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by evilotto 2y ago
Boo fucking hoo. Oh, pity me, I'm rich and sad. What ever will I do with all my money that will make me happy? You don't need purpose, you need perspective. Instead of benefiting the billionaire class by working with DOGE to tea
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by evilotto 2y ago
I think the most important property to preserve is causality; that is, if a user sends a message B after they have read (i.e., received) a message A, then B should come after A for everyone, because B depends on A. Basically use a Lamport
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by evilotto 2y ago
That's not what it was at all. Any time you say that something can't be done, you will attract people who say "I have found a way to do it!" Even more so if you have a proof that it can't be done. This phenomenon
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by evilotto 2y ago
This is why we can't have nice things. Some volunteer puts in time maintaining something and makes a claim that is obviously correct and - most likely in jest - promises cash to anyone who shows it to be wrong. Then some rules lawyer
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by evilotto 2y ago
This happens with physical addresses too, for similar reasons. The ABC (Alcoholic Beverages Commision) tracks complaints against physical addresses, and too many violations will get an address banned from permits. Then a new owner comes i
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by evilotto 2y ago
Not to mention Fardin, 2014.
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by evilotto 2y ago
The talk about immutabilty and serialization makes me think of tcl, where "everything is a string" also means "everything is serializable" and you don't copy references around, you copy strings around, which are imm
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by evilotto 2y ago
I have a suspicion that a lot of people who rant about makefiles using tabs also praise python for the brilliance of using whitespace for scoping. Or who love yaml for its indented block structure. Nah, who am I kidding ... no one loves
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by evilotto 2y ago
the only thing I really miss in make is the ability to resolve mtime as something other than mtime. So I resort to using touchfiles which are gross but still work better than a lot of other things (I'm looking at you, docker build cac
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by evilotto 2y ago
> So we stopped selling those [hammer factory] schematics and started selling hammer-factory-building factories. https://web.archive.org/web/20180722051250/http://discuss.jo...
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by evilotto 2y ago
The default page, without including a term does have some explanation https://lambda-calculus-interpreter.netlify.app/
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Voyager 1 is doing science and is still alive(apnews.com)
4 points by evilotto 2y ago|1 comments
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by evilotto 2y ago
There used to be a plugin (or something) that would let you play Zork on a 404 page.
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by evilotto 2y ago
See also https://tromp.github.io/blog/2023/11/24/largest-number
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Lambda Calculus Interpreter(lambda-calculus-interpreter.netlify.app)
18 points by evilotto 2y ago|11 comments
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by evilotto 2y ago
See also: enshittification
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by evilotto 2y ago
Why is it that the costs "trickle down to the electricity consumers" while utilities like PG&E report record profits? Are profits more important than safety, or customers?
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by evilotto 3y ago
There used to be a multiplayer space game called Schemaverse that was played by writing sql, but it seems to have gone away. https://schemaverse.com/
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by evilotto 3y ago
This isn't really about google search results. The underlying playbook is the same one that has been used by vulture capitalists for quite some time now. Find a company with some value, buy it, extract the value into cash for the he
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by evilotto 3y ago
But how would they make money off pedestrian infrastructure or old boring technology? If there's not an app for it, then no one's interested.
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by evilotto 3y ago
jwz dubbed this "CADT programming"
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by evilotto 3y ago
My understanding of undergrad lab work is that the point is not to get results, it's to learn how to do lab work.
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by evilotto 3y ago
remote operated is also remotely vulnerable. https://hackernoon.com/6-major-scada-attacks-that-happened-a...
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by evilotto 3y ago
And xconq
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by evilotto 3y ago
don't forget xfractint
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by evilotto 3y ago
It's a UNIX system! I know this!
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by evilotto 3y ago
What do you mean, there's a lot of millionaires and billionaires that are stealing from society at large by shady business practices or tax evasion, and they're definitely not poor ..... Oh. I see your point.
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by evilotto 3y ago
When all you have is a HammerFactoryImpl, every problem looks like an INailIterator
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by evilotto 3y ago
I'm guessing the multiple instances of i = 0x5f3759df - ( i >> 1 ); in the results are one of those inverse-square floating point bit tricks.
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by evilotto 3y ago
The article stated that explicitly as its central thesis, yet I came away with a different insight. > In this context, the defining trait of a village is that it’s group of people where the average interaction over time is with people yo

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