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Request to HN mods: that the link be changed from https://www.ponylang.io/discover/ to https://www.ponylang.io/ On the second link, as another commenter mentions, the "Try it in yo…

And the Snowden revelations happened, which programmers and sysadmins and etc saw, and then... continued as before, in the large majority of cases. It'd be baffling, if it wasn't s…

I worked with a fellow who didn't believe me that the shift key upper-cased letters. The slippery slope continues sliding ever downwards.

https://matrix.org/blog/2021/07/21/germany-s-national-health... tl;dr is that the French and German governments are really ahead of the curve then

Hmm. Are you aware that I was responding to this comment? > Why do people use obvious spyware when free software exists? So, even though the poster was referring to ByteDance when …

> I read what you wrote I never said you didn't. I said that you were misreading me. We could speculate as to what could have caused such a poor reading of such a simple point, but…

Yes, why do people use products from Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, ...

Or you could say they are "tilting at windmills".

I'd be a very interested admirer, if not user, of such a project. I'm playing with J this past week, and otherwise have a couple of CL books under my belt. No other real experience…

I chuckled at "recovering sexp addict". What possible risk is there in over-indulging in sexp?! I simply don't see it. Speaking of unconventional lisps, I enjoyed this recently: ht…

I suspect you might be observing two correlates and picking one as the cause of the other in a way that is ahistorical. Specifically, it seems to me that colleges becoming more voc…

See my reply in the other thread, where I dutifully elaborate.

I am not a scientist, and was primarily having a laugh with my comment. That said, I do know that the type of person who likes configuring things very in-depth can set up intricate…

I agree, the deporting of citizens is much worse in real terms. They're both fundamentally anti-democratic, is what I meant. In both cases, the political / business class controlli…

If "centrist liberal" means being critical of all authoritarianism, from Obama to Trump, where would the democrats lie in this political balance? I ask sincerely here. That would b…

Reading Barrett Brown's "My Glorious Defeats" at the moment, being reminded of that time Anonymous went after Visa, Mastercard, and others, in retaliation for them blocking payment…

Emacs is the only truly next-generation data science IDE, and the last-generation one too. (Hiding behind my couch after writing that)

Writing advice from some pleb with the English comprehension ability of a garden gate, who probably wrote a story about his pet dog to scrape a pass in his O-levels - truly, our ci…

Is there a repo or page somewhere listing the mini-est stuff? Very cool here!

You mean a kind of "Spectres of Marx", Jacques Derrida, 1993, hauntology type thing?

Yeah, seriously, what is this about? Dang, etc? Anyone?

The word for this, we learned recently, is "LLM inevitabilism". It's often argued for far more convincingly than your attempt here, too. The future is here, and even if you don't l…

Nice post. I hadn't noticed the "subtle suggestions" of donations myself, to be honest, but maybe I hadn't browsed around their pages enough. Anyway, if they do mention it, is it n…

Started learning Standard Chinese this past week, and came across this really amazing dictionary. I was charmed and amused to see this at the top of their home page: "Our servers h…