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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
(author actually shows up to advocate for rust)
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
I don't have links handy but the gist of it is that regular people do not automatically interpret questions asked of them in a technical manner (carefully parsing AND and OR logically), but instead try to intuit the asker's intent
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
That's pretty broad. I am referring to the style of analysis that heavily attributes slight environmental priming over all others factors (character, education, religion, mood, etc).
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
A store owner does a marketing survey to find out what kind of music customers might like. The narrative is that he turns on a mind control device that makes you buy 5% more. With the debunking of "Thinking fast, and slow" this br
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
I hadn't considered that people might still be complaining about Florida in 2000 in light of 2020.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
Good thing its not Memoji.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
This comment does not address anything in the article or say anything of substance. Everything is more exciting when it’s novel. That’s part of the fun of consumer electronics, games, movies, etc.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
I don't understand, is installing and running python easier than running an install command?
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
Thanks for the advice.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
I can’t imagine a single feature that would be worth a change, and I have plenty of complaints about the library. I also can’t see how that would make it more popular.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
apt install sbcl sbcl —script hello.lisp
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
because of competition with peers.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
Publish or perish is primarily about peer competition and promotion, not pressure from admins. Teaching is the money maker.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
That’s also true of c++ and C and doesn’t hold them back.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
It has both of those features in several forms.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
You’re biasing yourself to what you already (probably looks like C). There is nothing more difficult about some paren except you didn’t learn it first.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
> nobody will ever advance the CL standard And that’s a good thing.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
You only have to dig because you are less familiar with the language. > copy list Almost all functions have a copying and destructive variant.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
I think the software for managing servers was internal, not the massive build out of hardware.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
Wow sounds like they are still growing! Of course we can’t know,but your assumption seems to be it’s bad because you don’t understand it.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
> Is that evidence that it’s a good deal? Yes. Evidence the old one was good. They had a Long time to think about it and clearly decided it’s worth even more. (And there is no interest free funny money)
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
Have you ever tried to make a prediction model with more than 1 parameter?
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
you are mistaken if you believe your knowledge of tech gives you power over it.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
Exactly. The ai car ethics news was always marketing to distract from the fact that it doesn’t work.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
The Joe Rogan scapegoat is silly. Just a few months ago HN was talking about how much of a business disaster it was. And here Spotify just renewed it.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
> but how do my personal decisions affect society? You don’t live in a bubble. It does matter.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
I am not at that stage of life and have a few question. What was your biggest concern about school? That they would become involved in bad behavior? Or that they wouldn’t be educated? My experience from public school is that it’s basically
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
They certainly do. But not enough to do it themselves.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
Time and care from capable parents are more effective than money. However many people who are poor do not have those skill. Upper middle class just prefer to use money instead of time. The upper class does not outsource parenting lightly.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
Every assumption in this post sounds out of touch.

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