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by funklute 4y ago
Like the parent, my impression from discussing this very book with many people who work in the academic social sciences, is that Guns, Germs and Steel is largely discredited today. This might actually be an example of a situation where the
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> You could bundle the runtime with the application like Go does, but the runtime is pretty big and the language is too dynamic to remove the parts you aren't actually going to use in advance, so it's not as easy as a sell. It&
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by funklute 4y ago
The Feynman lectures have a reputation for being very hit and miss. People who "get it" will find them really interesting and useful. But if you don't, then it might just confuse you. I know a condensed matter postdoc who tol
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by funklute 4y ago
Rust is a pretty young language though.... if now is not the time to add features, then when is?
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by funklute 4y ago
Yes! Totally agree. Completely happy to accept that I'm a horrible developer. But that doesn't really solve any of my issues. (I have absolutely no issues with Lua btw)
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by funklute 4y ago
> But it failed nevertheless. In fact, I was told by her that these notes put her in guilt. Weird. I think you're missing some perspective here. You make it sound like you were the one really trying, and your partner is the one who
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by funklute 4y ago
> far beyond the time horizon of what a normal human brain is capable of processing This is just hyperbole though. All the other arguments aside, it's perfectly possible for humans to plan, and make risk estimates, beyond a human li
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by funklute 4y ago
And again, you could lose the condescending tone, thank you very much.
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by funklute 4y ago
> Of course it isn't necessary. Well....but you literally said above that there's a need for it. In a somewhat condescending tone. And now it's suddenly obvious that it's not necessary? Okay.
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by funklute 4y ago
> And do you seriously not see the need of rebasing? Rebasing isn't actually necessary, and there's a good argument to be made that you should never rebase. Fossil (the version control system used by the sqlite team) doesn&#x27
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by funklute 4y ago
> What I understood about emacs is that it doesn't have a concept of a project Not built-in, but there are packages available for that.
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by funklute 4y ago
Good point, had not thought of it in this way before!
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> "our SREs and management promise to not change anything" But you can lock a database down to the point where only external auditors have access to the admin keys. It would make debugging challenging for sure, but that's
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by funklute 4y ago
Perhaps you could explain why?
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No it's not. You can rewrite history.
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by funklute 4y ago
I agree that databases on their own are never tamper resistant. But you can certainly set up a process around the database that guarantees tamper resistance. You'll still have to trust said process, and with blockchain you still have t
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by funklute 4y ago
How so? With git, you have to manually resolve merge conflicts. With blockchain, the general point is to use PoW (or something equivalent) to automatically do a vote on which is the correct version. Isn't that also the case in a privat
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by funklute 4y ago
For a start, the hardware. I hate working on glossy screens, and it's not possible these days to get macs with matte screens (I know I can install a diffuser, but for the price point apple operates at, I shouldn't need to spend ex
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by funklute 4y ago
> Imagine making the same argument for 7 year old chimney sweeps in Victorian England, and the flaw in your argument becomes more obvious. It doesn't make it any more obvious to me. That 7 year old Victorian chimney sweep still has
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by funklute 5y ago
Ok. But no matter what terminology you want to use, it is still the case that there is plenty of literature that shows we are biased towards conflating correlation with causation. That is fact, not opinion. If you want to criticise the evid
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by funklute 5y ago
> pattern recognition has to do with raw data This statement makes no sense at all. Pattern recognition applies to any data. That's not even contested terminology. (besides, just redefine your processed data to be your new raw data,
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by funklute 5y ago
Well, both really. But in practice, erroneously identifying correlations doesn't tend to be quite so big a problem as conflating correlation with causation. The former is easy to address with strict data recording, whereas the latter i
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by funklute 5y ago
No, but conflating correlation for causation _is_ excess pattern recognition.
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> There is also no hardwired conflation of correlation with causation, it's just a general jumping to conclusions error. There is plenty of literature in the neuroscience and psychology fields that show we are biased towards finding
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by funklute 5y ago
On the other hand, people repeating "correlation != causation" ad nauseam is, in my opinion, one of the great success stories of science communication. Proving causation is the singular most difficult general problem across many s
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by funklute 5y ago
> Are we talking about Ruby? I wasn't thinking specifically of Ruby (and indeed I don't know Ruby, nor was I aware that it has this kind of support). Rather, I was thinking about programming languages in general, since the top-
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by funklute 5y ago
But this kind of functional composition often doesn't have first-class support in the language syntax. That is, it often requires you to rely on helper functions or libraries. As a result, it's not nearly as readable or intuitivel
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> SPAs are not designed for developer productivity Unless your app is big enough to have separate developers/teams for backend and frontend. In this case I'm relatively convinced by the argument that it allows you to decouple t
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by funklute 5y ago
> but we've decided not to cut our emissions What? Where do you have this from?
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by funklute 5y ago
> So first up, the stat is usually fatalities per TwH, since that skews things in Nuclear's direction Isn't this precisely the metric you want? If you want to convince me (and perhaps others as well), I think you need to go a l

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