Daishiman

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by Daishiman 1mo ago
BTSelem's social media does fine, bot.
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by Daishiman 1mo ago
What argument? You know we can see in real time what Israeli government officials say and there’s daily real time streaming of settler terrorists stealing land every day.
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by Daishiman 1mo ago
A throwaway account made an hour ago to post Hasbara. At this point you make the point for me.
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by Daishiman 1mo ago
Some of us care a bit more about having historically relevant content be accessible. I care very little about the reverse engineering aspect.
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by Daishiman 1mo ago
There is something extremely twisted about making boycotts illegal. At any rate what's stopping the institutions from making other arguments about boycotts that only incidentally target Israel? For example, they have every argument to
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by Daishiman 1mo ago
Is that Al Gore's responsibility or is the Republican's responsibility of their policies being basically "anything that Democrats do is bad and therefore we oppose it"?
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by Daishiman 1mo ago
A lot of very effective democracies work better by making it so that one individual is does not have a disproportionately larger voice, so the idea that you can spend arbitrary amounts on speech just because it's speech doesn't re
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by Daishiman 1mo ago
This depends on the ad. Professional political analysts make it a job to understand whether they need to increase voter turnout, convince fence-sitting voters, etc, and shape ads that target those demographics. Low voter turnout is much mor
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by Daishiman 1mo ago
True in theory, in practice the quirks of Python can be understood in two days. As a user of both Javascript and Python for 20 years the Javascript quirks have no internal consistent logic that can be easily absorbed.
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by Daishiman 1mo ago
Neither countries had the availability of natural resources and pristine land the the US had.
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by Daishiman 1mo ago
The best talent in the world nowadays doesn't need to move to the US and works under just a small discount of American salaries, not big enough to justify whatever the US government is asking for and certainly not under the neo-fascist
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by Daishiman 1mo ago
Precisely the reason I would never invest in SpaceX is because Musk is pathological liar that's full of shit and their investors don't live on a world where stock pricing is based on fundamentals.
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by Daishiman 1mo ago
I googled it extensively way before this conversation and have researched it for a while. There's no economic sense to the size of the cooling arrays needed and the shielding involved and that's simple matter of how black-body rad
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by Daishiman 1mo ago
If you read it you'll realize that, very much like I said, the Python WTFs have to do with mechanisms that not obvious but are consistent . This is far better than Javascript, where the underlying mechanisms may be superficially obv
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by Daishiman 1mo ago
No, the JS WTFs have to do with language quirks that result in conditionally different behaviors. The Python WTFs have to do with underlying mechanisms that are not conditionally different, but the condition may not be "obvious".
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by Daishiman 1mo ago
Ruby namespaces force requiring everything and don't allow for relative imports among other features that are very important for larger software.
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by Daishiman 1mo ago
How is a language that has different semantics for referring to lambdas vs other functions consistent? Ruby's most important error is that it does not support namespaces. This by itself makes it a far less scalable language than Python
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by Daishiman 1mo ago
Spoken like someone who hasn't tried to get data scientists to use other languages productively, where they'll be missing half the libraries, will have to triple their dependency count because you can't count on large common
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by Daishiman 1mo ago
What you put as an example isn't a footgun if you know how the language evaluation rules work. Once you understand that the "footgun" explains a dozen behaviors, which may be a weird behavior but it is consistent.
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by Daishiman 1mo ago
I'm not sure what world you live in but I remember quite well when prototypical inheritance was The Way in JS to do object-oriented programming. Then they copied the C#/Java syntax for classes. Then they aded a bunch of reactivity
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by Daishiman 1mo ago
What's the surface area of radiators that this thing is going to need? The cost of compute in space is determined by the energy that must be gathered and dissipated. What about micrometeorites? There's nothing economically viable
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by Daishiman 1mo ago
No, microsatellites have been a thing long before SpaceX developed them. Maybe you don't understand physics, or can you explain exactly how SpaceX plans to deploy a solar array of sufficient size to power a data center with the neces
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by Daishiman 1mo ago
Having seen American institutions up close I’m sorry to say that if you subtract the people who have bought into the American dream you’ll find that it’s educational institutions are unremarkable.
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by Daishiman 1mo ago
Because unskilled work and a gigantic natural resource base was the basis for wealth of the 19th century but that doesn’t hold up anymore?
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by Daishiman 1mo ago
Not if you actually want to get the best talent in the world.
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by Daishiman 1mo ago
Nothing that the best materials scientist in the world can do will ever break the laws of thermodynamics so I’d say it’s much more likely that Elon is getting played like countless times evidenced by the many times he’s talked out of his as
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by Daishiman 1mo ago
This can't be denied but the reality is that the fossil fuel industry has done everything in its power to delay the transition to other forms of energy for the past 50 years with great success and to their benefit. What could have been
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by Daishiman 1mo ago
Because cheap fossil fuels's benefits will dissipate in two decades if we can move to green energy while the downsides project into whatever time remains of organized human civilization.
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by Daishiman 1mo ago
A lot of companies reasonably prefer to outsource software work that they don't deem part of their value-add or core competency for the same reason any other company outsources that kind of work. It may or may not be a cost reason (it
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by Daishiman 1mo ago
I continue to fail to see how this design solves the issues that can only be solved by breaking the laws of physics in cooling and shielding.

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