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by Retra 8y ago
Turing machines can simulate any other machine, but they can't do what any machine can do. You can simulate a toaster, but only a real machine can actually make toast.
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by Retra 8y ago
How is it 'absolutely' a bad thing, even in the cases where people are saying it is a good thing?
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by Retra 8y ago
I would add that systems languages usually need to be consistent and predictable in their resource usage. Often this will mean manual resource allocation. Even if resources aren't constrained, you will still need the ability to write s
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by Retra 8y ago
None of that is relevant to the employer-employee relationship. My employer's competition is not my competition. Even if there were no hiring competitors, they would still not be my competition. I would still want equitable bargainin
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by Retra 8y ago
I would imagine that old people struggle to do what they want because they are old . They have family, health, and longevity issues to contend with. For everyone else, hobbies exist.
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by Retra 8y ago
Whose competition? Other companies are not employee's competition, they are potential places to work. They only compete with the company, not the employees.
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by Retra 8y ago
Are you really choosing web frameworks based on how 'innovative' they are?
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by Retra 8y ago
One of Rust's advantages is that you can drop into unsafe to do this sort of thing.
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by Retra 8y ago
Data structures are just functions that happen to operate on some common (usually opaque) data.
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by Retra 8y ago
>Training middle aged truck drivers to be mathematicians would be extremely difficult, expensive, and their math career would last 10-20years at best. I don't think these kinds of inefficiencies are as big of a problem when we'
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by Retra 8y ago
You then deny that health insurance is a reasonable way to plan for illness?
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by Retra 8y ago
Fewer jobs is also progress. That's what the development of civilization and technology is all about. Anyway, there is still plenty of work for people to do. (There's no upper limit on the number of mathematicians society can use,
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by Retra 8y ago
Money just isn't as important as what real humans are doing day to day. So governments have no trouble fudging the numbers if it keeps people doing what they want them to. That's not an unreasonable thing to do.
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by Retra 8y ago
Do if you're not a legal EU resident, you will be unable to purchase food/lodging/transportation?
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by Retra 8y ago
That is probably not a statement of equality, but a boolean test for it.
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by Retra 8y ago
Even then, you could do worse by actively avoiding the sorted state with a bad distribution.
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by Retra 8y ago
If everything was predetermined, you'd simply be predetermined to feel justified in the belief that free will exists. So we would all agree to it, even if it were false. Personally, I don't see any reason it isn't a figment o
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by Retra 8y ago
I understand that what I said was possibly ambiguous, but I was not actually suggesting to someone that they should get cancer. I was 'bookending' a story that they were implicitly telling, in an attempt to point out that "
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by Retra 8y ago
If it were a true statement, then I certainly wouldn't have it be illegal. If your society fails to react correctly to the truth, I see no reason to believe it will be improved my making the truth illegal to speak.
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by Retra 8y ago
I don't think it should be illegal to do that, per se . If doing so intentionally brought undue and unreasonable harm upon me, then the general act of causing that harm could be made illegal, while the specific act which happened to c
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by Retra 8y ago
That seems overly draconian. If you call someone gay and it happens that they were without your knowledge... then they would have to out themselves in court to prove that you legitimately outed them, even on accident.
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by Retra 8y ago
Openly disclosing the threat because it is the kind of behavior that falls within the bounds of social norms pretty much makes it ok. It is harder to blackmail people out in the open. In any case, I think the line is marginally less blurry
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by Retra 8y ago
A vocal and significant fraction of any community of reasonable size is going to be populated by blowhards.
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by Retra 8y ago
Retro doesn't mean "old." It is a style.
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by Retra 8y ago
It is hard to think about program architecture. Most languages don't make you think about it at all, they just let you jam code together however you want and give you the tools to make it work. That was the biggest shock I had moving t
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by Retra 8y ago
You're assuming those checks are a real bottleneck for compile times. Rust only does borrow checking at the function level, so it's easy to parallelize and not all that slow. Most of the compile time is spent on code gen, if I rec
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by Retra 8y ago
If you want to build the best code , you want it to be fast, correct, and maintainable. If you want to build the best company , you might not care so much about these. But then, not all of us are running businesses. And building your comp
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by Retra 8y ago
Then get cancer and die young.
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by Retra 8y ago
To be fair, it is a video game and a personal project. There's no expectation of inclusiveness there. And I wouldn't say that the interface is an intentional barrier to entry, it is just not their favored feature to work on, so it
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by Retra 8y ago
Those are cliffs. The grass is at a lower elevation than the mountain.

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