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by geofft 5y ago
Start?
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by geofft 5y ago
I see what you're getting at, but this is a bit of a motte-and-bailey argument. While it is literally true that widespread acceptance of racism and sexism was (and is) motivated by a desire to avoid being wrong in the eyes of prevailin
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by geofft 5y ago
Also, take a look at the history of eugenics, which was seen in the years before World War II as a legitimate and noble scientific goal - to improve the human species by the application of science and engineering, no more immoral than breed
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by geofft 5y ago
Yeah, this feels like a survivorship bias fallacy (cf. the famous diagram of where surviving airplanes had bullet holes and the fact you need to reinforce all the other spots, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorshi
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by geofft 5y ago
If you wouldn't have written the library if it weren't for your job, and you use the library to get your job done... it doesn't really matter if it's open source. If you're in a jurisdiction and under an employment
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by geofft 5y ago
Fun anecdote about that: at work we added a wrapper around nvcc to point it at the right compiler, and renamed the original "nvcc" binary to ".nvcc-wrapped". But nvcc looks at argv[0] to print out its name in the --versi
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by geofft 5y ago
In some sense, that's "just" radio. An antenna is a wire... it's sending a signal and picking it up from a very nearby antenna. Radio transmissions are all AC. (Arguably, the real insight here is that the very existence
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by geofft 5y ago
The US has such a deeply successful propaganda program that they don't need to - a bunch of individual "patriots" will gladly just publish government ideology on their own without needing any sort of coordination or leadershi
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by geofft 5y ago
That document does recommend "school measures and closures" and "workplace measures and closures" for severe epidemics, and it also does in fact recommend "internal travel restrictions" once it becomes a pand
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by geofft 5y ago
You can see the whole legal argument - it's linked from the first sentence of the article, and it quotes the relevant section of the employee code of conduct: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21119310-google
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by geofft 5y ago
> the claim that lockdowns work (they don't and this was known before COVID times) This is a bold claim and I'd be curious to see you back this up. By "lockdowns" - do you mean actual, genuine lockdowns / quara
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by geofft 5y ago
Since it's Sunday morning and my religious tradition is on my mind, I hope you won't mind me posting a theory based in that tradition. The response to the pandemic has reminded me of nothing so much as the demons in C. S. Lewis&#x
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by geofft 5y ago
Did you study the figures in the blog post? On what basis do you believe the concerns are "very valid"? I do agree with you that mockery is unlikely to win hearts and minds, but the whole problem here is that the concerns are not
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by geofft 5y ago
The post does exactly this, calling out Alex Berenson by name - but despite its best efforts, it will have very little impact on the people paying him to receive BS directly from his Substack. I don't think your opinion is unpopular be
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by geofft 5y ago
> Julia says: > A language must compile to efficient code, and we will add restrictions to the language (type stability) to make sure this is possible. > A language must allow post facto extensibility (multiple dispatch), and
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by geofft 5y ago
It's the English spelling of the Greek name for an Egyptian god: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoth The actual Egyptian pronunciation, as best as we can reconstruct it, uses sounds that didn't exist in eithe
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by geofft 5y ago
I agree with the rest of this, but I'm not sure about 4. If you're new to a system, you don't have a good sense of who "really needs" access, and in particular you don't have a good sense of all the terrible, a
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by geofft 5y ago
What, exactly, is the persuasive counterargument for basic morality? Why isn't morality axiomatic? Let's put it this way - the argument above would also apply to saying that a private citizen who catches a thief stealing their cat
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by geofft 5y ago
While I agree the license is badly written, I think you can construct an argument that the common workflows do not violate the license: - 4.b says, "You must cause any modified files to carry prominent notices stating that You changed
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by geofft 5y ago
To be clear, Musk did not start Tesla.
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by geofft 5y ago
Microsoft is a very large company. Anyone who's worked at a company even a tenth the size of Microsoft knows how hard it is to get the company to pick a direction. The only real direction you can get everyone to agree on is "pro
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by geofft 5y ago
Well, that's not true: - Almost all distros don't just supply one version of a package. They try to avoid it, but I can't recall one with a hard rule against it. For instance, Debian packages multiple versions of autoconf ht
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by geofft 5y ago
Virtualenvs don't require using unfiltered/unsupervised/untrusted sources. They're a place to install things into, not a place to get things from. The specific model that distros could adopt, if we went this route, is th
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by geofft 5y ago
This is a very weird post to read, as someone who does (occasional) distro Python work - I feel like Python absolutely is listening to us! It's just that it's hard work, and distro packaging is mostly done by volunteers, and there
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by geofft 5y ago
Largely because nobody has ever found Python to be dog slow. Put your unoptimized Python into production, you'll be fine.
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by geofft 5y ago
If you continued reading past the point where you didn't know things, you would know more things. :)
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by geofft 5y ago
You're saying you have less problems untangling C/C++/Fortran/etc. code left from previous folks who wanted to ship something and move on?
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by geofft 5y ago
My point is simply that Sweden chose a response. You are absolutely welcome to argue that they chose a better response than what others chose, that they served the greater good for cheaper, that the surviving Swedes are happier. But every
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by geofft 5y ago
Before Airbnb there was Couchsurfing. I think academic publishers are a better argument against the unnecessity of Airbnb than Airbnb is an argument for the necessity of academic publishers.
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by geofft 5y ago
Can you suggest a news outlet without an unacceptable privacy policy that the author could go work at instead? (Any plausible definition of "news outlet" works here, as long as it pays the author and reaches an audience.)

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