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by bsder 4mo ago
> paternalism isn't a good look. Anthropic doesn't care. The goal right now is simply to avoid any and all bad PR on the way to the cashout IPO. And paternalism will generate far less bad PR than somebody using AI on something
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by bsder 4mo ago
> Protecting society from criminals (or the violently and severely mentally-ill) And this is another problem--your "justice system" should NOT be where you place your mentally-ill--they belong in a (possibly secure) medical f
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by bsder 4mo ago
Flagged as AI Slop Bot. Wikipedia article makes no obvious mention of correlation between sentencing and deterrence. Linked article, in fact, demonstrates that alternative programs provided almost all the improvement.
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by bsder 4mo ago
> The article’s focus on moral culpability also overlooks the key purpose of the justice system: protecting society from criminals. I do NOT concede that as the KEY purpose. And when you call "protecting society from criminals&quot
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by bsder 4mo ago
No. For both children and adults, sentencing strictness only deters a SINGLE category of crime--white collar. Most other forms of crime, especially violent, are almost completely insensitive to the harshness of any possible punishment sent
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by bsder 4mo ago
I wonder if she knew of Henri Rivière and his "Ombres Chinoises." https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/henri-riviere-master-printm... The Shadow Theatre at "Le Chat Noir" was fairly famous, no?
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by bsder 4mo ago
Capitalism has an answer for that ... it's called "higher salary." Everybody loves capitalism--until they are on the other side of the arrow.
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by bsder 4mo ago
Yes, this is the kind of thing why I like Racket and Clojure and so much of the Lisperati don't.
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by bsder 4mo ago
Sometimes. Note that both your ingredients are liquids, however. I use buttermilk powder for quite a few recipes so that I can control the liquid content independently of the acid and fat content.
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by bsder 4mo ago
> Building new clusters of expertise and economic opportunity is extremely hard, nearly impossible, everybody has been trying to replicate the Bay Area's tech success for decades and even with the housing problems it simply hasn&#x2
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by bsder 4mo ago
One of the lessons from 2008 is that even the contrary position gets obliterated when the whole damn system implodes. So, the optimists all swim in the cash while your contrary position fails to keep pace with the bull market; and then the
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by bsder 4mo ago
> In 1970, a single minimum wage income can raise a family and save up for extra. My memory seems to think that wasn't true. However, there were a ton of manufacturing and manual labor jobs that were capable of supporting a small
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by bsder 4mo ago
The issue that breaks the camel's back isn't just the cost of the repair--it's that farmers can't find enough service people during harvest time. The timeliness of the repair is more important than anything at harvest
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by bsder 4mo ago
> I doubt that you advocate for the use of explicit release commands for resources, which are a notorious source of bugs, so what is that you consider as not being the same as RAII? Those are not the only choices. Garbage collection is a
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by bsder 4mo ago
Pointer warp not generally supported so CAD programs fail in bizarre ways. Although I think that there is FINALLY an actual spec for pointer warp. However, very few compositors support it.
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by bsder 4mo ago
> Programming language syntax scarcely matters. Certainly it matters much less in the modern era. However, certain fundamental decisions of a language can be dealbreakers. Requiring declarations on your functions and giving those decla
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by bsder 4mo ago
That hyperbolic tree looks very close to what my faulty memory recalls. I suspect it was a later incarnation that I used.
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by bsder 4mo ago
No offense was taken. It's always good to hear from the people who actually did stuff to set the record straight. > It was a fun place to be. It was. I was in the hardware side during the Hostile Giveaway(tm) to Intel and Compaq.
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by bsder 4mo ago
I remember it being a Java applet with animations, but my memory could be terribly faulty at this point. Following your comments and trying to trail things out, the only thing I can find is a reference to AltaVista LiveTopics. https:&#x2
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by bsder 4mo ago
I stand corrected. Thanks for all your work. And I still miss the AltaVista illustrated diagram (Java Applet) that would allow you to drill down and specialize the search results. No modern search has ever matched that, again.
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by bsder 4mo ago
"No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'!" @cImport is moving to the build system in an upcoming version (0.17, I think?). It's inconvenient, but it's unfortunately necessary. The issue with @cImport
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by bsder 4mo ago
> Alta-Vista were still loading Your memory is faulty. AltaVista was always super fast--it never had the advertising bloat that the other ones had until the very end. The problem AltaVista had was that it didn't scale when the In
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by bsder 4mo ago
Erm, let's not. Take one look at the mess of incompatible detachable cords that come with LED lighting fixtures from China to see what results. They could have used bog standard IEC 320-C5 cables, but they didn't. Why? Because t
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by bsder 4mo ago
> You could be right but I can think of numerous frustrating code jams in my past when we burned a lot of precious face-to-face time on fussy setup or other fiddly stuff. Agreed, LLMs are particularly good at this kind of task. For exa
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by bsder 4mo ago
The other LA (Louisiana) had lots of evidence to the contrary. If you force charter schools to participate in a lottery, they almost always come up worse than the public schools (there was a single exception). We saw this happen in Houston
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by bsder 4mo ago
> it consistently amazes me that few systems, teaching included, regularly poll their end users (students or employees) That completely ignores the social and political aspects. You need to understand that the people who have the authori
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by bsder 5mo ago
> I spoke about this before, but jj has the Blub Paradox problem It's not relevant. Don't try to convert git users--you don't need to. They're fine doing what they do, and the git backend store is acceptable. Peo
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by bsder 5mo ago
The ACA is, in fact, warmed over RomneyCare(tm) (a Republican, please note) from Massachusetts. The fact that Kentuckians loved Kynect and hated Obamacare--which are the exact same thing (aka the ACA) --tells you everything you need to kno
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by bsder 5mo ago
I'm kind of especially surprised that an OOP person bounces of Scheme. OOP and Scheme both like to atomize things into webs of a zillion little functions. The biggest advice I would give to the author is "If you're doing gen
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by bsder 5mo ago
Woof. Didn't even bother to proofread the AI slop. Wow. I think we need a "Flag AI Slop" button.

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