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by biorach 2y ago
You're using a broad definition of "computer". We've had these features for decades now, until recently the logic was handled by microcontrollers. It's not clear that the functionality requires computing devices al
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by biorach 2y ago
> Some of the "cutting-edge PL features" I want are things like function effects That's probably the least convincing of your examples. My understanding is that effects systems can get complicated fast, and there's no
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by biorach 2y ago
> That's Ricky Gervais' entire career. Ricky Gervais has had a very varied career, so I politely suggest that you don't know what you're talking about.
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by biorach 2y ago
Bit useless tho.
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by biorach 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_Accord
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by biorach 2y ago
That doesn't really cover it
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by biorach 2y ago
> a time when humans could barely speak with eachother. That's a pretty wild claim
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by biorach 2y ago
Source?
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by biorach 2y ago
> But it's not a real concurrent backend database. It's a client-side database People are successfully using it server-side, in specific situations it appears to be a good fit. > You can accidentally write a string to an in
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by biorach 2y ago
> I'm not a systems programmer, all of the problems I work on can be solved with higher level garbage collected languages Great. Use those languages. Don't criticise rust for not being one of those languages > people are car
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by biorach 2y ago
> Folks who evangelise these "just as good as systemd" solutions always hide a key factor. No one in these comments was "evangelising" and no one was hiding anything. If you want to have a technical discussion about t
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by biorach 2y ago
your basic point is that the cost of housing has increased to levels that are making life difficult for most people. However the language you use is exaggerated to the point of hysteria, which kind of undermines everything you say. Also, yo
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by biorach 2y ago
> The quality of life has dropped dramatically in the original EU countries. This is, on the whole, bullshit.
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by biorach 2y ago
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/06/02/prosus-acquires-stack-...
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by biorach 2y ago
> Smart folks giving up on kids are removing smart genes from future gene pool, who then gets more diluted by illiterate farmers having 10-15 kids. Hints of eugenic thinking there Illiteracy is not hereditary, so I don't know why y
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by biorach 2y ago
It's possible to value children and yet choose not to have any There have always been people who have chosen to not have children
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by biorach 2y ago
It's a shitty term for a shitty phenomenon. It's a good fit.
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It's not a rationalisation, and you're missing the point.
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by biorach 2y ago
You could have phrased that in a much less judgemental way.
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> I think we should reconsider the "hands off" attitude that (with a few exceptions) has prevailed since the end of the Cold War. Political deference, while culturally sensitive and insisted upon by some US-weary groups, has no
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by biorach 2y ago
That's a rather dickish way of completely missing the point
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by biorach 2y ago
AI bot, set to verbose and slightly pretentious
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by biorach 2y ago
she does not say "tech is bad" or "screens are bad" > I’m not anti-tech. My entire career as a writer and editor has been enabled by the Internet, and I wouldn’t want to go back to a time without it. But great tools d
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by biorach 2y ago
By "drowning" they mean "displaying the instinctive responses to perceived difficulty maintaining breathing in the water" I haven't watched all of them. So far no one has drowned. For a variety of ethical and legal
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by biorach 2y ago
The whole dynamic of this discussion is weird. There's a bunch of people coming up with long winded arguments, not-really-relevant examples and other guff. And there's a bunch of us repeatedly saying "why not just be decent?&
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by biorach 2y ago
> Are we back in the 60s where a father has to sign off on the daughters job application Strawnan bs. No one advocated anything like that. > We are talking about a woman who willingly signed up for a playboy photoshoo Yep. And decades
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by biorach 2y ago
> you can't retrospectively wish against it She absolutely can. And we, collectively, can choose to respect that wish by using a different test image in future. And why not? It's no real burden to make the change.
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by biorach 2y ago
I think the point is that there are surprisingly many applications where the advantages outweigh the issues with concurrency and featureset.
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by biorach 2y ago
> Note that Orwell promotes an hard form of the Sapir Whorf hypothesis This is not what he was getting at at all. I think you've completely misunderstood an analogy in a work of fiction that was aiming to warn about the distortion o
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by biorach 2y ago
> how much actual knowledge has psychiatry gained over the last 100 years? Some Plus you are conflating psychiatry with theraputic approaches, so that muddies the water. Overall there have been massive advances in pharmacology which have

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