_05hb

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   by _05hb 2y ago

   Thanks again for responding. You gave me a lot to think about. It seems like there isn’t much daylight between our positions, and in any case I’m sure nobody else is reading, so I’ll wrap it up here for any future spelunkers. I think I’m on
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   by _05hb 2y ago

   I thought this thread was dead, and the topic is cursed besides that, but since this comment is obliquely referencing mine, I’ll post this: the two most prestigious white-collar fields are medicine and law, which both used to be more male-c
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   by _05hb 2y ago

   Thanks for responding. Here’s what I mean about proofs. I learned how to do them in college, and in the early classes we got a lot of leeway on grading, and then as we moved up they expected more and more rigor. But it was still a conversat
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   by _05hb 2y ago

   Math proofs only need to convince other people. Programs need to convince a compiler. If compilers were people and you talked to them for the first time, the only reasonable response would be to call them assholes and find new friends. The
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   by _05hb 2y ago

   Here’s my opinion: 1. In the US, we tried to make alcohol illegal, and failed so abjectly that nobody wants to try that again. 2. There’s a decent argument to be made, that in a counterfactual world where alcohol hadn’t been discovered yet,