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by fargle 2y ago
i'm wondering if it's an artifact of "dark mode"? but apparently not.
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by fargle 2y ago
but that still implies that they will not allow 3rd party parts (non-genuine), which would run afoul of this law, right?
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by fargle 2y ago
and ... who cares if it is open-source or and open-standard ? the same problem would occur if you tied to "sanction" some other open-source because china! oh, for example linux. freedom, as in speech, is a double-edged sword.
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by fargle 2y ago
thanks for this. the glossary alone is pretty funny. page 350 contains the "methodology" definition references in the grandparent comment and several more. "combinatorial logic" is cute, as is "CISC" and "
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by fargle 2y ago
> 1. Expand the stock of council houses. perhaps England has a way of doing this. in the US it looks like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruitt%E2%80%93Igoe > 2. Rent control, rent control, rent control. this does
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by fargle 2y ago
what you're seeing is a different kind of breakdown of law-and-order. instead of not enough regulation to the point of anarchy, at a certain point a highly bureaucratic highly regulated system gets to the point of over-regulation. inst
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by fargle 2y ago
to be clear, i'm neither defending nor bashing either language. i use and like both as appropriate. and it's fine to disagree, btw. please do not read "good" or "bad" into my attempt to describe either. but i w
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by fargle 2y ago
what you say is partially true (you can also of course use -E to check macros) but: - macros are also standard C++ features too, so this point doesn't differentiate between those languages - i'm failing to adequately communicate m
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by fargle 2y ago
of course they don't. but that doesn't mean you shouldn't do extra-curriculars to benefit yourself or your kids, just because other people are dishonest.
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by fargle 2y ago
sure, many of mine were the same. and i bet you could have tied that to what you wanted to do in an essay. so to me, that isn't a problem, certainly not a good example of why colleges have their "heads up their asses" (oh and
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by fargle 2y ago
he forgot the most important ones! - https://web.archive.org/web/20130216132858/http://www.cantri... - https://nsjonline.com/article/2021/12/bonhoeffer-on-stupidit...
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by fargle 2y ago
agree, but as i said: "he was making a memorable and funny quote, with quite a bit of truth to it, not a precise scientific hypothesis" never-the-less there is still a lot of truth to the saying, nobody said it was universally cat
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by fargle 2y ago
that's a deliberately unfair comparison. operator overloading, constructors, assignments, etc. happen "under-the-hood" in c++ and are standard language features. whereas you can see the user-defined macro definition of "
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by fargle 2y ago
while the back-of-the-napkin math is surprisingly not terrible, of course it's a log scale so Mar's Law is relevant: "Everything is linear if plotted log-log with a fat magic marker". Mashey was really talking about work
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by fargle 2y ago
> It's unlikely that Kernighan meant it takes someone twice as smart to figure out what you were doing no, that is exactly what he meant. clever code means you are just barely able to understand it enough to write it yourself [i
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by fargle 2y ago
disagree. extra-curriculars can be faked, gamed, etc. you can take this to a crazy extreme and end up with burned-out kids. but , colleges weighing these activities for admissions? 100% the right thing to do. > Is my kid really going to
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by fargle 2y ago
the linked viral video isn't transphobic. i don't find the "people behaving badly" video genre a classy form of entertainment, but that's all it is. i suspect the meme status of it is especially relevant due to the
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by fargle 2y ago
"In the end, our hiring standards that we use as gates to decide whom to grant high salaries and great benefits are only worth something if we also have great firing standards—i.e., if we retain and invest in people." i don't
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by fargle 2y ago
"because it looks nice in the tutorial with apparently simple syntax, but then on real projects it devolves into a hundred lines of abstraction nonsense over environment variables and spawning programs" you just described "ma
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by fargle 2y ago
me: Aaron Swartz is a dick and shouldn't have deprived us of himself and vice versa. he'd have been a free man 10 years ago. (not judging, just sad) also me: AI is evil because it tricks people into giving up their creativity, whi
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by fargle 2y ago
indeed. vi. not vim. not neovim. not vscode or emacs or anything complicated. i can use cat when vi doesn't work. why? because everyone can learn an editor of choice, and that just happens to be the one my fingers know. not because it&
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by fargle 2y ago
but it's a tool for stealing other's IP, not for noisily scooting from place to place it's not Luddite behavior for saying "no, we don't want to do that"
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by fargle 2y ago
i doubt it. it's easy to draw an analogy to early cars, or any kind of tech. revolution and say: "ahah, these folks are just like the Luddites, pbththth" this is fundamentally different. this is a machine, a mathematical equa
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by fargle 2y ago
/s ?
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by fargle 2y ago
well for one thing, simple negligence is not criminal negligence. Fraud is criminal, so it is intentionally harder to prove. and i think don't criminal negligence really applies here, but if so would have an equally high bar. what ha
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by fargle 2y ago
link went bad, this works: https://blog.plover.com/tech/its-an-age-of-marvels.html
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by fargle 2y ago
i totally agree that was what it was designed for
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by fargle 2y ago
i think it's fine (in concept) to have a central(-ish) numbering scheme for security bugs. so far, so good. but this is made worse in no small part by security researchers, students, companies etc. are all using a CVE as an achievement
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by fargle 2y ago
yes, exactly. "other may be doing the same to you" and they might not even be tricking you into doing the "right thing", just the thing that they want.
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by fargle 2y ago
yeah, after explaining the whole psychology and telling story of her mom's schizophrenia, then BAM she hits you with a huge dose of, as you said, fatalism. there's a very odd similarity between her mothers' delusion about cat

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