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by derriz 1y ago
> It is completely reasonable for Russia to not want NATO on their doorstep. There must be a name for this sort of false argument. What Russia "wants" with respect to its neighbors is not the problem. It's the large scale
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by derriz 1y ago
“When cost drops low enough, any surface with any exposure to sunlight is in scope for installing solar on if it can yield more energy than the cost of installing solar on it.” I don’t see the logic? As panel prices drop, installation cost
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by derriz 1y ago
> Don't dodge the question like that. I said efficiency hasn't improved. That's not what you said and to avoid confusion, as usual, I provided an exact quote of what you claimed before providing my response. To repeat, you
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by derriz 1y ago
> The technology hadn't improved not much more than a quarter's worth so far in my lifetime as far as EV is concerned. Average EV range has increased 2.7 fold in the years 2010 to 2021[1] and has continued to increase - by 40%
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by derriz 1y ago
It seems that the idea that someone could be motivated simply by having integrity, valuing honesty and pride in simply "doing their job" correctly is so alien to the current US administration that they see political motives everyw
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by derriz 2y ago
I'm claiming that its semantics are simple, not that they've made great choices in the design of the language. For example, I've barely used Javascript, but I think I would have scored fairly highly if that javascriptwft pag
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by derriz 2y ago
You must be lucky. I've wasted hours or tens of hours diagnosing sleep issues on my mac. What's infuriating is that this used to "just work" and was a major selling point for MacOs. It was one of the reasons that made
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by derriz 2y ago
"Why does JavaScript get some much hate?" I don't get it either? I've only used it occasionally but it has always struck me as a really impressive example of what can be built on minimal (minimalist?) foundations. Its
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by derriz 2y ago
There is no economic argument for tariffs. There are mountains of theory and empirical historical evidence that they make countries poorer. The motivation for these tariffs are not economic or financial. They are being used by a narcissist
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by derriz 2y ago
Sane defaults should be table stakes for toolchains but C++ has "history". All significant C++ code-bases and projects I've worked on have had 10s of lines (if not screens) of compiler and linker options - a maintenance night
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by derriz 2y ago
I made no claim about JSON libraries. I contested the claim that "CSV libraries and tools suck". They do not.
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by derriz 2y ago
> It’s that libraries and tools to parse CSV tend to suck. Whereas JSON is the lingua franca of data. This isn't the case. An incredible amount of effort and ingenuity has gone into CSV parsing because of its ubiquity. Despite th
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by derriz 2y ago
> Thirdly, the best annual storage is pumped hydro. It's the cheapest and it can be used pretty much everywhere -- all you need is water at one end of an elevation change and a way to build storage at the other end. Pumped hydro is
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by derriz 2y ago
Yeah this annoys me even though I'm a daily user of both fd and rg. What makes it more confusing is that many of the flags DO align - or partially align. For example, I'm used to glob patterns but the glob flag (-g) works differen
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by derriz 2y ago
Sure but none of those improvements had any sort of “wow” factor for the target audience - who were primarily interested in graphics, sound and CPU speed - particularly wrt to gaming. ECS is a marginal improvement, otherwise you’re still lo
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by derriz 2y ago
Yes! I think this medium isn’t helpful for understanding here but it’s always pleasant to disagree while remaining civil. It doesn’t help that I’m trying to reply on my phone (I’m traveling at moment) - in an environment which isn’t conduci
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by derriz 2y ago
I’m not imposing any constraints - the point is that inconsistent formulations are not interesting or relevant to the argument no matter what system of rules you look at. This has nothing to do with any particular formalism. I think the d
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by derriz 2y ago
Yes I think this is one way to attack the argument but you have to break the circularity somehow. Many of the dismissals of the Hofstadter/Penrose argument I’ve read here, I think, do not appreciate the actual argument.
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by derriz 2y ago
You’re equating computer programs producing “wrong results” and the notion of inconsistency - a technical property of formal logic systems. This is not what inconsistency means. An inconsistent formalization of human knowledge in the form
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by derriz 2y ago
I don’t see the logic of your argument. The fact that you can formulate inconsistent theories - where all falsehoods will be true - does not invalidate Gödel’s theorem. How does the fact that I can take the laws of basic arithmetic and ad
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by derriz 2y ago
I think you're being overly dismissive of the argument. Admittedly my recollection is hazy but here goes: Computers are symbol manipulating machines and moreover are restricted to a finite set of symbols (states) and a finite set of r
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by derriz 2y ago
How is soft power is a fake concept? At the scale of organizations and business, it's probably the most important tool you need to learn if you want to be at all effective. I've never seen a manager who was able to actually &quot
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by derriz 2y ago
A fantastic game in terms of atmosphere, artwork, characters and story but I found the puzzles to be too difficult and/or illogical and gave up pretty early into the plot. Overall I remember being somewhat disappointed because of my st
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by derriz 2y ago
"You don't have the slightest idea what kind of rabbit holes this will lead into." Instead of making assumptions about what I know or don't know about programming language theory and type systems, could you list these ra
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by derriz 2y ago
No doubt the problem is more complex and like I said would need language level syntax support. Sorry yes you're correct, optional containing null is the same as an empty optional. So there are 3 cases, not 4. But saying that "it&
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by derriz 2y ago
These arguments have been going back and forth forever. I don't think either of us would be able to change each other's position on this based on arguing either way. I'll take a different tack - look at the empirical evidenc
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by derriz 2y ago
Using my suggestion, the signature would simply be "T findAny();" - while "T!" would represent non-nullable T. So the opposite of the Kotlin/Typescript/etc. way where the default is not-nullable and you'd
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by derriz 2y ago
I really dislike the use of exceptions - particularly checked exceptions - to handle control flow for things like this. I mean, it's not EXCEPTIONAL to have an empty Optional, right? Their use here is an anti-pattern to my eye. Java
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by derriz 2y ago
Except it has none of the properties of gold as an asset. The value of bitcoin is highly correlated with equities and anti-correlated with gold. It’s the opposite of what you want to be holding as a hedge against a stock market crash.
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by derriz 2y ago
I don't find the error messages produced by concepts much better than old school template errors. Maybe I got used to the latter with experience and definitely the compilers got better at generating useful error messages for templates

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