coldtea

233 ms·

4801.
by coldtea 3y ago
> Apparently it had Google's money backing, for what it is worth You mean they paid to have it created, like they pay for thousands of other things. But it was never really pushed, the way they push things they want to promote.
4802.
by coldtea 3y ago
Yes, but that concerns how schooling for the masses came about. People that expected to be active citizens, participate in the state, drive society forward, etc., have been educated for millenia, in ancient Greece, Rome, China, Egypt, all t
4803.
by coldtea 3y ago
> Taking off my devil's advocate hat for a moment - I disagree here. Many places in the world already redefine "factual information" with their own definitions that are based on e.g. their political or cultural views. Pret
4804.
by coldtea 3y ago
"Swift for Tensorflow" never had any real backing apart from the announcement though.
4805.
by coldtea 3y ago
At some point there should stop being turtles (questions and justifications) all the way down, and we should agree on some basic shared assumptions/wisdom/reality. If we have to ask "why is factual information required for li
4806.
by coldtea 3y ago
Reading was necessary because it's a highly evolved and compressed way to convey information, which refines, distills, and focuses thought, and gives access to millenia of civilizational expression, wisdom, and experience. The video-ce
4807.
by coldtea 3y ago
> They’re not irrelevant to the situation. In fact, they’re the people who have malicious intent. Let's put it this way, they're not irrelevant to the particular situation, but they're irrelevant to the real problem, whic
4808.
by coldtea 3y ago
Well, for the domains Mojo targets, Python is king. So a faster-Python-like language would have more potential audiences. A fast Ruby-like language, not so much, as Ruby was never that special in those domains, or in most places outside web
4809.
by coldtea 3y ago
The community here is just the chance source of this particular case. In another case it could be whatever else responsible. But the police response is a systemic issue, however. It's open to be exploited similary by any other actor.
4810.
by coldtea 3y ago
> I don’t understand why you want to let the swatters off the hook. They should absolutely be going to jail. Because they're irrelevant to the situation. The swatters could be a compulsive person with mental illness. Or dozens of d
4811.
by coldtea 3y ago
How about searching for it in Google, instead of clicking a link?
4812.
by coldtea 3y ago
> Skip the middleman (private companies vacuuming up all the data and selling to govt). Why skip it? Keep it and enlarge it. Then you get to have your cake (total surveilance) and eat it too (it's not the government doing it! we&#x
4813.
by coldtea 3y ago
In Western Europe, but does it matter? Most modern cities would qualify...
4814.
by coldtea 3y ago
The "No Vehicles in the Park" game is not so much about the impossibility to agree on what rules to set (like "no vehicles in the park"), as it is about the ambiguity of rules (what is a vehicle? where does the park begi
4815.
by coldtea 3y ago
Sarcasm is usually a defence mechanism.
4816.
by coldtea 3y ago
A man goes to a doctor. “Doctor, I’m depressed,” the man says; life is harsh, unforgiving, cruel". The doctor lights up. The treatment, after all, is simple. “The great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight,” the doctor says, “Go and see
4817.
by coldtea 3y ago
I'd take second hand smoke over an unsociable society of human-zombies scrolling around in public.
4818.
by coldtea 3y ago
If you liked Redux, you'll love the old J2EE!
4819.
by coldtea 3y ago
> You just need to read one blog post that tells you to avoid regular expression matchers that use backtracking, and you are good to go. You don't even need to understand why matching via backtracking is bad. Yeah, no. You might no
4820.
by coldtea 3y ago
> For example, for some tools there's no single 'one level abstraction below'. Let's take regular expressions as a simple example. You can use them effectively, no matter whether your regular expression matcher uses N
4821.
by coldtea 3y ago
Unfortunately all the early was advocacy focused on how the virtual DOM is "faster", so the people are fully excused for not finding out "what it was meant for". The "UI as a function of state" was not just sol
4822.
by coldtea 3y ago
> This is a very common misconception Not really a misconception: it was explicitly pushed and advertised as such, most of the advocacy (especially from React fans) at the time React was introduced and started gaining traction was about
4823.
by coldtea 3y ago
Yeah, it can, via it's favorite method for everything: adding params to the stack, and getting the return value there! Here's for GForth for example: https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/Docs-ht
4824.
by coldtea 3y ago
You wouldn't want pre-revolutionary France, or pre-civil-war US, either.
4825.
by coldtea 3y ago
> The farmers have been anything but peaceful. They've destroyed public & private property, doused it in literal shit, started fires and threatened politicians. Yeah, so? That's how they like their protests in France (and
4826.
by coldtea 3y ago
No, that's major US finance companies...
4827.
by coldtea 3y ago
> We really have a problem with targeted surveillance of specific communities like visitors of a specific mosque? That's the very definition of the thing we should have a problem with.
4828.
by coldtea 3y ago
And creating a DSL for your problem, and user functions being identical to build in functions, and being able to fully extend the language yourself, to the point of adding custom conditionals or whatever, and several other things.... Aside
4829.
by coldtea 3y ago
> but have no idea how I'd write a trig or stat function if it weren't already built in! Well, that's not really about programmings skills though. That's math. You could write a decent approximate SIN using the taylo
4830.
by coldtea 3y ago
My solution to the problem of pollution, or to the problem of vaccuous promises by politicians which is what I pointed at?

More ›