simias

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by simias 5y ago
In my opinion that's a library problem, not a language problem. Creating code snippets at runtime by haphazardly concatenating strings is always going to be error-prone. Some SQL libraries use a builder pattern like, say: let res
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by simias 5y ago
I feel the same way, I think f-strings and s-strings are going a bit too far for the sake of convenience.
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by simias 5y ago
I hardly ever use them. I think it's mainly that I don't know how. I also generally dislike having to learn "context specific" tools, since you generally need different debuggers for different languages/environments
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by simias 5y ago
I congratulate you on your successful projects but I don't understand what you mean by "PHP is C-like and written in C so the hate is funny to me". The language of the runtime is not particularly relevant unless you want to w
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by simias 5y ago
But see, this is where I get lost in this concept. Should Jagex fold and the game become unplayable, what do you own? An entry in a database that says that you once had this item but you can't do anything with it? Why is that valuable?
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by simias 5y ago
>Rolex could fold and people in the future might still be able to check for authenticity. That's why I mentioned distributing the file over IPFS so that it could be easily backuped by anybody forever. If eventually there's no
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by simias 5y ago
Well sure but that's the "analog gap" problem. NFTs don't fix that, do they? In the end there'll have to be something that will tie a given NFT to a given watch, and one way or the other it'll be the same issue
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by simias 5y ago
>When you think about it, OpenSea would actually be much “better” in the immediate sense if all the web3 parts were gone. It would be faster, cheaper for everyone, and easier to use. That sums up the situation for me. Having a marketplac
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by simias 5y ago
I see what you mean but surely there must be precedents of apps being pulled from the Play Store because they abused 3rd party APIs, be it Google's or somebody else's? I mean why even bother obfuscating the URL otherwise, surely t
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by simias 5y ago
Yeah I'm a bit shocked honestly that it made it into an application as widely used as Telegram. It's bound to be detected eventually and the feature will suddenly break. Such a strange software engineering decision. They can'
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by simias 5y ago
Indeed, I should have made that clearer. 10 years is what separates the iphone 1 and the iphone 8, or the PlayStation and the PlayStation 3. If there's a breakthrough in computing technology it'll be everywhere within a couple of
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by simias 5y ago
I don't understand the relevance of your articles. What would nodes have to do with the issue of who creates the nodes? Why would nodes reject valid blocks arbitrarily? Why would it be an improvement? I'm talking about a situation
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by simias 5y ago
I don't see how that adds up, unless production of these light computers is extremely constrained they are just going to be produced en masse if they provide an edge for PoW mining, then you'll just have many more computers using
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by simias 5y ago
The blockchain is not a computer. Computers are computers, and since it's trustless every node has to recompute everything. With enough spin you can make everything sound revolutionary. Smart contracts are effectively like stored proce
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by simias 5y ago
>I'm guessing critical mass sometime in the next 18-36 months. And I say in 2025 I'll be having the same discussion I had in 2017 and I'm having right now as somebody will reply to a comment I make on HN telling me that wh
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by simias 5y ago
We've been hearing this tune from cryptoenthusiasts for over a decade now, maybe you should revisit your comments from a few years ago? If you dig in my own comments on this website you can probably find discussions from 2017 or even e
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by simias 5y ago
You always need to know what you're doing, but Rust lets you encode more of what you mean in the code and the compiler checks that you're not violating your own invariants. That's the killer feature for me. I feel like I&#x
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by simias 5y ago
I understand your concern and I would definitely feel the same if some language I wasn't familiar with was suddenly introduced in the kernel. But at the same time as a big Rust enthusiast I think it's really a good idea in the lon
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by simias 5y ago
Analog Devices also does DSPs such as the Blackfin which, as far as I know, were made in-house and can Linux (well, Linux without MMU, but still).
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by simias 5y ago
What do you mean by "destructively"?
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by simias 5y ago
They're bad, grindy games. The appeal is specifically that they reward with crypto-tokens that can be traded on exchanges for real money. It's basically just a way to work around regulations. Technically the game doesn't deal
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by simias 5y ago
I really dislike the www bloat so I was excited to browse the list, unfortunately so far I mostly see ancap/libertarian/declinist posts (or just people who seem very sad and/or angry) as well as many far-right dogwhistles I r
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by simias 5y ago
I feel like right-handed people would prefer anti-clockwise stairs though, because if you're carrying something heavy it's usually harder to climb up than down, and in my experience is more comfortable to carry a bulky object on t
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by simias 5y ago
Would we? I ask genuinely, not rhetorically. Literacy was a lot lower back then, and even what was written has often been lost in time. I mean I can offer the same argument in reverse: if 70% of these staircases wound clockwise, they clearl
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by simias 5y ago
I agree, if 70% of straicases wind one way there's got to be a reason, it's unlikely to be random chance. If the author is not willing to explain why he thinks that it's a bad justification, and at the same time can't co
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by simias 5y ago
Persecuted? Are cryptocultists hiding in basements for fear of the nocoin police? Tortured in backrooms to have them recant the holy blockchain? Blockchain is shilled everywhere, you can find ads for it in the subway. >I really wish peop
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by simias 5y ago
>What's the value of having friends I see daily online? None. The value is in having people want to watch ads in order to see what their friends are up to. The only monetization scheme for the blockchain so far seems to build pyrami
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by simias 5y ago
Ah, I guess it depends on the type of content you watch on youtube. I find video howtos/tutorial very annoying to watch because they're invariably too slow or too fast, I vastly prefer text-and-images-based guides for that stuff.
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by simias 5y ago
I always found this information rather useless myself, so I don't see it as a huge deal. More often that not when I see a video with tons of dislike it's because it's been brigaded by an adversarial community and not really a
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by simias 5y ago
I'm not sure I love littering the filesystem with dotfiles (it gives me svn PTSD). Although the advantage is that it'll stay in the directory if it's renamed/moved/compressed etc... But then the inconvenient is that

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