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by cjfd 2y ago
"corruption is a red herring, corrupt officials and companies can be corrupt regardless of software license." Corruption implies that somebody is making enough money to pay bribes. Therefore, corruption will naturally be to the ad
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by cjfd 2y ago
'the Lamb Shift'. This is just too funny.
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by cjfd 2y ago
That depends on how once conceives god. For instance, Anselm defined god as a being than which no greater can be conceived. If one accepts that definition, it is in fact a sequitur.
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by cjfd 2y ago
Note that particles are not just for perturbation theory. There is a particle whenever there exists a particle annihilation/creation field configuration. A proton is a particle so writing down its creation/annihilation field confi
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by cjfd 2y ago
Sure, if the docs are bad, the docs are bad ;-). Jokes aside, though, I think the nice thing that this article does is pointing out various common ways in which the docs can be bad. My 'favorite' one is having docstrings for docum
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by cjfd 2y ago
This is incorrect. There are particles. They are excitations in the field. There still is the 'split particle paradox' because QFT does not solve the measurement problem. The 'some kind of interaction of graph nodes' by
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by cjfd 2y ago
The article is quite a bit smarter (if a bit long) than this comment. "The first duty of your documentation is to be complete and correct". The source code satisfies this demand. It is complete and it truly describes the product i
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by cjfd 2y ago
One question is why communism is a problem. It is a problem because it is a totalitarian regime. I.e., a non-democratic government. I am not sure limiting peoples wealth is the actual problem with communism. Sure, the real problem is the ab
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by cjfd 2y ago
The imperfections of 'big' people have much more ramifications than the imperfections of 'small' people. Humans work best together in much more egalitarian groups where the imperfections of individuals are compensated by
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by cjfd 2y ago
Hydrogen can be a metal too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallic_hydrogen
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by cjfd 2y ago
Big countries are in a position to abuse their power. E.g., they start wars. Your worries are partially addressed by the separation of powers. The trillionaire government is split in three branches which helps curtail its power. It is not t
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by cjfd 2y ago
"At this point in time, US is the global leader in personal freedoms, culture and financial opportunities." This needs to be past-tensed. In fact, currently, the US is the global leader in regressing with regards to these and othe
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by cjfd 2y ago
One part of consciousness is the 'stream of consciousness'. I.e., a single-threaded, if you will, sequence of observations and/or language that is extracted from all the parallel processing that is happening in the brain. The
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by cjfd 2y ago
"do not throw your pearls before pigs"
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by cjfd 2y ago
PDSD is correct on length of methods. The methods given in an example in CC are ridiculously short. CC is more correct on comments than PDSD. Especially mandating comments in certain places leads to very low quality and, frankly, utterly di
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by cjfd 2y ago
Once you notice that the primes are in the top rows, it becomes a pretty good comment.
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by cjfd 2y ago
You are right. My partner and I often provide each other sex for free. We should stop that and both become sex workers in order to be valuable.
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by cjfd 2y ago
In a democracy the three branches are independent. Democracy is not just 'you get to elect the guy on top', it also attempts to preserve the rights of the population. If the population does not have rights, democracy soon becomes
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by cjfd 2y ago
Seems accurate enough.
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by cjfd 2y ago
The standard answer is that apparently the initial state of our universe had a low entropy and that has been increasing ever since.
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by cjfd 2y ago
It is not just 'interesting' it is in fact essential to prevent disaster on the scale of the Second World War or worse. It seems there are people who are intrinsically motivated to hate. These are the ones who are on the far right
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by cjfd 2y ago
I am sad to hear that. I, on the other hand, am capable of distinguishing between people I have disagreements with and people who are far-left or far-right populists.
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by cjfd 2y ago
Abbreviating create as 'creat' is a bit stupid but it is the kind of quirk that makes me feel at home. The opposite can be found here: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/scripting/weekend-scripter-us... . That is
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by cjfd 2y ago
If it is too big just zip it and feed chunks of the resulting zipfile to the AI. AI can do anything, right?
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by cjfd 2y ago
There is a joke that in a modern factory there is only a man and a dog. The man is only there to feed the dog and the dog is there to guard the equipment and make sure the man does not touch any of it.
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by cjfd 2y ago
Don't forget that, at least in the pascal that was used in my university programming course, all data structures have a fixed size. If you want variable size, you need to allocate them on the heap and free them manually, so it is not c
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by cjfd 2y ago
Sounds very fascist. I suppose it fits with the times.... very bad times ahead not unlikely.... Hopefully the price will be fewer than a billion dead bodies....
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by cjfd 2y ago
Maybe a supremacist mindset is appropriate when the other side has deteriorated into something pretty close to nazism. It is actually not very hard to be better than nazism. Your 'flip around' statement actually makes zero sense a
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by cjfd 2y ago
Yes, however his brother Alonzo did not mind the typed lambda calculus all that much.
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by cjfd 2y ago
In your first comment you seem to think that the BFDL for life is not so good. Now you are saying negative things about committees. So what do you think would actually be a good way to run an open source project?

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