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ampdepolymerase··on Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong
Has Apple paid the author yet? Or is this yet another free bug bounty?
ampdepolymerase··on Who Owns the Nile?
Wait until you hear about Sykes-Picot and the Durand line.
ampdepolymerase··on Isamu Akasaki, inventor of first efficient blue LED, has died
A more important question is, how well were they compensated? Most of the value are not captured by the original inventors.
ampdepolymerase··on Move Slow and Make Things
Yes, see https://shoesize.me for how it is properly done.
ampdepolymerase··on Exfiltrate Files Using the DNS
Only if you are using DNS over https.
ampdepolymerase··on The FSF unionised because of RMS
Or maybe he should had restricted the foundation's mission scope to solely open source software and not tie everything into a progressive endeavor. Your culture determines everything. Collective action and employee protests at Google is very different than at Amazon/Microsoft. If RMS had tied his personal brand to FSF's success, then he would have easily weathered the coup attempts. This is basic executive power MBA 101. During the massive corporate adoption of open source post-2010 he could have restructured the foundation to make it more scalable like the Linux Foundation or Wikimedia, a force unto itself with cash reserves and endowments. But he didn't, I think he has learnt an important lesson this time.

The FSF is a startup that never grew beyond the "scrappy entrepreneur in garage" phase. Starbucks has a much better chance of surviving collective action than your average neighborhood kombucha café place.

ampdepolymerase··on Inside a viral website
If you can build a PaaS around it like Giphy and sell user data, sure.
ampdepolymerase··on Android's new Bluetooth stack rewrite (Gabeldorsh) is written with Rust
Common Lisp had itself and its community to blame. Their dependency managers were decades behind other scripting languages. Poor defaults for build tooling. Even now building a statically-linked binary is an exercise in frustration.

Despite being an ANSI specified language, the most popular libraries focuses only on SBCL. CL is like Lua where most interpreters never achieve 100% compatibility with each other. The lack of Emacs/Vim alternatives demands beginners to adhere to their dogma. Adhering to their cargo cult might be reasonable if they are the dominant language and culture. But they are not. Software engineering classes in university teaches how to make Java AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBeans first and caml/lisp much later. Common lisp had it coming when they had their lunch eaten by Clojure. They were an old irrelevant relic that sat on their ivory tower and refused to improve or confront the status quo beyond empty words.

And it is not like the Common Lisp community lacks resources. They claim their language is used at Google via ITA software and in GOFAI through Grammarly. Even the bleeding edge of computing through Regetti. Then where are all the maintained, up to date tooling and libraries? Do a quick search and almost everything is unmaintained or half dead, with the usual generic excuse being "we are ANSI specified, libraries twenty years ago will work perfectly fine".

HN is an echo chamber for the greatness of Lisp where every commenter would worship at its church before going back to coding JS/Python/Java on Monday.

ampdepolymerase··on Arm Announces Armv9 Architecture: SVE2, Security, and the Next Decade
ARM was founded as an Apple joint venture. Their relationship is probably special.
ampdepolymerase··on Wenyan‑Lang (文言): Programming Language for the Ancient Chinese
It's called APL.

One of the modern incarnations is called K and is used in some Wall Street shops:

http://nsl.com

ampdepolymerase··on How U.S. media lost the trust of the public
Perhaps it is time to actually start paying for news, like Bloomberg and the finance industry.
ampdepolymerase··on New 5G protocol vulnerabilities allow location tracking
That is correct. It is the same reason why fax machines are considered secure transmission for medical data. National infrastructure is harder to compromise at scale compared to internet channels.
ampdepolymerase··on The plan in the 1960s to blast a canal through Israel using 520 nuclear bombs
And I was downvoted yesterday for even daring to suggest the idea of using nukes.
ampdepolymerase··on Ohm – A library and language for building parsers, interpreters, compilers, etc.
Even better would be to generate parser from examples. See the Microsoft Research Excel Flash Fill paper.
ampdepolymerase··on An ancient method that keeps Afghanistan's grapes fresh all winter
How do you stick it back on to the vine?
ampdepolymerase··on Is that ship still stuck?
Had rockets not been so regulated, this problem could have easily been solved. It would not be cheap but with a 150million insurance budget it is doable. Egypt is losing 400million in trade every hour. The ship weighs 200 000 tons. You only need to drag it out of the sand, not bring it to LEO. Another option would be a lot of shaped charges but the side effects are much more catastrophic if things go wrong. In the olden days, they would just use nuclear (See project Plowshare for the Panama Canal).

Before you downvote, do the math.

ampdepolymerase··on CoScreen: Screen Sharing for Engineers
What is your opinion on https://screen.so? They are made by your ex-colleagues.
ampdepolymerase··on Comparing Svelte and React
In terms of influence on society, the New York Times is just as pernicious as any of the FAANGs.
ampdepolymerase··on Comparing Svelte and React
Re 1) Where should you put the code to initialize the SDK? Code that ideally should only be ran once in the entire lifecycle of the page.

For Firebase, will ES modules help with code splitting? The new Svelte kit framework is built by Vite (runs on ES build underneath).

ampdepolymerase··on Show HN: Bangle.dev – Collection of tools for building rich text editors
How easy is integration between the two frameworks?
ampdepolymerase··on CourseMaker – Interactive Course Builder for Programming Courses
There is also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26464998
ampdepolymerase··on Show HN: Bangle.dev – Collection of tools for building rich text editors
How does it compare to https://github.com/remirror/remirror?
ampdepolymerase··on The Most Important Scarce Resource Is Legitimacy
The software engineer finally understands political science. I would ask you for your opinions on certain issues but unfortunately they are but unsolvable with technical solutions.
ampdepolymerase··on SvelteKit Is in Public Beta
https://sveltematerialui.com/
ampdepolymerase··on Show HN: PyWebIO – Write interactive web app in script way
Gradio does not use WebSockets for its interactivity. The UI will be slower than the others.
ampdepolymerase··on How Safe Is Zig?
It is optional in the sense that D's GC is also optional. Technically true but you have to go out of the way to make it work for you, average libraries off the shelf cannot be easily utilized.
ampdepolymerase··on Flatpak – a security nightmare – 2 years later (2020)
What is the security story for Snap and AppImage?
ampdepolymerase··on The Transformer Network for the Traveling Salesman Problem
You can build an analogue simulator for TSP by exploiting the properties of the path integral.
ampdepolymerase··on My self-study plan for electrical engineering
OP has a formal background in applied mathematics and is an experienced software engineer, I don't think he will have any problems with generalization.
ampdepolymerase··on Differential Datalog
Building it from source looks tricky but the concepts are quite interesting.
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