buddhu

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by buddhu 2mo ago
Information asymmetry is one of those things that is so obvious that you'd expect it to be fundamental to economics, but it wasn't until the mid-90s that mainstream economics started to take it seriously. https://en.wik
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by buddhu 1y ago
For what it's worth, and from what you've described (I haven't used Arc myself), most of those features are also available in Firefox with the Sidebery extension. Instead of "spaces" it has "tab panels", w
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by buddhu 2y ago
Hello, fellow old person. I was just remembering PVCS (Polytron Version Control System) since it was the first I worked with back in the 80s. Now I see that it's still out there, with the latest release in 2021. Which is insane.
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by buddhu 3y ago
Not very likely. Spinoza lived in the 1600s, and European knowledge of classical and pre-classical Indian thought didn't really take off until about the late 1700s. On the Upanishads in particular, there was apparently a translation of
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by buddhu 3y ago
> Performance is not the primary reason to use Rust. It has way more to offer than performance. So much this. I've been doing mostly Scala (and some Haskell) for the last 10 years, and now I'm really enjoying Rust precisely bec
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by buddhu 10y ago
"Category Theory for Programmers" is generally excellent and quite easy to read: https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-p...
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by buddhu 10y ago
So does that mean Go will finally have generics somewhere around version 5?
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by buddhu 12y ago
"... in practice you will need to read lots of code with random punctuation used for method and function names." In my two or so years of Scala I've yet to see anyone actually use /: or similarly named methods, and if th