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by thefaux 10mo ago
This design seems very similar to async in scala except that in scala the execution context is an implicit parameter rather than an explicit parameter. I did not find this api to be significantly better for many use cases than writing threa
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by thefaux 11mo ago
If the value of human labor is going to zero, which some say ai will induce, wouldn't the oxbridge model become the most cost effective option?
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by thefaux 11mo ago
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%207&ver...
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by thefaux 11mo ago
Yes, they are similar and in both cases what we know about them was passed down by their unreliable students with an agenda. I have studied both over the past few years and I find myself disagreeing with Plato's Socrates often whereas
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by thefaux 11mo ago
I am not a fan of function chaining in the style advocated in the article. In my experience functional abstractions always add function call indirection (that may or may not be optimized by the compiler). You don't need a library imple
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by thefaux 11mo ago
Even better is to use tail calls instead of loops and eliminate mutable variables entirely.
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by thefaux 11mo ago
I find the direction of zig confusing. Is it supposed to be a simple language or a complex one? Low level or high level? This feature is to me a strange mix of high and low level functionality and quite complex. The io interface looks like
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by thefaux 11mo ago
If you are going to attack the sacred text of two billion people, it would be better to avoid a lazy comparison to Hitler. Have you read the Quran? Do you understand the historical roots from which it emerged? Do you know how it had been us
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by thefaux 1y ago
I do work while strolling all the time. In fact, I consider long walks an important part of my workday.
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by thefaux 1y ago
Chalk it up to youth perhaps, but this piece would benefit, in my view, from more "for me..." or "I found..." and less "You should/must/are..." I have reached a point in my life in which I recognize t
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by thefaux 1y ago
I cannot express how liberating it feels to opt out of "advanced" editor tools like lsp. I program in neovim with no plugins, no syntax highlighting and no autocomplete of any kind. There is a discipline that this imposes that I b
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by thefaux 1y ago
Lua has tail call optimization and js doesn't. For me, this is a dealbreaker for js. Lua also has operational advantages compared to javascript. You can build it from source in at most a few seconds and run it anywhere that has a c com
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by thefaux 1y ago
Like llms, I think google made a small class of people more productive and effective and did indeed make most people dumber and less effective.
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by thefaux 1y ago
As of last Tuesday afternoon, there was a giant billboard on Divisadero in SF advertising an ai product with the tagline: What's better than an ai therapist? Your therapist with ai. Truly horrifying stuff.
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by thefaux 1y ago
The wonder of Bach goes much deeper than just the aesthetic qualities of his music. His genius almost forces one to reckon with his historical context and wonder, how did he do it? Why did he do it? What made it all possible? Then there is
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by thefaux 1y ago
There is a naive belief that media does not matter so long as the same content is presented. For various reasons, I believe books are far better learning tools than digital devices for most things. Among other things, memory is linked to pl
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by thefaux 1y ago
When I was a kid in the 90s, I knew multiple kids who were severely injured by cars. For whatever reason, this did not seem to have any impact on my mother's parenting and no new limits were placed on my freedom as a result. For the re
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by thefaux 1y ago
I had a similar experience and sadly the culture seemed to shift during the 90s so that children were stripped of most of their autonomy. Having not experienced it themselves, many struggle to even imagine the possibilities or benefits. I w
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by thefaux 1y ago
I can't tell if this is serious or not, but I strongly disagree with this advice if it is.
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by thefaux 1y ago
Yes, because the people pushing the boundaries do not understand the value of the thing they are trying to commoditize. If they did, they wouldn't be trying to commoditize it. There is a pervasive attitude among technologists that they
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by thefaux 1y ago
It is embarrassing how much time I spent playing that dumb game instead of actually practicing a more versatile instrument.
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by thefaux 1y ago
I would suggest that instead of feeling demoralized by ai that you instead ask what can you offer musically that an ai cannot. I also would suggest trying to let go of the notion that music is primarily about achieving a certain level of te
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by thefaux 1y ago
Pretty on the nose that the only sports category is road cycling.
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by thefaux 1y ago
In the long run, the only way things can get better is through individual action as daunting and hopeless as that might feel in the face of the current system.
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by thefaux 1y ago
Counterpoint: I am personally skeptical about the long term value of arch supports. The reason is that while they can undoubtably help with short term pain, they also inhibit strength development and introduce an unnecessary dependency (kin
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by thefaux 1y ago
For many, backwards compatibility == long term employment.
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by thefaux 1y ago
I can't help but notice the subtle ways in which git has corrupted our understanding of the word commit.
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by thefaux 1y ago
Honestly, I think a lot of this is as much marketing as it is about actual value. This helps the industry narrative about how transformative the tech is. These inflated comp packages perfectly match the inflated claims around the tech. &quo
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by thefaux 1y ago
Yeah, who knew that Kerr would have the more successful overall career in basketball?
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by thefaux 1y ago
And are almost never offered fast/stable software that solves their problem. When they are, it will come with aggressive fud by the competition or they will just lobby the government to mandate the incidental complexity of their own so

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