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by samatman 2y ago
Was it? What if I had a smoking gun? https://www.product-lifecycle-management.com/download/DOD-ST...
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by samatman 2y ago
It is impossible to know what you mean by this sentence. Surely it's Apple who rely upon TSMC for 'some processes'?
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by samatman 2y ago
Oddly, the Wikipedia page doesn't include the most likely inspiration, the Hobyahs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobyahs The parallels are pretty unmistakable. I believe the good Professor when he says he cou
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Agreed, I've found that much of the criticism of Citizens United isn't very well-informed. In a way it's an embarrassment that the Supreme Court had to affirm that a First Amendment right extends to corporations, because it&#
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by samatman 2y ago
I went to the other extreme. I have a somewhat elaborate fish function which detects any use of -a and refuses to call Git with it. I had gotten lazy about good commits, basically, `git commit -a` was in my muscle memory. Forcing myself to
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Corporate personhood is a very old doctrine which is described by the law itself as a legal fiction. Corporate personhood is what allows your anarchist grocery cooperative to sign a contract with the organic farm on the outside of town, o
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by samatman 2y ago
The sibling comments are all correct that you're special-pleading the criterion that a puzzle create something of value. But, as it happens, this one does: it offers economic incentive to develop more efficient attacks on elliptic curv
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by samatman 2y ago
It's odd to me to call this a capability. We have a term for this already: dynamic bind, known as dynamic scope when it's the main scoping mechanism of a language. That said, the mechanism seems like the right way for Rust to solv
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by samatman 2y ago
> Years ago, a project idea I was really interested for a while was to try to write a shell in Rust that works more like PowerShell. Today's your lucky day! https://www.nushell.sh
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A man of culture would never refer to an epigram as a definition.
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It's a sort of casual bigotry. Currently fashionable in circles which should know better.
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by samatman 2y ago
The second example is better than the first, yes. I was thinking about the process more than the fact that painting a study produces a work, and a derived one at that, so more normal copyright considerations apply to the work itself. >
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What AI does is much more like the Old Masters approach of going to a museum and painting a copy of a painting by some master whose technique they wish to learn. This has always been both legal, and encouraged. Or borrowing a thick stack of
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by samatman 2y ago
Are you one of those creeps who asks prospective employers about their work history before hiring them?
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Are you under the impression that fast matrix operations in the CPU are useless for,, games? Where did you get that idea?
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by samatman 2y ago
> the handling of memory aliases which is a nightmare in C Zig has some aliasing issues which are to-date unsolved. The core and community are keenly aware of them, and they'll be solved or greatly ameliorated before a 1.0 release
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> If your argument is something like "memory safety doesn't really matter, even for critical applications" Not at all, not even close. What I will say is "memory safety can be achieved by policy as well as by cons
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by samatman 2y ago
> SML, OCaml: algebraic data types, pattern matching, type inference, semicolon statement separation > Haskell (GHC): typeclasses, type families https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/influences.html
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by samatman 2y ago
> Zig will be easy to understand and use but too unsafe to use for important applications This is an outside perspective on Zig, and I have to say, not an informed one. If you'd like to understand Zig (and what I mean) better, thi
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by samatman 2y ago
> > computability and programming just aren’t that related > I … don’t think I understand That's such a Haskell thing to say! Ok, I'm teasing a bit now. But there's a kernel of truth to it: a good model of the FP
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> All mainstream, general purpose programming languages are (basically) Turing-complete, and therefore any programme you can write in one you can, in fact, write in another. That stuck out to me as well, I said out loud "that is a
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by samatman 2y ago
I would think that shrinking the ball circle to nothing would do the job. Look forward to seeing what you come up with. ^_^
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by samatman 2y ago
Countries owning their ccTLDs seems basically correct to me. If you rent a `.tm` domain, you're doing business with the nation of Turkmenistan: might want to think about whether a TLD pun is worth taking on that relationship.
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by samatman 2y ago
For once the headline is under-selling it, I'm used to hearing this put as "all attended the same café".
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by samatman 2y ago
Roughly, patch(1) has about the same relation to Pijul as RCS has to git. I don't think useful conclusions can be drawn from that experience, basically. As you say, they're duals: but the actual changes need to be modeled as patch
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by samatman 2y ago
This is a Firefox problem, not an iFixit problem.
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An index into a common data structure is a sort of reference. It's one which Rust strongly encourages. There are other ways to do it as well, including references in the classic pointer sense. But yes, a hypergraph will have a lot of v
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by samatman 2y ago
I see that this is a second implementation, the first being in Rust: https://github.com/yamafaktory/hypergraph I've found that Zig is an excellent tool for implementing data-structure-oriented libraries. Comptime
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Posts like this add fuel to the fire of my conviction that the future of revision control is Pijul, or something much like it. I can't completely justify the intuition here, but this seems like an artificial distinction forced by a sna
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by samatman 2y ago
I'm not the one quibbling here. You are. You said this: > Despite the post's claim Open Source existed long before 1998. I've illustrated two things: it is not true that the term "open source" existed before 19

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