simias

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by simias 5y ago
Is there a single example in recent memory of an open protocol achieving mainstream success without being sponsored by a large company? I really wish something like this Solid protocol would succeed, but I don't see how you could gener
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by simias 5y ago
I think it's much simpler than that, they just panicked and handled the situation poorly, and then they keep doubling down and digging a deeper hole. Seeing the situation from the outside, it's obvious that what they're doing
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by simias 5y ago
I disagree. I haven't taken the time to dig deep enough into this Freenode drama to really understand where everybody stands and as such I don't have a firm grasp of the various ideologies and values of the different sides. Howeve
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by simias 5y ago
I fully expected some blockchain nonsense opening your link, I'm pleasantly surprised. It seems like an interesting project but I wonder if it has any chance of reaching critical mass. The incumbents have no incentives to interoperate
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by simias 5y ago
I don't use Discord but apparently there was some pretty drama a couple of weeks ago because they made a bunch of changes to the UI of the client that apparently the community didn't like. If you want to have control of your platf
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by simias 5y ago
I'm very sad for the loss of Freenode and one more nail in IRC's coffin (which is probably more nail than coffin by weight now). That being said reading the various IRC logs and blog posts surrounding this issue I can't help
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by simias 5y ago
I'm on the same boat, although I have an additional requirement that disqualifies Sublime Text: I want the software to be source-available. Not necessarily FLOSS, but I want to know that if push comes to shove I can hack the code and r
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by simias 5y ago
I agree with all of your points and I probably would never use this product. That being said regarding Linux support, given the fact that Fig effectively needs to hook into your terminal emulator and your shell to drive a custom overlay, it
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by simias 5y ago
Was there a gap in the first place? We could design temper-proof data storage since way before the blockchain. All you need is checksums, public key cryptography and a way to publish your signed checksums. I'm not saying that this isn&
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by simias 5y ago
I didn't realize that this was Coq, that makes more sense. Still, if this is meant to be used by C coders it might be worth stooping to our level, many of us won't be comfortable with this mathematical notation. I know I'm no
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by simias 5y ago
If you keep picking the 128kbps track it does mean that you can hear a difference, and maybe that you subjectively prefer the more compressed audio. That's why usually good audio tests use ABX where it's not about seeing if you ca
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by simias 5y ago
What I find even more perplexing is that they decided to add new syntax for these annotations but still decided to stuff them into strings and add non-ascii symbols into them: [[rc::constraints("{s = {[n]} ⊎ tail}", "{∀ k
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by simias 5y ago
I never read Clean Code and know nothing about its author so I'm willing to trust you on the first part, but the second paragraph is really uncalled for IMO. The article is long and gives precise examples of its issues with the book. A
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by simias 5y ago
This article demonstrates well something I've seen a lot with people coming from GC languages getting into Rust: they just write the code the way they're used to and work around the borrow checker by slapping `Arc<Mutex<_&gt
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by simias 5y ago
It was normally implemented with macros to hide the boilerplate, but I agree that it wasn't very elegant. You can understand why many of us were very happy to finally get const generics...
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by simias 5y ago
I'm not sure I understand your point. Are you arguing that you think that the UK police and/or justice system tacitly enforce the US Constitution because they think it's a good idea or merely that you think that the world wou
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by simias 5y ago
11 years of evolution and counting, and still nothing to show for it besides the now habitual pump-and-dump cycle. If cryptocurrencies are so good at transferring money what's stopping them from replacing existing solutions? Literal bi
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by simias 5y ago
Most alt-coins created these days are designed as pure pyramid schemes (coin burned to artificially reduce the supply, n% of every transaction is spread among existing wallets etc...). Blatant scams like SafeMoon have hundreds of thousand o
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by simias 5y ago
The kernel uses a non standard `kmalloc` to allocate memory anyway, I don't know how they plan to integrate Rust into the kernel but I would be very surprised if they imported any of Rust's std as-is. Actually most of the time you
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by simias 5y ago
I feel the same way, but I think it's really simple: people who care enough about being mods to become one are the same people who are likely to let it get to their head. Mod drama on reddit for instance is fairly incredible in scope a
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by simias 5y ago
It's one of these situations where the correlation seems obvious, but the causation seems very hard to establish. How world changed so drastically over the past century that it always seems a bit strange to pin our current woes on one
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by simias 5y ago
Sure and I definitely do not have anything that can easily measure cups, let alone 3 1/2 of them (you guys sure love fractions). It's always weird to me when I see stuff like flour measured by volume given that it can be more or l
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by simias 5y ago
Back then code was usually closely tied to the hardware with very little abstraction. Nowadays even if you write in a low level language it's not difficult to target a wide array of devices if you go through standard interfaces. Propri
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by simias 5y ago
I don't know if there exists a C compiler that leverages this feature but there are ISAs (for instance MIPS) that can trap on signed overflow. The fact that it's UB in C means that you can tell the compiler to generate these excep
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by simias 5y ago
On top of that this particular chain is quite egregious because Carmack didn't even bother editing his text to be twit-friendly. It just breaks in the middle of sentences. It's pretty amusing to me that this modern, high-res, mult
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by simias 5y ago
I must admit that I'm skeptical of yet another Linux sound API but I really hope that you're right, I'd really like to be able to use Linux for serious sound stuff and finally ditch Windows for that too. I would even be willi
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by simias 5y ago
I've had pretty terrible experiences with pulseaudio only a few years ago. As often on Linux I was probably unlucky with hardware support. More generally I've always been frustrated with Linux audio because in my experience for ba
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by simias 5y ago
Yeah I definitely see where you're coming from, unfortunately I just cowardly reboot on my Windows partition when I want to do "serious" audio work because Linux is just an exercise in frustration in my experience.
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by simias 5y ago
I've had the same issue and finally bit the bullet and installed pulseaudio. I was semi-pleasantly surprised: it actually works most of the time on my computer these days. I still have to mess with a billion things when I want to do an
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by simias 5y ago
It's not like cryptocurrencies achieved any of their goals so far anyway. If it's about facilitating pyramid schemes and creating a worldwide casino we might as well do it efficiently and without wasting insane amounts of resource

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