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by Retra 8y ago
If you want to find "wasted" money, look to the entertainment and sports industries.
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by Retra 8y ago
The problem is that people don't even consider other mental models. It's easy to say "I can't do that", but that doesn't mean a dog can't do it: it has a dog brain, so it is obviously not limited to feelin
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by Retra 8y ago
You can't analyze a person's behavior, especial their emotional behavior, without including cultural context. Society does not appreciate people leaving toddlers home alone, but they do not care if you do so with a puppy. That alo
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by Retra 8y ago
I think there's a related problem that would have been understandable at the time: if you don't understand how the world works, you are potentially missing out on patterned information which allows one to form more accurate models
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by Retra 8y ago
Music is also very easy to remember.
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by Retra 8y ago
The business world isn't really hiring Women's Studies majors, regardless of the impact they've had on the industry.
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by Retra 8y ago
How much of a book must one read to qualify as reading a book? Do we include online books that are unfinished, or not read start-to-finish?
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by Retra 8y ago
Do you mean guilt-the-emotion, or guilt as a causal relation? Neither of those are beyond the pervue of science. The only troubles you get -- the reasons scientists don't engage in this kind of theorizing -- is that the domain is both
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by Retra 8y ago
Why do you think that guilt is a non-scientific question? Is it only because it is too inadequately defined to produce a consistent interpretation? And guilt probably has little to do with fault.
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by Retra 8y ago
One way to think of it is that numbers are mainly used to solve problems by studying the behavior of subsets of them that have specific properties. Like "prime numbers", "square-free numbers", and "solutions to this
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by Retra 8y ago
Yeah, in theory. In practice, if someone writes code that is throwing away compiler checks for no reason, you simply don't use it.
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by Retra 8y ago
You need all that even if you're just running a warehouse.
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by Retra 8y ago
A lawyer wouldn't have to hedge and say "IANAL." Why would we expect Torvalds to hedge? He's the expert in change of his project. Etc..
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by Retra 8y ago
He doesn't have to be doing anything wrong: We can be wrong for letting him accumulate so much wealth and influence.
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by Retra 8y ago
The kind of 'tokenized' thinking that leads one to invoke a meme to express themselves is really in vogue right now though.
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by Retra 8y ago
> fully understood by many laypersons Lol, like what? Go have a layperson check if a file exists. Or pass a substring of UTF-8 to C function. Or check equality of two floating point calculations. Or multiply two signed integers together.
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by Retra 8y ago
Don't throw out a number like that. We're talking about a Turing complete language, which means we're talking about protections that have to range over all possible programs and abstractions. It may be that your problem domai
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by Retra 8y ago
>That means sending people out. "People" can be made pretty small if all you're sending is DNA and robots to grow them.
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by Retra 8y ago
When my brother was a little kid he had trouble learning to tie his shoes. He wanted to use velcro shoes, so he got them. Does he wear velcro shoes today? No! He learned to tie his shoes, even though it wasn't an intuitive process. Par
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by Retra 8y ago
>There are some very abstract common threads in how the mind conceptualizes the world. Of course, this means nothing pertaining to a preferred language, formal or natural, for encoding it such notions. >a fascinating study that invest
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by Retra 8y ago
That certainly doesn't invalidate anything I said.
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by Retra 8y ago
There aren't any concepts here that are "palatable to the human mind." It's ok to have a bias, but don't be so foolish to pretend it is universal.
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by Retra 8y ago
I wasn't meaning to imply any obligation that you should be using Rust or anything. My point was only that the reasons people do things are already very familiar to you, so it doesn't do much to be incredulous of their motivations
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by Retra 8y ago
Hard to master doesn't mean it isn't worthwhile to master. And the only reason the Rust ecosystem is not more mature is because not enough effort has been put into it. By learning the language and working in it, both of the proble
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by Retra 8y ago
How about don't put evidence on your phone in the first place?
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by Retra 8y ago
I use iTerm2 as a terminal, and it comes with a handy option to use [option] + [space] as a command to switch between the terminal and the current application. So basically, a terminal is almost as accessible as the space bar, and I've
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by Retra 8y ago
Why don't you just use it, rather than waiting for the industry to adopt it and translate it for you? The industry doesn't adopt things because they are great. It adopts things because it has to. In my little corner of the industr
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by Retra 8y ago
You're not SOL. You just have to retype or reformat the code. Given that you're trying to learn, you should have started with that step anyhow. I've been writing Python for years and never had this problem.
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by Retra 8y ago
>But once you call it an open-source project, and you have docs and a roadmap and an issues page and stuff, you're making an implicit contract with people who use it that it will do a reasonable job of solving the problem it claims
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by Retra 8y ago
That issue would be better solved by just typing the text in a code block, no?

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