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by vitiral 3y ago
I re-read the book just last year. Im pretty sure there were no dart guns. Hunter-seeker missiles existed, but they were touted as rare or somehow difficult to operate I believe.
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by vitiral 3y ago
IMO relying on laws for such restraint is silly. In a world of deception such as Dune, it would so trivial to plant a lasgun surreptitiously. Who's to know the cause of the resulting explosion that annihilates both gun and shield?
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by vitiral 3y ago
I almost think it's impossible to enjoy the movie at all without having read the book. The movie was more like visual candy for a universe similar to the book.
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by vitiral 3y ago
Possible spoilers below (but probably not if you've seen the first movie or read any of the books) I enjoyed the first movie, but they fucked with things they shouldn't have. Dune's technology was cleverly laid out to create
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by vitiral 3y ago
Hey Steve, loved your work on Rust and your goodbye letter. Nice to see you in my comment chain
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by vitiral 3y ago
Okay, but "open source" implies you can change and fork the code. "Free and source available" does not, even if you can in some cases. That's literally all I said.
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by vitiral 3y ago
Oh I have! Was very very nice. Got into lisp a bit, then gave it all up when something in the tower of babel broke in a subtle way and I realized I didn't need all the complexity. Was super fun though. The experience is probably part
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by vitiral 3y ago
It seems like it doesn't answer it's own question, so I'll pose another. The entire Lua core is 15kLoC. Is that more than or less than what's needed for python's "a + b", assuming a and b are defined. I&#x
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by vitiral 3y ago
Thanks, that was helpful context and confirmation.
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by vitiral 3y ago
Perhaps, and here we have another example of not talking about it. It's a tweet just mentioning the absence of conversation, not a relevant link.
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Ask HN: Help me understand where LLMs for coding is going
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by vitiral 3y ago
I was referring to no license. I was referring to this statement > There is zero practical difference between "free and source available" and "open source" for 99.99% of users. "Free and source available" is
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by vitiral 3y ago
It is indeed confounding how something as simple as chat and messaging can be so difficult to standardize. I suppose looking at the shitshow that is email standards (and how difficult it is to ensure valid senders) gives some insight, but y
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by vitiral 3y ago
Or if you do regret it, try Vim :) Both great tools
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by vitiral 3y ago
The difference is the freedom to modify, fix, and even fork for yourself if the need arises.
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by vitiral 3y ago
I guess the problem is I don't believe there are solutions. So many of our problems stem from a collective insanity to solve every problem we set our eyes on. Not everything that hurts is bad, not everything that kills is harmful. Deat
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by vitiral 3y ago
A disease (covid, as they later stated) that 99% of people recover from naturally is not incurable. It is literally curred by your own immune system.
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by vitiral 3y ago
I agree with the problems, however the solutions seem far fetched. 90% of these "solutions" are that the government will save the day with decisions that benefit its citizens and it's own bottom line. That doesn't repres
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by vitiral 3y ago
Lua. It has the feel of python but is implemented in like 15k lines of C. Definitely my favorite scripting language.
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by vitiral 3y ago
Agreed, but recommend thinking of wasm that way. Wasm is not written as a proper stack machine, it's just a way to represent computations that can be optimized across architectures. I literally made this mistake, creating a wasm interp
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by vitiral 3y ago
Intent is important. If I accidentally step on your toe it doesn't necessarily say anything about my character. If I I intentionally step on your toe you know I'm an asshole. Intent and regret tells you what someone will do in the
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by vitiral 3y ago
Larry and Sergey just need to come back from their vacation and clean house. So much of Google culture used their humor and candidness at TGIF as a lighthouse.
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by vitiral 3y ago
It is the nature of large systems to grow. As software engineers we build libraries to build libraries, we build tools on top of tools to check our tools.
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by vitiral 3y ago
Death smiles at us all... or not so much smiles but looks at us with a frozen grin while he hums a little tune.
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by vitiral 3y ago
Well, crypto can totally heat your house, just not in the way they think...
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by vitiral 3y ago
See the author's own efforts under "DuskOS"
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by vitiral 3y ago
It's in COPY.txt, although it's homespun. If you're the author, please please release into the public domain (CC0) if your purpose is educational. That makes it so anyone can learn from it and build on it without any fear of
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by vitiral 3y ago
FedNow: https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow Apparel: https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/products/fednow-shirt-1?_p... Not a trademark attourney, but the styling is distinct enough
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by vitiral 3y ago
please look up the definition of "literal" before you use it.
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by vitiral 3y ago
It feels less problematic than those cases due to those religion's own views on truth and divine prophecy. Christianity largely views Muslim/Mormon views as a kind of Heresy. Toaism/Buddhism don't really map to this kind

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