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by throwaway328 1y ago
Request to HN mods: that the link be changed from https://www.ponylang.io/discover/ to https://www.ponylang.io/ On the second link, as another commenter mentions, the "Try it in your browser"
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by throwaway328 1y ago
And the Snowden revelations happened, which programmers and sysadmins and etc saw, and then... continued as before, in the large majority of cases. It'd be baffling, if it wasn't so easily explained by the usual mixture of self-in
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by throwaway328 1y ago
I worked with a fellow who didn't believe me that the shift key upper-cased letters. The slippery slope continues sliding ever downwards.
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by throwaway328 1y ago
https://matrix.org/blog/2021/07/21/germany-s-national-health... tl;dr is that the French and German governments are really ahead of the curve then
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by throwaway328 1y ago
Hmm. Are you aware that I was responding to this comment? > Why do people use obvious spyware when free software exists? So, even though the poster was referring to ByteDance when they said "obvious spyware", I was feigning inc
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by throwaway328 1y ago
> I read what you wrote I never said you didn't. I said that you were misreading me. We could speculate as to what could have caused such a poor reading of such a simple point, but there are so many juicy possibilities, it's ha
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by throwaway328 1y ago
Yes, why do people use products from Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, ...
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by throwaway328 1y ago
Or you could say they are "tilting at windmills".
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by throwaway328 1y ago
I'd be a very interested admirer, if not user, of such a project. I'm playing with J this past week, and otherwise have a couple of CL books under my belt. No other real experience programming, but I certainly think that sounds li
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by throwaway328 1y ago
I chuckled at "recovering sexp addict". What possible risk is there in over-indulging in sexp?! I simply don't see it. Speaking of unconventional lisps, I enjoyed this recently: https://github.com/vygr/Ch
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by throwaway328 1y ago
I suspect you might be observing two correlates and picking one as the cause of the other in a way that is ahistorical. Specifically, it seems to me that colleges becoming more vocational and colleges becoming more expensive are both natura
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by throwaway328 1y ago
See my reply in the other thread, where I dutifully elaborate.
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by throwaway328 1y ago
I am not a scientist, and was primarily having a laugh with my comment. That said, I do know that the type of person who likes configuring things very in-depth can set up intricate and powerful workflows in Emacs. I don't know what kin
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by throwaway328 1y ago
I agree, the deporting of citizens is much worse in real terms. They're both fundamentally anti-democratic, is what I meant. In both cases, the political / business class controlling the state is utilising private and public insti
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by throwaway328 1y ago
If "centrist liberal" means being critical of all authoritarianism, from Obama to Trump, where would the democrats lie in this political balance? I ask sincerely here. That would be a centre which would be ten miles left of where
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by throwaway328 1y ago
Reading Barrett Brown's "My Glorious Defeats" at the moment, being reminded of that time Anonymous went after Visa, Mastercard, and others, in retaliation for them blocking payments to Wikileaks. An action the payment compani
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by throwaway328 1y ago
Emacs is the only truly next-generation data science IDE, and the last-generation one too. (Hiding behind my couch after writing that)
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by throwaway328 1y ago
Writing advice from some pleb with the English comprehension ability of a garden gate, who probably wrote a story about his pet dog to scrape a pass in his O-levels - truly, our civilisation descends but deeper into the abyss
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by throwaway328 1y ago
Is there a repo or page somewhere listing the mini-est stuff? Very cool here!
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by throwaway328 1y ago
You mean a kind of "Spectres of Marx", Jacques Derrida, 1993, hauntology type thing?
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by throwaway328 1y ago
Yeah, seriously, what is this about? Dang, etc? Anyone?
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by throwaway328 1y ago
The word for this, we learned recently, is "LLM inevitabilism". It's often argued for far more convincingly than your attempt here, too. The future is here, and even if you don't like it, and even if it's worse, you
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by throwaway328 1y ago
Nice post. I hadn't noticed the "subtle suggestions" of donations myself, to be honest, but maybe I hadn't browsed around their pages enough. Anyway, if they do mention it, is it not a very far cry from the situation eve
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MDBG Chinese Dictionary(mdbg.net)
1 points by throwaway328 1y ago|1 comments
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by throwaway328 1y ago
Started learning Standard Chinese this past week, and came across this really amazing dictionary. I was charmed and amused to see this at the top of their home page: "Our servers have fled the US and found asylum in the EU. Turns out
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by throwaway328 1y ago
What did it do for privacy? I think Gemini is great, and read from Nyxt browser. Don't know if I've seen any references to privacy benefits, so curious.
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by throwaway328 1y ago
The fact that LLMs haven't come up with anything "novel" would be a serious puzzle - as the article claims - only if they were thinking, reasoning, being creative, etc. If they aren't doing anything of the sort, it&#x2
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by throwaway328 1y ago
https://archive.is/20250708052212/https://www.theguardian.co...
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by throwaway328 1y ago
> Capitalism as a whole is the least bad economic system for prosperity, but the least bad version of capitalism is something like the Nordic model, with good taxation and redistribution policies and consumer protections. Shouldn't
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by throwaway328 1y ago
Yes, including about Emacs users "hating humans". I use Emacs, and I'm very fond of humans. Plus my reading of the Emacs community is that there's loads of interesting and respectful people. Where's the hating human

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