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by zaphar 10mo ago
for a project like unix at the time and even linux now I think "having fun" is absolutely one of their needs.
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by zaphar 10mo ago
They wrote their own language (C) too. They invented a new language because the current crop of languages didn't suit their needs. Your argument ignores the parts of history that are inconvenient and highlights the ones that you think
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by zaphar 10mo ago
My personal anecdotal experience is considerably different. I've worked multiple places where I had to learn the stack on the job. Up to and including the language at least once. I've never found it too difficult to get hired even
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by zaphar 10mo ago
Why does working in one technology prevent you from getting a job in another one?
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by zaphar 10mo ago
Those boundaries are pretty fuzzy. The complexity of the logic with conditionals and loops in a module means that you have pretty much stopped describing what it should like and instead described how to make it look the way you want it. I h
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by zaphar 10mo ago
You "call" a module with arguments. You can call them multiple times. In every way that matters they are just like a function call. I don't understand why there is a distinction between for each in a standard language vs for_
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by zaphar 10mo ago
I do think that holds more water than just "It's old". However for pretty much any dev I would hire for a job they can get to grips with a technology that's older pretty quickly. Where it does get dicey is when good dev
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by zaphar 10mo ago
I think I'm mostly of the opinion these days that there is no such thing as an "outdated technology". There are technologies that are no longer fit for purpose but that is almost never because of their age. It nearly always b
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by zaphar 10mo ago
Terraform has modules which are an elaborate method of doing function calls. HCL 2 has loops and conditionals. It is most definitely imperative. This is not necessarily a problem except that they had to live in the original HCL v1 landscape
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by zaphar 11mo ago
Teachers at a school do not fill the same role that homeschooling parents do in theses situations.
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by zaphar 11mo ago
If the religious institution does a better job at roughly the same cost-point then it's probably not the money that is making the difference.
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by zaphar 11mo ago
Nearly every time we try to fix this problem with money it fails. The problem is not money. All else being equal there is little to no correlation between spend and outcome. Money get's touted by schools and politicatians as a way of p
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by zaphar 11mo ago
I can not conceive of a worse way to teach a kid how to behave in Adult social settings than to throw them into a group of other kids who have just as little experience as they do and then expect the group to "figure it out". This
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by zaphar 11mo ago
Where did you get the $311B number? Because I get a net profit of $59.25B which is only 40k per employee. This assumes that the company doesn't need to keep any profit for future usage which may or may not be case depending on how big
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by zaphar 11mo ago
As a purely anecdotal datapoint, Perplexity was my first stop search engine for a while. It stopped being my first stop when they starting prompting me constantly to try their browser. Getting in the way of me being able to immediately ask
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by zaphar 11mo ago
That makes no sense. Just because they aren't a security vendor doesn't mean they don't have useful information to share. Nor does it mean they shouldn't share it. They aren't pretending to be a security researcher,
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by zaphar 11mo ago
Have at it. It's not really a part of my identity. Nor has it ever been protected by GPG.
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by zaphar 11mo ago
Except that I do all of those things and I don't care about it at all nor does the absence affect me in any way. Keybase was a nifty chat.
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by zaphar 11mo ago
Yes. That they have a large impact does not change the fact that not I nor anyone in my close circle uses it for that. It has been relegated to a specialized domain and use case. I have no use for maintaining a signing key. All the communic
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by zaphar 11mo ago
Literally the only thing I ever actually used gpg for was file encryption. I tried dong key management and signatures for a very brief period 20 years ago and gave up because no one else was doing it and it was annoying trying to do the rig
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by zaphar 11mo ago
I continue to maintain that the problem here is not greed but laziness. Make money with less effort or make even more money over a longer term with more effort. Building for the future requires effort and investment and has the potential to
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by zaphar 11mo ago
You haven't actually listed one yet. I can't think of one myself that Grandma could use safely.
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by zaphar 11mo ago
If you are choosing ocaml they most definitely do not do the same thing for all practical purposes.
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by zaphar 11mo ago
Having loops is not the defining feature that separates functional from imperative. Where did this idea come from? I'm suddenly seeing it in a lot of places.
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by zaphar 11mo ago
Those two type systems are not the same. Typescript has some soundness issues in the type system. They are there because they have to work seamless with javascript so it's understandable. And they improve many codebases that would ha
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by zaphar 1y ago
You shouldn't lower prices as a direct reaction to your competitor. You should lower prices as a reaction to your customers willingness to buy at a given price. It's an indirect reaction but it factors in the actual market.
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by zaphar 1y ago
Good for you, but that has nothing to do with whether secrecy is necessary in a security context.
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by zaphar 1y ago
Yeah I don't know that this premise is true. For a lot of examples you might give WRT war or security, I feel like some will take the approach that "if you can't do it transparently then you probably shouldn&
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by zaphar 1y ago
The real point of the genie wish scenario is that even your own interpretation of the wish is often ambiguous enough to become a trap.
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by zaphar 1y ago
Most large investors are actually big groups like pension funds that do need to think longer term though. This is really just a combination of laziness and ignorance. Not a factor of evil individual investors. Those do exist but I reall

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