armitron

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by armitron 4y ago
This is why I left California. They way things are going, it won't be long until "decolonizing mathematics" becomes part of the standard curriculum. In the meantime, illiteracy is growing and STEM grades are plummeting. http
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by armitron 4y ago
California public school system is so atrociously bad that everyone with the means to do so should consider alternatives. You are doing a tremendous disservice to your kids otherwise. I took my kids and left the state years ago and there ha
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by armitron 4y ago
I guess moxie no longer abides by "the worst": https://www.dirt.com/gallery/moguls/tech/signal-moxie-marlin...
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by armitron 4y ago
Funding more killing is not ethically justifiable.
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by armitron 4y ago
Try and distribute binaries (not source) that other people can run (not compile) and you'll quickly find out why.
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by armitron 4y ago
> I can’t understand why the market isn’t flooded with coders The market is flooded with coders, which is why you see coveted companies have the exhausting interview processes that they do. And that's where the big bucks are made. S
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by armitron 4y ago
I doubt most CS grads find working as web devs attractive. Plenty of other, better paying, more fulfilling, more prestigious software engineering jobs with a low bullshit factor available where they can thrive. And it just so happens that y
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by armitron 4y ago
He said Bitcoin is not good at the macro-level, where it has catastrophic effects for society at large. That's quite a long way from "good for the invidivuals, but not for the governments".
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by armitron 5y ago
If you examine the history of the cold war, you'll see that rather than any sort of deliberate control over the unfolding states of the system as a whole, we've simply been very very lucky. Stupendously lucky. If that doesn't
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by armitron 5y ago
I'm being super generous when I say he's splitting hairs. Take this part: "These factors suggest that the 2008 proposal to expand NATO to include Georgia and Ukraine is just one among many developments that have made the curr
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by armitron 5y ago
You seem to think that cascading events follow some sort of hierarchy subject to the whims of the military and/or that the chain of causation following an event as probable as Russia deploying tactical nuclear weapons is subject to hum
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by armitron 5y ago
I suggest you watch this John Mearsheimer talk (2015) as I think it will help clear a lot of misconceptions you seem to have and also tighten your thinking about the matter. If there's gonna be a WW3, it'll be because the West wan
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by armitron 5y ago
If you read DDG TOS (1) you'll see that they save your queries and are being somewhat disengunous about doing so (half-buried half-way down the page there's this gem): "We also save searches, but again, not in a personally id
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by armitron 5y ago
I was referring to Clojure which going by syntax/semantics does not belong in the same family as Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp.
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by armitron 5y ago
The canonical Lisps still widely used today are Common Lisp, Scheme and Emacs Lisp. They all belong in the same family, and syntax / semantics are close. Porting code from Scheme to Common Lisp can be a lot easier than going from Pytho
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by armitron 5y ago
"Runs", on paper. BEAM and .NET are more of the same and not at all practical and GraalVM not what I mean by native. Also, clojurescript is not clojure.
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by armitron 5y ago
It needs to run natively and not on the JVM. Performance is bad compared to Rust and even Go. Erlang is better when it comes to parallelism.
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by armitron 5y ago
If I'm being charitable, it's hard to see Vitalik as anything other than naive/"useful idiot" to the commoditize-everything hypercapitalist forces. It doesn't take a genius to show some restraint in opening one
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by armitron 5y ago
Every single major corporation does "MITM in production".
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by armitron 5y ago
Many different applications: Red/blue teaming, metric collection, policy-based decision making.
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by armitron 5y ago
Nice idea but terrible implementation. Mitmproxy solves a lot of annoying problems, but, Python holds it back to such an extent that it's hard to make the case for deploying it in production due to massive inefficiencies. Can't wa
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by armitron 5y ago
I don't particularly like fantasy, but I have read my fair share. I've enjoyed "The Darkness that Comes Before" because I thought it was intelligently written, philosophically consistent and deep, and didn't hand-ho
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by armitron 5y ago
I found Rothfuss comically bad as a writer and Kingkiller #1 nothing more than superficial wish fulfillment aimed at teens that were bullied at school. Not that Sanderson is much better.
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by armitron 5y ago
> A core principle the Book of Mormon teaches is agency. You truly are free to choose the path of your life. Which goes against everything we know about the brain based on the latest neuroscientific evidence that indicates free will is a
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by armitron 5y ago
Prosciutto di Parma is very specific and not parmaham, which is a generic designation applied to all sorts of crappy ham and meant to trick those that don't know better.
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by armitron 5y ago
Makes you wonder why the 89% of fund managers that fail to beat the market don't just pick "value" stocks.
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by armitron 5y ago
> People in these countries are scared of World War III. I understand the fear—but don’t you understand that World War III may have already arrived? WW3 hasn't arrived and won't arrive unless colossally stupid decisions are mad
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by armitron 5y ago
The "blackpill" you are talking about is just empirical evidence collected in a series of experiments. Rave all you want about the incels, but they can be quite scientific when it comes to discovering the reasons for their lack of
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by armitron 5y ago
Confidence only works when there exists a base level of attraction, which is entirely based on looks (face, height, race). A woman that ƒinds a man ugly and is not open to even the possibility of dating him, will not care one bit about conf
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by armitron 5y ago
> Mearsheimer is an idiot and nobody takes him seriously in Eastern Europe Because .. you say so? His argumentation stands on its own. Yours on the other hand, doesn't. I suggest you practice what you preach after toning down callin

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