brickteacup

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by brickteacup 3y ago
I really wanna ask whoever wrote that if trans men are included
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by brickteacup 3y ago
> My SIL said that kids need to “live a little” he will in fact live (only) a little if they keep feeding him like that
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by brickteacup 3y ago
what kind of a person would voluntarily give their DNA to law enforcement? we really need to make people trust the government less
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by brickteacup 3y ago
great series, probably the best way to learn Latin. there's also some nature method courses for French, Italian, English, and German that you can find online if you google hard enough (search for "X by the nature method")
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by brickteacup 3y ago
god I wish HN had downvotes
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by brickteacup 3y ago
> use "Alice" and "Bob" why are you using stereotypically white names? this is exclusionary! > use "Jessica" and "Guillermo" why are you using stereotypically nonwhite names? this is racist! it&
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by brickteacup 3y ago
which forces people to pay to register a domain just to publish packages...
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by brickteacup 3y ago
> Only an absolute pedant who is looking to argue trivialities would bicker over the name of "Nobel Prize in Economics" vs. "Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel". well this is HN a
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by brickteacup 3y ago
> without a clear statement of what happened from the decision makers, people can speculate People can always speculate whatever they want. And let's be honest, the kind of people who like making utterly baseless claims about racism
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by brickteacup 3y ago
> Um... which platform? most platforms with weaker-than-x86 memory models need additional barriers for acquires e.g. on ARM you need LDAR > Probably the biggest reason that memory ordering semantics are such a mess are they though? re
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by brickteacup 3y ago
`sample_consume_allowed` is an example of a transformation that the compiler is permitted to apply to the original function `sample_consume`. if the original function had used `acquire` instead of `consume` then the reordering of the v2 loa
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by brickteacup 3y ago
> the DEC Alpha seems like it should have some sort of cheap fast atomics, but you can't cheaply do Acquire-Release so how about we invent something else ? consume was not invented for Alpha. rather consume should have less overhe
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by brickteacup 3y ago
> Who the fuck wants to talk about the Golang GC just because you have a Golang shirt on? ummmm me (I mean I hate Go but in a hypothetical world where I liked Go, me)
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by brickteacup 3y ago
> stop for a second to think WHY Go didn't have them I have thought about this. I concluded that Go doesn't have generics because it's a poorly designed language whose designers elected to ignore decades of progress in pro
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by brickteacup 3y ago
Yes, the real world, where a professor decides an entire class cheated because ChatGPT said so (lol. lmao even). I guess it is a good introduction to dealing with capricious idiots
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by brickteacup 3y ago
Rather disturbing that such people are able to become professors in the first place. Even if he's not technically inclined he should be smart enough not to assign grades based on the output of some untested tool
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by brickteacup 3y ago
> in practise it is very human nature yes, it's human nature to be intellectually lazy; that doesn't mean it's a good thing or that it should be encouraged
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by brickteacup 3y ago
> If no one is willing to hire juniors, then how do you get a pool of seniors It's self-correcting: the fewer seniors there are, the more they cost. Eventually hiring a junior becomes the more economical option. The market gets exac
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by brickteacup 3y ago
Doesn't really matter if you're salaried though, does it?
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by brickteacup 3y ago
Some people actually find learning new things to be interesting and would therefore appreciate a comment giving them a new avenue of exploration to pursue.
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by brickteacup 3y ago
Just give violent criminals exponentially increasing sentences for each conviction. Then they'll only get a handful of chances to reoffend in their lifetime
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by brickteacup 3y ago
Can you elaborate on the extent to which you use LLVM optimizations? Is it comparable to e.g. clang's -O1/2/3?
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by brickteacup 3y ago
Nah actually shitposting is funny and should be encouraged. Yes I know this is HN but stop being so uptight
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by brickteacup 3y ago
I've never understood why some people seem to care so much about 1- or 0-based indexing. Literally who cares? I cannot comprehend actually refusing to use an otherwise-perfectly-good language just because the indexes happen to start at
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by brickteacup 4y ago
Jesus, why are you so angry at the prospect of having to execute a CREATE TABLE statement? Are you okay?
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by brickteacup 4y ago
Cool, please provide a link to a library of similar size and complexity to pandas which was written using ChatGPT in the span of a few days. We'll be waiting.
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by brickteacup 4y ago
> all the music you listened to was played live by musicians, all stories were brought to life in front of you by theatre actors well, no, you probably didn't listen to much music or see many stories at all because the average perso