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dimatoron Debian Packages That Need Lovin'

What do you recommend for learning that stuff?

The idea that this document counts as a "elm roadmap" explains all you need to know about the future of elm.

On any elm discussion board, you'll find people clamoring for updates, trying to tease out what the language's founder is up to... and this is the result of that, a document that can be summarized as "I'm experimenting with some stuff, stay tuned." Is it any wonder that this leads to anxiety among would-be adopters?

Elm's pluses are:

  * elegant language, and fairly fast
  * it's got an active community on discord
  * it's got a huge stable of packages (https://korban.net/elm/catalog/)

Is that enough for pet projects? Yes, and there are plenty of people hacking and having fun and being productive. But there are serious questions for anything besides pet projects: Where is the language going? Who is stewarding it, and what are their goals? Why must all packages restricted to package.elm-lang.org (https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/why-im-leaving-elm/#techn...)? Why do first-party elm packages get to use an escape hatch to javascript, but other packages cannot (https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/why-im-leaving-elm/#fairn...)? These have been brought up here before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22821447

dimatoron Ask HN: Why aren't you coding?

My shoulder, shoulder blade, and elbow hurt. Overworked and under exercised. :-/

dimatoron Ask HN: Why aren't you coding?

Don't beat yourself up. This is a video I come back to all the time for inspiration. It's probably the most important youtube video I've seen. I'm hoping it resonates with where you're at.

https://youtu.be/N4IfPtl3W_M

dimatoron CA law protects independent side projects, even if your employer says otherwise

Has that clause ever been actually tested in court? I can't think of any cases where one of the big companies went after moonlighting.

dimatoron Email from Jeff Bezos to employees

I think gp means that bezos would not be a mega billionaire without aws. He would be like any other nameless CEO in the public's knowledge.

dimatoron The Battle of GameStop

That video was a great explanation, thank you

dimatoron Tree – a lib for working with nested data structures, open-sourced by deepmind

You're right, this is likely to require an explicit load in the future, iirc. As for now, the py_* rules are so common that they are implicit. Loading replacement py_* rules overrides the built-in.

dimatoron Novichok Nerve Agent Poisoning

I'm amazed at the amateur nature of the guy on that call. If he's GRU/FSB trained, why would he trust a caller ID from base, and nothing else? Surely there's better opsec than this.

dimatoron Retiring Tucows Downloads

Well, in this way, the internet is just like real life. How many stores in your hometown have lasted 20, 30 years? It's hard and it sucks losing them, even though they might not be part of your life anymore. They were touchstones to someone's past.

My favorite little bookstore was called Readmore, it's been gone for 20 years, but every time I see the GNC in it's old location, I still get nostalgic. Part of life I guess.

dimatoron Anthony Levandowski Pardoned

According to the unsealed indictment, bannon received $1m through a non-profit, which he used to transfer to pay for unrelated shit using fake invoices.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1306611...

dimatoron DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

I must be in the minority here, but even after trying ddg exclusively, I find myself doing !g all the time, to the point where I just switched back.

I do many technical searches throughout the day, and ddg falls short basically every time. Google is always closer to the mark with my search intent, with for example, deep links to stack overflow answers that ddg misses.

dimatoron DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

Along these lines, why doesn't google introduce a paid search service without ads? My hunch is that no matter the price point, it would be a huge revenue hit compared to actual advertising payments.

My other hunch is that it would make the non ad-free experience greatly cheapened in the eyes of the consumer, in the same way youtube with ads feels different after experiencing youtube premium.

dimatoron India’s “plantain man” has traveled widely to collect unusual banana varieties

I don't know if you've heard of these guys:

https://miamifruit.org/collections/banana-pre-orders

Depending on the import laws in your state, you can get some really rare tropical fruits.

dimatoron This Community is Available in the App

There's also teddit.net, a reddit mirror that uses the reddit API to present a light weight skin. It is a bit too slow for me, and the features are pretty lacking. I don't think a spartan "no javascript" take is what's needed to cure the garbage that is full reddit web experience. Still it's a good first attempt.

I'm hoping someone will come along and create a lean, mean, yet functional semantic reddit web frontend.... That is, before reddit kills their API.

dimatoron The CPUs of Spacecraft Computers in Space

My understanding is that certification is the bottle neck, in both time and cost. No one wants to spend the money or time to flight certify something new when something already battle tested will suffice.

But your comment makes me wonder if the private sector doesn't have those certification requirements?

The other differentiating factor is that the private sector is not sending multi-year (indeed multi-decade) deep space missions, where the need for battle tested systems is paramount.

dimatoron States bring action against Google under federal and state antitrust laws [pdf]

I don't understand your comment. Did the SCOTUS not read the whole thing before passing on it?

dimatoron SuperRT – Realtime Raytracing on the SNES

This is the "growth mindset" interpretation, and it's really a super power if you believe it.

dimatoron John le Carré has died

I came to speak highly of the 2011 film. I remember rushing to read the book before the film. The cast was just perfectly chosen, Oldman makes a perfect Smiley. The pacing and the intrigue are just palpably juicy. It's been an annual watch for me, luckily Netflix still stocks it.

dimatoron YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

https://www.opb.org/article/2020/10/15/trump-rally-portland-...

Spoken at a rally.

dimatoron AirPods Max

Ya that's a fair point, but the flip side is that there are people in the comments ready to preorder, also without having tried the product. There's something cringy to me about that level of blind brand loyalty.

dimatoron AirPods Max

I thought GP's summary was pretty accurate. I think yours is grasping to make GP sound elitist.

dimatoron Cashew of Pirangi

Is this a different type of organism than Pando (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree) )? Pando is a "clonal colony" whereas Pirangi is actually a single tree?

dimatoron Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

If they could find a way to mirror v.reddit.com videos (using an alternate host, like streamable or whatnot) that would really be a welcome addition.

Also, for now it seems you can't log in to your reddit account (maybe that's by design), which means you have to bookmark your subs using e.g. teddit.net/r/videos+haskell+woodworking which honestly is not that bad.

dimatoron Noted A.I. Ethicist Timnit Gebru Let Go from Google Following Email Exchange

Ya, medium is slow and bloated without significant uBlock tweaks. Turning off web fonts is also good.

dimatoron Metal Monolith in Utah Gone

https://www.instagram.com/p/CIBf7YuALr3/ works fine in firefox focus for me.

dimatoron Governors take heat for violating their own coronavirus restrictions

I was really disappointed in Newsom going to that dinner. I don't understand how no one pointed out the optics to him beforehand. The fact that it was a lobbyists birthday is even worse. There will definitely be attack ads around this next cycle, that's for certain.

And aside from politics, his bad example will definitely influence people who were on the fence about Thanksgiving gatherings. A human toll, for such a frivolous action.

dimatoron Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send telemetry and preload ads

I've been in love with the concept of spreadsheets for as long as i can remember :)

I use them all the time for tracking expenses, tracking information for myself, creating forms and responses, etc.

dimatoron What Should Be Done About Social Media?

I don't think so, section 230 is only about the platform being on the legal hook for something that's posted.

dimatoron Airbnb S-1

> Aand lastly, Airbnb decided to just void a 500$ giftcard that I got in 2018 and I tried to use early 2020 and they said it was invalid, I just lost the money.

If this was in California, gift cards cannot expire (with some exceptions). You might have a recourse there.

https://www.dca.ca.gov/publications/legal_guides/s_11.shtml