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by sullyj3 7y ago
I really like the book "Death Sentence" by Don Watson, which eloquently skewers this kind of corporate jargon.
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by sullyj3 7y ago
The fact that ubuntu's (and by extension, most WSL installs') default python is python 2 is crazy, and definitely not helping the situation.
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by sullyj3 7y ago
I think this is true in the case of the individual developer who has some level of understanding of and ownership over their entire codebase. This is no longer true when you're working in medium to large teams, like google is.
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by sullyj3 7y ago
> If we had infinite compute today, what steps would you take to build AGI? Does anyone have any good ideas about that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIXI
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by sullyj3 7y ago
This is all way too close to home, but I legitimately think the time I spent on arch made me more productive on linux machines.
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by sullyj3 7y ago
I think the key point is that governments are made of fallible people too. If not everyone deserves individual freedom, then certainly not everyone deserves power over others. And autocracies don't provide any facility for ensuring tha
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by sullyj3 7y ago
> My point is this: if all these frameworks were so great, why do we keep running to the latest new one? If last years processors were so great... If steam engines were so great... If the wheel was so great... Honestly I don't even
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by sullyj3 7y ago
why would I use sed over vim for regex replacements? in nvim I can set inccommand and see whether I've gotten my line noise right as I go.
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by sullyj3 7y ago
Because the concept originated in languages where function composition is what's emphasized, rather than method chaining. flatmap = flat ∘ map
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by sullyj3 7y ago
The examples provided in the article aren't especially compelling. These are capable of among other things, Prolog style nondeterministic choice and backtracking. A more in depth introduction is here: https://www.eff-lang.or
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by sullyj3 7y ago
Real foresight is understanding the cost of unnecessary technical debt.
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by sullyj3 7y ago
the idea that a private entity should be compelled to host speech they don't like seems like a massive violation of rights to me.
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by sullyj3 7y ago
I think part of the problem here is that 1984 has so utterly permeated our cultural milieu that it's hard to even conceptually surveillance independently of totalitarianism. The book instantly inextricably links them in our minds.
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by sullyj3 7y ago
I don't think so. It's more that in many cases, knowing that a behaviour is bad for you is woefully insufficient to make you actually stop doing it.
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by sullyj3 7y ago
The issue isn't about whether you have floating available, it's about whether you have the batteries-included of a full DE. Bars, Settings, Networking, volume control etc. You can set all of these up with individual programs if yo
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by sullyj3 7y ago
> If you’re constantly tweaking your vimrc, do yourself a favor and add a command for that: > command! Vimrc :vs $MYVIMRC I just use marks for this. Capital letter marks work across files, I use 'I (for init.vim, I use neovim).
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by sullyj3 7y ago
Git is severely suboptimal, and I would hope we develop a better alternative in the near future. While the underlying model is sound, the interface is confusing and deeply inconsistent. Much like RA vs SQL.
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by sullyj3 8y ago
Lightweight syntax and zero overhead for higher order functions sound fantastic. I'm very interested.
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by sullyj3 8y ago
I think by "feasible", the author here means "the features required to support monads in rust could feasibly be added" not "it is feasible to implement monads is rust as it exists currently". That was my first
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by sullyj3 8y ago
Why does the headline get a free pass?
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by sullyj3 8y ago
> Do you think it would be more readable if the type came before the identifier? This is an unfair comparison, in C, only the return type goes before the function name, the argument types go inside the parens.
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by sullyj3 8y ago
Wow, I had no idea you could add tuples.
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by sullyj3 8y ago
Making the issues known isn't just pointless complaining. Everyone who reads this might potentially be interested in contributing.
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by sullyj3 8y ago
People are not making the claim that nobody is right, so labelling it "relativism" is inappropriate. Merely pointing out that these norms are applied to everyone, and cut both ways. if somebody else thinks your views are odious an
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by sullyj3 8y ago
There's no such thing as a "fair price". There's just what people are or aren't willing to pay.
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by sullyj3 8y ago
I wonder whether blinkist agrees with, but does it anyway because people want it.
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by sullyj3 8y ago
> What I am saying is that the global average getting better is a skewed and rather meaningless metric. The fact that 100_000 EU/USA citizes are slighly better off at the cost 1_000_000 asians -- random numbers to demonstrate how an
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by sullyj3 8y ago
Appropriate that you're talking about idiosyncratic domain specific usage of terminology, I'm not sure what you mean by "information theoretic" here. I've always heard it used to refer specifically to the informatio
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by sullyj3 8y ago
The standard counterargument is that the current welfare system uses a shambling bureaucratic apparatus which forces people to go through an onerous, dehumanizing process of filling out endless forms to determine whether they're the &q
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by sullyj3 8y ago
I think you possibly mean "provenance".

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