mightyham

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by mightyham 8d ago
This is a really pedantic editorial argument. I'm not going to claim the author's sentence is anything amazing, but you are being overly critical. The paragraph clearly introduces the general concept of religious influence through
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by mightyham 8d ago
"In particular" could also be interpreted here as just signaling the main subject of the article, not necessarily making any sort of claim to comparative amount of syncretism.
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by mightyham 13d ago
Politics is a lense of analysis that can be applied to almost anything related to the group behaviors of people. Refusing to engage with it because there are charlatans that apply these methods poorly just demonstrates an inability or lack
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by mightyham 17d ago
While admittedly async is a bit of a jungle for newcomers, I am glad that it is not built into the standard library. Where you see a bunch of needlessly competing runtimes, I see a healthy variety of different packages tailored to different
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by mightyham 17d ago
First off, in some sense everything is political. Next, I am not claiming that you can't be supporter of open source while also holding a wide array of associated political views. My point is that the concept of open source fundamental
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by mightyham 17d ago
Open-source is an inherently radical anti-capitalist philosophy. In your eyes everyone "deserves" what the market is willing to pay, but open-source developers would rather donate their time and energy to create or contribute to s
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by mightyham 26d ago
Watching the transform values update on the DOM is mesmerizing. Great demo!
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by mightyham 27d ago
Rust has a sizable and well featured standard library at this point. I think it would be absurd to claim that the base language is "near-unusable" if you are using it for system programming, which is its intended use case. Huge st
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by mightyham 1mo ago
Please don't take this personally, trying to offer this as constructive criticism. I don't find this to be a very interesting example of the language. If the main feature is a unique approach to memory/multithreading/net
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by mightyham 1mo ago
Wake up early and work on hobby projects in the morning. That's what I personally do sometimes.
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by mightyham 2mo ago
When the GP says "You’ll talk to a whole lot of low class people like that on HN", I interpret that as them disparaging basically anyone who supports open source, since I believe there are not many people on HN that are overly emo
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by mightyham 2mo ago
Probably because they could easily have given the same advice without needing to call people on hn that encourage and support open source software "low-class".
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by mightyham 2mo ago
This is just idiotic equivocation. The difference between Russia and Hitler is that Russia has legitimate national security concerns, for instance, not letting the world's largest military alliance (NATO) which is antogonistic to them,
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by mightyham 2mo ago
Or just an American with an realist perspective on foreign affairs... I loathe the charge that if you have any nuance and think the war is not ENTIERLY Russia's fault, then you must be brainwashed by propaganda.
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by mightyham 2mo ago
I love the example you gave because it is demonstrative of one of the most important distinctions between your moral language and the language of geopolitics. If a Muslim attacks someone in a western country, then they will have violated a
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by mightyham 2mo ago
Unfortunately, being smart is a natural talent ;)
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by mightyham 2mo ago
No, you clearly don't understand my argument. Ukraine didn't just disadvantage their neighbor. In international affairs, red lines are a common tool for expressing acceptable bounds of negotiation. Russia made it very explicit tha
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by mightyham 2mo ago
Are you purposely being obtuse? Eastern Europe was a protectorate of the USSR for a large portion of the last century.
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by mightyham 2mo ago
> everybody knows how to live in peace. Except Russia. Talk about an extraordinary case of recency bias. Cheap shot, I know, but I had to make it. Europe currently defends itself because that's all it CAN do. They abandoned their ar
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by mightyham 2mo ago
Except it is literally is just rational geopolitics. The story of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is not just a single whimsical choice by a mad dictator. There has been a decades long encirclement campaign by NATO which ultimately pushed t
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by mightyham 2mo ago
Speaking from my experience at Amazon this is not the case. Any customer impact like this would necessitate a COE (correction of errors) report, which means a list of required action items to prevent such issues from happening again, which
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by mightyham 2mo ago
"Gothic cathedrals and Doric temples are mathematics in stone. Doubtless Pythagoras was the first in the Classical Culture to conceive number scientifically as the principle of a world-order of comprehensible things—as standard and as
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by mightyham 2mo ago
Coming from the DC area, this comment reminds me of how the metro payment system "Smartrip" was recently renamed to "Smart Trip".
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by mightyham 2mo ago
> in my experience, a change that stays local in Go ripples through lifetimes and trait bounds in Rust imo extensive use of generics/trait bounds and explicit lifetimes in Rust is a huge code smell. Large projects should be making l
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by mightyham 3mo ago
Completely agree! The author made a buggy android port of nintype (called keyboard 69) that I used for years. The UX was incredible, and every swipe system I've tried since feels downright clumsy by comparison. Two finger swipe is peak
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by mightyham 3mo ago
I love when people on the internet think they know better than lawyers about a situation they are barely familiar with.
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by mightyham 3mo ago
I find matplotlib to be clunky and verbose compared to ggplot. When using python, I will often use https://plotnine.org/ because it gives me a nice ggplot like API.
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by mightyham 3mo ago
Even taking the author's criticism about large context windows for granted, which in my experience are exaggerated, they are still a huge UX improvement over short windows. That reason alone is enough for me to support them.
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by mightyham 3mo ago
Feel free dismiss my option by assuming I'm some ignoramus that doesn't know anything about how databases work. I'm well aware of the underlying challenges that SQL provides convenient abstractions over, and what I'm say
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by mightyham 3mo ago
Scoffing and acting exasperated doesn't actually refute anything I said. I obviously don't disagree with you that SQL has been wildly useful and popular, but that has very little to do with my comment. SQL is an outdated and flawe

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