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by sicromoft 6y ago
Same here. My take away from these replies is that I'm not missing anything by sticking with uBlock.
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by sicromoft 6y ago
Can you say more? I’m a happy uBlock user — what am I missing by not using Brave?
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Top mistakes engineers make when they become founders(twitter.com)
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What if programs spoke *our* language? (New Chris Granger project)(twitter.com)
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by sicromoft 6y ago
Wanting to be respected by their community is a political position?
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by sicromoft 6y ago
Are banks auditable? (Yes.) Do they have paper backups of everything? (Not that I'm aware of.) What's the difference? Honest question.
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by sicromoft 6y ago
At least Reddit is usually up so you can read its content. (The site hosting this post is currently down.)
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by sicromoft 6y ago
How did they not name this Dine?!
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by sicromoft 6y ago
Watch out for misinformation on all sides. This film tries to use bicycles to make a point and gets it completely wrong. See https://twitter.com/peteyreplies/status/1306186884683567104 .
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by sicromoft 6y ago
I think something might be off in your mental model of python coroutines. They work via cooperative multitasking. Atomic operations aren't really necessary or relevant in such a system where you are in complete control of all yield poi
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by sicromoft 6y ago
dict.setdefault doesn’t solve the problem that he’s using the lock for (atomicity is not the problem).
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by sicromoft 6y ago
> a large body of evidence suggests that having static types for both safety and documentation is a big win Citation needed. A review of studies on static vs. dynamic languages concluded "most studies find very small effects, if any
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by sicromoft 6y ago
You can read the full paper here: https://sci-hub.tw/https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/j...
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by sicromoft 6y ago
This is really well done. If you use this, please consider donating. (I'm not affiliated in any way, I just saw on the about page that it's self funded and costs $200/mo). Here's the patreon page: https://www.
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by sicromoft 6y ago
Note that this doesn't work on macOS, where the builtin `man` command doesn't support the `-l` option.
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by sicromoft 6y ago
This PEP is burying the lede -- it introduces a `@sealed` decorator, which gives python ADTs: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0622/#sealed-classes-as-...
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by sicromoft 6y ago
> just mark a function `async` and throw an `await` ... to [move] something from blocking to non-blocking. That's not how it works. `async` and `await` are merely syntactic sugar around callbacks. Everything in javascript is already
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by sicromoft 6y ago
Indeed. A variant of the classic XY problem: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem
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by sicromoft 6y ago
Does this, or any other distribution of chromium, have an auto-update mechanism similar to chrome's? I dislike having to manually install updates.
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by sicromoft 6y ago
Strongly agreed. I'll add that Typescript in general just has way more rough edges than Kotlin, in part because the type system is way more complex (due to the dynamic nature of Javascript). And dealing with third party libraries is wa
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by sicromoft 6y ago
My bad. I've updated my HN profile with my email address.
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by sicromoft 6y ago
Mint Mobile (a T-Mobile MVNO) has unlimited talk & text with 3GB data (and unlimited throttled data after that) for $15/mo. (I'm not affilliated, just a happy user -- if you want a $15 credit, DM me for a referral code.)
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by sicromoft 6y ago
> Every other major language besides Python allows the former As noted in a reply to your other comment, this is not true -- Ruby has the equivalent of Python's GIL.
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by sicromoft 6y ago
It is.
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by sicromoft 6y ago
Thank you, I had no idea that's why these links haven't been loading. Just switched back to google's resolver (8.8.8.8).
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by sicromoft 6y ago
Anyone can add themself to the list, so those will be in there too. (:
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by sicromoft 6y ago
It's not a list of "great" engineers. It's just a list of engineers. Anyone can add themself to the list.
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by sicromoft 7y ago
Anyone know the best way to get started with suing them? Or should I assume that's already being done?
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by sicromoft 7y ago
I like the idea. My feedback: the name seems like it's going to confuse people. I almost skipped by this post when I saw the name at a glance because I'm not particularly interested in 3D graphics.
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by sicromoft 7y ago
Because hackernews has a policy/history of editing titles to be more useful/descriptive and less clickbaity.

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