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by dgb23 1y ago
I agree with everything you've said one hundred percent. However, I'm not talking about honest discussion, truth seeking and competing perspectives etc. But about literal dishonesty, actual lies and complete disregard of proof and
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by dgb23 1y ago
If he is close and trusts you then this might work as well for you (has for me): Don't start discussions with a concrete (recent) topic, but focus on fundamental things: Values, hopes, fears... Strengthen their argument. Tell them how
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by dgb23 1y ago
You say the misinformation label is counterproductive. But what if we cannot even agree on what the facts are? There's no productive discussion to be had. We cannot solve problems collaboratively when facts are ignored or denied.
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by dgb23 1y ago
Interesting. I often hear/read the term "steelmanning" instead, as in the opposite of constructing a straw man argument.
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by dgb23 1y ago
There is this issue with powerful people. Many of them seem to think success in one area makes them an expert in any other.
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by dgb23 1y ago
I've seen this kind of thing and it annoys me to no end. However that seems to be a small minority among many. But the majority of young adults are rightfully asking hard questions. Why should they suffer the consequences of political
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by dgb23 1y ago
Not a killer app, but I think one thing you might consider is zig build.
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by dgb23 1y ago
There are so many red flags with this administration that I lost count. Policing speech, suppressing information, cutting research funding, cutting social programs, increasing spending and intensity for deportations, deporting people for po
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by dgb23 1y ago
Is there a term to describe "whataboutism but it's not even happening"?
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by dgb23 1y ago
But you can share your daily status asynchronously as well. This might not scale well to larger teams, but we simply write a short message in a dedicated channel each day. It contains a short status and a few bullet points to plan the next
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by dgb23 1y ago
Is it geopolitics that is at fault here or rather corporations? I think Coca Cola might be a counter example if we look at how they procure their sugar.
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What immediately sprung out to me is that Amazon isn't held accountable for selling goods that directly violate patent laws, which should protect small business and reward innovation. The current US administration claims to be concerne
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Compared to what?
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For reference: Switzerland has one of the highest percentage of foreigners in Europe, four official languages, a decentralized political system, very frequent direct democratic votes and consensus governance (no mayors, governors and prime
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by dgb23 1y ago
> the only way multiculturalism can work is through a totalitarian state I'm seeing more and more people using this kind of rhetoric in the last few years. Extremely worrying.
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> If Zig somehow got more popular than C/C++, we would still be stuck in the same CVE bog because of memory unsafety. No thank you. Zig does a lot of things to prevent or detect memory safety related bugs. I personally haven't
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by dgb23 1y ago
Are we seeing similar compilation speed when a Rust program doesn't use these types of features?
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I couldn't read this in full. Too frustrating. I feel like we should be able to strive for things to be better while also appreciating what has been done so far.
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by dgb23 1y ago
I hear you. But removing boilerplate via abstraction (Lisp) is very different from generating it on demand (LLMs). The former is obviously qualitatively better. But it requires up front design, implementation testing etc. The latter is qual
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There are dynamic languages that were built with concurrency in mind like Clojure. It’s also a surprisingly fast language considering it’s both dynamic and functional.
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But none of that is necessary. Why is the US suddenly so hostile towards China?
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by dgb23 1y ago
What about PRISM? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM
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I don't think the article claims that there isn't any hidden complexity in other functions, but that ignoring the hidden complexity of engineering/programming cause all sorts of issues and pain. The language is quite aggressi
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The separation of HTML and CSS is almost entirely arbitrary, which makes web development unnecessarily complex and requires way too much discipline to do right. I disagree with SVG though. The format has a lot of problems when you look clos
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by dgb23 1y ago
> Inaccessible markup Way too many very basic UI affordances cannot be made accessible without JS if they can be implemented at all.
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To contrast: JS _the language_ is one of the most stable languages out there.
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by dgb23 1y ago
Console logs in the browser have some unique advantages. You can assign the output to a variable, play with it etc. But yes, any code that is inside jsx generally sucks to debug with standard tooling. There are browser plugins that help you
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by dgb23 1y ago
You might be confusing Brian with Ken?
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In order for this to cover enough space, I assume you‘d have to really pin down assumptions with asserts and so on in a design by contract style.
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"Const" is half baked as it implies that you declare an immutable value, but it only prevents redeclaration and direct reassignment. "Import" breaks the browser REPL and the dynamic nature of JS. You can't redeclare

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