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This is a must read for you then if you don't understand the role C plays in modern operating systems: https://faultlore.com/blah/c-isnt-a-language/

Receiving the flowers is one thing. Then having a video shared about it is another thing. And even beyond that, the second can also affect the perception on the first: maybe you th…

In a local context, many kinds of "social networks" or spaces to share things with other people from the same area, specially related to art and culture. Also many local associatio…

But does it allow you to anonymously prove that you are a human? You don't want to go telling random websites who you are. No one says this can't be done. In fact, it's explicitly …

A user account, an email or a phone number do not uniquely identify a person or process, and it doesn't tell you whether it's actually a person or a process. Edit: "account" may no…

Hey, I've seen the project in the past and it's very interesting, and definitely an improvement over existing alternatives. That said, I have one complaint quite unrelated to tech …

Funny thought: then we may characterize a complex system as a system that's (most of the time) too big to fail all at once, and whose resilience to failure simply arises from conti…

And yet, at the same time, growth can't continue forever (unless you get into space colonization on artificial habitats and are able to develop that faster than population grows an…

This reminds me of people who always forget their keys. I always thought: "nah that doesn't happen to anyone", and then I discovered it happens to a lot of people. Different brains…

Golang is my favorite language, and I really like the approach that the team takes. A few days ago I shared here some interesting comments from Griesemer on Golang enums. But sure,…

Programming languages are lacking because they are too stuck in the "implementation plane" while trying to deal with lots of "system design" problems. Generics, traits, interfaces,…

Even when recognizing that there are a lot of bad actors in marketing, that's still an extremely over-optimistic perspective: at some point, tricking people becomes easier than imp…

>> Who does ultra-ephemerality benefit? It helps create a sense of community very quickly, and it helps keep it alive. Honestly, trying to judge Discord for its ability to structur…

My general complaint as a distinguished member of the leaky abstraction crowd is not that abstractions can be leaky, but rather that they are sold as if they weren't... with creato…

I don't have any strong opinion about it, but I have the same question: is it possible that in the long term the backend will be replaced by a custom one? And if not, what is the p…

Just adding to the discussion: I find this comment from Griesemer [0] on one of the github issues for enums in Golang quite insightful: >> [...] all the proposals on enums I've see…

There are many different criteria to decide where to put your code or how to group it. And each case benefits more from one idea or another (and each codebase contains many differe…

>> Why would I want to build blocks with the Block Protocol? >> Blocks built with the Block Protocol can easily pass data between applications because the data within each block is…

The problem is always the same: to do things right, you need people who know what they are doing. Redundantly . Yet, most of us don't know what we are doing, so in practice we end …

Quirky sites alleviate my disdain for humanity, somewhat. Thanks.

The right balance is "as much human customer service as people asks for". If your tech is good enough, lots of people will prefer it in most cases. And yet, there's people who will…

The set of natural numbers contains the prime numbers. The set of prime numbers doesn't contain the natural numbers, but every natural number > 1 can be generated/described as a pr…

I think it's about the fact that they are a mystery at the heart of maths. You can start describing maths from the unit, the addition and the negative sign. If you start combining …

Windows support?

In my experience, many musicians and artists in general are weird people. Art is often a way to try to express how we don't fit in the world, or an attempt to express that which we…