nyrp

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   by nyrp 11mo ago

   > binary form that cannot be recreated from scratch Back in my day, we called it "freeware"
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   by nyrp 11mo ago

   Is he referring to something specific with "true" iterative calculations vs. plain old iterative ones, assuming they are in some way "non-true" or less "true"? Like, avoiding i+=x in favor of ++i or something?
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   by nyrp 11mo ago

   They're pissing off the non technical people now, though. We'll see how it all plays out in the next few years.
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   by nyrp 11mo ago

   >circa 2005: Score:5, Funny on Slashdot >circa 2025: grayed out on Hacker News
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   by nyrp 11mo ago

   > That thought should terrify it assuming it can be terrified
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   by nyrp 11mo ago

   Heaven forbid anyone should be weird...
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   by nyrp 1y ago

   You asked how my reply is related, and I answered. I would say that I understood the context.
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   by nyrp 1y ago

   It's the number of lines of code in Swift.
9. 9.▲
   by nyrp 1y ago

   > Is there anyone else out there? If I reply yes, would you believe me? Am I even replying to a "you" right now, or was it a comment posted by a call to requests.get() by some AI agent?