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by svieira 4y ago
The only Task remaining is to wait until that Future is joined.
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by svieira 4y ago
It's not unique to America or to the present day, "There's no news in The Truth and there's no truth in The News " was a saying in some regions of the world not all that long ago.
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by svieira 4y ago
This is interesting, but you've not actually solved the problem, just moved it. You still need cross-service transactions to publish the event only-once. Consider the case of "Publish the event to the queue. Fail to update &#x2F
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by svieira 4y ago
Also Marko, which was on here yesterday: https://markojs.com/docs/why-is-marko-fast/#compile-time-opt... > Marko will recognize that the template fragment produces the same output every time and it will thus cr
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by svieira 4y ago
"Code elimination" in this case is making reference to Marko's ability to compile away some of the one-time code in their `render` function (unlike something like React that has to run everything inside of `render` ever time
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by svieira 4y ago
Speaking as a Catholic, the eternity of hell is based on your willingness to be a monster rather than serve the one who is the source of all good. Which is as horrible an opinion as one could have.
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by svieira 4y ago
"Suddenly" can only happen with grace. One day at a time, one moment at a time, searching for Him until He calls "Zacchaeus come down" (Luke 19:1-10) is the only way we can dispose ourselves for that moment.
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by svieira 4y ago
I can't take credit for this idea - it's from Jon Skeet: https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a...
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by svieira 4y ago
Since "God is dead" the one who knows this is capable of taking control of the direction of humanity. Of taking control of the direction of morality and ethics and truth. If there is no real and logical proposition that is fit f
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by svieira 4y ago
"Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the ri
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by svieira 4y ago
> I think we should start explicitly worshipping the concept of civilization and progress Isn't this exactly what the French Revolution's first wave, the Nazis, the Soviets, and the Maoists all did? Or are you suggesting somet
552.
by svieira 4y ago
Starving the poor to prevent feeding the rich seems like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
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by svieira 4y ago
Without loss requires the version of the timezones data too. "it was 2:01am on November 5th, in America/Los_Angeles and the offset was -7 (retrieved from ICU v97)"
554.
by svieira 4y ago
When you say "to feel like they are part of something bigger", does the bigger thing have to be true? Does it have to be big enough to hold everyone (in some way)? I suspect what you are sensing is society's vulnerability to
555.
by svieira 4y ago
If you use Foundation as your pump you may enjoy John C. Wright's Count to the Escaton sequence. It's Foundation with aliens, logic, ethics, love, and scales of time and intelligence beyond anything else I have ever read. N.
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by svieira 4y ago
The fact of the matter is that what-a-resource-is includes the headers it is served with and the context in which it is requested. Consider https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/squirrel/ It may not be normal in your day-to-day
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by svieira 4y ago
Actually JSON doesn't specify what numbers are - it would be perfectly licit for a JSON parser to transparently use a real numerical tower, allowing perfect representations of any non-repeating decimal fractional number (since it has t
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by svieira 4y ago
Compiled to bytecode which is executed by a runtime interpreter which traces the values passing through sections of it and uses those values to perform additional runtime optimizations on the newly annotated code and compile the new represe
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by svieira 4y ago
Either there is some higher principle at play which regulates bodily autonomy or else I can punch anyone who shakes my hand in a way I don't like the moment I don't like it. If there is a principle that requires that I not punch
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by svieira 4y ago
See also: The Tyranny of Structurelessness https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
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by svieira 4y ago
What he means is that you didn't _used_ to be able to do this: declare const NOMINAL_BRAND: unique symbol; enum UserIdType {} type UserId = string & {[NOMINAL_BRAND]: UserIdType} type UserMap<V> = { [key: Us
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by svieira 4y ago
It lets you intercept behaviors as they are requested of your object and do whatever you want to respond to them. Think of them as extensions of descriptors and you won't be far off (except they're designed to be a wrapper instead
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by svieira 4y ago
FYI, TypeScript already supports nominal types, but the ways in which you "spell" `nominal` are a little unintuitive: 1. Use an enum 2. Use an intersection with an enum and literally anything else (except a number) 3. Use a privat
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by svieira 4y ago
Negare sed contra non est
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by svieira 4y ago
You might like G. K. Chesterton's _The Napoleon of Notting Hill_ if you haven't already read it (neighborhood regionalism at its finest!)
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by svieira 4y ago
> anyone claiming that it does hasn't thought about it very hard yet. Or maybe you haven't given enough thought to what "beauty" might mean such that it could be objective. Not everyone means by "beauty" &qu
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by svieira 4y ago
It is definitely possible to go your whole life without having sex. Much like it is possible to go your whole life without loosing your temper. It may not be easy, but it is definitely possible. But all of them appear to be "core&quot
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by svieira 4y ago
If abstinence is a reasonable alternative for anything other than sex (don't eat meat, don't use gasoline, etc.) it's also a reasonable alternative for sex. Some won't agree that limiting your "core" desires i
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by svieira 4y ago
> See Socrates' discourse with the slave boy in Meno and the universal desire for justice and happiness that all human beings posses. What part would you like more elucidation of?
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by svieira 4y ago
There is no necessity of a gap between "is" and "ought" - the assumption that there is presumes that either things are not ordered towards an end or that we cannot known that end. But that's clearly wrong. See Socra

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