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by zeveb 7y ago
> How weird to argue about the connotations of a word like extremist in response to a comment about calling Apple malware. That seems like an ad hominem to me. The linked article presents clear arguments for why the FSF consider Appl
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by zeveb 7y ago
> What am I missing? Amazon can — and have — reach into your Kindle and delete books you have there (notably, they did this to 1984, proving that real life can be ironic). You cannot lend one Kindle book to someone else, without lending
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by zeveb 7y ago
> Of to the 2 Billion people using Chrome, point out just one for whom the privacy implications around autocomplete have imposed a non-theoretical cost. You've never accidentally typed a password in a URL bar? You've never acc
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by zeveb 7y ago
I've used Hugo static pages, and I've used Kubernetes. Replacing the former with the latter is not a win for simplicity. Static pages can easily be maintained well by a single person; Kubernetes is a nasty king rat of pain and
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The bug that led to strike action(code.joejag.com)
1 points by zeveb 7y ago|0 comments
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by zeveb 7y ago
> Your kids will be far better off with two sane single-parent households than one messed-up two-parent household. Perhaps, maybe even probably — but what about two messed-up single-parent households?
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by zeveb 7y ago
> At some points they use JSON (a data format) to describe procedures... like a programming language written in JSON. It feels a bit like using a screwdriver handle as a hammer. And folks laugh at me for suggesting S-expressions until I&
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by zeveb 7y ago
Principle of charity: don't attribute mistakes to malevolence. Unlike in business, military purchasing is, I think, generally run by people who were once users of the systems they were purchasing, and are not unlikely to rely on them a
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by zeveb 7y ago
Speaking as another Lisper, I am glad that you're sticking with Lisp, not moving to Clojure. … and maybe someday you can propose your own project, something like CL21!
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by zeveb 7y ago
That other languages are worse than Lisp is no reason not to improve. I didn't read him as suggesting that CLOS be replaced, but that it be embraced. I have no idea what he meant about unused functions. My experience has been that whe
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Accelerating hindsight: Lisp as a vehicle for rapid prototyping(nhplace.com)
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Yup, exactly. To me, 'rich' means having the wealth to live off of the interest (where 'wealth' is defined rather expansively to include things like disability, Social Security & pension benefits as well as simple c
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A game which fits in a bootloader and runs without an OS(github.com)
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Not certain I like that this is now valid Go: func Foo (type T) (t T) (t T, err error) { … } Seems like an awful lot of parentheses in a single line! It's a bit tricky to read, because 'generic function' here means s
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by zeveb 7y ago
> What's gained by people understanding what's happening behind the scenes? A critical mass of people able to make informed technical decisions — which is what both business & democratic self-government require. > We don
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by zeveb 7y ago
I can understand someone preferring a stone formed by natural processes over æons and discovered by a miner over one created in a factory. I can also understand someone preferring a stone crafted to exacting technical standards over one ran
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by zeveb 7y ago
I've lived in a place with a significant number of Section 8 renters, and I would definitely have supported measures to require people in the area to be wealthier. No, wealthier people are not better people — but at the very least t
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by zeveb 7y ago
Ever since I saw the project come out, I've been thinking about what would be required for me to switch from Android. Right now I think that my hard requirements are: - Firefox (pretty sure they have it) - Signal (I use it all
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> Worried delivery drivers are eating orders? Well, I wasn't …
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> A quick review of the wikipedia pages puts those two figures in the mid 30,000s per year. Mass shooting != gun violence. Roughly the same order of magnitude of people die from motor vehicles & firearms in the U.S., but very few pe
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by zeveb 7y ago
> Nobody argues owning a gun is an essential human right. I do — it's a constitutional right because it is a fundamental ('essential') human right. A free citizen (i.e., not a child or prisoner) has a right to wield viole
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by zeveb 7y ago
> Any idea why this is flagged? In my experience, anti-Apple sentiment tends to get either downvoted/flagged to oblivion or upvoted through the stratosphere. I suspect it's due to Apple being a particularly polarising firm: t
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> being seen suing previous employers and supervisors will make it even harder to get hired in that field, and possibly any other as well. If you win enough in damages then you don't need to worry too much about earning in the futur
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by zeveb 7y ago
> The small bin doesn't seem to smell I put roughly as much credence in that statement as I would a smoker's that he doesn't really smell like smoke, or a dog owner's that his house doesn't really smell that dogg
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by zeveb 7y ago
> The S-Expressions on the either hand are a sea of parentheses with no way to quickly tell what's a list or mapping or whatever without closely looking at each item. I guess that's part of the point from my point of view: it&#
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The S-expressions look much cleaner to me: parentheses and characters, with a few quotes where needed. Meanwhile, the JSON is a mess of curly brackets, square brackets, commas, quotes &c. All the field names are strings, not symbols o
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by zeveb 7y ago
> what's an object and what's an array? There are no objects — it's all lists (or arrays, if you prefer). This is a good thing, because ordering is always the same. > What's a keyword and what's a literal? Ev
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by zeveb 7y ago
> s-expressions have no central specification on precise syntax There is: https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Sexp.txt It's imperfect, but it does get the job done. Among its advantages is that it's bot
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Cosmic Crisp Apple Launch(story.californiasunday.com)
145 points by zeveb 7y ago|97 comments
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by zeveb 7y ago
Your breakdown really is the best one I've seen, but I wonder if your lower class might be broken into two groups, stealing a bit from your middle class: - poverty: living on welfare, food stamps, and federal subsidized housing - lower

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