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by throwaway17_17 7mo ago
Regarding your mention of compiler magic and Swift, I don’t know much about the language, but I have read a handful of discussions/blogs about the compiler and the techniques used for its implementation. One of the purported benefits&#
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by throwaway17_17 7mo ago
I don’t know if the language is yours, but I think the wording and its intended meaning (the sentence starting with ‘The core implementation…’) may be one of the most concise statements of my personal programming language design ethos. I’m
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by throwaway17_17 7mo ago
I think your comment leads to discussing a distinct third ‘cause’ for open source development: where a developer realizes their ambition is greater than their abilities, either in the technical sense or (more likely) in the sense that a sin
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by throwaway17_17 7mo ago
I think your idealized list of attributes of “open source” is admirable. However, the apprenticeship, comradery, and support are a specific and often sought out feature of some development ‘communities’ for specific software. I’d also say t
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by throwaway17_17 7mo ago
I always think about this section when I consider making my personal programming language public. I think if language development was, in 2026, happing the way ESR describes Linux here I might be more persuaded to release. But as it stands
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by throwaway17_17 7mo ago
I think you have confused RMS (Richard Stallman) and ESR (Eric S. Raymond). It was ESR that coined and popularized the cathedral and bazaar development analogy and terminology. It was also ESR who was at the conference your comment is discu
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by throwaway17_17 7mo ago
True, apparently I got backspace happy when Inposted the reply on mobile. I was talking about the belief by a perspective juror that law enforcement personnel are more credible or trustworthy than others due to their status as law enforceme
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by throwaway17_17 7mo ago
I agree that from the perspective of the implementation of async code, it is in many ways an application doing its own threading and context switching. However, your Parent comment is written from the perspective of the dev writing and reas
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by throwaway17_17 7mo ago
To be specific, and it is a lot of the reason why this 5 month delay happened, but she was not dragged then held, she was arrested, then held, then dragged. She was released 5 days after finally getting to Dakota, if they had actually gone
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by throwaway17_17 7mo ago
I can almost guarantee that the Fargo DA’s office had zero idea this happened and had never heard about this investigation before the news story. At this stage in a “case” it’s completely on law enforcement and there is no involvement by a
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by throwaway17_17 7mo ago
No large scale orgs that I know of. Our local bar has an attorney who does work against it, she has her number at the jail where other inmates will pass her number around if some mentions their dog, and intake officers will often suggest to
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by throwaway17_17 7mo ago
I agree, but our system doesn’t value things that way. Texas, which is one of the highest paying States for cases where intentional, fraudulent, or grossly negligent actions result in wrongful incarceration pay $80,000 dollars per year a pe
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by throwaway17_17 7mo ago
To clarify one point, her not having a bail is a function of the way interstate ‘fugitive’ warrants are designed. The Court in Tennessee had no ability to set bail, and until she entered the physical custody of North Dakota she can not have
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by throwaway17_17 7mo ago
This was not a series of errors, this is (as a statistical inference) the system working as designed. This is not uncommon, it is not unplanned. The extradition of suspects from State to State is designed legislatively to function this way.
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by throwaway17_17 7mo ago
The belief by a juror that law enforcement personnel, especially phrased as a belief that applies to law enforcement personnel as a generic group, is a well established basis for a challenge for cause leading to exclusion of that person fro
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by throwaway17_17 7mo ago
Not that it changes your point, but, um actually: While the origins of qualified immunity are judicial, some State loved the idea so much the went and made it statutory too. Louisiana’s 2024 bill explicitly removes negligence as an exceptio
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by throwaway17_17 7mo ago
Do you mean hypothetically could society hold law enforcement personnel accountable for mistakes, bad judgement, flagrant criminal conduct, horrendous abuse of any and everyone? Certainly, a large scale and comprehensive restructuring of Am
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by throwaway17_17 7mo ago
I made one of the comments that seems to be perceived a critical of the changes (I made a statement about the seemingly brief paragraph on changing semantics). As I replied to Andrew, I will tell you: the PR had a large amount of planning a
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by throwaway17_17 7mo ago
Thanks for the reply Andrew, I certainly did not mean to imply any issues with trustworthiness for Zig users or prospective adopters. Also, I absolutely did not intend to imply any negatives toward Zog’s evolution or this particular develop
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by throwaway17_17 7mo ago
Congratulations to the dev, a 30,000 line PR for a language compiler (and a very much non-trivial compiler) is a feat to be proud of. But a change of this magnitude is a serious bit of development and gave me pause. I understand both of the
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by throwaway17_17 8mo ago
I know this a four day old comment, but based on your post history I think you are probably the best person to ask to be more specific. So, you start out stating “C has its unique advantages”, an assertion I agree with but more for ‘vibes’
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by throwaway17_17 8mo ago
Why does having more more registers lead to spilling? I would assume (probably) incorrectly, that more registers means less spill. Are you talking about calls inside other calls which cause the outer scope arguments to be preemptively spill
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by throwaway17_17 8mo ago
Not Tomo’s developer, but my position on the 1 vs. 0 for list-like object indexing goes like… 1) using 0 as the index of the first element in a list-like object ISA holdover from C (most of the earlier languages used either 1 based or flexi
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by throwaway17_17 8mo ago
Is Pony still an actively developed language? I remember watching several talks while they brought the language up to release, and read several of the accompanying papers. However, I thought with the primary corporate sponsor dropping the l
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by throwaway17_17 8mo ago
I will be glad to be wrong about, but… I was under the impression that parallel and concurrent code was the dominant paradigm for programming tasks currently going in most of the semi-mainstream domains. I am certainly willing to concede th
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by throwaway17_17 8mo ago
TL;DR — it seems to me that it is less anger from devs at being confused over a Case construct and more an attempt to preemptively soothe any ruffled feathers for devs wanting a traditional Switch. I think your comment was probably rhetoric
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by throwaway17_17 9mo ago
Are you aware of whether Chennowith ever discussed the presence, implied or actual, of more extreme resistance groups/factions operating in the same locations and time periods? I’ve seen some informal work discussing the ‘pressure’ on
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by throwaway17_17 9mo ago
I can’t help but be a little depressed by this realization. But to take it a step further, while I think there are some people who are genuinely buying this propaganda, I expect that a chunk of the propaganda aligned side also don’t think t
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by throwaway17_17 9mo ago
Thanks for the response. I do like the, largely uncontested, move toward disregarding of the label. It certainly seems to dovetail with a more individualized conception of artistic pursuit that appeals to me.
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by throwaway17_17 9mo ago
I’m genuinely curious, why is there a transformative requirement for something to be art. I think transformative works can certainly be art, but thanks just a possible characteristic of art. Where does this requirement come from, as in, is

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