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1. 601.▲
   by xfer 9y ago

   Because browsing facebook selected sensored information is what poor people would like to do? I also grew with no internet for entirety of my childhood, but i never wished for free internet that could let me browse some social networking si
2. 602.▲
   by xfer 9y ago

   pirated software with a bunch of malware in it?
3. 603.▲
   by xfer 9y ago

   Coq extraction is not formally verified.
4. 604.▲
   by xfer 9y ago

   It is part of posix, it's called posix AIO, but working with it is a massive pain.
5. 605.▲
   by xfer 9y ago

   In my experience, i donate to projects, which i use often/or build upon.
6. 606.▲
   by xfer 9y ago

   You need to show income to justify your hobby?
7. 607.▲
   by xfer 9y ago

   I mean if you are genius who has written all parts of OS/compiler/whatever software you use, then maybe it is a negative for you. But most people can't do so and FOSS is actually a blessing. If you like to pay for wall-garden
8. 608.▲
   by xfer 9y ago

   Paying for PR? really? Why would anyone do that rather than maintain their own copy if it is an OSS project?
9. 609.▲
   by xfer 9y ago

   We are not talking about a service here, we are talking about OSS codebase and in my experience it does work.
10. 610.▲
    by xfer 9y ago

    The part of the problem they were hard to implement efficiently back then.
11. 611.▲
    by xfer 9y ago

    No infix operators is an advantage. I don't like memorizing precedence tables; most of the time people use parens just to be on safe-side anyways. It's even considered good practice in most cases. I can see how lots of parentheses
12. 612.▲
    by xfer 9y ago

    Half of the things you mention are related to system calls, any language that has a C ffi/provides syscall in stdlib will let you that.
13. 613.▲
    by xfer 9y ago

    That's still true depending on your field of computer science.
14. 614.▲
    by xfer 9y ago

    timerfd?
15. 615.▲
    by xfer 9y ago

    I use an old thinkpad x201 for everything, and chrome works great. Firefox flickers during scrolling(disabling hw accelaration doesn't help) and no alsa support in the builds(no i will not install pulseaudio just for firefox).
16. 616.▲
    by xfer 9y ago

    I can get behind that, but they should at least keep a mirror with gitea to demonstrate the product.
17. 617.▲
    by xfer 9y ago

    Ironically, gitea is not even hosted by gitea. They are using github..
18. 618.▲
    by xfer 9y ago

    Not really, because the language doesn't make it difficult to write dodgy code and gives you no power to easily find such dodgy code. In other safe languages either you simply can't write these kind of dangerous code or it should
19. 619.▲
    by xfer 9y ago

    I am not sure you read the article.
20. 620.▲
    by xfer 9y ago

    Here is a common-lisp compiler using tagged pointers for some common objects. https://github.com/sbcl/sbcl/blob/master/doc/internals/objec... That is how Lisps speedup list operations since it
21. 621.▲
    by xfer 9y ago

    You can do DoXxx() using DoXxxAsync() by calling wait() on the future it returns. No duplicated code necessary.
22. 622.▲
    by xfer 9y ago

    same thing with Go as well.
23. 623.▲
    by xfer 9y ago

    I have also been a long time vim user, who recently converted to spacemacs(< 1yr). It has good sensible defaults and i can still customize my emacs. I am also using it for email(mu4e) and some todo management(org-mode). The biggest incon
24. 624.▲
    by xfer 9y ago

    The same was(probably is?) true in India. I couldn't get a prepaid SIM without identification.
25. 625.▲
    by xfer 9y ago

    I would like you to cite some papers, which claims it makes language X better/worse without any explanation.
26. 626.▲
    by xfer 9y ago

    People just want reasons to complain about languages, see also: racket, when they have nothing to complain about they pick the license.
27. 627.▲
    by xfer 9y ago

    Clojure doesn't have hygenic macros/continuations. Scheme people highly value these features.
28. 628.▲
    by xfer 9y ago

    I am not sure it is completely unsupervised, iirc they said it was "coached". I don't think a bot can learn by itself to fake razes/perfect creep blocking by itself.
29. 629.▲
    by xfer 9y ago

    Agreed, bot will always be good at spell casting, last hitting, which actually is a major factor in winning(the sooner you get higher level you can zone the other player).
30. 630.▲
    by xfer 9y ago

    Very impressive, even if there are some limitations. I look forward to more progress for a team of bots.