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by svieira 11mo ago
All that means is that the `Failure` bubbles up to the very top of `main` (in this scenario) because we're only caring about the happy path (because we can't conceive of what the unhappy path should be other than "crash"
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by svieira 11mo ago
I rather prefer the holistic take that we are our whole selves and not just the part that reflects on what we do or the part that reacts to external and internal material stimuli. We know we can change the instincts, emotions, and hormon
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by svieira 11mo ago
It doesn't cost the fully salary of the woman, it redirects it to something that can't be captured by large scale economics. Which, if you're trying to break the backs of the uber wealthy, is an excellent way to do it. &
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by svieira 11mo ago
Mostly - if the IDs are assigned at compile time, how do you deal with _runtime_ locations like "the fifth iteration of a For loop"?
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by svieira 11mo ago
Yep, that's definitely true. That being said, figuring out which approach to take requires paying attention (which you did), there's no guarantee that any two people (or any one person at two times) will be in the same cohort.
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by svieira 11mo ago
> Morality is a feeling It isn't. Otherwise, the Nazis were moral. As were the Jews. But in that case, all moral truth is relative, which means absolute moral truth doesn't exist. Which means that "moral" is a syn
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by svieira 11mo ago
I think that Plato's dialogs are well worth reading too. Also, just so you know, Jesus is as or more historically "likely to be real" than Socrates (three major works written by two people who knew Him, multitudes more writte
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by svieira 11mo ago
Yes, I'm trying to explain my position so that you can understand it. Which I am not doing very well. Chacun son truc, I believe as there isn't a moral component to this on per se.
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by svieira 11mo ago
Flash was a plugin to the browser ecosystem that no one ever made a commitment to other than "here it is". SSLv2 and v3 all are protocol versions that anyone can still support, and removing support for them breaks certain web prop
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by svieira 11mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17141024 links to https://developer.chrome.com/blog/smooshgate which says: > Shipping the feature in Firefox Nightly caused at least one popular website to break
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by svieira 11mo ago
Co-authored is fine, thanks for asking!
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by svieira 11mo ago
> this was a bog standard example of a draft proposal where a bug was discovered, and rollout was adjusted Yes, but the "bug" here was "a single website is broken". Here, we are talking about an outcome that will b
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by svieira 11mo ago
FYI, you're missing two patterns that allow the `--key=value` admirers and the `-alltheshortopsinasinglestring` spacebar savers among us to be happy (for the otherwise excellent options parsing code). shopt -s extglob case &quo
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by svieira 11mo ago
A nice recent example is "smooshgate", wherein it was determined that breaking websites with an older version of Mootools installed was not an acceptable way to move the web forward, so we got `Array.prototype.flat` instead of `Ar
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by svieira 11mo ago
> Removing XSLT from browsers was long overdue > Google is willing to remove standards-compliant XML support as well. > They're the same picture. To spell it out, "if it's inconvenient, it goes", is something th
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by svieira 11mo ago
> The nineteenth century decided to have no religious authority. The twentieth century seems disposed to have any religious authority. An article in Illustrated London News , April 26, 1924 by G. K. Chesterton
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by svieira 11mo ago
Ah, so you don't do parallel with implicit IDs right now, I'm guessing. Or you do, but it has some interesting bugs as the IDs shift around? Or the scope of the auto-incrementing number is lower than "the entire program&quo
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by svieira 11mo ago
You might be interested in Flix: https://play.flix.dev/?q=PQgECUFMBcFcCcB2BnUBDUBjA9gG15JtAJb... is an embedded Datalog DB and query in a general-purpose programming language. More examples on https://flix.dev&
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by svieira 11mo ago
That is true, I'm glad that LLMs at least demonstrated for everyone except the most committed solipsists that we are all talking about a shared world state and communicating at least moderately effectively with each other.
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by svieira 11mo ago
I found https://easel.games/docs/learn/language/functions/ids#implic... which suggests they are structure-based, at least, though loops aren't mentioned. Great documentation, by the by!
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by svieira 11mo ago
> So the other trick is the Easel compiler assigns an implicit ID to things like sprites so that it will replace rather than add the second time around Is the ID computed based on the shape of the expression at runtime or on something el
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by svieira 11mo ago
You may be one of today's lucky 10K. https://github.com/cloudozer/ling Erlang on Xen. But also one of today's unlucky 10K as it hasn't been updated for 10 years.
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by svieira 11mo ago
Given that everything the LLM can do it learned from human descriptions of the space ... one would have to posit a very inefficient language for that model not to do something with those billions of parameters. But when you fly because o
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by svieira 11mo ago
Depends on what you consider a language . There are a lot of DSLs out there and once you add a couple of configuration files for Jenkins / Git{Hub, Lab} / Bazel / Buck and Vagrant / Docker / Bash and so on you&#x2
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by svieira 11mo ago
Well, socialism also includes the National Socialists of various nations ... perhaps we should clarify our terms rather than using an ambiguous word?
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by svieira 11mo ago
Without distinction , which you're ignoring, you are correct. But "wholly" means several things depending on what you're referring to. You could mean: 1. Everything that is (in the "esse" sense) of Jesus mus
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by svieira 11mo ago
> How can meat think? Some of us used to think that meat spontaneously generated flies. Maybe someday we'll (re-)learn that meat doesn't spontaneously generate thought either?
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by svieira 11mo ago
> Socialism brought a lot of good things all over Europe in the 1900s Just ask Poland!
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by svieira 11mo ago
> The implementation is all agnostic about namespaces. It just expects XSLT elements to have tags that carry the xsl: prefix, but we disregard all namespace declaration for them. Just for a start. It's a tiny polyfill for a tiny su
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by svieira 11mo ago
"The sandbox" in this case is their ability to execute WASM securely. It's a necessary part of the "modern" web. If they were planning on also nuking WASM from orbit because it couldn't be made secure, this w

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