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by shakow 4y ago
Have you read it in Chinese? Or are you projecting your impressions of the USSR on 3BP? Have you thought that what rings to you like “authoritarian communist China” may just be “authoritarian for centuries China”? For all I know you may be
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by shakow 4y ago
> unable to escape the propaganda tone (with a serious reek of Young Guards) We're still talking about the guy whose book opens on a bortherly civil war between two Young Guards factions, followed by a public lynching by the same g
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by shakow 4y ago
Because I can run it on remote computers. Because I can put it at the end of a series of pipe. Because I want to see a few exploratory plots without launching an external program.
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by shakow 4y ago
Not really IME; you have to go through layers of bullshit aiming at making the paper seems more important that it is, not hurting the feelings of Pr. Curmudgedon that could be a reviewer, fitting the grant that funded the paper, hiding the
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by shakow 4y ago
Well, given that all paper abstracts have to follow the same structure with the same keywords and be conservative to get a chance to get published, it makes sense that ChatGPT shines there. IMHO, it says more about the manic habits of journ
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by shakow 4y ago
Before going for the snark, you could have noticed that ‶breathtakingly″ is in quotes, because it is part of a citation of the expert mentioned in the article. The only choice here has been to put it in the title.
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Show HN: A FUSE module to work with FASTA files(github.com)
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by shakow 4y ago
Because we now have better things, leveraging the power of modern computers? Mius Front, Armored Brigade, Command Ops, Flashpoint Campaigns, Close Combat, ...
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by shakow 4y ago
> Sure it is: an appeal to authority is not a valid step in a deductive logical argument Technically, unless you reinvented logic on your own, this in an argument of authority with extra steps.
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by shakow 4y ago
You don't get it. The main issue with a hash collision in sha256 wouldn't be Nix breaking for a few hours; it would be the modern internet breaking down. I don't see why you get so fixated on Nix rather than preaching about a
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by shakow 4y ago
> AFAIK, they are all in some form related to primes That's plain wrong. Primes are being phased out in crypto, elliptic curves are decades old at this point, and lattices are everywhere in recent research.
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by shakow 4y ago
So, basically, you're saying that Nix is insecure, because you need hash collision + signature forgery + malicious access to repos; whereas in a standard distro, you only need signature forgery + malicious access to repos? I really don
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by shakow 4y ago
> I left the platform when I had to look at the Google Chrome update warning for two weeks without any updates You can follow -unstable for a select choice of package, that's what I'm doing e.g. for the TeamSpeak client.
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by shakow 4y ago
> I found Julia's selection for a flight collision avoidance system perplexing From [3]: > Julia is [...] executable Indeed, that's a useful feature for a programming language :)
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by shakow 4y ago
> Just put a .netrc file in your homefolder with your username + token Lol yes, let's just put sensitive information in plain text in my home folder and change the machine-wide configuration, because Go guys decided that if it worke
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by shakow 4y ago
> I just think that shoehorning Kotlin into "the go niche" is absurd That's what you say, but you don't really tell us why.
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by shakow 4y ago
To be honest, I think that go packaging is ghastly (just accessing dependencies in private repos requires changing global git settings, which is an abomination), but I can see how Java can be very heavy on that. However, I would not weight
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by shakow 4y ago
> I've never once been stumped by a lack of generics Heve you never written a stack structure (since Go doesn't include one)? Never used a min/max function between numbers (go doesn't either)?
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by shakow 4y ago
> True, but can you really work day by day in a language and still not understand its appeal? Yes. I have been working with Go for close to a year now, and I still don't get why we use it, if not for the inertia of times past – and
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by shakow 4y ago
I'm pretty sure you are reading what you want to tread instead of what is written. > The article discussed the option of throwing 40 years of development out the window or borrowing/imitating things from emacs/vim. The art
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by shakow 4y ago
That's not reading between the lines, that's just inventing a new article.
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by shakow 4y ago
If you are thinking of TI calculators, it's very much still the case; at least until the nspire range completely takes over the older models.
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by shakow 4y ago
> Basic is even more nearly dead I would not say so. The BASIC used in the Office pack is the last child of the MS-BASIC/GWBASIC/QBASIC/QuickBasic/VisualBasic lineage, is still (unfortunately?) very much alive, and pr
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by shakow 4y ago
With all due respect, basically everything. What you describe sounds like Haskell laziness, maybe that's what you were thinking of? Or the memory model of e.g. Ocaml and Lisp, but those are then optimized at compile-time. Rust enforces
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by shakow 4y ago
I don't see how the bootstrapping problem is linked to multiple implementations. > Shortly afterwards, people can only use the language if their tool chain, operating system, etc. closely match the understanding of the language auth
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by shakow 4y ago
> PHP has alternative VMs and specialized servers for serving it fast and in encrypted manner (they are closed sourced), tho. Well, if they are not public, it does not really have any influence on language specification. > Kotlin runs
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by shakow 4y ago
Honestly curious, I know it exists, just like there used to be GCJ, but have you seen it being actually used?
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by shakow 4y ago
> Because single implementation languages are toys ‶Toys″ like Go, OCaml, arguably Ruby & PHP, Perl, Erlang, Kotlin, ...
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by shakow 4y ago
> Also, the `for` operator definitely predates the `map` function And `CAS/Compare Accumulator with Storage` definitely predates `if`, still you are most probably using the latter.
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by shakow 4y ago
> but in the book, it is clear that this is the woman's personal belief And that would make sense in the serie. However, there, it's presented as a fact by an apparently perfectly competent physician.

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