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by troad 4mo ago
Very interesting, thank you for the thoughtful explanation!
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by troad 4mo ago
I note the rule reminder, but I very respectfully raise one hell of an eyebrow at the implication that discussions about ranking the significance of dead children by skin colour ought to be conducted curiously, dispassionately and substanti
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by troad 4mo ago
I imagine this will continue being walked back into nothingness. It's probably not even legal.
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by troad 4mo ago
Why would the Papacy be exasperated with the Latin Mass movement if it's merely celebrating one of the allowable options? (Genuine question, I'm sure I lack all context.)
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by troad 4mo ago
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by troad 4mo ago
Haha, I'm not too young for that, but I think that was a fairly fringe use case even then. Most people were never on IRC. In the late 90s / early 2000s Internet radio would probably have made me think of RealPlayer, and shortly th
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by troad 4mo ago
It appears to take a folder of .opus music files and serve some kind of Opus live stream, and it is controllable via IRC (as in, you can tell it to queue or skip songs over IRC). Or at least that's my best guess based on the linked dem
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by troad 4mo ago
The US attacks on Iran is a different event altogether from the Israeli genocide in Gaza. You're conflating discrete conflicts with different parties and different modes of engagement. The US attack on that school is atrocious and I co
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by troad 4mo ago
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by troad 4mo ago
Russian is a nationality, not a race. You can say prejudiced, but not racist. In this case it's not even a person, but a product. It's not pre judice when it's based on a post -facto assessment of the Russian government&#x2
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by troad 4mo ago
The perfect ought not be the enemy of the good - the question isn't whether Wikipedia has solved all prejudice, the question is whether it is doing better on that question than its peers. And I'd say it is, relatively speaking. I&
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by troad 4mo ago
Internal DEI initiatives are very helpful for an organisation trying to create a comprehensive knowledge base without falling to any group's bias. That requires diverse perspectives. I don't care about internal DEI if the job is m
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by troad 4mo ago
More broadly, I think it's "let's not hand over essential infrastructure to any foreign state". Friendly or not, it doesn't matter. Private companies ought to have the freedom to do business with whomever they lik
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by troad 4mo ago
Did anyone actually like StackOverflow? Any question asked would be edited beyond recognition (and usually into brash rudeness). Half the answers were demanding ever increasing proof of work, and the other half told the OP that they shouldn
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by troad 4mo ago
Perhaps it would help if stdlibs were be versioned, with the chosen version declared in the project file. For existing languages, a lack of version would simply indicate the original stdlib, meaning nothing should break. I definitely don&#x
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by troad 4mo ago
No no, dead earnest. I'm a big believer in honest compliments, where merited. Please start writing a blog, if you don't already. If I could compose a blog roll of people writing fun CS histories, I would replace my HN bookmark wit
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by troad 4mo ago
Having reviewed as instructed, I stand by everything I said here. Let's review the action replay. I began by noting that TS has literals and set theoretic types, and that this makes sense for a post-facto type system bolted on top of a
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by troad 4mo ago
It's not. The US green card process takes years, and being forced to be outside the country while the process is ongoing makes it very hard to continue working for a US employer, which is how most people are actually sponsored for a GC
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by troad 4mo ago
I believe I was promised a respite from this. Everything I said to you prior to my last message was fairly gentle. I'm not sure what response you were expecting to what you wrote at that point, which was to accuse me of disingenuous st
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by troad 4mo ago
Haha, I knew you'd bring up Go. I even considered pre-emptively dropping Rust and Zig as counterexamples. I think most people who favour static typing consider the duck-typed interfaces of Go to be a mistake. Personally, I consider all
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by troad 4mo ago
Fantastic comment! Really lovely contribution. The sort of thing I come to HN for. > You can go `</br/r/r>`, if you are really into solidi Love it.
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by troad 4mo ago
> By Haskell's type system do you mean with all the GHC extensions? No? What extensions does `A | B | C` require? > Haskell has neither subtyping nor structural typing Is subtyping back in? Good news for Java and C++. Re structur
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by troad 4mo ago
Uh huh, sure. I didn't know the between a C union and a set theoretic union. I'm just so gosh darn confused, trying to use them set theoretical types in my C all the time! You have come into a room full of CS practitioners to ann
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by troad 4mo ago
Yes, I mean hosts, not literal browser history. I should've been clearer.
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by troad 4mo ago
I know. I literally gave the example of a Python Literal in the post you're replying to. TS too. :) My overall point is that Haskell's type system is sufficiently expressive (you may not have "A" | "B" | "
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by troad 4mo ago
I believe so! Though with a healthy set of global endpoints to route through, naturally.
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by troad 4mo ago
I see no evidence the user is confused, they said they wished the syntax were similar to TS. Though they're not the same thing, they do have comparable uses, so it makes sense to wish for similar syntax to reduce cognitive overhead. &g
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by troad 4mo ago
You're welcome! Knowing is half the battle. That Haskell snippet is just syntax sugar for Left(string) | Right(string), which is trivial in any language with unions. Not clear why it would be an improvement over just naming the alterna
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by troad 4mo ago
It's been interesting seeing the retrospective flattening of computer history. I suppose it's inevitable over time. I wonder how bad it will get. "In the 1990s, 'hackers' would 'dial up' their flip phones
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by troad 4mo ago
I just permanently live on a US VPN these days. [0] Not Spanish, but my own country has started overregulating the web, and it seems prudent to develop a long track record of appearing as a US based user to the various online fiefdoms, rath

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