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by throwamon 4y ago
> begs the question doesn't mean what you think it means https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
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by throwamon 4y ago
Still yearning for an Ocaml-like language that uses the Go runtime.
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by throwamon 4y ago
Is it feasible to use this for Talon-like voice-driven computer usage?
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by throwamon 4y ago
You must be new to trading
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by throwamon 4y ago
Oh no. I guess it's my ESL showing.
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by throwamon 4y ago
Although it's debatable, it's very common for functional languages to be categorized as declarative.
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by throwamon 4y ago
> a secure cloud storage service that costs hardly anything Which is...?
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by throwamon 4y ago
If someone "is ESL", it's less likely that they will know what "ESL" means, so it's another layer for them to parse.
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by throwamon 4y ago
Pretty ironic to write "esl" instead of the expanded form.
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by throwamon 4y ago
> Wouldn't that require making and maintaining separate versions of the app for every possible subset of permissions? No: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web... > Use
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by throwamon 4y ago
spiders aren't insects
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by throwamon 4y ago
They didn't consent to photos of themselves smoking a joint either, so why not censor the joint? The other shirtless men probably didn't consent either, so why not censor their breasts? Etc. As far as we know, they didn't con
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by throwamon 4y ago
I can't tell if it's incompetence or malice, but this happened after the redesign. I think it's caused by the presence of recent posts from the "more posts" section. Another consequence of the redesign, much worse t
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by throwamon 4y ago
> "Greetings," "Salutations" And this is why HN shouldn't be taken seriously for user-facing design decisions.
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by throwamon 4y ago
If I'm not mistaken, Clojure's data structures are (or used to be) implemented using finger trees.
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by throwamon 4y ago
That's survivorship bias. I get tired no matter what I do, fun or not. In fact I get tired faster if it's too fun. But maybe I'm just an anomaly.
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by throwamon 4y ago
How do you determine if someone is "the center of attention"? Could someone record ultra high res video using an ultra wide lens, then privately crop the video at will?
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by throwamon 4y ago
Clojure
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by throwamon 4y ago
Aside from the blind acceptance, how can you be so confident in "it" if Japanese Buddhism is so different from Chinese Buddhism? Haven't the other major religions existed for almost the same amount of time and gone through ju
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by throwamon 4y ago
> Why aren't their countries desirable as well? Yup, that would be pretty nice. If only America would let them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in... https://en.m.wikipedia.
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by throwamon 4y ago
Apparently that's also how much you have to pay to get a device that won't choke on their website.
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by throwamon 4y ago
> nice to see something happening the latest ("real") commit is from 3 years ago
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by throwamon 4y ago
Afaik that's how https://lobste.rs works.
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by throwamon 4y ago
It's not just Erlang either. The example uses Elixir which (afaik) is helping increase the ecosystem's popularity.
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by throwamon 4y ago
> most of our ancestors didn't live to be old enough to need delicate dental hygiene They also didn't consume so much tooth-destroying garbage as we do.
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by throwamon 4y ago
> Phillips Sonicare Which of them? There are many models, right?
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by throwamon 4y ago
Maybe a better analogy is a bus moving into a desert rather than out of it, while some people desperately try to tell the driver everyone's gonna die of thirst while others insist there's an oasis nearby and others still believe t
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by throwamon 4y ago
TLDR: He did maths for love and declined a prize and never had a woman. Mathematicians are more ethical than other people blablabla he's a saint.
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by throwamon 4y ago
Maybe if you read the right books you would cultivate a worldview where you don't "need to consider these questions" so much. Maybe if more people died that we would even help build a world like that.
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by throwamon 4y ago
This sounds like a workaround to your problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27016630

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