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by seg_lol 6y ago
Under what legal doctrine would be poisoning Assange be legal?
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by seg_lol 6y ago
I don't believe I advocated for the use of Cassandra. Owning vs being owned by, we are not arguing about the same things. Stances are not strategies, when we use another's API we form a bond but the the other is free to break it s
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by seg_lol 6y ago
I can't imagine the loss. Books fill a void for me, but nothing that could fill that hole.
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by seg_lol 6y ago
Given cloud vendors low respect for their customers, the proper stance is to own your own infrastructure.
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by seg_lol 6y ago
I would love someone like gwern [0] to write an analysis of how Mathematics articles on Wikipedia start off being understandable by most and then get lapped into a submicron finish that only reflects an insular subset of folks. These mathem
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by seg_lol 6y ago
There are foundational aspects on knowing a component is done, that it will be the same everywhere. What do you think of Nix [1]? The other quality of flexible composable systems is that they can be extended with something akin to an AoP sy
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by seg_lol 6y ago
The article was actually posted twice before and I chose to expand PL for exactly that reason, making it more approachable. The article itself is really really good.
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by seg_lol 6y ago
You got me to chuckle at, "thought terminating thought experiment". I will file that in my cliché attaché. Are you saying that I am asking for a universal perfect compressor, like I am winning the Hutter Prize [1] ? I don't b
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by seg_lol 6y ago
> Lobster combines its original (runtime) reference counting with a lifetime analysis algorithm, to get “compile time reference counting”. Interesting. Do you think it would be possible to have a prototype language that compiled to Rust
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by seg_lol 6y ago
> but being beginner-friendly is about the last thing one should care about. Why is that? If our ideas are good, don't we want the most number of people to know them? What if PL research isn't getting the population of people
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by seg_lol 6y ago
Or ideas in general, should we ever gate keep the dissemination of ideas and knowledge? Innovation is more likely to occur when people cross disciplines and they can only do that if it is approachable, it is gradual and discoverable. Simpl
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Programming language notation is a barrier to entry(blog.sigplan.org)
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by seg_lol 6y ago
Yeah you only get 6 or 7 years before the relationship changes. Seemingly large for the child but a fleeting blip for the parents.
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by seg_lol 6y ago
You probably don't want to hear this but you could go the LLVM->Wasm->Wasm2C->GCC route. The Julia folks had resurrected the C backend to LLVM at least once, it is also a possibility.
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by seg_lol 6y ago
Riding a bike is hard. It is a lot like swimming, so many motions at the same time. The body has to think it, not the cortex. There is this great smarter everyday segment on a reverse bike. I recommend it for everyone. https://ww
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by seg_lol 6y ago
I am in no way saying you are doing this, comment is for the thread as well as you. As others have mentioned in this discussion, I think giving the child both a sense and actual control over what they work on is one of the keys. Children wa
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by seg_lol 6y ago
I constantly tell them verifiable lies, but you need to make them cute, fun and solvable. No one wants to solve riddles that are so obtuse as to not even try. My six year old has the bullshit detector of a street smart teenager, not in all
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by seg_lol 6y ago
I would like to deescalate this convo, I used overly harsh language and I apologize. Your use of fast, is in the definition fast enough for the task at hand. It is not fast in the absolute sense. I assert that Elsa being that much slower th
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The human mind is one of the most wonderful things in the whole known universe. That we have saddled most of them with meaningless toil and vapid entertainment is disappointing. The shift to the right coincides with a decades long attack on
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by seg_lol 6y ago
Maybe jig would be a better description. They are more focused on the workpiece and the outcome, a part may have multiple steps that it undergoes and a jig assists in its production.
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by seg_lol 6y ago
True statement, but what does that metaphor-analogy have to do with server side JavaScript runtimes? They are also not the same thing, Dragonflys are fast, but they won't run my JS either. Our systems have absolute speeds that the clie
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by seg_lol 6y ago
It is amusing how each of us define our own _lightweight_, for me it is the size and readability of the code. Others it is the magnitude of the executable bytes. To someone else it might mean the startup time, the number of dependencies or
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by seg_lol 6y ago
I don't think so, it is clearly a Deno competitor in name and spirit. My first thought was around how languages allow us to choose our tribe and that Go folks couldn't contribute to Deno since it is in Rust, hence Elsa, maybe they