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by zogrodea 3y ago
That is indeed pretty ridiculous. Thanks for the reference.
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by zogrodea 3y ago
I hadn't heard about Amazon in court but curious to see what you and others in this thread are referencing with this comparison. Is it about this article? Maybe you would have another link I can read about what silly thing Amazon tried
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by zogrodea 3y ago
My first thought after reading the title was about ego depletion (a controversial theory that willpower is a limited resource), but the claim here seems unrelated to that since it instead states that willpower is just not effective at elimi
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by zogrodea 3y ago
I'm impressed. That's the most thorough and well-researched comment I've seen on Hackernews, ever. Thank you for taking the time and effort in writing it up.
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by zogrodea 3y ago
I don't fully agree (although I do agree a significant amount of 20-somethings including myself today act kind of like children), but I do appreciate your friendly tone while expressing disagreement. Have a nice 2024.
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by zogrodea 3y ago
I just don't think it's a good idea to infantilise people in their 20s further. It's not a super-fringe opinion that people generally tend to reach a certain level of maturity later than they did in the past. Some of that is
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by zogrodea 3y ago
Update: Looks like I had good reason to be surprised. Thanks everyone for the examples.
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by zogrodea 3y ago
Can you give a reference for that? It sounds very unlikely to me, although I've only read/gone through two relevant standard library implementations: F# and OCaml. Neither of them use dummy values as you suggest. They have similar
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by zogrodea 3y ago
Presumably command line interface/terminal. I can type `dotnet run` in the terminal and provide some options to runa .NET program for example.
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by zogrodea 3y ago
Is that true? One's options are limited if all one can do is vote for representatives, instead of directly voting on an issue themselves. It's helpful to distinguish between the side-effects coming from one's vote and the int
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by zogrodea 3y ago
I think this is one of those cases where representative democracy diverges from democracy proper. I doubt most people (who lack a financial incentive, unlike some politicians) will incline towards copyright extensions for companies.
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by zogrodea 3y ago
I think so too. His courage reminds of Luther's, standing for his pro-human principles whatever the consequences. "I cannot recant and I will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stan
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by zogrodea 3y ago
"Man wishes concord; but Nature knows better what is good for the race; she wills discord. He wishes to live comfortably and pleasantly; Nature wills that he should be plunged from sloth and passive contentment into labor and trouble,
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by zogrodea 3y ago
This comment reminded me of the saying that "the idle mind is the devil's workshop" (which I'm not sure about the origin of). I more frequently do things that are stupid and which I regret when I'm bored and have fr
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by zogrodea 3y ago
I don’t like Apple for different reasons, but that capitalised quote seems particularly egregious given what is said elsewhere in the article. “Although Android is Free Software, meaning I can modify the code, it would probably take me mont
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by zogrodea 3y ago
Funnily enough, the author says that "all the people who do use Vim are completely insufferable" in the third paragraph. Maybe the author was trying to demonstrate that.
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by zogrodea 3y ago
I don't have any experience with this, but the use of flat arrays (rather than unbalanced trees) in Yjs sped things up considerably according to this long and interesting blog post below. https://josephg.com/blog/c
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by zogrodea 3y ago
I didn't say that. I'm just saying it's not a goal I feel motivated to fight for.
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by zogrodea 3y ago
I don't know why your tone is so combative in the second paragraph, and in your further reply to another user down below. No one said anything here to warrant it. I think you point to a real conflict of interests though where some may
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by zogrodea 3y ago
It was almost a century (1938) after Moby Dick was first published, but a historical case lamenting the same money-driven attitude is in The Principles of Art. "The fact is becoming notorious; publishers are ceasing to be interested in
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by zogrodea 3y ago
I was confused by your reply when I first read it (didn't quite understand it), but I think it comes from a miscommunication when I had intended if-expressions (if statements that return a value) while you had if-statements in mind. Fo
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by zogrodea 3y ago
I (a different person replying to your post) don't mind ternary operators, but I do prefer if-expressions which convey the same thing semantically but can be nicer to read (and also way better when chaining else-if ladders - nested ter
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by zogrodea 3y ago
I think it would be good for society if right-to-repair laws were passed but I just feel indifferent towards the topic and would rather spand time and energy caring about something that I feel (to me personally) is more important.
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by zogrodea 3y ago
"During the height of the pandemic, I wrote an article about how a Polish hacker had developed a dongle that was being used by American repair professionals to bypass DRM on ventilators needed to keep COVID-19 patients alive." Tha
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by zogrodea 3y ago
Opportunity cost is definitely one thing I had in mind. Other than that, my peers were committed to various things like fundraising for charitable organisations, doing something good by serving people in one way or another, voluntarily taki
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by zogrodea 3y ago
I'm disappointed there was any doubt that my question was asked in good faith! I do regret the obsession I had with video games when younger because of the huge time sink I put in, but I only see that as a me-problem (others likely hav
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by zogrodea 3y ago
Is gaming big among tech people and software engineers? I did (while 18 and younger) play video games for most days of my life, with it being the main thing I did on holidays and also after school on school days, but I kind of lost interest
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by zogrodea 3y ago
You might be right about that. I had that impression mentioned in my previous comment because, while browsing HN, I saw 1 pro-Israel article that was unflagged and multiple (probably about 3) pro-Palestine articles that were flagged. That w
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by zogrodea 3y ago
More of a social one, but I liked The Economics of Programming Languages by the creator of Elm. https://youtu.be/XZ3w_jec1v8?si=aYnKmDhTf30t8Nn_
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by zogrodea 3y ago
I noticed that articles in favour of one side are flagged too, while this one [0] in favour of the other side mysteriously seems not to be. I have a lot of respect for Paul Graham who founded this site (increased by [1]) and the moderators

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