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by vitiral 2y ago
If someone could explain how "the placebo effect" is not just "scientifically proven faith healing" I'd love to hear it.
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by vitiral 2y ago
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then s
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by vitiral 2y ago
hating fungi is a bit like hating your own liver or stomach. They are an absolutely fundamental component to the web of life on earth, including your own.
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by vitiral 2y ago
Tools are good servants but bad masters. When you place too much value on the tool you no longer own it, it owns you. Be of one mind with the tool. Use it to complete your purpose. Then, the work complete, put the tool down and walk away. T
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by vitiral 2y ago
Words have meaning. Meaning is that which points to something besides itself. Zen is a finger pointing at the moon, do not mistake the finger for the moon. What is the "meaning" of a mountain? What a silly question. The only reaso
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by vitiral 2y ago
Segfaults are a result of violating memory safety. They are the BEST case since you can actually detect the program yolo'd Far worse is your program starts corrupting your data and suddenly you are executing a routine you had no intent
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by vitiral 2y ago
No, what you phrased is a common argument but IMO doesn't follow from natural language. The fact that C uses pointer offsets as it's "indexes" is IMO the truly counterintuitive thing. Obviously I use 0 based indexes for
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by vitiral 2y ago
Pretty sure this isn't so much a rewrite as a completely new architecture enabled by Rust's lifetime system.
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by vitiral 2y ago
Indexes do start at one. Offsets start at zero. If you have a table of 5 apples and the middle one is rotten do you say the rotten one is the 2nd or 3rd?
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by vitiral 2y ago
I would start at https://lua.org/ I'm creating a set of libraries to make Lua into a (still lightweight) application language https://github.com/civboot/civlua
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by vitiral 2y ago
Never made a game (want to!) but I would think that scripting language support would be downright fantastic for E2E testing.
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by vitiral 2y ago
damnit
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by vitiral 2y ago
Is every flat yet informative summary going to be accused of GPT now? And no, way too concise to be GPT imo
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by vitiral 2y ago
You might like https://github.com/civboot/civlua if you ever find yourself wanting to use it.
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by vitiral 2y ago
Good stuff. Most languages are non-perfect. I will say that of the things made by Google to "scale" I think protobufs are a better one.
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by vitiral 2y ago
> Protobuf Google's entire software backbone is literally built on this haha. There are things about it I don't like, but it DEFINITELY scales
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by vitiral 2y ago
And GraphQL has no real benefits over SQL? If so... I'm not sold
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by vitiral 2y ago
I've read the article and a few of the responses but have never used GraphQL. However I have a question Would it be fair to say that GraphQL is extremely useful for internal-only clients? For example an inhouse data store, query servic
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by vitiral 2y ago
indeed, thankyou
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by vitiral 2y ago
Thanks!
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by vitiral 2y ago
a quine is where the full source is reprinted in the display. So in this case, the code to create this clock in your website is <script> (r=n=>setInterval(t=>{for(j=o="\n",y=5;y--;document.body['inne' +'
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by vitiral 2y ago
Exactly. Easier but actually terrible for security since a MitM can intercept and use the key (and never actually revoke it)
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by vitiral 2y ago
Astronomically is an understatement. If they made 1000 requests per second they might have a 1% chance of revoking a key before the heat death of the universe. Cracking hashing requires large parallel processing, something you can't do
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by vitiral 2y ago
The thing about bullet proof is that nothing is bulletproof when you have a big or fast enough bullet
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by vitiral 2y ago
Careful, someone might use that as an API! https://xkcd.com/1172/
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by vitiral 2y ago
It's comments like this that are the reason I come to hacker news. Now what do we do about it? What I'm doing about it is http:/github.com/civboot/civboot and http:/github.com/civboot/civlua
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by vitiral 2y ago
I liked this article. These follow from the basic law that all systems that grow or change eventually decay and die. Death is an inevitable part of life whether that be for animals, societies or even software. This is good. Rebirth brings v
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by vitiral 2y ago
Thanks! I share it from time to time, but I thinking HN algos doesn't like it, or maybe others don't think it's as cool as you. Hopefully once I have a full tech stack (or at least an editor+shell) actually working it will ge
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by vitiral 2y ago
I've seen similar things happen, yes. Probably because when you read something you're interested in then you'd like to read more?
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by vitiral 2y ago
? I think you are very confused. Yes, there is conservation of energy, but not conservation of entropy. See the second law of thermodynamics

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