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Because nuclear plants can replace coal plants. Replacing a bad thing with a less bad thing is a good thing.

ditching capital letters instead of punctuation would get rid of more redundant characters.

Early 1800s: "Then why is slavery still legal in England et al?" Right now: "Then why is gay marriage illegal in Japan et al?" Etc. Your point has nothing to do with the drug war i…

I am currently facing the grim possibility of a patent with my name on it for a system that's basically a poor imitation of decades-old technology. (But it works great with our oth…

Thanks for the clarification. I'm certainly not claiming that people who avoid the project are somehow "less important" as a result of their decision. And I wouldn't doubt that it'…

I'm not sure where you're getting this. The system is explicitly designed such that the author can not ultimately shape the network into whatever he wants. The only real control st…

How so? Sharing arbitrary objects via memory requires some form of coordinated memory management. So you still need a process-wide GC, meaning you're probably stuck with that 30% h…

Ah. So basically this[1]? [1]: https://gist.github.com/djspiewak/3a6ff436865d9e5794e4 I mean, I guess you're technically correct: If nothing else, the impact of his views on the pr…

Well, if you define "comfortable tolerating his garbage" as "contributes to Urbit despite it being Yarvin's project", then tautological assertion is tautological. There is certainl…

Rust disallows mutation of multiply-referenced data, which prevents things like iterator invalidation and data races.

Speaking as someone who's been following the project for a few years and once actually bothered to learn Hoon, your first paragraph is probably the best criticism of Urbit I've see…

I don't think Hoon's type system actually has a typeclass analogue. As far as I could tell, what it has is something like generics, but in a world where everything is ultimately a …

Library gap aside, Lisp has an FFI. If you want to use libpng from Lisp, you just make some C calls. If you want to use libpng from Hoon, you first have to re-implement the functio…

Greg Egan's Permutation City plays some novel games with reality.

Same here. It's why I prefer to line-split conditionals in C-like languages like this: if (condition0 && condition1 && condition2) rather than the usual "trailing operator" style. …

I quite consciously use "I feel like" to mark lowish confidence statements based primarily on fuzzy intuition or perception ("I feel like it's less work to move my eyes from side t…

Looks like it is (was?) targeting roughly the same space as Julia.

I haven't read the book, but from what I gather[1], the explanations were not all good. Getting to and from Miller's world should have required absurd amounts of energy. But as ext…

> Unlike many other languages, Ela doesn't make any trade-offs, trying to combine distinct programming paradigms that don't fit well together. The author may want to tone down that…

DTDs mercifully aside, there's this: http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/SXML.html I'm not sure what example in this thread you consider to be throwing information away - in a case like wh…

Intuitively, the reason why it balances out is that while earlier items are more likely to be picked, they're also more likely to get kicked out after being picked.

> Have you never had a sporting debate with a friend who's opinion you knew full well going in? Huh? You mean have I argued with a friend about a belief of theirs I was aware of ah…

> The point of good argument isn't to convince the other party they are woefully wrong and everyone should just eventually come to the same conclusion. Applied to both parties in t…

Good point, how about grep -f - 10-million-combos.txt ^D^D

> C is great for systems and some application programming, C++ is rubbish This is a bizarre claim. C++ has its problems, but the fact that it allows zero-overhead abstractions over…