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by empthought 2y ago
ActiveX and Macromedia Flash were also popular alternatives to Java applets. Until v8 and Nitro were available, browser-based JavaScript was not a credible option for many apps.
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by empthought 2y ago
It's a computer bullshitting, the same way as a computer calculating is comparable to a human calculating unaided by a computer.
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by empthought 2y ago
No, it ascribes accountability to the humans who employ a bullshitting machine to bullshit more effectively. It doesn't anthropomorphize anything, any more than "calculating" anthropomorphizes a computer doing arithmetic.
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by empthought 2y ago
Technically, "bullshit" is the most accurate term. From "On Bullshit" by Professor Harry Frankfurt: "What is wrong with a counterfeit is not what it is like, but how it was made. This points to a similar and fundame
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by empthought 2y ago
The highest risk in writing code is that the code written will have a negative value; i.e. it will incur more development cost over its lifetime than it will recoup via its intended effects. Hastily written, poorly justified or reasoned cod
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by empthought 2y ago
The "genders" analogy is a conceit of this article's author alone. It is not what any researcher uses. The remarkable feature of these birds is not the behavioral divergence but the underlying genetic factors driving dissorta
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by empthought 2y ago
It's never used in biology in this way. It is political activism.
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by empthought 2y ago
Those aren't genders.
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by empthought 2y ago
> Is this true even if they were to have an average woman's level of estrogen? They do. They have the average 60-year-old woman's level of estrogen.
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by empthought 2y ago
I don't understand anything you're saying here. It seems to be denying the validity of any survey methodology, no matter how experienced and legitimate the survey-taker is. Should I doubt that there are really around 5 million rel
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by empthought 2y ago
0.5% (as the original poster opined) is not within the 95% confidence interval of the survey. Anywhere as low as 3.2% or as high as 7.8% is within the confidence interval. I am not sure why you would knee-jerk dismiss this. My point is that
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by empthought 2y ago
This is a Pew Research study…
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by empthought 2y ago
> Transgender folks are represent about half a percent of any given population This is not accurate for the cohort under study. 5% of people under age 30 identify as transgender or nonbinary. I would personally be unsurprised if well ove
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by empthought 2y ago
There is no constitutional freedom to own a company, nor is there a constitutional right for any particular company to exist.
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by empthought 3y ago
Apple has never been a follower of semantic versioning.
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by empthought 3y ago
They definitely had the word well before the last 10-15 years. It might have been spelled "learninges" or "lernynges".
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by empthought 3y ago
No, I just implement a custom router class as the docs suggest, and move on with my life. It’s a much better use of my time than fighting mental-masturbation DSLs.
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by empthought 3y ago
And thank goodness for that. It is impossible to reason about types in such monstrosities.
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by empthought 3y ago
That was in 1988! For similar sentiments consider "Science and the Compulsive Programmer" from 1976. https://www.sac.edu/AcademicProgs/Business/ComputerScience/P... "Programming systems can, of
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by empthought 3y ago
I think you find macOS confusing, distracting, and annoying because it hasn’t had strong design applied to it in over a decade. It does get features to sustain people’s interest in Apple hardware and services, which I guess is a lifestyle.
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by empthought 3y ago
SQLite works pretty great for managing larger or more dynamic datasets, too; it’s just where concurrent access begins to increase that it stops being appropriate.
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by empthought 3y ago
Every language above Java in that list (except possibly TypeScript) is forced by the development target or domain. JavaScript and HTML are forced by web dev. SQL is forced by databases. Python is forced by machine learning. Bash is forced b
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by empthought 3y ago
I mean you’ve clearly read Aaron Swartz’s diatribes, but you also clearly have no clue about OCLC’s business model. The catalog data is intellectually interesting, but the value is in the holdings data and more importantly the interlibrary
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by empthought 3y ago
OCLC is a nonprofit membership cooperative and would argue that it itself is that international coalition of national libraries and archives.
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by empthought 3y ago
Jamie Zawinski was an influential programming author 25 years ago. https://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html
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by empthought 3y ago
Editors are smart enough now that they can format the code for display however you like, independently of tabs vs. spaces.
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by empthought 3y ago
Perl is not nicer to use.
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by empthought 3y ago
This is actual research that can be replicated by anyone, if you like. Moser’s questions were not the ones asked in the original studies and therefore do not refute anything in them.
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by empthought 3y ago
As it turns out, Moser’s research is a result of motivated reasoning and is flawed. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-022-02359-8
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by empthought 3y ago
That isn’t the scenario originally described, but there is a timeout parameter in future.result().

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