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by bambataa 7y ago
It's definitely a very good resource and it's been a great help to guide my learning. It's definitely still a huge commitment in time (and textbooks!). I've been working on a single volume introduction to computer scienc
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That's because the aim of computer design in the few decades has been to turn such things into implementation details. If your primary computing device is a phone or a tablet you have no idea, and /no need to know/, what your
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The question of apportioning responsibility (or "blame", if you prefer) is very tricky. Many Americans (and Europeans etc) have for decades had the relatively luxury of living comparatively emissions-intensive lives without having
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Clean energy solutions are only desired by the market because activism impelled governments to try to price in the externality costs of dirty energy. How do you foresee the other environmental pressures (water, soil etc) being resolved? Are
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by bambataa 7y ago
Out of interest, at what kind of dosage did you have the enlightening experience? I've had plenty of introspective experiences, but not much further, at what seemed to me to be fairly high doses.
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by bambataa 7y ago
That’s interesting. I am also red/green colourblind and ok with red. For me though it’s more that greens and browns can be confusing.
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Is it not also advantageous to Western Europe to have Russia dependent on WE’s oil and gas revenue?
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But apps request permission to do functionality-related things and then spam you. Grab, a ride-hailing app I used in SE Asia, was terrible for this.
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I think it’s that in Go multiple return values aren’t a first class value. It’s just two separate values. Whereas in Rust or Haskell they’d be a single, first-class Result<a> (or whatever) value.
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Erm, no. Fault doesn't come into it.
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Apart from failing to account for competition, I think the problem with this kind of analysis is that it misses how transformative UBI would be for how we reward work. All those dirty, unpleasant jobs paying minimum wage will suddenly becom
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Does society say that? I've never come across a description of white privilege that didn't compare it to playing your life on easy mode. Sure, your life might be tough but it's less tough than it would be if you in the exact
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by bambataa 7y ago
I read the first few chapters as they came out and didn’t think I learned anything new or saw new insights. I have been a bit cautious with how much time I invest in the subsequent chapters. Sorry to have upset you!
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by bambataa 7y ago
I have enjoyed WaitButWhy articles in the past but with this new series the author seems to have spent a huge amount of time, energy and words coming up with ideas that aren't that new. I keep skimming through them waiting to find the
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by bambataa 7y ago
This looks really cool, well done. Do you mind sharing the resources you’ve used so far? I see many, many tutorials on OSDev...
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Do you have any resources on this you could recommend?
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When I posted that the title was literally just “()” without anything else. I’ve seen it a few times in recent days.
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by bambataa 7y ago
What is going on with the recent spate of “()” article titles?
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by bambataa 7y ago
Thank you so much for the space bar trick. I have been cursing the broken text seeking. How on Earth am I supposed to have known the space bar now seeks? I actually like idea but I went months without knowing that.
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by bambataa 7y ago
If the book is freely available from a library does it really matter if you find it more convenient to get it by pirating?
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Which engineering roles are available in London/remote?
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by bambataa 7y ago
Private health care exists in the UK but the NHS is public, though there are attempts to change this [1] as apparently the US model is considered something to emulate. I definitely wouldn't use the UK as a comparison to the US' pr
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by bambataa 7y ago
Discoverability. Knowing how to connect together multiple services isn't obvious. What kind of information can IFTTT take in and what does google sheets output? That's not obvious. I use Beorg (an org-mode interface) on my iPhone
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I was actually put off taking up programming for a while because of this "it's for people who like solving puzzles" attitude. Admittedly I have spent days tracking down bugs in personal projects because I couldn't leave
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My understanding of false consciousness is that it's a false belief knowingly spread by others to achieve some aim. When someone justifies their political views as "just common sense" it's often an indicator because wh
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by bambataa 7y ago
It seems that you are not disagreeing with the concept of false consciousness. You just believe that a different group of people suffer from it. I hope you don't consider it too much of a caricature of your position for me to say that
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There are a few things to unpick here. My belief that Brexit will lead to lower NHS funding is as follows: assuming Brexit results in higher trade barriers with the EU, our biggest trading partners, it will dent trade, which will lead to lo
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I think it's the distinction between intrinsic beliefs and beliefs based on knowledge of the world. Maybe I didn't make the distinction clear enough. The former, though we may want to change them, can't usefully be called &qu
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It's a very tricky problem. My awareness of false consciousness is more from feminism. So what if a woman aspires to being nothing more than a good housewife? But what if she's been brought up in a culture where she has been told
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I think it’s just that we don’t have enough distance yet. Plenty of things only seem iconic in reverse. I’m thinking primarily about music, where often the best-selling music of an era isn’t what it’s remembered for. Plenty of very forgetta

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