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vesak··on AMD has no plans to release PSP code
Excuse my French but what a fucking surprise. Who ever thought they would? That's right, I did.

Hence I'm a bit pissed off right now. But even though I was dumb enough to believe, at least I was smart enough to wait for it, and did not waste my money.

vesak··on Airmen who surveil the Islamic State never get to look away
Fair point. It's still disconcerting because slippery slope and all that.

I'm actually totally for killing ISIS members in any way possible. I just think we oughta own up to what we're doing. We're killing people because they are evil. They are evil because of how we have actively handled governments et al in that area.

vesak··on Airmen who surveil the Islamic State never get to look away
So now again we're devising methods of killing people that make it easier for the killers. That's the same problem that the overseers of death camps faced and solved.
vesak··on Where Is Nokia Now?
Ruho = cadaver

Ruoho = grass

You were in Ruoholahti, although I suppose there's some irony in that typo.

vesak··on We’ll Never Know Whether Monorepos Are Better
Who cares about that? Which is better, vi or emacs?
vesak··on Increasing Rust’s Reach
>I could not care less about what is the colour of people writing it, their sexual orientations, or how well represented they all are. It may seem relevant to you but it certainly is not to me.

Well, you can certainly ignore all that and just use the language. Nothing forces you to do these things, they're just forcing themselves to do these things.

vesak··on Typing Nix
Docker images is one of the supported formats when exporting packages. Others at the moment are aci, mesos and tarball.
vesak··on Typing Nix
I'd like to bring up another sort-of alternative: http://habitat.sh

It's not exactly in the same space as Nix, but not very far from it, either. In Habitat, you use a language that felt to me quite similar to Arch Linux's PKGBUILDs, but extended with container-specific things like service ports etc. Habitat outputs containers that can be started in various orchestration technologies, like Kubernetes or Mesos/Marathon.

vesak··on Rust as a gateway drug to Haskell
I don't know Idris so this syntax is probably wrong, but by reading the docs for a short while, this would be

any : (a -> Bool) -> Lazy List a -> Bool

... which would make it as performant and clearer than Haskell's any, since the laziness is explicit.

Someone with actual Idris experience might tell if it actually would work like this :) I guess we'd have to make sure that the used or function is also lazy.

vesak··on Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon
Does reasoning ever work in marketing, though?
vesak··on Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon
As somebody who happily advocates Matrix[1], I'd be ecstatic if Slack would be bought by some giant and thus slowly made obsolete :)

[1] http://matrix.org

vesak··on Rust as a gateway drug to Haskell
> That place being the cool esoteric language that everybody fools around with on the weekends, but is almost never used seriously?

Indeed. Some people actually use Haskell, though. They even claim it's fun and productive, but having done so myself, I'm forced to be undecided on whether they're just suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.

vesak··on Rust as a gateway drug to Haskell
>And if it's not just a change in a default option, but the removal of laziness, we lose something, which will make the choice less obvious.

What would we exactly lose?

>As far as I can see, Idris is too much like Haskell to take its place. Porting thousands of libraries to a new language is a huge effort, so a huge advantage is required, which I don't see Idris offering.

That is true, though. Perhaps Rust is the safer bet, even if it lacks many nice things. The sum is probably quite a lot better still.

vesak··on Rust as a gateway drug to Haskell
I wonder if Idris could some day take Haskell's place. It sports default eager evaluation. Seems like the tooling (package managers etc.) isn't quite there yet, though.
vesak··on The future of education is plain text
Yes.
vesak··on The future of education is plain text
I recently wrote a book using Libreoffice and Microsoft Word, because the publisher demanded it.

The process took about a year. My own estimate is that we lost about 2-3 months to tool-related problems, without any benefit whatsoever. I have never in my 20 year career understood the point of word-processing tools, and never will.

And those tools make money. That is wrong.

vesak··on Microsoft leak reveals new Windows 10 Workstation edition for power users
In 2017, a piece of software is decidedly not for power users unless it's open source.
vesak··on What if the Bitcoin bubble bursts?
Sure, but how long do credit card transactions take?
vesak··on Electric Cars Soon Will Cost Less Than Gas Cars, Research Suggests
Priuses are pretty, I think. But perhaps you'd enjoy something like Hyundai Ioniq -- it's more traditional-looking.
vesak··on Hyundai Whistle-Blower, in Rarity for South Korea, Prompts Recall
Sure, I can do that :)

That article about GM says nothing about how the US public thinks about whistleblowing, does it? Could be wrong but I think they generally respect it.

vesak··on Hyundai Whistle-Blower, in Rarity for South Korea, Prompts Recall
>Kim Gwang-ho, an automotive engineer, did something last year that many South Koreans saw as an act of betrayal

Is this really the Korean mentality? It makes me wary of buying anything from that country if it is, let alone something expensive and potentially dangerous like a car.

vesak··on Hyundai Whistle-Blower, in Rarity for South Korea, Prompts Recall
I'd certainly just enjoy the salary without any sort of obligation to work for such scumbags anymore.
vesak··on TLS verification vulnerability in LibreSSL 2.5.1-2.5.3
Alpine could very well be the largest user of LibreSSL due to its popularity in Linux container circles.
vesak··on Atmospheric CO2 levels accelerate upwards
>Be constructive, be creative.

Ok, solution time. Let's immediately ban everyone who denies that climate change is human made from all positions of power. That implies stripping them of both titles and wealth.

vesak··on Ask HN: What are pros and cons of PostgreSQL and MySQL?
PostgreSQL will always be technically superior, and it is a single product.

MySQL is MySQL or MariaDB.

vesak··on Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: Officially supported i3 or equivalent

DESCRIPTION: i3 offers a vastly superior power-user usage experience, pretty much compared to anything else in the market. If Ubuntu would offer a properly configured/themed/integrated i3 desktop, I'd be happy to use it, because I've done enough pointless fine tuning for one lifetime. I'd be fine with some other tiling window manager too, as long as if it was at least as good as i3. I have doubts that this could be done properly with Unity, but I won't mind being surprised.

ROLE: Desktop Linux user since '96.

vesak··on Nissan driverless car guilty of “close pass” overtake of UK cyclist
You're right. But then again, let's consider how little time has passed, even if the progress has been very fast.

Anyone could have called themselves a doctor-analogue 100 years after the invention of "medicine", too.

vesak··on Nissan driverless car guilty of “close pass” overtake of UK cyclist
Well, sure, there's another point.

Programmers should have a similar guild/organization that medical doctors do, and people who abuse the ethics should be barred from practicing.

vesak··on Nissan driverless car guilty of “close pass” overtake of UK cyclist
This is perhaps the real risk of AI. In the first wave, the industry is dominated by a wish to make a great product. In the second wave, the bean counters walk in and start to optimize everything. And then we start getting the behavior from Fight Club.

I don't see any way out of this loop except for penalizing bad business behavior (on an individual level) heavily while protecting engineers who fight them.

vesak··on Why Ever Stop Playing Video Games
If I would play games for 90% of the time I currently spend on Reddit, Hacker News, Twitter, Facebook, etc, I'd be a better man. Happier and more effective.

I think I'll start doing exactly that.

http://www.hackernewsletter.com/

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