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abiox | 7 years ago | on: Data Structures Reference

> it's a tactic, not a personality trait

that seems like a false dichotomy. you behave as cruel and abusive as you do because it's within you to behave that way.

abiox | 7 years ago | on: React from zero: a simple tutorial for React

sadly we aren't all as smart and worthy as you are, and don't have a decade old react-like hanging around. some of us even prefer the idea of using an open source library for the various benefits of doing so.

abiox | 7 years ago | on: React from zero: a simple tutorial for React

> So maybe it's not the language, but the person using it

oh. it would seem this is more about you feeling impressed with yourself, rather than making substantive arguments.

abiox | 7 years ago | on: State of Multicore OCaml [pdf]

i wish there was something like `jbuilder new`, but alas. my current impression is that everything in ocaml-land wants you to spend time writing cryptic configuration files and inventing bespoke project structures.

abiox | 7 years ago | on: Anti-If: The missing patterns (2016)

imho, a get() from cache when you already have the value seems like an unnecessary waste of cycles and network traffic.

plus this arrangement would seem vulnerable to a pathological case where you found the V from the db, but have a full/failed/partitioned cache and end up faulting or otherwise not returning the V.

abiox | 7 years ago | on: The Neuroscience of Pain

> That is a funny question. It is like asking: what is the evolutionary advantage of a broken leg?

i'm unconvinced... a broken leg isn't a normal biological function, while (afaik) pain is an entirely internal process that is a 'response' mechanism.

> Sometimes things go wrong and the result is pain. There is no purpose to it; it just happened. Not everything has an evolutionary purpose.

the ostensible purpose of 'some' pain is to cause you to stop or avoid doing something damaging, or being aware of a need to seek remedy. for those few people who don't feel any physical pain (congenital analgesia)... life is actually more dangerous.

when it comes to incapacitating levels of pain, things seem to get murky. there is some arguable benefit to adopting a protective posture (covering a wound, adopting a fetal position, etc) to mitigate further harm... but it seems these same behaviors can also increase risk of harm as well, especially when it comes to pain causing reduced situational awareness and other reasoning impairments.

abiox | 7 years ago | on: How SQL Database Engines Work, by the Creator of SQLite (2008) [video]

is english a second language for you? 'orthogonal' is frequently used to indicate two things are not directly related or dependent.

> You folks should read the urban meaning of orthogonal

nope, nope, nope. that site's a hive of scum and villainy, and a massive number of entries are just random nonsense.

i'd rather go to wiktionary[0], which includes:

"Of two or more problems or subjects, independent of or irrelevant to each other."

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orthogonal

abiox | 7 years ago | on: Filezilla installer is suspicious again

> I did, you asked for alternatives, I gave you Rsync and SCP.

afaict, they asked about the impact to the linux build of filezilla (not about alternatives).

are rsync and scp strict supersets of filezilla's features?

abiox | 7 years ago | on: New Charges in Huge C.I.A. Breach Known as Vault 7

they have their moments. they all tend to be good at cheerleading war, for example. msnbc fired phil donohue for being against the iraq war. last election, the washington post (in)famously ran a glut of anti-sanders material in a short time span (16 articles in 16 hours, i believe it was).
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