Firadeoclus

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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
> The effect is clearly larger for women I don't think it's that simple, given that their data show both the share of posts posted and shown as lower for women. And there has to be a non-linear effect from increasing the share
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
> The hidden assumption you make is discussed as the Preference Satisfaction Thesis in the philosophy of welfare economics, it's the idea that people (subjectively) prefer what is best for them. The hidden assumption in that framing
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
You could solve that problem with a system which mandated that structured data always come with a reference to a schema. (And where files as blobs disconnected from everything else only exist as an edge case for compatibility with other sys
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
This is certainly interesting research, and as an artist I think I'd be hugely frustrated by the amount of non-local change which seems to happen in the video. A fair number of small pen strokes seem to affect a large part of the gener
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
> No, the moment you embedd the discoverabilty of GUI it stops being a CLI. TUI exist, and they do offer the same elements as GUI, just with less flexibility because text and so. But TUI serves a different purpose. You can't automat
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
Visual tools often involve direct manipulation via pointing and dragging. This doesn't have to be the only mode of interaction. It is entirely possible, probably highly desirable, to have visual tools which can be 100% keyboard driven.
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
Code as text can be taken as a subset at one extreme end of the continuum of visual programming. And if you take it that way it would seem to be always possible to find a more dense representation than, say, 11pt monospaced text.
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
You could do that in pretty much the same way, i.e. you create a visual regex. The one difference is that regexes simply match characters, no matter the structure of the code, whereas in a visual language you'd make a distinction betwe
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
> It just makes the jobs below that floor go away. No, it doesn't _just_ do that. It also makes the jobs that are viable above that floor pay at least that floor.
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
> and they are worse than internal combustion engine cars in that regard. Regenerative braking means less wear on the brakes, and there's no particulate matter from the exhaust pipe. In what way are electric cars worse?
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
As someone who has been writing hand-optimised GPU code for a while now, I'd argue that this high level view (and thus an appropriate functional high-level language) can get you reasonably decent performance on a GPU for little effort
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
A lot of people, me included, would argue that the state, as inefficient as it is, is doing much better than private charity would, and has historically done. Also, "we have an idea that could in theory replace them" is not the sa
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
Trying and not succeeding to keep the language simple. As evidenced by the sibling comment by pjc50. Fixed point numbers are at least as approachable as floating point numbers in my opinion.
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
The cooler your kitchen is to begin with, the less heat the fridge needs to dump.
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
It strikes me as odd to describe an 8.8 fixed point representation as "a kind of a float". That said, those demos are truly impressive.
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
Unless you are arguing that taxation per se is unjust (which I'd disagree with), I don't see how you can argue that a UBI is wrong in principle, seeing that taxation of work is not the only way to finance a UBI. Private property t
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
The only way? No, as evidenced by the status quo. Neither does getting money without labour mean that a UBI is wrong in principle.
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by Firadeoclus 6y ago
An alternative take: It is wrong to deprive people of the means of subsistence by privatising the commons and offering no alternative. In that context, a UBI isn't just a support mechanism.
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by Firadeoclus 7y ago
Fear of gouging causes (some, whether sensible or not) people to hoard at the first sign of trouble.
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by Firadeoclus 7y ago
You don't need to be "employable in the field" to be an amateur programmer. And plenty of people learn to program in their spare time to a level where they would be employable. Often while they're still in school.
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by Firadeoclus 7y ago
Luckily, material with a million-year half-life would be barely radioactive. And what's the alternative? To assume that every barrier in existence we can't explain is important and must therefore be maintained forever?
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by Firadeoclus 7y ago
Indeed, what is possible to do in a private or moderated/curated web is quite different from the limits of an open web.
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by Firadeoclus 7y ago
> Finding all callers is the hard part though! Only because we made it hard by storing code in files instead of a database.
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by Firadeoclus 7y ago
If that's true it's a trade-off which may or may not be worth it. It's not inherently bad or unacceptable. Many other skills require a period of re-learning after a five year gap. Where do you believe K sits on the scale of r
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by Firadeoclus 7y ago
> Overly-concise code being difficult to maintain is a well-accepted fact. Many seasoned APL/J/K programmers state that conciseness is an asset. I would trust their judgment on that. There are ways in which that and the quoted
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by Firadeoclus 7y ago
Where I live, the guidance is actually that plastic bags are ok (yes, non-biodegradable ones). Given that there is bound to be a certain amount of contamination, including things that are harder to break down than the process allows, I woul
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by Firadeoclus 7y ago
I think it's the other way round: If someone like Knuth can deal with levels of complexity others can't then he should work on highly complex problems. Others are perfectly capable of writing tools that "do one thing well&quo
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by Firadeoclus 7y ago
Thanks for the link. Yes, I've seen other idiom libraries as well, and what I'd like to see is automatic lookup of those idioms, with a name, and optional further breakdown.
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by Firadeoclus 7y ago
Indeed, as someone who's learning a bit of APL on the side I'd love to have a tool that can "explain" a line of APL on demand, e.g. show the parse tree, name built-in functions and operators, expand trains, possibly name
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by Firadeoclus 7y ago
A variable can be a substitute for a longer expression for which a name/description is unnecessary because the expression itself is self-explanatory. The substitution with a (essentially meaningless) short name just makes repeated use

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