emergentcypher

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by emergentcypher 11y ago
Umm, newspapers enjoy freedom of the press because the 1st amendment explicitly guarantees freedom of the press. > Congress shall make no law [...] or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
The only time I could ever see us adopting new calendar systems is when (if) we eventually migrate off-planet into space colonies or onto other bodies in the solar system. Why? Because only then will each colony have a completely different
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
Good. Get off this ride. I'm asking why the hell we are still stuck with the current packaging schemes.
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
This attitude is exactly why Linux has such a horrible, horrible packaging experience. Building cross-distro packages is awful. Teaching users how to install packages is awful. Installing custom apt sources or repos to get newer versions of
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
Can we please stop talking about these "laws" that are based on absolutely nothing but observing an apparent trend that may not continue past tomorrow? Seriously, spoken to too many undergrads who think there's some sort of p
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
Are there plans to work on integrating PGP encryption? N1 really looks nice but there are many people, like me, who can't move over until it gets e-mail encryption support.
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
OK, I'll grant it this, PHP performance has improved quite a lot in recent years.
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
Anything else.
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
Does it have encryption yet?
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
- PHP is slow. Unlike JS, it's generally interpreted and not JIT (unless you're Facebook). - Drupal has to bootstrap itself and all modules on every request. - Drupal makes waaaaay too many SQL queries - Drupal generates horribly
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
Drupal has always performed like shit. 10/sec is actually pretty good for Drupal It's only good for managing static content, the only way you get any sort of performance out of it is super aggressive caching. PHP is a slow abomina
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
That wording is worse than absurd. It's comical. Their ability to use a thesaurus does not make them intellectuals, in fact the exact opposite.
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
Howabout the question is, should Congress repeal the All Writs Act.
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
Really? What is this 10%? We're using Haskell for server-side programming at my work and it's been fantastic. Functional programming is so well suited for stateless web services.
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
What I don't get about publishing the hashes, etc... if they are serving up tampered .iso files, why wouldn't they also change the website to serve the appropriate hashes for the hacked isos? For the verification to work I would t
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
created to stop a threat to humankind that we must defend against
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
I don't think MVC belongs on server-side web frameworks at all. It's not a continuously updating interactive display, it's a one-off thing. You don't have a model object sitting around sending messages to the view when i
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
The point is that we did not have an opportunity to influence the negotiations and therefore the text of the treaty. We instead are presented almost with a fait accompli that we must either accept or reject altogether.
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
I'd like to point out, in support of your arguments, that all artistic works are derivative. Creative works are not created in a vacuum. They copy and derive build upon the cumulative works of the rest of society. Nobody should ever
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
Scala does not have lightweight threading. It uses the same thread pools from Java. All your millions of Actors are scheduled onto one of these thread pools.
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
Scala runs on JVM and uses the same OS-level threads. What's going on here is the actors are being scheduled to run on a thread pool.
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
Scala runs on JVM and uses OS-level threads. However, Actors are not threads, so in a way it's like user threads. One million actors will be scheduled to run on a pool of OS threads.
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
Similarly the Haskell and Erlang are using lightweight threading.
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
This is why the JS ecosystem frustrates me. We're talking about an ES7 -> ES6 transpilation, which I will then have to transpile again to ES5. And that's before we even hit the VM/JIT.
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
How many more of these articles do I have to read? How many more of these comments do you have to read?
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
Closed source. No thanks.
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
Now I can just get a free cert and turn on TLS. What's the problem, exactly? Most people are not capable of running their own mail server. The convenience of services like Google, plus the risk of turning your mail box into a spam mach
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
I don't know why. It just adds a level of indirection. Comparing anything with gross pay is pretty meaningless.
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
I think the idea isn't that every single person will host themselves. But you could have an account with a local provider, and the network will be a built-up federation of local providers linking together. In this way you individually
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by emergentcypher 11y ago
Which tells us something about the nature of the bugs we will find in our programs. The type-checker prevents certain classes of bugs, inconsistencies in types, lots of silly typos and mistakes. But it doesn't fix errors in our logic

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