wilsonthewhale

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by wilsonthewhale 5y ago
> if you actually had any insight into Chinese culture Thanks for the blind assumption. I'm Chinese myself.
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by wilsonthewhale 5y ago
yup. toxik's comment disgusts me. So much for being against the government and the bad apples and not against the common citizen. Let's just cut off all the devs doing their jobs every day from accessing github, or let's just
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by wilsonthewhale 5y ago
I tried a couple pages from SourceHut, which famously prides itself on its fast performance. The projects page (dynamic, changes with user activity on the site) https://sr.ht/projects : 100 A patch page https://li
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by wilsonthewhale 5y ago
There it is again. Care to name any of those timeless philosophies without resorting to the minutiae of cons cells? Clojure has very tangible and definite downsides and tradfeoffs (to name some: weaker REPL, though not as weak as some Schem
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by wilsonthewhale 5y ago
as an addon, I'd love to see more organizations try to tackle this problem without just lifting the flawed GitHub model.
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by wilsonthewhale 5y ago
As others have mentioned, this is a shame. I found the Phabricator review model much more flexible and easy to work with than GitHub and Github-clone workflows. It's basically the traditional ultra-scalable mailing-list + patches workf
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by wilsonthewhale 5y ago
You can have a "Messenger-only" FB account, which would allow you to keep in touch with said friends.
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by wilsonthewhale 5y ago
A great example of this is how Dijkstra used to conduct final examinations where students basically showed up and had a real-time, in-person discussion with him. It must have taken forever to get through everyone, and probably isn't fe
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by wilsonthewhale 5y ago
You have really high hopes for the standard American. The offhand racism against Chinese people (not the PRC) I see in online communities, even supposedly liberal ones like Reddit, is very telling. As an American of Chinese descent, I hones
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by wilsonthewhale 5y ago
Most of the papers were a joy to read. The C++ one just seemed like a massive changelog, though.
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by wilsonthewhale 5y ago
Like clockwork. I first started using the system in 6.4, so each release is a reminder to me of how quickly time has passed. Looking forward to a painless upgrade of my two servers and continued improvement of the project!
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by wilsonthewhale 5y ago
Web logic is in Hack (offshoot of PHP), but all of the surrounding infrastructure has always been heavily skewed towards C++.
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by wilsonthewhale 6y ago
Probably because it's a log-structured file system, and those _really_ don't like running low on free space. They work by appending to the log then compacting sometime later, not modifying things in-place. As such, you always need
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by wilsonthewhale 6y ago
I don't understand the rationale of people tying the state of being a "real Lisp" with cons cells. As if that were the only contribution lisp has made, instead of homoiconicity, REPL-focus, etc. The polymorphic sequence abstr
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by wilsonthewhale 6y ago
Personally, I'm skeptical of the "great for beginners" point. I've helped a few beginners in Python who had subtle, yet program-breaking bugs just because their return statement was indented to the wrong level. It would
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by wilsonthewhale 6y ago
I would argue yes. There has been an impressively little amount of churn in the last 10 years.
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by wilsonthewhale 6y ago
No mention of arc4random(3)? Seems like a solved problem in BSD land. The key takeaways I feel like are: 1. You want as simple of an interface as possible. arc4random(3) returns a single random 32 bit integer, or you can tell it to fill a b
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by wilsonthewhale 6y ago
I'm not on the team that handles this, but I highly doubt that this is the case.
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by wilsonthewhale 6y ago
If you've been following the development progress, they've gotten the VM side largely ironed out and under testing. Nothing on the language side has been polished yet though. As an honest estimate, I'd give about 2-4 more yea
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by wilsonthewhale 6y ago
I also find it funny how in every browser related thread there's inevitably someone selling Brave in the comments, usually near a Firefox comment. I've never personally used Brave -- my only interaction with it was when one of my
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by wilsonthewhale 6y ago
I tried plasma-wayland on Arch a couple days ago. Log in, open firefox. Minimize the window, and the entire machine freezes. This is on an AMD GPU as well. Every time I try Wayland, whether it be sway on my laptop or plasma on my desktop, I
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by wilsonthewhale 6y ago
I donated to a couple last giving Tuesday Arch Linux: I've been a user for 10 years and haven't given back financially. OpenBSD: Underpins some of the most important tools in the modern FOSS world (OpenSSH, OpenSMTPD, tmux, among
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by wilsonthewhale 6y ago
It's more likely for these systems to slowly evolve into something new rather than being replaced entirely. MacOS and Linux, at some level, are already very, very different than earlier unix systems. The BSD's are more conservativ
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by wilsonthewhale 6y ago
Here's a small collection https://pyre-check.org/docs/pysa-additional-resources
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by wilsonthewhale 6y ago
agreed. Clojure is probably the most pragmatic FP language in the space.
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by wilsonthewhale 6y ago
Do you have any references or papers that developed the idea of having a stack at runtime? I love reading into the fundamentals of modern computing.
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by wilsonthewhale 6y ago
As someone reasonably versed in OCaml but knows nothing about SML, what are primary differences? Given that OCaml has much better tooling and more of a community, what draws people to SML still?
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by wilsonthewhale 6y ago
a proper, standardized documentation system like godoc and rustdoc
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by wilsonthewhale 6y ago
OCaml is usually compiled by module, and module-module interfaces mostly all have explicitly declared types (in the .mli), so it's usually not very global, just within the module.
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by wilsonthewhale 6y ago
Not sure if it counts as "mainstream", but Clojure has been stable for years and years. The core data structure manipulation functions are there and they simply work. The last really big change was transducers, and even those were

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