Sterm

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by Sterm 3y ago
You're losing all the state since you're not being dropped in the closure where the error happened but in the end of the program. To see the difference use some function counter() instead of 1 in the example.
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by Sterm 3y ago
You can hook into the abi for software that runs in Linux trivially. So why isn't machine code acceptable? When you give the honest answer you see why the majority of languages aren't acceptable either.
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by Sterm 3y ago
How else is one meant to read that language doesn't matter? You can hook into anything that runs in Linux since it's abi is rock solid so the excuse of not being able to use the usual tech stacks doesn't hold water either.
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by Sterm 3y ago
I always find it odd that people say this. If stack doesn't matter than why not start writing machine code again?
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by Sterm 3y ago
(define lol (let ((a 0)) (lambda () (set! a (+ a 1)) a))) Scheme is a functional programming language in the same way python is. The only difference is that it has tail call optimisation and the s
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by Sterm 3y ago
How does one pay a VPN when your country is under sanctions?
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by Sterm 3y ago
This is the point where you need to check your privilege. I used tor when living in a dictatorship to find out things which would destroy the moral fabric of society, such as information about lgbtqia+ issues, what condoms are, pop music an
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by Sterm 3y ago
There is no such thing as running a relay in freenet. Every user is the same as every other. The size and traffic of your node is literally a setting on the gui. All traffic and data are encrypted so you have no idea what's living on y
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by Sterm 3y ago
Indeed which is why I write everything in machine code. What sort of elitist could possibly think this is a bad idea?
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by Sterm 3y ago
Scheme is not a functional programming language. The last 2/3rds of sicp are possible only because you can mutate state.
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by Sterm 3y ago
>Never flew 1st class but have flown business class a few times. Fly first and report back. The rest of it is because you're still in the peasant launge. First class even gets its own passport queue.
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by Sterm 3y ago
The people who wrote it left and the ones who stayed don't know how the system works.
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by Sterm 3y ago
Upper management has their own offices. Of course they don't understand what open offices are like. It's like planes, they only suck if you're in economy class, first and business are great. Why would you want to fly faster w
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by Sterm 3y ago
If food is killing more people than it used to that's not an improvement in food.
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by Sterm 3y ago
If it did US life expectancy wouldn't lower today than it was in 2008.
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by Sterm 3y ago
Types slow you down. New work is first completed in untyped languages. People start using the work. People complain there aren't types. Types are added. Work is now slow in the language. New work is now done in another language without
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by Sterm 3y ago
Because the majority of programmes today are uneducated.
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by Sterm 3y ago
No, the majority are not prepared for the absolute obliteration of their ego they will suffer to become a 10x engineer. The problem isn't one of time, ability or whatever ineffable quality, but one of character. Ironically enough I thi
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by Sterm 3y ago
Then you're not a 10x engineer and will be filling out your hours in SAP and getting your tickets from Jira. Personally that sounds like a new circle of hell but I've had people ask me to bring back Jira for a project I was managi
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by Sterm 3y ago
Anyone can be a 10x engineer, it's just that the majority prefer mediocrity. If you chose to be less than you can be that's on you not the people who improved themselves.
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by Sterm 3y ago
In the same way that VB was to front end developers 20 years ago.
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by Sterm 3y ago
Telling data engineers to learn sql because it's what's used in BoringCorp is a bit like telling front end developers in 2003 to learn VB because it's what most user interfaces are written in. Data engineering which pays well
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by Sterm 3y ago
The quality of movies released from Hollywood in the last 5 years has been abysmal. It made sense to have large studios when film cost dollars per foot and needed an army of editors in post. Today you could film a 1960s blockbuster on 10k o