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by James_K 2y ago
I don't think this has much to do with intelligence. Imagine you were an interviewer, and you had two candidates. One passes the test using a well put together orthodox solution, and the other does so using an unorthodox one. Which wou
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by James_K 2y ago
Close, it's what you might call a "job" where someone pays you to do what they say.
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by James_K 2y ago
It's meant to be a test of creativity. You will while programming encounter limitations, so the interview tests your ability to handle that. Any limitation in the interview will be artificial because it's a test rather than an act
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by James_K 2y ago
> We can't do it because people won't do it. This logic is at the root of almost everyone who has been complicit in evil through history. It would once have been said about the abolition of slavery, gay rights, etc. It is a laz
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by James_K 2y ago
Poppycock. I could make the exact inverse argument. Perhaps animals being easy to access in a city makes people care less about them. "Who cares if it goes extinct in the wild, I can still see it at the zoo." Without any kind of p
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by James_K 2y ago
Yes, we could do that, but what would be the benefit? I'm saying that whether we want nature conserved and whether we want them to be in cages for us to look at are entirely separate issues that should be evaluated separately. The best
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by James_K 2y ago
The implication here is that it would be impossible to fund conservation without zoos. As a counter argument: we could just do it. Increase taxes by the amount people spend in zoos and spend that on conservation. The only argument in favour
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by James_K 2y ago
False dichotomy. If we wanted to, we could do both preservation and not lock them up.
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by James_K 2y ago
Zoos are really quite cruel.
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by James_K 2y ago
I find this idea to be honestly laughable, especially from an American. What's really happening here is pretty simple. You have a guy whose maybe an average amount bigoted, a little but not much. He spends years voting for the Democrat
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by James_K 2y ago
Thanks, a very good read. Made me chuckle a lot. I've always found Paul's obsession with being a "hacker" rather annoying.
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by James_K 2y ago
It's interesting to see how tech bros are slowly sliding to the right. The first thing I ever read from Paul was his thing about lisp, and I almost instantly disliked him. There is an intense ego that radiates from his ilk. You see a s
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by James_K 2y ago
What exactly is the current single market for services lacking? https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/single-market/ser... They seem to have a lot of bases covered.
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by James_K 2y ago
Market fragmentation is a measurable phenomenon, as far as a language goes. The language barrier is just the cost of a translator. Is that cost prohibitively high in Europe? I hear a lot of explanations of why Europe has fewer tech companie
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by James_K 2y ago
You should understand that the American situation is, in fact, much worse than ours in many ways. For instance, the average American pays a 40% tax rate compared to our 25% once you account for healthcare.
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by James_K 2y ago
Putting more layers of privatisation between the government and the service it provides will decrease the quality and increase the costs. Sewage is now in our rivers and we pay more for water. Trains are obscenely expensive compared to Euro
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by James_K 2y ago
I think "capital" is the wrong word for it. We've got a lot of money lying around, but capital implies something productive can be done with it. We can't eat money, and we can't tax it or else they'll screw off
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by James_K 2y ago
God, this place is such a sh*thole (literally if you count the sewage in the water). It's depressing. Every week, X is going downhill, Y is failing, we're out of money. I am so hopeless about my country's future. I feel that
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by James_K 2y ago
Not really. As I understand it, WASM offers no facility to unwind the stack which is needed for tracing garbage collectors. The only solution here is to manually write your own implementation of the stack on the heap and force all data to l
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by James_K 2y ago
Why? Nix works just as well and I already have it running.
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by James_K 2y ago
I know about nonguix. It's the only way the wifi drivers work on my laptop. But it doesn't have half the stuff Nix does. I need a nix service running in my system configuration to install Teams and Discord. That channel is practic
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by James_K 2y ago
I only wish Guix had a more robust nonfree packages I think it could really give Nix a run for its money.
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by James_K 2y ago
Just got a Cantor Remix keyboard myself. Might have checked this out otherwise, but a big advantage of the flat designs is they fit in my pocket.
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by James_K 2y ago
The key thing any social media platform needs is users. I know very few people who have an RSS feed and none of them use it to repost content.
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by James_K 2y ago
I'm not simply saying that discovery is out of scope, but that it's an actively harmful feature. The computer has no good metric to judge what is shown to you. I think the old ways are much better, that is you hear about something
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by James_K 2y ago
Deduping can be done on the reader end. As for a web of trust, you can put a friends list on your website.
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by James_K 2y ago
Perhaps this is a little naïve of me, but I really don't understand what this does. Let's say you have website with an RSS feed, it seems to have everything listed here. I suppose pages don't have signatures, but you could ea
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by James_K 2y ago
A number of countries actually offer free domain names to citizens. I agree with the rest though. I don't see what this adds to RSS, which already has most of these things given its served over HTTPS in most cases.
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by James_K 2y ago
This interface already exists. It's called RSS. Simply make feed titled "reposts" and add entries linking to other websites. I already have such a thing on my own website with the precise hope that others will copy it.
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by James_K 2y ago
I feel that much of the point of C is that it's easy to implement. Substantially increasing its scope doesn't seem like the best idea. Perhaps they could do something akin to Scheme and have a "small" and "large&quo

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