tripledunit

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   by tripledunit 5y ago

   your body is getting damaged constantly and it is repairing the damage constantly. You are able to do this - in terms of entropy - because you are not a closed system, you are eating food and breathing air. Entropy is not an insurmountable
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   by tripledunit 6y ago

   The mysterious part would be a joke. The actual reasoning, which Yarvin himself has explained, is to unify the underlying data values between booleans and c-style return codes. In C and unix, the convention is that 0 indicates program succe
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   by tripledunit 6y ago

   That's maybe important and interesting to developers, but the value proposition of urbit is to the regular computer user. John Doe doesn't care what names or concepts are used in ECMAScript, he just cares that his browser works. J
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   by tripledunit 6y ago

   Fixed. Thanks
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   by tripledunit 6y ago

   As someone with a good amount of hoon knowledge, I'd say there are definitely some cases where new terminology does more harm than good, but in other cases simply using the name of a similar concept in other languages would hide comple
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   by tripledunit 6y ago

   I'll try for an elevator pitch: * The original vision for the internet was decentralized: if I want to send you a message or do some computing work together, I would have my computer talk directly to your computer * This vision actuall