loqi

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by loqi 10y ago
Because nuclear plants can replace coal plants. Replacing a bad thing with a less bad thing is a good thing.
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by loqi 10y ago
ditching capital letters instead of punctuation would get rid of more redundant characters.
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by loqi 10y ago
Early 1800s: "Then why is slavery still legal in England et al?" Right now: "Then why is gay marriage illegal in Japan et al?" Etc. Your point has nothing to do with the drug war itself, it's broad enough to apply t
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by loqi 10y ago
I am currently facing the grim possibility of a patent with my name on it for a system that's basically a poor imitation of decades-old technology. (But it works great with our other poor in-house imitations of decades-old technology!)
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by loqi 10y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I'm certainly not claiming that people who avoid the project are somehow "less important" as a result of their decision. And I wouldn't doubt that it's personal for them - "mere id
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by loqi 10y ago
I'm not sure where you're getting this. The system is explicitly designed such that the author can not ultimately shape the network into whatever he wants. The only real control stars and galaxies have over the rest of the userb
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by loqi 10y ago
How so? Sharing arbitrary objects via memory requires some form of coordinated memory management. So you still need a process-wide GC, meaning you're probably stuck with that 30% hit from thread-safe refcounting. And all the other lock
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by loqi 10y ago
Ah. So basically this[1]? [1]: https://gist.github.com/djspiewak/3a6ff436865d9e5794e4 I mean, I guess you're technically correct: If nothing else, the impact of his views on the project is that it results in the e
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by loqi 10y ago
Well, if you define "comfortable tolerating his garbage" as "contributes to Urbit despite it being Yarvin's project", then tautological assertion is tautological. There is certainly some self-selection for people wh
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by loqi 10y ago
Rust disallows mutation of multiply-referenced data, which prevents things like iterator invalidation and data races.
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by loqi 11y ago
Speaking as someone who's been following the project for a few years and once actually bothered to learn Hoon, your first paragraph is probably the best criticism of Urbit I've seen. I do think there is an interesting system burie
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by loqi 11y ago
I don't think Hoon's type system actually has a typeclass analogue. As far as I could tell, what it has is something like generics, but in a world where everything is ultimately a noun. IIRC, a previous iteration of the docs expla
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by loqi 11y ago
Library gap aside, Lisp has an FFI. If you want to use libpng from Lisp, you just make some C calls. If you want to use libpng from Hoon, you first have to re-implement the functionality of interest in Hoon just to have a sound basis fo
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by loqi 11y ago
Greg Egan's Permutation City plays some novel games with reality.
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by loqi 11y ago
Same here. It's why I prefer to line-split conditionals in C-like languages like this: if (condition0 && condition1 && condition2) rather than the usual "trailing operator" style. You can im
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by loqi 11y ago
I quite consciously use "I feel like" to mark lowish confidence statements based primarily on fuzzy intuition or perception ("I feel like it's less work to move my eyes from side to side than up and down"). Contrast
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by loqi 11y ago
Looks like it is (was?) targeting roughly the same space as Julia.
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by loqi 11y ago
I haven't read the book, but from what I gather[1], the explanations were not all good. Getting to and from Miller's world should have required absurd amounts of energy. But as extreme luck would have it, there were "intermed
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by loqi 11y ago
> Unlike many other languages, Ela doesn't make any trade-offs, trying to combine distinct programming paradigms that don't fit well together. The author may want to tone down that claim - combining Haskell-style FP with dynami
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by loqi 11y ago
DTDs mercifully aside, there's this: http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/SXML.html I'm not sure what example in this thread you consider to be throwing information away - in a case like <Term term=&quot
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by loqi 12y ago
Intuitively, the reason why it balances out is that while earlier items are more likely to be picked, they're also more likely to get kicked out after being picked.
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by loqi 12y ago
> Have you never had a sporting debate with a friend who's opinion you knew full well going in? Huh? You mean have I argued with a friend about a belief of theirs I was aware of ahead of time? Yes? If you're asking if I was dis
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by loqi 12y ago
> The point of good argument isn't to convince the other party they are woefully wrong and everyone should just eventually come to the same conclusion. Applied to both parties in the argument, yes it is. Argument is digging for trut
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by loqi 12y ago
Good point, how about grep -f - 10-million-combos.txt <password> ^D^D
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by loqi 12y ago
> C is great for systems and some application programming, C++ is rubbish This is a bizarre claim. C++ has its problems, but the fact that it allows zero-overhead abstractions over common low-level boilerplate is a seriously non-trivial
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by loqi 12y ago
C++98 (maybe earlier) has a similar feature: if (mytype* p = find_or_null(blah)) foo(*p); Still have to dereference p, but at least it's only in scope when doing so is safe. Also goes well with auto and std::optional:
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by loqi 12y ago
I'm sure that point is not lost on researchers, but yeah, factoring in the effect of existing conditions is easier said than done correctly.
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by loqi 12y ago
Didn't hang onto any links, sorry. The stuff I saw will probably turn up in a search for "alcohol" and "total mortality", though.
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by loqi 12y ago
Speaking of recommendations that lead to heart disease, three sarcastic cheers for massively understating the risks associated with abstinence from alcohol. Mostly I just hear "moderate consumption is associated with some health benefi
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by loqi 12y ago
I've gotten in the habit of adding trailing whitespace when I comment out code or do any printf debugging. It's still quick, but then git yells at me if I try and commit it.

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