Sha256 is a hashing algorithm. Not a public/private key algorithm.

“in 20 years” doesn’t get as much hype as “in 3 months”

Maybe if they said “in 3 months” instead we would’ve actually have had it in 20 years. Seeing how much ai attracts money with these obviously unbelievable promises.

From the makers of “fusion energy in 20 years”, “full self driving next year” and “AI will take your job in 3 months” cones “all code will be AI in 6 months”.

Trust me, it’s for real this time. The new healthcare system is 2 weeks away.

EDIT: how could I forget “graphene is going to come out of the lab soon and we’ll have transparent flexible screens that consume 0 electricity” and “researches find new battery technology that has twice the capacity as lithium”

It was years ago. So I don’t remember what exactly the problem was.

I believe ocaml has a shell interpreter and a compiler right? I managed to get the shell interpreter to work, but I couldn’t get one of these to work:

• Compiler
• LSP

The reason I prefer windows is because things just work. But it was a frustration with ocaml. Meanwhile rust was a single command for the compiler, and a single extension install for the LSP.

Rust is not fully functional. But I am legally obligated to recommend it any time I can.

Jokes aside, this doesn’t apply to you, since you seem to actively learn functional programming. But for people that are scared of it, rust looks like “normal” languages, but has tons of features that can be attributed to functional programming. Even more so if you avoid using references. You can easily “mutate” objects the functional way, by passing the object to the function, and the function creates a new object with just some value changed.

It has algebraic data types. Function pointers. Iterators. Pattern-based match statements. Don’t have class inheritance. Inmutable by default. Recursion. Monads. And probably other FP features that I’m missing.

It has basically every functional feature while having familiar syntax.

It’s also extremely easy to install. Which I didn’t use to appreciate, but then I tried to learn OCaml and had to give up because I couldn’t set up a proper dev environment on windows.

1. Why vs code web and not desktop vscode?
2. At least on the desktop version, there’s a “><” (with the “>” being higher) looking icon in the lower left corner. Click that to open remote sessions.

I don’t know if vs code web can do remote sessions. So the button might not be there

Historically speaking, that will just make the next leader give many powers to the military in order to “bring peace” so whatever happened to the last one doesn’t happen to him.

As an analogy, just like dragging a 1000kg at 1m/s is not the same experience as dragging a 10g sphere at 1m/s. The same thing happened “something moved at 1 m/s”, yet they were very distinct experiences.

That being said, Occam’s razor applies here. If it’s the same brain activity, it probably results in the same experience.

But there’s still room for doubt. Since brains don’t all have the exact same amount of neurons arranged in the exact same way. And their chemical composition might be slightly different. They also change with age.

I don’t think science can prove definitely that a slightly different brain structure won’t result in a different perception of color. Just like it can’t prove/disprove the existence of god. Some questions are just unsolvable. But science can get far enough so we say “this is probably true/false”

In these situations, governments treat things like “Whatsapp” or “telegram” as social media.

They don’t ban social media so tech corps don’t fuck their population. They ban social media so their population can’t organize against them.

I’m no biologist. It’s very possible it’s an incomplete definition, and I don’t claim it to be a perfect one.

I guess if we apply my definition to mules, each mule would be a different species lol.

The horses one is a non-issue though. It doesn’t matter that they can create offspring of different species. Since 2 horses can potentially create a horse, then the horses are of the same species.

And yes, my definition works only for sexual reproduction, since as seen by this article, asexual reproduction can get very complicated.

I wouldn’t say it’s outdated and mainly for children. Just like Newtonian physics are very useful if we use it correctly. Having simple models that work in the situations we encounter most is useful even for adults.

Idk the biological definition for species.

In my personal one, 2 beings are of the same species if they can reproduce and have their offspring be of the same species. Which means the offspring could theoretically breed with its parents.

Under this definition, a being can belong to multiple species.

So if A is the parent of B, and B the parent of C (because of evolution):

If B is similar enough to both A and C. But C is different enough from A, then B would be of both species A and C, like an intermediate between both species.

Migrant to me is the more accurate word.

Migration can be seen from 2 viewpoints, “emigration” and “immigration”. Depending if you are looking from the country of origin or the destination.

However, in this headline neither the origin nor the destination is mentioned, therefore it doesn’t make sense from either point of view. Therefore the viewpoint-agnostic “migrant” makes more sense to me.

PowerShell. You can get it for both windows and Linux. And it actually works with all Ctrl+shift+arrow combinations.

It also needs like 30 minutes to load a single comment of a PR.

If I wasn’t forced by my job. I would stay as far away as possible from bitbycket.

I haven’t done the experiment, I’m curious to know if you can take a random binary compiled for Linux 10 years ago run on the latest version of popular distros. See in which ones it runs.

Non profits do have corporate leeches too. The executives at Mozilla have executive salaries. That is, hundreds of thousands, or millions.

They don’t work out of the goodness of their hearts. And Mozilla has to find a way to earn the income to pay their bloated salaries.

I learned python with it back in the day. However, since then, python 3 has come out. And I believe their python 3 course is paid instead of free.

You can go through one of their free courses. If you like it, go for a paid one, if you don’t, search for other resources.

It is not propaganda as it is factual information. If you believe this is 4D chess from Google to manipulate us to dislike Firefox you are out of your mind. https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e this is an actual commit made by mozilla. It was not made by Google.

Changes include:

• Removing “we don’t sell access to your data”. Curiously this change is only for the TOU. Presumable because that is legally binding. Idk where the “else” branch is displayed though.
• Removing this question from FAQ: “Does Firefox sell your personal data? Nope. Never has, never will (…). That’s a promise”
• Remove another mention in the TOU “and we don’t sell your personal data”. That again was not removed from the “else” branch

That to me indicates one of the following:

• They have started selling data.
• They plan on selling data in the near future.
• They don’t feel confident that they can keep that promise forever. That is, they see a future where they sell data.

I don’t like either of those alternatives.

I don’t know if they are able to sell the data you mentioned. Because I’m not in the enshittification minds of giant American corporations. 20 years ago people would laugh at the idea of buying data about the screen size of a user. But now they do, and use it for fingerprinting. If recent history has shown anything is that most data has some kind of value. And giant corporations will find their way to use that data against users.

I’ve seen way too many companies that were supposed to be the cool kids and were doing everything morally enshittify. There’s no reason to believe Mozilla is going to be different. They’re showing the same signs.

You probably missed the news. But Firefox is becoming a data seller too.

Recently they updated their policies, since they are on GitHub you can see the exact changes.

One of them was the elimination of a phrase like “we won’t sell your data, and that’s a promise”. So promise broken I guess.

It is not. App X creates image A with location data.

App Y without location permission accesses image A in read mode. Now image A has no location.

You open image A again from app X and the location is no longer there. It makes no sense. Had app Y written to image A, it makes sense that location data was stripped. But opening a file in read mode should not alter it. Except for metadata of the kind “last opened at …”.