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by shawxe 4y ago
I very regularly refer to the act of writing code as "hacking the Gibson."
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by shawxe 5y ago
But... how is this easier than the solution proposed by OP?
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by shawxe 5y ago
I'm pretty sure the page is supposed to be satirical. It's poking fun at the number of software projects that have been around for several years (or maybe even a couple of decades), have had dozens to hundreds of releases, and ye
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Habitat 67(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by shawxe 5y ago|0 comments
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by shawxe 5y ago
To respond to another part of this, it doesn't matter if we can look at a brain scan and predict perfectly exactly what the scanned subject is thinking. That only answers the question of "how do thoughts occur" not the que
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by shawxe 5y ago
Because the web application is only an emergent phenomenon once consciousness has already entered the equation. Without an observer, the website is nothing more than the sum of its parts; only we view it as something else. The CPU, machin
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by shawxe 5y ago
I've been testing out a new workflow I'm Git in some personal projects that basically works like this. Basically, I make a single wip branch, which contains all of my messy/frequent commits, then when I feel that things are i
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I survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006)(blog.mycology.cornell.edu)
14 points by shawxe 5y ago|4 comments
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by shawxe 5y ago
My best attempt at Japanese: その場合、彼女は監視されていたはずであろう。
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by shawxe 5y ago
> Essentially it means “it must have been the case that, at the moment we’re speaking of, someone was watching her.” Another native English speaker here. This would be how I would parse "She had to have been being watched," bu
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by shawxe 5y ago
You should take a look at Zig.
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by shawxe 6y ago
So first of all, I just want to echo the general sentiment here and say that all of this is beyond awesome. Cosmopolitan libc seems to have the potential to literally re-define what constitutes portable code. With that out of the way, am I
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by shawxe 6y ago
re: でしょう, without seeing the original Japanese, my guess is that a more atural English translation for your first example would be "Your brother is supposed to be a man, right? He's supposed to be an adult, right?" or someth
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by shawxe 6y ago
This may be a tangential, but I've recently found that it really is useful to track all/most of these pieces of personal data. I spent a long time trying to figure out the best way to go about this before ultimately just settling
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by shawxe 6y ago
This isn't really true. If you're capturing by reference, you can easily say that defer can only be called on variables declared in scopes no deeper than the beginning of the defer block and you still have a very useful feature.
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by shawxe 6y ago
Who said anything about better? Cheaper energy = cheaper everything, but that doesn't mean that quality is necessarily constrained by current energy prices (although that also doesn't mean there aren't ways in which it could
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by shawxe 6y ago
Slam dunk response. This is exactly my problem with how so many developer tools and services are branded. Just give it to me plain, please.
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by shawxe 6y ago
> To be fair, if this was truly a big deal, it would be a political issue with bipartisan support and taken care of short order. Are you serious? Since you're using the term bipartisan, I'm going to assume you're also fro
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by shawxe 6y ago
The irony of reading this, over two thousand years later, translated into a different language, presumably by someone who is, even after all this time, still able to read the original--it's almost like writing helps us remember, as a s
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by shawxe 6y ago
> Sure, and if you do strlen(s) without checking if there is actually a NUL first then: >> finding the end of a string may place you into invalid memory if there are missing trailing bytes. You're really losing me here. Eithe
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by shawxe 6y ago
I think OP is talking about the fact that it is possible to represent and transmit sound via an electromagnetic medium and that therefore this limit is not a limit on sound information (which is nothing but generic information that can be t
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by shawxe 6y ago
I see comments like this often and I find them deeply confusing. To me, it seems like most of the different programming/scripting languages you've listed excel at completely different things. I would be curious to hear what type
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by shawxe 6y ago
From many of the comments in this thread, one might think that FAANG companies invented the concept of open source software or that software doesn't exist outside the context of a "profit model." Whatever is going on at Mozi
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by shawxe 6y ago
You really aren't kidding about Tcl. I recently discovered that with tclreadline, Tcl can be used completely in place of Bash in interactive mode, in a way that something like Python absolutely cannot. A lot of people seem to have neg
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Emulating Windows system calls, take 2(lwn.net)
2 points by shawxe 6y ago|0 comments
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by shawxe 6y ago
I have a small personal recipe blog. I tend to structure my posts like this: 1. Ingredients. 2. Instructions. 3. Notes/thoughts/musings/etc. Sometimes section 3 is quite long, sometimes it's completely absent. It is *nev
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by shawxe 6y ago
I agree with this completely. It's a lot easier for me to read through a list of things in some category than it is for me to scan through a bunch of irregularly sized tiles for the icon and description of the configuration I need. F
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Mailing Lists vs. GitHub (2018)(begriffs.com)
12 points by shawxe 6y ago|7 comments
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by shawxe 6y ago
I'm not sure a big spoon of salt will make you any less sick than a big spoon of sodium benzoate, but that's fair. I definitely agree that people should avoid eating things they do not understand; I think most of my disagreement
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by shawxe 6y ago
> There's a distinction between processed and ultra-processed (or highly processed). For example, canned fish is processed (added salt and oil), while a frozen TV dinner is ultra-processed (many ingredients added, some of which you

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