whilenot-dev

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by whilenot-dev 3mo ago
I'm not following. Your last comment on Lobsters[0] was 4 days ago, that's not soft quitting. And even if it is, how is soft quitting war? [0]: https://lobste.rs/~matheusmoreira
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by whilenot-dev 3mo ago
> This is what robotics should be used for. I disagree. We should use robotics to extend our reach into hazardous environments, enhance our physical capabilities, or to provide a steady handling of things where it's absolutely neede
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by whilenot-dev 3mo ago
So you thought putting empty cpp files in a repo for a closed-source project would give you some credibility there?
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by whilenot-dev 3mo ago
This doesn't answer GPs question, though: Why is a panic-baiting "we'll get rid of jobs" better than some gain-baiting "we'll make your workforce 10x more productive"? Why is panic a better response to inv
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by whilenot-dev 3mo ago
Cool, didn't know about `history fixup`! I only ever did the manual dance with `rebase -i` and `rebase` for all other branches. That and `history split` will sure come handy! What happens with a conflicting fix though? Do I still need
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by whilenot-dev 3mo ago
I meant to write quite a long response to your comment, but let me just bring it down to a single question: How is your feeling different from melancholia? There is and always will be mainstream, niche, the unknown and everything in between
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by whilenot-dev 3mo ago
> Our hypothesis is simple: session logs are now the most important artifact in software development, and should be stored alongside the code itself in the repository. [...] Humans can more easily understand and verify what was built and
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by whilenot-dev 3mo ago
In Austria and Germany, you just cannot transfer the copyright ("Urheberrecht"). You can only transfer - meaning sell - the right of use ("Nutzungsrecht"). The only exception I know of is with employments, where the empl
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by whilenot-dev 3mo ago
Hoarding massive amounts of data for the success of machine learning algorithms was a thing long before LLMs were a thing too. Remember the neural networks hype that kicked off around 2010? LLMs didn't even challenge the prevalent para
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by whilenot-dev 3mo ago
I don't think GP was referring to transpilation speed when they wrote "most advanced type system known to mankind".
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by whilenot-dev 3mo ago
Maybe the link should be changed to the original story: https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-says-us-states-are-see...
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by whilenot-dev 3mo ago
Title should be changed to "The Social Tier: Remembering Who Said What". Please look at the guidelines[0] before posting: "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
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by whilenot-dev 3mo ago
Well yeah, but GP also writes about local shops and complains about quality and service...
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by whilenot-dev 3mo ago
What do you mean? Where is the percentage of "75-80%" coming from? Local service is great, and I'm happy to pay a little extra to see my neighbors employed.
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by whilenot-dev 3mo ago
> not 100% of the population voted yes. Well, call me surprised! Which democratic election ever achieves a one-sided 100%? Still, the majority of the EU population seems to in favor of the EU, whereas the majority of the US citizens are
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by whilenot-dev 3mo ago
I concur, except about the "putting it mildly" part. The digital ID stuff feels kafkaesque, sure, but not more. It's good lobbying at play, and I'm sure we'll find a way moving forward.
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by whilenot-dev 3mo ago
> But in reality a big enough proportion of Europeans see the EU as a hostile foreign influencing force. Yeah, I have to doubt your perceived reality here. Can you name some of these "hostile foreign influences"? The big compet
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by whilenot-dev 3mo ago
Well, where do you live? I live in an EU country and care deeply for the right to erasure and our consumer rights. The EU legislature does some good things on that front. I "care" for EU tech companies as much as I can care for an
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by whilenot-dev 3mo ago
How is the definition incorrect? I know haplotype as all the genomic variation on a single gene. And since every gene comes in two copies, two haplotypes define one diplotype.
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by whilenot-dev 3mo ago
I can just tell you from experience that aluminum foil is much more fragile than paper, your college might face some difficult challenges in making it work and need to rework their machine. Maybe very lightweight paper comes close, but cert
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by whilenot-dev 3mo ago
Alternative links: https://postimg.cc/Q9vjhdrk https://postimg.cc/9D1Vzphj
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by whilenot-dev 3mo ago
I made an artwork in 2013-ish, where I attached an aluminum foil to a good DC motor. I mounted it from the ceiling with 2 stepper motors to control height and one orthogonal axis. The motor would unwind the foil by accelerating quickly in e
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by whilenot-dev 3mo ago
Why is the CC BY-NC-SA stopping me to build my own?
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by whilenot-dev 3mo ago
What books would you recommend for programming language design? What are the missing topics?
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by whilenot-dev 3mo ago
Thank you, I thought I was getting crazy! The self-proclaimed amateur mathematician[0] who quotes his own writing in 3rd person has some stuff to work on I guess. [0]: https://blog.plover.com/meta/about-me.html
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by whilenot-dev 3mo ago
> it is not in general possible to find bugs by examining the code. Oh hell yes it is, at every level of abstraction even. We call those things code smell... A file descriptor that hasn't been closed, a coroutine that hasn't be
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by whilenot-dev 3mo ago
> you don't need a runtime error if you have a compiler error LMAO no, we're doing TypeScript here, not Haskell.
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by whilenot-dev 3mo ago
> Their implementation of an exhaustive check will give you a compiler error if you miss a variant in your switch statement. I much prefer a compiler error over a run time error. What are you talking about? You'd still get the compi
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by whilenot-dev 3mo ago
default: { const _exhaustive: never = result; return _exhaustive; } ...is not how people should implement an exhaustiveness check ever! An exhaustiveness check exhausts your knowledge about the world, it should throw an
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by whilenot-dev 3mo ago
FYI branded types and newtypes are kind of the same thing, branded types just use a unique symbol that's expressed explicitly.

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