_never_k

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by _never_k 6y ago
I don't exactly understand how you're hurt by this, but fair enough. Utilitarianism is a philosophical framework. It's not for me, but based on your comments you might be into it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by _never_k 6y ago
You keep complaining about indulging! What's wrong with indulging in something every once in while?
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by _never_k 6y ago
Your first bullet is an argument against this change as being suboptimal. That there's a more optimally utilitarian use of the resources, which I get. The thing I don't get about this argument is that nothing Github (or any of us
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by _never_k 6y ago
>Austerity? Monks in cells? You're complaining about indulgence! You're saying that this change won't help people as much as something else. This is a fair criticism. Changing some technical term is probably not a optimall
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by _never_k 6y ago
Github inherited it from git, which inherited it from bitkeeper, the DVCS that Linux originally used and the one that inspired git. Bitkeeper used a master/slave architecture that git dropped. https://github.com/bitkeep
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by _never_k 6y ago
Serious question: you're not the only person in this thread who feels this, and I genuinely don't understand it. Why is this so upsetting?
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by _never_k 6y ago
Props to you for committing to your austerity, but we're not all monks in cells.
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by _never_k 6y ago
The terminology of master/slave architecture is a direct reference to the working relationships between people on an antebellum plantation. Names should help you understand what things do, and those names do. We also have node that ele
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by _never_k 6y ago
>I think for the political arena it would do us good to try to emulate the US House of Representatives where representatives are given equal time to address the floor. This is a weird example. Representatives don't listen to each ot
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by _never_k 6y ago
>Once you start fact checking where does it end? With all the facts being checked?
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by _never_k 6y ago
>I think one element of writing ASM by hand is the programmer subliminally changes the algorithm to be 'simpler' to write. It's not subliminal. It's packing a backpack that someone else has to carry, vs packing a back
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by _never_k 6y ago
I think of the BLAS algos as being very Fortran friendly, and the Fortran references never _out_perform the C implementations. (The asm implementations are of course the best.) Be curious to know what you're thinking of here.
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by _never_k 6y ago
This is real, but also not new (as you can tell from the name check on Flash, Silverlight and IE). They used to be called "supercookies", but that term has come to mean something else in the last few years.
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by _never_k 7y ago
Before rust, I would incrementally evolve an incomplete design into a complete design (building a tree by building leaves, branches, and a trunk and then assembling them.) In rust, my early incremental versions would have lifetime issues th
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by _never_k 7y ago
I live in the US and have a local US IP. A year or so ago, I made a site for a side project using vanilla HTML. No frameworks, no JS. Every word on the page was in English and could be found in an English dictionary. When I first stood the
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by _never_k 7y ago
They work, but there's much more friction and many more gotchas than node. The requirements file for example, doesn't distinguish between direct and ancestor dependencies, it has to be explicitly passed to pip, you need to have cr
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by _never_k 7y ago
This is the way I feel too. Python is both redundant and inconsistent at a basic level. The APIs for `map`, `filter` and `reduce`, the inversion between `split` and `join`, `sort` vs `sorted` -- it's all very weird. And these aren&#x27