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by creata 5y ago
Nobody seriously thinks they can automate mathematicians, arguably the most creative people on the planet, out of a job. Edit: also, I think you're wrong in saying that mathematical research "is driven by about 2-300 of the smar
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by creata 5y ago
Regarding what proponents of category theory argue as the purpose of category theory, [nlab] has some extremist takes, [chan] has a video series that shows us how a math student is typically sold on learning category theory, and [bauer] is
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by creata 5y ago
> would involve somehow convincing many women to enter a career field in which they have no interest This is a blatant non sequitur. Counterexample: It's hard in many places to be a male schoolteacher, because men are seen by parent
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by creata 5y ago
> Another is that women and men in the aggregate don’t choose the same careers in exactly even proportions. That's not a theory, that's just restating the question! Why is the distribution the way it is, and should we make ef
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by creata 5y ago
If you feel that it's being misrepresented, feel free to represent it properly.
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by creata 5y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "global analysis," but Rust's borrow checker doesn't do any analysis that I'd consider "global."
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by creata 5y ago
> Although enormity has been used since the late 1700s to denote large size, this usage continues to be disparaged by various language commentators who argue that enormity should be reserved for senses related to "great wickedness.&
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by creata 6y ago
> even staying within the bounds of the standard might result in different outcomes in the code If that's important, why not pretend that your project is in "Clang C++" rather than C++? Clang compiles to at least all the p
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by creata 6y ago
Why did the GameCube dedicate so much of its RAM to audio?
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by creata 6y ago
Algebraically manipulating stuff (factoring, rearranging, cancelling, expanding, simplifying, etc.) without the terseness of math notation sounds like a nightmare, regardless of whether I'm using a chalkboard or an endless sheet of pap
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by creata 6y ago
Regardless of how simple fingerprinting is, I'm pretty sure that cookies are still the main way in which advertisers track users. Why make their job cheaper than it has to be?
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by creata 6y ago
Oh come on. Given that * there's already an immense body of scientific work written in languages like Chinese and French that the English-speaking world lacks access to, * the main goal of this language is clearly not for international
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by creata 6y ago
You seem to insinuate that such rules would disincentivize the creation of interesting things, but I cannot imagine someone deciding not to create something simply because there is an unfathomably high ceiling on how successful it can be.
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by creata 6y ago
Why is it "clearly" an error? This syntax has been around forever and is widely used by code golfers, so if it were unintentional, I'm sure the Python devs would've fixed it by now.
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by creata 6y ago
"Theoretical computer science" has a fairly well-accepted meaning, and these basic puzzles don't fall under that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoretical_computer_science
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by creata 6y ago
> Maybe stack-based languages are indeed less readable than alternatives. That may be the case, but taking a core language feature and commenting "I don't like it, change it" isn't a very effective way to encourage di
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by creata 6y ago
The homepage says that Kitten has (will have?) memory management with no garbage collection, and yet the introduction shows that each item on the stack can represent arbitrarily large lists, trees, etc. How might this be implemented?
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by creata 6y ago
It's a stack-oriented language, so postfix notation kind of comes with the territory.
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by creata 6y ago
I just use Cmd+Shift+G (go to directory) to get around anywhere in Finder. It's worked out well so far, and I can still use ~ to go to my home directory.
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by creata 6y ago
You could write such a program, but my point is that it's a horrible inconvenience. CLI programs compose to the moon, but it's hard to get GUI programs to compose at all.
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by creata 6y ago
You said "a trillion dollar business", not "a trillion dollar industry" so of course people misunderstood you! And even though the game industry primarily makes GUIs, it still uses CLIs everywhere in the development pr
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by creata 6y ago
Here's an easy one: take all the files in a directory, including files nested in subdirectories, pick ten random ones, and open 'em in a new Firefox window. firefox (find . -type f | shuf -n10) I doubt your computer comes
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by creata 6y ago
It's not that weird. People often write iterated composition as f^k, and this is especially true with matrices, where composition and multiplication mean the same thing.
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by creata 6y ago
Your link to "algorithmic architecture" was such a letdown. These guys weren't doing architecture, they were just making a flashy Apple ad! Can you expand on what you mean when you call the Stripe globe and the Apple ad &quot
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by creata 6y ago
> that's like saying that the internet isn't decentralized because lots of people interact using facebook Yes, and I do say that. Decentralization is a lot less interesting if most people just end up centralizing anyway.
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by creata 6y ago
I just read the Wikipedia page and it says, emphasis mine: > Wire's instant messages are encrypted with Proteus , a protocol that Wire Swiss developed based on the Signal Protocol. That doesn't sound like "Wire uses the
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by creata 6y ago
Yes, it is good form to link to the claims you are debunking, but these claims are not strawmen. If you want an example of people making untrue claims about "Email #2", here's one very popular Medium post doing just that: &gt
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by creata 6y ago
At least in your first example, yes, it is a sign that men are far behind when it comes to being trusted with children. But that's not really relevant to the ship story.
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by creata 6y ago
I can't think of a benefit (besides consistency, which might be nice for some macros) but is it doing any harm ? And, in the future, if Rust does get some kind of return-via-break for while loops (like it has for `loop`s) then there
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by creata 6y ago
> Some constructs are more natural (e.g. easier to read and write) as statements, others as expressions. Yes but imo, Haskell (which has do notation) and Rust (where most things are expressions, but you still write them as expression sta

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