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    Comment #20516913

    They cannot compel you to divulge a password, but they can mandate a thumb unlock, just as while they cannot compel you to divulge a safe combination, they can mandate you give the…

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    Comment #20510147

    If every bordering country keeps people out, they're complicit in keeping them in.

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    Comment #20510131

    It's strongly possible the causality goes the other way.

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    Comment #20506481

    They didn't explode when we shook hands (/tentacles/general-graspy-bits)

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    If all software maintainers disappeared, which projects would you take over?

    If there were some apocalyptic event which left all software projects without any stewardship, what projects would you think to be most important to take over? How would you organi…

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    Comment #20486109

    This is more of a practical writeup on state machines than a theoretical one: http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/state.html You might also know these as flowcharts when applied to …

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    Comment #20474531

    That was the second part of my answer: a graph on paper. Draw nodes of execution and represent the branch as two arrows coming from the node and heading to new nodes. Label the arr…

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    Comment #20473102

    Indeed, I'd recommend the "interesting proof" vignettes by 3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkmNXy7er84&list=PLZHQObOWTQ... These are my favorite videos of his

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    Comment #20470988

    You don't need to know category theory. You just need to understand a few things that came from it, like `Maybe`, which is the most obviously useful and trivially easy monad. Just …

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    Comment #20470775

    I agree that that is the pragmatic approach given market constraints, but the market is not providing greater value in driving this hack-and-patch approach.

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    Comment #20422902

    The difference in those targets is that they're uncertain, and that that uncertainty compounds as you reach further into the future. I don't think the nanopass-in-reverse approach …

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    Comment #20402552

    The alternative is to do nothing and that will result in death and destruction. If the ability to harm the environment and other people is a freedom people are up in arms about los…