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Hard agree with the idea of greppability, but hard disagree about keeping names the same across boundaries. I think the benefit of having one symbol exist in only one domain (e.g. …

Aren't these effectively lab tests of robots that can navigate a home? [dancing] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw [cleaning clutter] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8-w…

Those all sound plausible! But... 1) I suspect GNU Make will be installed on any system where node code will run. 2) You don’t have to .PHONY anything that will never be a real fil…

Is there any design decision of Make that makes it not suitable for executing programs?

The `./make` shell script kills me. Why not just use Make?

Yeah, that tradeoff between generality and correctness really seems tyrannical. It kind of feels like the best trajectory is to start small with a general build system, and upgrade…

I am personally not convinced that any build system can be correct and general, but perhaps that’s my lack of experience speaking. On that 30 minute note though: so, how big does t…

How big does the project have to be in order for this system to have benefits over Make?

It sounds like the last point, about disobeying the rules when appropriate (my reading of it), was meant exactly to cover these corner cases.

Reminds me of Orwell’s Politics and the English Language: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel... .

Can this all be explained by the cost of labor being uniform (since humans are humans in all industries)? So if one industry demands more labor, all others will feel the rising pri…

This looks like the Post Correspondence Problem at first glance: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_correspondence_problem .

They inserted spaces though, between characters and words. In this problem, all spaces are removed.

You’re missing the huge “works incorrectly” space of outputs.

Facetious answer: Are there any good examples of projects using Parcel for a web app? ;) Real answer: probably, but a ton of production code is closed-source. But why restrict to w…

Make can run all the tools like babel, uglify, etc.

Just use Make. Takes just as long to learn, and is transferrable everywhere.

He’s called for some disciplines (e.g. women’s studies, anthropology) to be boycotted by students and ultimately removed.

I find objectionable his “slippery slope” argument about pronouns and his calls for silencing disciplines with which he disagrees.

Peterson said many other things that are objectionable. If he only said what Zhukov said, Peterson would also be in a more favourable light.

The one I often go for is: “What is the reason you’re not using sshd?” It implies that I understand there is a reason, that I don’t know the reason, and that I’m ready to be surpri…

1). It doesn’t work in all shells, so you have to think about your environment before you use it. 2). I often start with `bar 3). If I just want to delete all processing and look a…

How vast are the differences in expenses needed to live (due to climate or otherwise)?

The title says “GDP Per Capita, PPP”.

China is investing in Belarus. They build factories and infrastructure, likely to get easier access to the European markets.