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by shakow 6y ago
> but you can do the same thing with Promises too, right? No, Promises can only be interacted with within the async framework. There is no ways to 1. Call an async function/get a Promise in a sync function and 2. “Extract” the value
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by shakow 6y ago
Oh I'm all for simplifying the general language, the distinction doesn't really matter. However, I prefer to stick to the correct terms in writing :)
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by shakow 6y ago
No, concentration camp. Extermination camps were a subset of concentration camps. Doesn't mean that prisoners were expected to be well treated in a concentration camp (typically just well enough to be productive as a slave), but they w
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by shakow 6y ago
I'm just giving the explanation of the historical context to GP, I'm neither German nor a lawmaker in Germany.
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by shakow 6y ago
KZ is the shorthand for Konzentrationslager, i.e. concentration camp.
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by shakow 6y ago
> Maybe thee's still space for a modern language for numerical computation whose efficiency is not encumbered by the need to support strings, dictionaries, multiple dispatch and the like? I don't think so: I don't know of
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by shakow 6y ago
And how do you multiple dispatch on that? But if you just want a free MATLAB, use Octave.
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by shakow 6y ago
Exactly, if grep behaves differently in your scripts and your shell, there's no point in not using ripgrep (or ag, or silver searcher, or whatever strikes your fancy).
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by shakow 6y ago
Then you go back to incompatibility.
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by shakow 6y ago
> Coffeescript in particular, are good historical references to what will happen to TS in a few years. The thing is that many good ideas of Coffee ended up being integrated in newer versions of JS, so of course the need for it decreased;
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by shakow 6y ago
> I'm guessing it's just too painful? Indeed. Although it is being worked on, the whole bootstrap process of rustc is currently a major hassle, requiring to start from the oldest CaML versions of the compiler up to the most rec
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by shakow 6y ago
> Most of the world could greatly benefit from its functionality *as long as the world is managing text files, which is, albeit not prohibitive, a big caveat.
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by shakow 6y ago
> You also don't want to disable this visual warning because on slower devices it might take 2 seconds to load the page which is much different than an uncontrolled disconnect. You can restrict the visual warning to the first load o
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by shakow 6y ago
> Instead of managing the state of your app you’re now managing the state of your app and a connection to a remote server. Wouldn't an intermediate layer such as e.g. Phoenix/LiveView ( https://www.phoenixframework.
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by shakow 6y ago
A surprisingly pleasant, albeit convoluted, way to install it is, if you're already using Nix and/or NixOS, to use home-manager ( https://rycee.gitlab.io/home-manager/ ) for that. You just have to set the setti
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by shakow 6y ago
But you might be biased by your work. For me (and, probably, many other people), who doesn't daily work with antisemitic pamphlet, ‶secret control″ evokes more some shady secret service shenanigans (à la Hoover files or MK Ultra) rathe
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by shakow 6y ago
> I am sure you know that there is no inheritance in Go https://golangdocs.com/inheritance-in-golang
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by shakow 6y ago
Experienced programmer will know whether the vanilla array of the language they use feature this kind of convoluted data structure. Which, for virtually all languages, is “obviously not”.
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by shakow 6y ago
> I noticed companies moving into the space, like 23andme 23andme is not doing sequencing, they're doing genotyping. And they are doing so using relatively old and well-established method; so I highly doubt they will be a force of i
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by shakow 6y ago
I'm really happy to see that the project is still alive and kicking!
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0 A.D. Alpha 24: Xšayāršā(play0ad.com)
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by shakow 6y ago
> How about a co-op of scientists pooling money to rent the kinds of AI chips the big players are starting to put out? What is really expensive and complicated for now is “wet” data collections: it is a finicky process stuffed to the bri
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by shakow 6y ago
Bio lab equipment is getting cheaper as in $100K's instead of $1M's, not as in “can be bought with UBI”.
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by shakow 6y ago
> I love building things > I tried Minecraft [...] but I didn't much enjoy the [...] lack of "systems" > I also just enjoy sitting back and watching systems work > I prefer top-down planning Yeah, you should love
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by shakow 6y ago
> The big question is will internet free the good artists that were gatekeeped I don't think so. What they need the most is publicity, and this is not magically granted by internet. Just take a look at e.g. Spotify; I'm sure th
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by shakow 6y ago
I don't know if it counts as “production”, but I quite often use it to develop small GUI utilities in academic settings. Performances are bad, but when playing with relatively small datasets, the portable (Linux/macOS/Windows
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by shakow 6y ago
No, it fixes that you don't have to chose between ListOfInts, ListOfStrings and ListOfListOfArrayOfInt. BTW, one doesn't have to chose between them in Go either, but only because there are under-the-hood generics for the native ty
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by shakow 6y ago
> That’s not how we do things in America, where the title for the head of state is just “Mr. President.” So, just like in Europe? “Mr. Prime Minister”, “M. le Président”, “Frau Bundeskanzlerin”, “Herr Bundeskanzler”, ...
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by shakow 6y ago
> MCAS did not exist because the 737 Max was unsafe, just different. That's arguable: https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2019/04/02/mit-exper... https://www.eetimes.com/
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by shakow 6y ago
There are no precedents in the Democrats history of exercise of power that would let us hope that Obamas's VP would lead a radically different policy.

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