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by cjcole 7y ago
Sorry for my pun. Thanks for the link.
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by cjcole 7y ago
I'm struggling to see the connection.
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by cjcole 7y ago
That might be wise. There seem to be an infinitude of ways this could go off the rails very badly.
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by cjcole 7y ago
This strikes me as standard (maybe poorly executed, possibly exaggerated in order to make a point) anti-stereotyping training. You can find many similar curricula or exercises online. The fact that the author frames this, without context, t
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by cjcole 7y ago
I asked a peahen why she insists on such an extravagant tail in a peacock: totally useless. She just looked at me coldly and strutted away.
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by cjcole 7y ago
> I don't understand why the mods there allow it. Precisely because it can result in excellent comments like the current top comments on the article. Providing an opportunity for experts to exercise critical analysis is a good thing
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by cjcole 7y ago
It is strange, and there must be some context that's left assumed and unstated. This ban document, even in conjunction with the linked examples, doesn't persuade me. If this is their best case I'm left scratching my head. (I
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by cjcole 7y ago
Why would mountain climbers be interested in reading about other climbers making mistakes and falling? I imagine that some here have concerns and insecurities about how their comments and communication may likewise be interpreted, or misint
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by cjcole 7y ago
What we need is credit rating agency rating agencies. Then, of course, ...
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by cjcole 8y ago
That was inspired by Subgenius rants (hence the crossposting to alt.slack). We were pretty into the Church of the Subgenius around that time.
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by cjcole 8y ago
'His feelings extended to programming of any kind, including advertising and entertainment watched by very young children. In a speech given at an academic conference at Yale University in 1972, Fred Rogers said, “The impact of televis
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by cjcole 8y ago
Related discussion at internals.rust-lang.org: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/pointers-are-complicated-o... "This summer, I will again work (amongst other things) on a “memory model” for Rust/MIR. However,
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by cjcole 8y ago
"the Germans were still thinking about the big bad man coming from the East" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_Soviet_occupat... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_
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by cjcole 8y ago
It's not a drop-in replacement: "Unsupported Benchmarks: We were unable to evaluate DTHREADS on seven of the PARSEC benchmarks: vips and raytrace would not build as 32-bit executables; bodytrack, facesim, and x264 depend on
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by cjcole 8y ago
You may be thinking of this thread: https://github.com/irungentoo/toxcore/issues/121 I couldn't find any evidence of an audit. There is an actively developed Rust implementation of the core library here:
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by cjcole 8y ago
The support for interop looks strong: http://gluon-lang.org/book/embedding-api.html http://gluon-lang.org/book/marshalling-types.html There are some marshalling traits that you can implement or de
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by cjcole 8y ago
Are your Lua changes public? I couldn't find a relevant repo. Thanks.
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by cjcole 8y ago
Are there many AI opportunities out there without potential military use? Warfare is a broad-spectrum human activity. I'm having trouble imagining many things that can't be leveraged.
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by cjcole 8y ago
"Speaking of print, you can pre-order a dead tree version of the book from NoStarch Press. The contents are identical, but you get a nice physical book to put on a shelf, or a beautifully typeset PDF. Proceeds are going to charity.&quo
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by cjcole 8y ago
Are implications of insecurity and obliviousness also par for the course in academia? (Wait, I know that one already.)
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by cjcole 9y ago
Akka has a Java API: https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.0/java/index.html Not sure about the relative ergonomics of Akka-in-Scala versus Akka-in-Kotlin (via the Java API).
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by cjcole 9y ago
This is what a political realignment in progress looks like. https://polispandit.com/2017/11/15/antitrust-and-big-tech/ "On Monday, November 13, 2017, Missouri’s attorney general, Josh Hawley, launc
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by cjcole 9y ago
> bias: I am a Mill CPU dev This has been in the back of my mind during all of this. Can you [0] outline to what extent Mill would or would not be affected by both Spectre and Meltdown? [0] or is anyone from Mill planning to
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by cjcole 9y ago
Speculative execution bug causes speculative stock sale non-cancellation?
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by cjcole 9y ago
It's a plausible inference given the timing and Newman's politics while alive [1], and maybe it does apply to the other charities (I don't know one way or the other), but at least with respect to The Hole in the Wall Gang Cam
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by cjcole 9y ago
I have personal experience with "The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp" and have nothing but positive things to say about it. I don't and can't know how efficiently they use their money (I didn't notice any extravagance),
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by cjcole 9y ago
When they, by virtue of their overwhelming market share, nuke a competitor's product off the face of the internet, whether algorithmically or intentionally, it feels reasonable to me to compel them to provide more detail than "we
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by cjcole 9y ago
The "skill versus urgency" illustration has me wondering if the author foresaw or even intended the resulting arguments over whether or not, for example, web design requires more skill than dog training. It's one way to get p
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by cjcole 9y ago
Interesting read. "Schmidt arrived first, accompanied by his then partner, Lisa Shields. When he introduced her as a vice president of the Council on Foreign Relations—a U.S. foreign-policy think tank with close ties to the State Depar
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by cjcole 9y ago
You can construe it more broadly than that. "Think tanks" are influence laundering operations. If someone or some corporation wants something (anything) done, it is more persuasive when the proposed ideas come from an ostensibly n

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