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by wtetzner 2y ago
If the cons cells are allocated linearly it's fine. Plus the fact that lisps have more data structures than just lists.
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by wtetzner 2y ago
> The only thing Ticketmaster does is make that more convenient by keeping track of everybody’s payment info. And charge exorbitant service and "delivery" fees.
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by wtetzner 2y ago
So it's OK for companies to collect users' data, but they don't need to take any responsibility for protecting it?
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by wtetzner 2y ago
It probably would make more sense to put that at the top of the article.
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by wtetzner 2y ago
I think the intention was to convey that 6x4 is more productive than 4x8.
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by wtetzner 2y ago
I dunno, the REST endpoints I've worked on enforced a maximum message length.
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by wtetzner 2y ago
> Figuring out ways to make human bodily functions not immediately fail in space. Next to none of these technologies benefit humanity at large in any way. What a weirdly confident statement. I could imagine all kinds of technology coming
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by wtetzner 2y ago
Yeah, I typically use `impl AsRef<T>`. It would be really nice to be able to say roughly the same thing, but have the `.as_ref()` call happen at the call site instead of within the function.
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by wtetzner 2y ago
> Tree-shaking is such a bad misnomer. I don't think so. I never considered tree-shaking to refer to the plants, rather the data structure. If you imagine the diagram of some source code as a physical object, then shaking it would c
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by wtetzner 2y ago
It's still a good metaphor. Nobody said picking low hanging fruit is the best approach in harvesting fruit or in computer science.
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by wtetzner 3y ago
wc just counts newline characters. I'm not sure why it would be the ultimate authority on anything.
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by wtetzner 3y ago
> No lines, not a text file. That seems like a broken (maybe just bad?) definition/specification to me. A blob of JSON in a file isn't "text" if there's no newline character trailing it?
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by wtetzner 3y ago
That's a weird way to look at it. Binary files might not have "lines", but there's no reason they couldn't include a byte with value 10 (the ASCII value for \n). Software reading that file wouldn't know the dif
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by wtetzner 3y ago
Yeah, that's about as far as I've ever been comfortable going in terms of validating email addresses too: some stuff followed by "@" followed by more stuff. Though I guess adding a check for invalid dot patterns might be
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by wtetzner 3y ago
So if you have "A" in a file with no newline, there are no lines in that file?
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by wtetzner 3y ago
I don't really see what benefit it provides over CSV other than needing to escape less frequently. That hardly seems like it's worth it.
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by wtetzner 3y ago
> those advancement have made their way into practical languages I agree with this for the most part, though I've yet to see a non-lisp language support macros as nicely as Scheme's syntax-case. Also, while Lisp's features
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by wtetzner 3y ago
> Why must everything be done as a function call? You can’t change anything without recompiling the code. Emacs Lisp supports dynamic binding, so you can dynamically rebind function definitions at runtime.
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by wtetzner 3y ago
I'm not a big fan of async/await in general, I just didn't think this specific complaint was particularly compelling.
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by wtetzner 3y ago
> If my goal as a programmer is to simply print to the console, why should I add care about the await? Because that isn't ever anyone's actual goal? Optimizing a language design for "Hello World" doesn't seem lik
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by wtetzner 3y ago
That's not really true though. Any software that is in some way accessible over the network is a problem (which is the vast majority of software).
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by wtetzner 3y ago
Given that it's under the GPL, I don't think they can do that.
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by wtetzner 3y ago
> "But muh homebrew" -- people who want to develop for Switch can get a development license from Nintendo. The fact that this is an option would weaken developing for Switch as a legitimate use for yuzu. Just because you can ge
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by wtetzner 3y ago
> Yuzu has two uses (playing legitimate backups and pirated backups) And maybe for developing homebrew games?
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by wtetzner 3y ago
I think the point is that you shouldn't need to spend anything extra after spending $2,000 on an Apple laptop for something Apple should have already addressed.
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by wtetzner 3y ago
> ONE actual standard that everyone uses would be fine Sounds like a social problem. How do you get _everyone_ to agree on anything?
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by wtetzner 3y ago
Sorry, your original comment sounded like you were asking what the acronym stood for, not the definition of Artificial General Intelligence.
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by wtetzner 3y ago
> It's an incredibly wasteful practice How is it more wasteful than keeping something you're not going to use?
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by wtetzner 3y ago
> Guess the obvious question is why don’t you want types in your config language? Where do you store the schema?
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by wtetzner 3y ago
Artificial General Intelligence https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intellige...

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