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961.
by zem 2y ago
very interesting project! the docs don't use the phrase "virtual machine"; i wonder if they don't consider it one, and if so, what the distinction is.
962.
by zem 2y ago
I'd say "it's funny because it's true", but this goes all the way into "too true to be funny"!
963.
by zem 2y ago
> unless a wired headphone is connected aren't wired headphones increasingly unsupported in newer phones?
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by zem 2y ago
as a genxer I was not sure if he meant blue or grey and snowing.
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by zem 2y ago
the problem with that is not the payment, it's that you will only be sharing it with people similarly willing to pay for a walled garden. I'm guessing most of what we're nostalgic for was created by people who wouldn't b
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by zem 2y ago
visual basic has the `with` statement for that https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/langua...
967.
by zem 2y ago
I was effectively forced to take a similar "offer" recently (iow laid off with six months severance), and while I did end up getting another job relatively soon it was an extremely stressful time. I do not think I would have taken
968.
by zem 2y ago
this is a weird tangent; you don't need to be a prima donna or call the shots for your work to be fairly valued at $200k
969.
by zem 2y ago
people who like this might like ernest callenbach's "ecotopia" (from 1975), and cory doctorow's "walkaway", which cover some of the same themes.
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by zem 2y ago
did anyone else think this was going to be an erlang-based multi-language rpc system?
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by zem 2y ago
there is very little living space in the US that is not subject to some sort of natural disaster. where i live in california, e.g., fire insurance is getting increasingly expensive and many insurance companies are opting out of offering i
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by zem 2y ago
think of it as your taxes and their taxes both paying into a national disaster insurance scheme run by the government.
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by zem 2y ago
> it's really hard to build a stdlib of modern proportions. it would surprise me if the stdlib was the issue. you can clone the ruby, python, or go standard libraries, and that would get you into a good state pretty fast; those lang
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by zem 2y ago
you're right, I forgot that the periodic part would make a big difference!
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by zem 2y ago
the thing about punitive measures is that they don't need to work in order to be perpetuated; they simply fit the way the people in power think the world ought to work.
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by zem 2y ago
I'm pretty sure automattic, a for-profit company, uses the free plugin hosting service from wordpress.org too.
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by zem 2y ago
from the side; the assumption is that the wave is propagating in a single direction so the two dimensions are the vertical and the axis of propagation
978.
by zem 2y ago
I think the chances of three of anything colliding in a single place are extremely low
979.
by zem 2y ago
stanza ( https://lbstanza.org/ ) is a very interesting experiment in designing for gradual types rather than retrofitting them onto a dynamic language
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by zem 2y ago
zen looks really nice! thanks for the pointer.
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by zem 2y ago
what an incredible art form!
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by zem 2y ago
the view code compiles to elixir code, it just uses html as a familiar syntax. it's written inline as functions in the source code though so I tend to think of it as closer to a "pure elixir" solution.
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by zem 2y ago
elixir's liveview is perhaps the best known and arguably inspired a lot of the ones in other languages
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by zem 2y ago
would you use one of these python-to-web frameworks like rio though? I think gp was just saying alpine was a good alternative to that.
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by zem 2y ago
and xmonad!
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by zem 2y ago
I am not even remotely an entrepreneur, but if I were then this is totally the sort I would want to be! 8<----------- I agree. The path is not easy but I'm not worried. As I said in other comments all Neeto products are "by pro
987.
by zem 2y ago
modular monolith + monorepo, so you get the benefit of continuous integration and automated code maintenance across the codebase.
988.
by zem 2y ago
only if you're super literal-minded. "Y for people who hate Y" is a perfectly fine shorthand for "if you like the idea of Y, or some aspects of Y, but hate what it has become today, here's a product for you"
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by zem 2y ago
love it :) next step, some tiny scripting language bindings? s7 would fit in well e.g. https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/snd/s7.html
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by zem 2y ago
thanks, i'll give it another read! i definitely missed the subtlety as a kid.

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