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by cgrealy 5y ago
Sure there are sounds that humans cannot make, and combinations that are difficult for non-native speakers. I struggle with long Polynesian names, for example. But they're not unpronouceable... they just take some effort to learn. Why
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by cgrealy 5y ago
Your name isn't unpronounceable, people are just lazy. And this isn't someone "being offended", this is a legal requirement of the GDPR to accurately record someone's name. "Zoë" is not the same as "Z
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by cgrealy 5y ago
Depends on what you mean by “obsolete”. Were they superseded by more modern solutions? Absolutely. Were they nonfunctional? Hell no. I worked on several systems in the early 2000s that still had a big old mainframe at the back end. I’m pret
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by cgrealy 5y ago
> With a monorepo, it’s more tractable. Is it really though? Sure, it's technically possible, but it feels like a massive burden to place one on dependency. Not only do you have to maintain your own lib, but you have to understand h
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by cgrealy 5y ago
> Shouldn't the person/team who makes a change take ownership of fixing any breakage it causes, rather than passing the buck to their customers? That doesn’t feel scalable to me. I’d imagine some dependencies at Google run to h
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by cgrealy 5y ago
Nothing against your son, but at 9, you don't know much about the world. If you're an adult and you don't think the world is messed up, you need to learn more about the world.
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by cgrealy 5y ago
Could not agree more. Open plan offices are death to producitivity. They were fine when you had a massive pool of people doing mechanical bureaucracy but they are terrible for anyone doing anything creative or knowledge based. They are also
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by cgrealy 5y ago
9/11 every two days. https://www.axios.com/covid-deaths-september-11-8b2b230f-9dd...
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by cgrealy 5y ago
How do you know anyone has natural immunity? There are plenty of anti-vaxx conspiracy nutjobs that would happily lie about it to avoid getting improved 5G.
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I feel bad for people under 20 due to people pretending there isn't an existential crsis and it'll all be fine if they just recycle. Unfortunately, that's still doing less harm than climate change actually is (and certainly
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by cgrealy 5y ago
Unless it's DOOM, in which case if the user is calm, you've failed. :)
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They should be (anxious) and they're right (governments have failed them). Unfortunately, we've spent the last few decades ignoring the science and telling people they are the ones that can fix this, by recycling or taking less ca
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by cgrealy 5y ago
There's still a pretty reasonable argument to be made that 11 billion is not a sustainable number. I'm not suggesting we start killing people, but we will seriously need to think about how we manage the finite resources of the pla
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by cgrealy 5y ago
> As we saw early in the pandemic, the elites are always visibly chattering among themselves about the topics of the day, and when they form a new opinion, the experts usually quickly cave to agree with them, and try to pretend they agre
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by cgrealy 5y ago
>If this is the only accessible form of financial gain - why wouldn't they? It's not that they shouldn't care about their property portfolio, but it shouldn't be the only thing they care about. For example, the AU g
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by cgrealy 5y ago
> Mickey Mouse is in the Public Domain - 70% Honestly, I think it's more likely that we'll have ALL of - superintelligent AGI - contact with a space faring civilisation - the cure for aging than I do that Disney will let copyri
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by cgrealy 5y ago
In a private letter, Tolkien described orcs as “squat, broad, flat-nosed, sallow-skinned, with wide mouths and slant eyes: in fact degraded and repulsive versions of the (to Europeans) least lovely Mongol-types.” Again, not saying we have t
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by cgrealy 5y ago
Yeah, but there’s no good solution there. If you use a pronoun that can apply to multiple subjects or objects in a sentence, it will always be ambiguous.
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It is, but it causes ambiguity. “The politician made a statement to the press. They were shocked” Who does “they” refer to there?
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by cgrealy 5y ago
Was wondering that myself? Maybe it focuses exclusively on European art? (I don’t actually know this… speculating)
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by cgrealy 5y ago
And let’s be honest: The “satanic panic” had no basis in fact. The idea that role playing gamers were going to do actual magic (or even think they were doing magic) is clearly nonsense. But if you use human ethnicities as the basis for your
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by cgrealy 5y ago
Yeah, I’m aware of that. I still don’t think it adds much to the complexity of unique_pet though. It’s certainly less complicated than its ancestor auto_ptr.
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by cgrealy 5y ago
>std::shared_ptr means I don't have to manage any memory; no more new/delete! (But try as I might to understand std::unique_ptr, I'm just not there yet.) Eh? unique_ptr is just a scoped resource. You create a thing (or tak
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by cgrealy 5y ago
I feel like people here are missing the other factor that will drive adoption of self driving vehicles: economics. Safety is obviously important, but we already accept a decrease in safety over money and convenience (otherwise, we would hav
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by cgrealy 5y ago
You must be reading different news. Governments (especially the US) can't even get people to stay at home for a while to avoid a deadly disease. It's borderline impossible that they will "legislate away people's freedom
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by cgrealy 5y ago
That is 101 for autonomous driving. Solved years ago.
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But the problem in both those cases is that one group are dismissing the data. The Democrats might not being doing anything about climate change, but half of the Republicans are flat out saying the science is a hoax. I'm really trying
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by cgrealy 5y ago
> When some "authority" (some random internet commenter, or the CDC, or Facebook, or whoever) politicizes science.... What does that mean though? For example, I would hope most people on HN accept that our current best research
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Given that a lot of science gets funded by the government, of course it's political. Was just listening to a podcast yesterday about the attempts to develop an AIDS vaccine. It was definitely not prioritized in the early days because i
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There are undoubtedly massive dangers to politicising science. But personally, I am far more concerned with lobbied interests persuading politicians that climate change is a hoax, or with idiots deciding that masks and vaccinations are some

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