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by ssivark 6y ago
When I was new to Haskell (and also not an experienced programmer), the following example on “functional style” had a huge positive impact on me -- where the same program is re-written in ten different ways, each time making it more modular
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by ssivark 6y ago
For some reason the thought of English become a standard made me feel sad. While standardization certainly lends convenience and efficiency, diversity leads to more robustness and effective exploration — instead of everything being caught u
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by ssivark 6y ago
I think the idea was that the OS, programming language, etc should all meld into a cohesive UI that would range from mouse manipulations for the simplest messages to keyboard input for finer communication (and whatever other hardware we com
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by ssivark 6y ago
Even if that were the case, it seems wasteful/pointless to have to go through all of biological evolution every time one wants to label images or generate some text.
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by ssivark 6y ago
Appreciate the technical knowledge in your comment, but simply put, OP’s response to Facebook ought to be: “Not my problem; get your shit together.” We should collectively start holding platforms to higher expectations; they certainly hav
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by ssivark 6y ago
Venturing a guess: Make up a unit test that runs on all relevant functions of the class (I.e. type) that the object “2” belongs to, and pick functions that pass the test.
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by ssivark 6y ago
All this is actually worked out in some detail (search keywords federated/indie web). Check out the PubSub model, and the ActivityPub protocol as an example, and Mastodon as a working proof-of-concept. As a starting point, imagine emai
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by ssivark 6y ago
I think we're still on the path to making (efficient) inference work for broader classes of problems (expressive problem formulation). One of the most interesting recent projects I've come across is "Gen" by the probcomp
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by ssivark 6y ago
Very interesting experiment. Did you consider having academics cite your software as an academic work, and then monetizing those citations to get grants from funding agencies who were funding the research that used your software? Given this
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by ssivark 6y ago
Thanks for you comment with interesting points. It’s quite different from the perspective of “scratching an itch” open source code. I look forward to your posts on nurturing open source communities.
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by ssivark 6y ago
Thank you so much! A lot of us have been tracking the steady progress on the PinePhone with great excitement, so much love from all of us, and thanks to you and everyone else for all the hard work.
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by ssivark 6y ago
It’s worth mentioning that this desire to think through things deeply often runs contrary to a bias for action, and it’s very difficult to measure progress in thought. There is a long phase of thinking very hard, and a short phase where thi
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by ssivark 6y ago
To dig a little deeper, what impedes a runtime from supporting live patching? Why doesn’t Python have this, for example?
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by ssivark 6y ago
This is like the best case example of test driven development. I don’t understand what is stopping other languages from supporting “live debugging” of this kind.
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by ssivark 6y ago
> Here's the rub though: from Bob's perspective, Alex is in his past This is not possible, if B is in the past lightcone of A. The relative time ordering can only vary if the two observers/events are spacelike separated —
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by ssivark 6y ago
My biggest complaint is how apps have permissions to “pull” stuff from the device rather than the user getting to “push” only what they deem necessary. Simple example: why does an app need access to all my photos? When I want to share a pho
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by ssivark 6y ago
Julia’s definitely not the first, but I don’t see too many examples where they took the idea seriously enough as a design principle to build the language around it (that’s what I meant by “run with it” ). I’ve seen Dylan often credited as
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by ssivark 6y ago
You might also enjoy Stefan Karpinski’s talk at JuliaCon 2019 about how multiple dispatch helps make the language more expressive (than OOP, for Eg). The unreasonable effectiveness of multiple dispatch https://youtu.be/kc9
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by ssivark 6y ago
> Why telemetry at all? I don't expect a programming language to have telemetry as an default feature. That expectation is incorrect if you’ve ever used a package server or pulled packages from some website including Github (for A
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by ssivark 6y ago
The ostensible reason was ideological, but the underlying reason might well be an attempt to boost “engagement” and assert greater power over users (which could then be milked in various ways, eg: targeted messaging and selective sharing)
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by ssivark 6y ago
Do you mean a reference describing the CPython runtime system, etc?
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by ssivark 6y ago
In this context it’s wise to move conservatively. Gitlab has “come of age” only in the last few years. We see that KDE is now moving. If that works well, I wouldn’t be surprised if other OSS projects slowly start migrating. Remember that th
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by ssivark 6y ago
2M paying subscribers is 1B+ USD annual revenue — nothing to sneeze at!
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by ssivark 6y ago
At a first glance, there seems to be something wonky with the quantum numbers: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/qunoh.html
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by ssivark 6y ago
Keep in mind that linux is a 25+ year old project with established practices which might well outlast fads of web-driven development which might change every few years. Yes, Github/etc provide a friendlier interface for newbies ( and m
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by ssivark 6y ago
And that’s fine, because Emacs is not meant to be an opinionated “app” or product. And that’s exactly what makes it so fantastic, in a landscape filled with crud that’s simple out-of-the-box, and then puts you in a straightjacket forever
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by ssivark 6y ago
Why not the Thinkpad T-series then?
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by ssivark 6y ago
I think part of the problem (sociologically) is also sharp reluctance on part of funding agencies, and hiring committees. Graduate students are made to feel, in no uncertain terms, that working on quantum foundations equates to career suici
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by ssivark 6y ago
Population density (of target audience) is one of the most crucial things for a service like 15 minute food delivery, so if restricted to the Bay Area, few places can compete with SF. Further, cost of living in SF is significantly higher, w
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by ssivark 6y ago
If a significant part of the value is the libraries, then you must mention that more prominently. Is the goal to write/sell a book with code examples, or to sell a book subsidizing the development of open source libraries?

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