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by slx26 4y ago
This is a must read for you then if you don't understand the role C plays in modern operating systems: https://faultlore.com/blah/c-isnt-a-language/
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by slx26 4y ago
Receiving the flowers is one thing. Then having a video shared about it is another thing. And even beyond that, the second can also affect the perception on the first: maybe you thought it was something random at first, but then you realize
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by slx26 4y ago
In a local context, many kinds of "social networks" or spaces to share things with other people from the same area, specially related to art and culture. Also many local associations organizing events could use unique identities t
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by slx26 4y ago
But does it allow you to anonymously prove that you are a human? You don't want to go telling random websites who you are. No one says this can't be done. In fact, it's explicitly mentioned in the essay, that the problem th
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by slx26 4y ago
A user account, an email or a phone number do not uniquely identify a person or process, and it doesn't tell you whether it's actually a person or a process. Edit: "account" may not fully capture everything ory might be
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by slx26 4y ago
Hey, I've seen the project in the past and it's very interesting, and definitely an improvement over existing alternatives. That said, I have one complaint quite unrelated to tech itself: I think the liberal use of the term "
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by slx26 4y ago
Funny thought: then we may characterize a complex system as a system that's (most of the time) too big to fail all at once, and whose resilience to failure simply arises from continued previous failure. Which sounds like another way of
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by slx26 4y ago
And yet, at the same time, growth can't continue forever (unless you get into space colonization on artificial habitats and are able to develop that faster than population grows and other stuff we are not going to discuss now). What ha
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by slx26 4y ago
This reminds me of people who always forget their keys. I always thought: "nah that doesn't happen to anyone", and then I discovered it happens to a lot of people. Different brains work very differently, and there are some co
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by slx26 5y ago
Golang is my favorite language, and I really like the approach that the team takes. A few days ago I shared here some interesting comments from Griesemer on Golang enums. But sure, let's not give any ideas or question anything ever aga
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by slx26 5y ago
Programming languages are lacking because they are too stuck in the "implementation plane" while trying to deal with lots of "system design" problems. Generics, traits, interfaces, union types and others are fundamentall
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by slx26 5y ago
Even when recognizing that there are a lot of bad actors in marketing, that's still an extremely over-optimistic perspective: at some point, tricking people becomes easier than improving the products, value propositions become muddier,
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by slx26 5y ago
>> Who does ultra-ephemerality benefit? It helps create a sense of community very quickly, and it helps keep it alive. Honestly, trying to judge Discord for its ability to structure information is simply missing its point. I dislike m
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by slx26 5y ago
My general complaint as a distinguished member of the leaky abstraction crowd is not that abstractions can be leaky, but rather that they are sold as if they weren't... with creators being so willing to ignore from how many places thei
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by slx26 5y ago
I don't have any strong opinion about it, but I have the same question: is it possible that in the long term the backend will be replaced by a custom one? And if not, what is the postgres backend bringing to the table that's diffi
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by slx26 5y ago
Just adding to the discussion: I find this comment from Griesemer [0] on one of the github issues for enums in Golang quite insightful: >> [...] all the proposals on enums I've seen so far, including this one, mix way too many th
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by slx26 5y ago
There are many different criteria to decide where to put your code or how to group it. And each case benefits more from one idea or another (and each codebase contains many different cases). Humans don't organize knowledge in folders i
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by slx26 5y ago
>> Why would I want to build blocks with the Block Protocol? >> Blocks built with the Block Protocol can easily pass data between applications because the data within each block is structured. Yeah, what you said. What's th
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by slx26 5y ago
The problem is always the same: to do things right, you need people who know what they are doing. Redundantly . Yet, most of us don't know what we are doing, so in practice we end up creating proxies for "the people who know what
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by slx26 5y ago
Quirky sites alleviate my disdain for humanity, somewhat. Thanks.
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by slx26 5y ago
The right balance is "as much human customer service as people asks for". If your tech is good enough, lots of people will prefer it in most cases. And yet, there's people who will always prefer talking to a human, and people
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by slx26 5y ago
The set of natural numbers contains the prime numbers. The set of prime numbers doesn't contain the natural numbers, but every natural number > 1 can be generated/described as a product of prime numbers (fundamental theorem of
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by slx26 5y ago
I think it's about the fact that they are a mystery at the heart of maths. You can start describing maths from the unit, the addition and the negative sign. If you start combining those, you get the natural numbers, the integers, ... b
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by slx26 5y ago
Windows support?
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by slx26 5y ago
In my experience, many musicians and artists in general are weird people. Art is often a way to try to express how we don't fit in the world, or an attempt to express that which we can't express in other ways. And when I say &quot
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by slx26 5y ago
David Bowie with his last album might qualify.
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by slx26 5y ago
"Meaning" is a human concept, and only humans can fill its definition. It's also an individual concept, so everyone has the right to write its own definition. So indeed, as long as you have any desire(s), you can walk a path
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by slx26 5y ago
A couple years ago I was following random links on the internet and accidentally ended up on some blog where one guy made a comment like this: >> I really want to make the world a better place, but in the current world I don't ev
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by slx26 5y ago
Agree with the first part of the comment, but at the end, when you say: >> "what might help society is if [...] we paid people to learn valuable skills" We actually have plenty of very qualified people, both with academic ti
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by slx26 5y ago
Unless you think hope is always logical or rational, then there are some situations in which suicide can be logical or rational. Or maybe simply humane, if you want. While reducing impulse suicides (and all suicides) is a noble goal, saying

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