verisimilitudes

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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
Almost all software is broken, in fact. A real field of engineering would prohibit most of the stupid shit idiots claiming to be programmers do before even reaching for the other issues.
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
Lisp and Smalltalk existed before the C language, and don't have its damning flaws. Ada's also much nicer. As for the operating system, there are currently no good such systems that aren't very old. I use Emacs to largely
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
UNIX sucks. Of course, enough time has passed that people expect a mathematics degree to come with diarrhea from the 1970s for stupid reasons.
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
I was waiting for my comment to be flagged. Here it is again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33124973 > Give a single example of how the Encyclopedia Britannica be worse than random idiots, foreign agents, and shi
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
> Wikipedia is often okay for science articles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman (4th paragraph)
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
> Don't you Google answers to questions? No. I don't use it at all. > It's what they will be doing most of their life. Everyday I hate this website and the people on it more.
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
They could learn about SNES emulator Near (RIP) or, say, the Scots language.
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
Yeah, because they don't allow account deletion.
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
I own no phone. Google phones can't consistently dial emergency numbers, because they're programmed by incompetent fuckwads. I agree that Hacker News should die.
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
Individuals do, clearly. I don't use Google-funded malware. I suppose the Linux kernel may qualify, but plenty of people in real industries also work on that.
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
I'm not a parasite, so telling people about something I did by myself is fine, and I'm not asking for money anyway.
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
I've complained about it once. I've been prickly , sure. Telling the truth to liars tends to come off as prickly. I'd delete this account if I could.
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
>Surely you're not going to make your case on this petty a detail. It's called pilpul and he obviously will.
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
I'm so glad this article made the front page, whereas my latest article upload that was actually about programming on Hacker News was shadowbanned so it wouldn't receive any votes.
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
The argument is clear. Bitcoin is bad because most of Hacker News missed the boat and because the environment is an easy excuse. Meanwhile, inefficient webshit such as Slack running on millions of computers or sending megabytes of traffic
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
Hey, fellow genius on Hacker News, do note that TLS doesn't protect against state actors, because they can very easily manipulate certificate authorities, and a malicious certificate authority completely removes most protections TLS su
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
I'd rather implement IMAP than HTTP, TLS, JSON, and whatever other shit is involved here. All of those points apply to the WWW more than anything else.
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
S-expressions are better, and something that sees so much usage should have a dedicated format. In a saner world, this work would already be done so that each protocol needn't define the octets on the line. Regardless, IMAP already e
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
That's not the way this works. I needn't accept the WWW garbage graphomaniacs attempt to force upon others.
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
Yeah, what can't be fixed by shoveling JSON shit into HTTP instead of a dedicated protocol? JMAP was stupid when the Fastmail CEO or whoever was here pushing it, and it's still stupid.
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
That's called a personal problem. It's not the responsibilty of a website owner to make his website constantly rot for the sake of strangers.
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
I suppose all of my fellow machine code programmers here are too busy discussing politics or something. I look forward to participating yet again, using my custom machine code development tool to write very compact and very efficient littl
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
No the people hired will be IBM consultants and such with long lists of meaningless qualifications and no MicroSoft profile.
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Rebutting Joel Spolsky's Law of Leaky Abstractions(verisimilitudes.net)
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
>You still cannot disable pull requests on a GitHub repository. >I just want to publish software that I think is neat so that other hobbyists can use and learn from it, and I otherwise want to be left the hell alone. Don't use Gi
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
Let's use the linux kernel as an example, since it does very few, well-defined things, and still doesn't work. This comes from an inability to imagine better, an unwillingness to use proper tools, and an attitude that kernel pan
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
I'm not entirely disagreeing, but this is a disgusting mindset when applied to mathematics, and programming is applied mathematics. I've seen it so often. The incompetent spend so much of their time dredging up excuses for medio
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
I've noticed a difference in tone: > The site is openly racist and antisemitic and it regularly advocates a second genocide of Jews. > „Right now, Nick Lim is like a wounded elk”, says internet researcher Guilmette, who monitors
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
Hacker News is part of the elite, so that will never happen. Just look at how VC and YC companies Uber and AirBnB have eroded workers' rights and zoning laws for elite profit. That's the secret with all of these companies; they
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
> If a carpenter chops his fingers off, it's not the fault of the saw. That would be an effective argument, but this vile shit has existed for decades without being fixed, for no good reason. This saw is specifically designed to sl

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