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by svieira 4y ago
One jump vs. multiple pointer dereferences.
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by svieira 4y ago
My favorite is from _The Napoleon of Notting Hill_ by G. K. Chesterton: ---- "Poet, whose cunning carved this amorous shell, \ Where twain may dwell." "The peculiarity of these fine though feminine lines," continued &qu
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by svieira 4y ago
See also _Surveillance too cheap to meter_ https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2022/7/262077-surveillance-to... > To stop the surveillance, [they] would have to get their equipment suppliers to make changes; th
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by svieira 4y ago
Any movement that believes they can immanentize the eschaton[1] is going to use any and all means at its disposal to do so. If all truth is relative [2] and competing lenses bring different goods (<aside>but from what absolute perspec
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by svieira 4y ago
>> Because of the locality aspect, people will assume that it's 'free' to look up a value multiple times instead of passing these data dependencies between the relevant methods > what does that even mean? What does &
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by svieira 4y ago
> Your topic of choice may be anything, not necessarily CS. The Story of a Soul by Thérèse of Lisieux - "unless you become like little children" never really clicked with me until I read it and became her friend.
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by svieira 4y ago
As someone who has done this, both for version upgrades and for substantial refractors of the codebase, I have to prefer monoliths. Atomic commits are cheaper than adding and releasing version support across a system that doesn't have
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by svieira 4y ago
A number of children equal to either the entire population of either Fort Worth, TX or Baltimore, MD (depending on whether or not you believe Guttmacher or the CDC) is killed every year [2]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by svieira 4y ago
Actually Maciej has the entire dump if I'm not mistaken - https://blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious...
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by svieira 4y ago
"That's a chain of office you are wearing; may I see it? Why Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world ... but for Wales?" https://youtu.be/bLIsqYKDqY8?t=214 To put it another way
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by svieira 4y ago
It's not in JavaScript, but see Unifying Church and State: FP and OOP Together for another example of the "switch / named functions" (or "Wadler's Expression Problem") described in a pretty intuitive way
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by svieira 4y ago
Realizing that I couldn't run from the judgement of God. At the end of the day I wanted to be "the one who didn't suffer". That's not possible, and counter-intuitively, is the best way to maximize suffering.
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by svieira 4y ago
My favorite version of "what would drive interactions between alien species" is "The Cold Equations" in The Eschaton Sequence (starting with Count to a Trillion ).
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by svieira 4y ago
That's right, the buck _has_ to stop somewhere. What else might we discover about this uncaused cause?
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by svieira 4y ago
Erlang: The Movie shows how it's done (RIP Joe Armstrong): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrIjfIjssLE
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by svieira 4y ago
I'm with Aristotle - "all men desire happiness". Nothing else is desired for its own sake , but always for the sake of "happiness". That said, I don't think that knowing that happiness is what we desire tells
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by svieira 4y ago
quid custos ipsos custodiet still applies. The fact that your test suite ran in Esolang v27.8 successfully doesn't mean what you-the-consumer want it to mean if the last supported version of Esolang is v96.2. It just means someone
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by svieira 4y ago
You're absolutely right - purpose does presuppose another cognition. The good thing is that if we have purpose then there's Someone out there who created us with a purpose . And if that someone wanted us to know what it was
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by svieira 4y ago
"Statements are executed but don’t produce any result value ... Expressions evaluate to a single result value ... A spread (`[i, ...thisIsASpread, j]`) is neither of those. A spread can evaluate to zero values (if you spread an empty c
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Making Dart a Better Language for UI(gist.github.com)
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by svieira 4y ago
Not if you do what Dart did: https://medium.com/dartlang/making-dart-a-better-language-fo...
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by svieira 4y ago
sobs in j2objc AND sobs in GWT/J2CL
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by svieira 4y ago
The standard says "POST means NOT-IDEMPOTENT" and "clients MUST not re-issue a non-idempotent requests" and the client behavior naturally falls out of those two constraints.
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by svieira 4y ago
It's not about the "end user" developer of the server, it's about the middleware and the clients. A browser (for example) will happily retry a GET request that times out, but will not automatically retry a POST request
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by svieira 4y ago
A zygote is most certainly independent of the mother in the sense that the child and the mother are distinct members of the species. The child is not a part of the mother, but an independent (distinct) entity. The mother and child are dis
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by svieira 4y ago
The child in-utero is most certainly an independent being (or else the mother is not unless she's living in a universe she created herself ex nihilo). Is there some way to define "independent" that isn't driven entirely
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by svieira 4y ago
Yes, I assumed that since we can talk about categories and kinds we must be able to talk about a shared truth based in objective reality. Either "human" is a category we can talk about which is based in objective reality (and our
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by svieira 4y ago
I must be misunderstanding something. Are you saying that a one-week post-birth child is still not a separate human from your perspective because they are not "viable" yet?
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by svieira 4y ago
You must not mean "separate human" in the sense that biology does (because a distinct individual of the species homo sapiens exists from the moment of conception). What does "human" in this discussion imply if not &quot
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by svieira 4y ago
The child has a real, functioning body. From the moment of conception there's a separate self-organizing organism performing processes that will improve their body. The mother also has one. Both of them are human bodies.

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