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by wyager 1y ago
> end up losing money to hackers. How do you imagine this would work for a company using normal fiat payment rails?
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by wyager 1y ago
Expected debt levels are more a function of personal time preference/utility nonlinearity w.r.t. wealth than they are a function of ambient economic conditions. When broke people win the lottery, they usually end up broke again.
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by wyager 1y ago
I have never once seen someone use the manufacturer provided traffic data, navigation, or "streaming media" over their phone when given the choice. Let's be real; it's just an excuse to try to subject customers to anothe
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by wyager 1y ago
You can still saturate an ultrawide vector unit with narrower instructions if you have wide enough dispatch
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by wyager 1y ago
> only for absolutely unrecoverable errors Unfortunately even the Rust core language doesn't treat them this way. I think it's arguably the single biggest design mistake in the Rust language. It prevents a ton of useful stuff
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by wyager 1y ago
I had an interesting run-in with chronic (-ish) illness. I got some random flu-like virus in late 2019 (I don't think it was covid, although I was living in HK at the time). Whatever it was, it really screwed me up and left me with a b
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by wyager 1y ago
The majority of doctors I've interacted with, with a low-single-digit number of notable exceptions, seemed to estimate their own intelligence at about 1 or 2 stddev higher than it actually was. Combine this with (I imagine) a large num
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by wyager 1y ago
> The median delay between speakers in a human to human conversation is zero milliseconds. In other words, about 1/2 the time, one speaker interrupts the other, making the delay negative. Fascinating. I wonder if this is some optima
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by wyager 1y ago
Do you want them to keep spending money on drug R&D to solve all the other problems that still exist?
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by wyager 1y ago
Yes, those are obscure and unlikely to naturally show up in monospace texts. What percentage of computer programs do you think are written in turkish?
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by wyager 1y ago
`zfs snapshot` and `zfs send -i` is hard to beat for DB backup.
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by wyager 1y ago
Yeah, sometimes I'll do e.g. a backend state management server in Haskell and then a lightweight (embedded) client in Rust. I haven't ever tried linking rust from haskell yet, if that's what you mean. I would actually flip yo
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by wyager 1y ago
The process for getting a DUNS number and getting it approved by Apple was such a nightmare. Even when I did everything correctly, I got flagged for some unspecified reason that required a bunch of extra back-and-forth. I didn't even w
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by wyager 1y ago
I write a lot of Rust, but as you say, it's basically a vastly improved version of C++. C++ is not always the right move! For all my personal projects, I use a mix of Haskell and Rust, which I find covers 99% of the product domains I
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by wyager 1y ago
A good way to identify which cities suck is to say to a native "<their city> sucks". If they agree that it sucks, it probably sucks. If they get really mad and defensive about it, it definitely sucks. If they're just be
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by wyager 1y ago
> I still want an app to manage charging Consumers with preferences like yours are the #2 reason (after new regulations) that modern cars are terrible
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by wyager 1y ago
To reiterate the original question: "what percentage"?
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by wyager 1y ago
> But having it is generally better than not having it. Why? It obviously has an annoying cost and equally obviously won't stop any hacker with a lukewarm IQ
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by wyager 1y ago
What percentage of monospace text on the internet uses random obscure glyphs? This isn't really a practical problem.
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by wyager 1y ago
I haven't bought a ton of fonts, but iirc the licensing from US Graphics was pretty reasonable for software distribution. It was something like an extra $200 for app usage for an indie developer.
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by wyager 1y ago
Jesus Christ, 6 years older than C.
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by wyager 1y ago
It's not so much "let go" as mid-century progressive legal reform (the CRA, SCOTUS undermining covenant law, etc.) made it effectively illegal to exclude destructive people from public spaces
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by wyager 2y ago
Had not heard of Slang, thanks for sharing. It's interesting that Slang looks more like Rust than WGSL does, despite WGSL kind of being de facto "owned by" the Rust community.
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by wyager 2y ago
Rust's ecological niche, besides the affine types/lifetime stuff, is "borrow as much stuff as we can from Haskell/ML without dragging in a language runtime". "Without dragging in a language runtime" happen
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by wyager 2y ago
Yeah, exactly. I don't know what it would look like. It would be nice if the answer was "functorial", since that's at the bottom of the functor-applicative-monad hierarchy, but functor doesn't provide any way to act
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by wyager 2y ago
I tried googling to find an article, and I found some stuff explaining it, but this seems to be deeper lore than I thought it was. Basically, a monadic parser combinator can have code that "inspects" a previously parsed value (con
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by wyager 2y ago
The evaluation model of most of these parser combinator libraries is simple enough that you can just think directly about the call tree. It's difficult to get "surprised" like you can with PCREs. E.g. (x+x+)+y as a regex may
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by wyager 2y ago
There's a correspondence between ???/applicative/monadic parsers and regular/context free/context sensitive grammars.
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by wyager 2y ago
> but inference is in the long run gonna get the lion share of the work. I'm not sure - might not the equilibrium state be that we are constantly fine-tuning models with the latest data (e.g. social media firehose)?
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by wyager 2y ago
> You are closer to a plumber or an electrician than to Sergey Brin I'm also a lot closer to a lawyer or a doctor than I am to a plumber. And very likely on the Sergey Brin side of the distribution.

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