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by uncircle 1y ago
My thoughts lately have been bouncing between "they've finally killed the internet" and "there's no way to create an island for humans online anymore, is there?" and I figured this is a good place as any to
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by uncircle 1y ago
https://xkcd.com/1200/
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by uncircle 1y ago
> A big part of the difference is that the BSDs are designed by a governing committee While I cannot agree nor disagree on the quality of BSDs (haven't used one in 20 years), I find it funny that in this case a design by committee
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by uncircle 1y ago
The sentence you quoted says “the common opinion”, and for some reason you think you’re being singled out. I was making a generic, societal argument with another poster. I do not get why you disagree with such hostility, and take it persona
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by uncircle 1y ago
It’s not even education. Many people operate on the belief that being able to use Google and following a couple “experts” on Twitter, of both sides, automatically qualifies their opinion. At best everyone is repeating the same propaganda ta
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by uncircle 1y ago
> It very much is an issue of philosophy towards wellbeing. Exactly, it is a philosophical issue, whereas the person I was replying to was debating on the grounds of “knowledge is good”. I grew up with computers, saw the spread of the In
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by uncircle 1y ago
I feel there is a lot of FUD spread whenever someone moves off the cloud, with the inane comparison to the annual wage of a dedicated sysadmin, trying to discourage you from doing a “reckless” migration which will bite you in the ass, your
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by uncircle 1y ago
I should go sell to an intelligence agency a malicious PDF editor that covertly shares the plain text version any time someone uses the block out tool. There are billions of PDF files out there, but the ones are being redacted are the most
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by uncircle 1y ago
There is an excellent (maintained, funded, audited AND with official certification) erlang/Elixir library for that: https://github.com/erlef/oidcc I have just shipped a production service centered around OAuth and
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by uncircle 1y ago
It is not demonstrably false. You operate under the assumption that more knowledge and the more you know about things, the better. So from your point of view spending 12 hours watching philosophy essays and history videos can only be a go
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by uncircle 1y ago
> The speech was shocking in its day. There are reports that some of those present suffered heart attacks and that the speech even inspired suicides, due to the shock of all of Khrushchev's criticisms and condemnations of the govern
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by uncircle 1y ago
Passively consuming content is not the same as reading a magazine or a book. Agreed that anyone can fill their own free time with whatever they want. But youtube is just junk food for the mind, packaged as stuff that interests you. It’s con
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by uncircle 1y ago
I have paid for Youtube Premium for a long time. Now it’s pushing shorts (you tried to hide the section and it told you “ok, we won’t show you shorts for 30 days.” I don’t want to see them ever, respect my goddamn choices. Now you can’t hid
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by uncircle 1y ago
I have to disable message notifications as well because people tend to express themselves in multiple messages, and we do not have the ability to beep once every minute or so instead of every message. And God help you if you are in a group
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by uncircle 1y ago
All languages are a wasteland of abandoned packages, i.e. there is a very long tail of stuff no one has maintained for years. It’s all relative to the mindshare. For its size, Elixir is doing quite well.
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by uncircle 1y ago
Did it fail because of its microkernel design? It’s quite disingenuous to use “success” as a metric when discussing the advantages microkernel vs monolithic, as the only kernels you can safely say have succeeded in the past 30+ years are th
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by uncircle 1y ago
You describe microkernels are if there is only one way to implement them. > A different process can just ignore your message > arbitrarily get stuck on something and not act in time This doesn't make sense. An implementation of a
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by uncircle 1y ago
There are hordes of developers completely dismissing the idea of microkernels with no serious argument other than "lmao didn't Linus destroy Tanenbaum that one time?" Designing a modern and secure kernel in 2025 as a monolith
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by uncircle 1y ago
The code in the screenshot/asciinema isn't s-expr by any common conception of the term, or as a Lisp would parse it. (flatten '( '(a '( b)) '( c d))) That argument to flatten is in fact [macroexpanding
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by uncircle 1y ago
> it's specifically written for GNU Make, which is the standard implementation on Linux and MacOS Is this true? Doesn't macOS ship with BSD make?
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by uncircle 1y ago
Like what? Their scope is being an ISP, i.e. routing packets.
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by uncircle 1y ago
Not sure about C++ devs, but Erlang/Elixir are great to handle parsing of protocols, with its implementation of pattern matching. Also, makes the code much cleaner because pattern matching basically eliminates most branching and thus d
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by uncircle 1y ago
> This thread perfectly captures what Karpathy was getting at. We're witnessing a fundamental shift where the interface to computing is changing from formal syntax to natural language. Yes, telling a subordinate with natural languag
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by uncircle 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42327376 also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_political_jokes has some great ones
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by uncircle 1y ago
To be fair, six month olds are very good at vibing. They can't do much more than that, apart from sleeping and expelling waste.
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by uncircle 1y ago
From the YAML inventor himself: https://yamlscript.org/ The length people go to avoid Lisp, only to reinvent it, badly.
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by uncircle 1y ago
I can only ask “…but why?” I don’t get what this complexity buys us.
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by uncircle 1y ago
They are related in that they are pure marketing buzzwords to build enormous hype around a product, if not a dream.
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by uncircle 1y ago
AI sus talk. Kinda appropriate.
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by uncircle 1y ago
Nice! This makes me appreciate the improvement roman numerals had over cuneiform: that a symbol isn’t repeated more than three times so it’s easier to read at a glance. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subitizing This i

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