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by wtbob 10y ago
Technically all nouns are comparable under equality.
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All I can see is a blank white page — doesn't fill me with confidence.
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> Yes, apparently the fact that this feature was activated was messaged on the instrument cluster, but that shouldn't be sufficient to absolve Tesla from the liability of this poor UI decision. We're talking about a company whi
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Wondering if you could make a lisp where `lambda` or `fn` required type annotations … > Someone implemented it in Common Lisp in the 80s I'm sure. Even better, it's a standard part of Common Lisp: functions default to bein
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Definitely cool, but I honestly think that if your organisation needs more than a handful of repositories then it's very likely doing something wrong.
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> my choice to ride a bike to work rather than drive comes at an energy savings not cost Presumably your time is worth money. There's your cost. Not that a car is costless, of course!
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> Not for everyone, their crypto is GPL only and GPL can't be deployed everywhere. GPL code can be used anywhere; GPL code cannot be made proprietary.
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> Conservatives don't give a shit about social welfare, this is just another scheme to enrich their pals and undermine the social safety net. Huh?! That makes no sense: how is giving everyone a sufficient income to survive undermin
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Sabotage of Verizon hardware goes from six incidents per year to 26 per week(arstechnica.com)
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> For instance, there's a ton of Go repositories out there that are not go gettable because the author wanted to put source code under a src directory and hacked that together using make. Are there? If someone's that ignorant
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Even if you audit the code, once they open-source it, how do you know that what you see is the same as what they run on their end? If it's actually secure, then the only thing which matters is what I run on my end, since the k
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by wtbob 10y ago
Good article on the whole, but I have a few quibbles: > If your repo foo is primarily a binary, put your library code in a lib/ subdir, and call it package foo. IMHO, that's just ugly, uglier than foo/foo or foo/fooli
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> My money is on bioweapons destroying civilization, if not humanity, within 50 years Oh, humanity — i.e. the Platonic quality of being humane — will survive, but mankind may not.
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Actually, it's worse: sharecroppers really good go plant cotton somewhere else. But if you want to write iOS apps, you have the deal with Apple.
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> My hunch is that the tech industry is bad at taking advantage of this kind of traditional trade knowledge, and the essay in question here is an indicator. As is the fact that other than Knuth, no-one seems to have learnt the first thin
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I really wish someone would add an east-is-up mode, since that's the traditional orientation for maps — and the root of the word 'orientation' to begin with.
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Am I the only one who likes to know the road before my turn? That way I know when I need to change lanes/pay closer attention/whatever. New mapping apps really don't seem to want to share that information with me.
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by wtbob 10y ago
Great article, but man it reads oddly with JavaScript turned off. Huge masses of text repeated, scrolling weirdly broken. It's almost a proof of its own point …
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by wtbob 10y ago
Hey, you need to download 20MB (much of that executable code) in order to read 10,349 characters! It only makes sense that it would take 2,026 bytes to deliver each character you read. Quit hating on JavaScript. It's the future of the
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by wtbob 11y ago
No, computation is a mathematical discipline; the lambda calculus is one way of thinking about computation (I won't say it's the best, but it's a way) which is part of that discipline; C simply … isn't. Common Lisp, of
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> The people at fault here are those employers that did not let their employees have lunch breaks. > We need regulations because some people are scumbags. I'm not certain why we need lunch-break regulations at all. If one doesn&
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> America has it particularly bad because a good portion of the population doesn't believe in regulations _at all_. I don't think our crappy regulations are properly blameable on the people who believe regulations are crappy, b
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by wtbob 11y ago
> you should have received a signed notice attached to your plan stating that no permit was required. That would prevent them from requiring one later. Awww, that's cute. Have you never dealt with an American civil 'servant&#x
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by wtbob 11y ago
What does it compile to, if not Scheme? And, regardless, I wish that they'd not used Scheme. I really, really wish that they'd not used Scheme.
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Regardless, I wish that they'd spent that effort writing an elisp→Lisp compiler rather than an elisp→Scheme compiler.
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This same phenomenon, BTW, is precisely why base-12 is far, far, hilariously far better than base-10, which is somewhat sad and pathetic by comparison.
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> Apparently the [guile] 2.2 branch has full elisp support. Can't wait for Emacs to run on it. I really wish folks would spend the time they spent porting elisp to guile Scheme porting elisp to Lisp instead. Scheme's great f
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by wtbob 11y ago
> And the basis upon which computing sits upon. No, C is the basis of a lot of programs. It is not, nor could it be, the basis of a sane system of computation.
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> there is a reason that C is the foundation of computing rather than Lisp. I don't think anybody really thinks otherwise anymore I must not be anybody, then, because I think that Lisp provides a wonderful notation for thinking abou
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by wtbob 11y ago
> The only way to prevent that is to never output anything, until the number of possible states is large enough (like 2^128 or more) that brute forcing is not viable. Fortunately, it's easy to store a value which can take one of 2^1

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