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by zem 1y ago
I would be stunned if you could compile arbitrary c++ to rust or d, unless by "compile" you mean "painfully hand-translate and spend months fixing subtle errors". you are underestimating the sheer complexity of the langu
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by zem 1y ago
I'm a fan just because they have such an incredibly good sounding product. like, it has no relevance to me, I'll never use it, but I get a deep sense of satisfaction just reading about how it works.
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by zem 1y ago
the way i like to put it is that the syntax is the user interface of the language. if your user interface sucks, your product will not be pleasant to use, no matter how capable it is.
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Typechecking is undecidable when 'type' is a type (1989) [pdf](dspace.mit.edu)
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by zem 1y ago
heck, if I use the mobile version of facebook I still get a fake site that won't open direct messages, pushing me to install the messenger app instead. with the desktop version the messages open without any issues.
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by zem 1y ago
the us government is often driven not by cost/benefit analysis, but by the horror of someone poor getting something without "deserving" it
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by zem 1y ago
fair point, I guess this was a high frequency trading firm or similar, who could justify paying a few engineers to maintain a jvm fork
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by zem 1y ago
> We were in the early phases of forking the JVM definitely made me go :-O - how big a company do you need to be for that to be a realistic thing to maintain in house?
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by zem 1y ago
surprised the white lady is in the obscure category, it's a delightful cocktail with common ingredients and a simple recipe. highly recommend trying it, it's one of my go-to cocktails to make at home.
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by zem 1y ago
doesn't mean it was a viable business, just a viable scam. he sold the business after all, not the product.
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by zem 1y ago
windowmaker! now there's a nice bit of nostalgia. I always wanted to write a library to make dockapps in a nicer language than C but never got around to it and eventually switched over to other desktop environments.
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by zem 1y ago
title is missing a separator, e.g. "liquid glass - design or kitsch?"
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by zem 1y ago
it's mostly that they didn't think of the page preview fetcher as a "crawler", and did not intend for their robots.txt to block it. it may not be profound but it's at the least not a completely trivial realisation.
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by zem 1y ago
right! the table at the end just screamed "use ocaml and be happy"
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by zem 1y ago
surprised helix doesn't support the . key - is that incompatible with its interaction model somehow?
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by zem 1y ago
at least in this case one of the ideas seemed to be that if they did an ajax load of the middle section of the page, they could skip sending the fixed elements (header and footer) over the network repeatedly
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by zem 1y ago
ah, thanks, managed to miss that altogether!
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by zem 1y ago
I couldn't find any way to switch from rain to one of the other soundscapes - is the idea that the tool itself just varies them randomly?
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by zem 1y ago
cinder team member here - we are putting a lot of work into having cinder converge with rather than diverge from mainline cpython. the main idea is to get support for pluggable JITs into cpython, and then have cinder use those APIs to work
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by zem 1y ago
... in a company that had a culture of easter eggs. the context is relevant.
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by zem 1y ago
> cut off your arm in one of my first jobs we used to call that "the kalidas problem", after an old indian legend about the great playwright kalidas being a fool in his youth, and cutting off the branch of a tree while sitting
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by zem 1y ago
if you read that entire article and thought that the salient point was that the author bought a huawei watch, you quite frankly wasted a few minutes of your life! the article was a great reflection on china's increasing share of the gl
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by zem 1y ago
yeah I remember learning in school that with sufficiently good heat conduction you could boil water in a paper cup, because the burning point of paper was higher than the boiling point of water.
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by zem 1y ago
betjeman's delightful poem "executive" had a great humorous take on this: You ask me what it is I do. Well, actually, you know, I'm partly a liaison man, and partly P.R.O. Essentially, I integrate the current export driv
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by zem 1y ago
scala is intended to provide full support for both functional and object oriented programming. the positive side is that it will support programming in whatever style you like, or any mix in of styles. the negative side is that it is a huge
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by zem 1y ago
> random fantasy reference. I think you underestimate just how much Pratchett is part of the pantheon of all time greats for many science fiction and fantasy fans. I suspect there is a considerable percentage of Pratchett fans among the
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by zem 1y ago
well, they're a problem for people who want to strictly avoid gc on principle, but I agree exceptions are a pretty mild case
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by zem 1y ago
> The famous example of this is Chicken Tikka Masala, which is a British take on Indian food. as an indian i have to push back against this myth a bit - chicken tikka masala might have been invented in the UK, but it's a variant on
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by zem 1y ago
tear him for his bad cheating!
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by zem 1y ago
I don't know, gtk has solved a lot of problems that you don't necessarily want to reinvent from scratch and the api is pretty consistent with an object oriented language

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