even as sketchy scanned PDFs on piracy sites, trust me, I tried).
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by s_kilk 9y ago
I'm the same, Colemak without any rebindings, it works just fine.

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