ghettoimp

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by ghettoimp 6y ago
> Biphasic and triphasic are actually pretty normal, historically. Is there evidence of this? I'm not doubting - I think I've seen this suggested before. I just don't know how people figured this out?
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
I of course agree completely that a journalist should be open minded, aware of their own bias, conduct thorough research, interview knowledgeable people, and all of that. At the end of this process they are ideally quite an expert in whate
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
That is a pretty wild Wikipedia page.
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
I thing "government intervention" is too nuanced and expansive of a concept to meaningfully debate as if it were one thing. It would include at least: Police-state policies. Examples: laws against voluntary drug use, policies lik
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
I might be one of these people? I want a government that trusts us and respects our rights (e.g., non police state) and that helps to provide for the poor and vulnerable (e.g., healthcare). I don't see any conflict between these goals.
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
This is completely fair and is absolutely a very real thing for many people. But only about 19% of the US population lives in rural areas, for some definition [1] of rural. Unlike rural areas, cities are dense enough that we could certainl
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
The "all things are nails, always use hammers" mentality is almost explicitly what I am arguing against. My mention of SQL was particularly deliberate. It's an especially successful high level declarative language with clear
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
I strongly disagree with the idea that lower level is better. Yes, lower-level languages allow for programs with good performance, small executables, and so forth. There are many domains where they are clearly the way to go. But higher-lev
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
> Where is the anger when people try to set speed records on boats? These do not seem to be remotely comparable. Wikipedia has a list [1] of several people that died in water speed record attempts. This list does has several names on it
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
So... yeah. I log into FB about once a day and see some pictures of friends who live far away and their children. Sometimes people post funny things. A couple of friends occasionally post interesting or thought provoking articles. My exp
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
I think you're slightly confused about the kind of racism being discussed. You rightly point out that there has been tremendous exploitation of (for instance) Africa by Europe, and that a lot of this exploitation has been justified by
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
This is probably just a matter of how one defines "family". On one level there's my "real", immediate family (my spouse, my children). On another level there's my "real" extended family (parents, oth
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
I'm no doctor. I just tried to research the COVID death rate and I found a lot of conflicting and nuanced information. My impression is that if you want to make claims around this, you should cite sources. Unfortunately the best art
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
I am very skeptical. This state-machine approach seems much more like an implementation than a specification. Having a reference implementation could certainly be a good thing, but this doesn't even look like something one could run
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
"Cheating" implies something sinister. Far more likely, they just missed it. Modern CPUs are at the very edge of what humans can design and build. Hundreds of verification engineers try to make sure they work. Not one of them w
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
Wait, really? My understanding was that, whereas VW intentionally cheated to fool regulators, Intel (and others) got blind-sided by a creative attack against a fundamental, well-established technique for gaining performance. These seem li
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
> Now I'm thinking that the situation in the US is even worse than that; not only are corporations trying to discredit the government, but the government is working hard to discredit itself as well. Of course it is. Powerful and mot
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
Huh. Slack's MacOS UI is the first thing I thought of when reading this article. No titlebar with standard icons. Bizarre mechanisms for popping up dialogs. It could be a poster-child for inconsistency with every "normal"
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
Backward compatibility is a laudable goal and is not to be broken lightly. But sometimes, things are so fundamentally broken that we would be far better off with a clean break. Interoperability is quite possibly a good argument for comin
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
You're absolutely right. Unfortunately the broken-ness of the interview process is not limited to the interview itself. I've interviewed around 40-50 folks for $role at $wildly_successful_megacorp. My qualifications: zero trainin
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by ghettoimp 7y ago
Works beautifully in Common Lisp. Of course, it is not mainstream. ? (< 0 1 2) T ? (< 0 -1 2) NIL
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by ghettoimp 7y ago
Hard to say. At start of year, situation normal, the economy we had was unsustainable. We were collectively waging war on our environment and winning. Folks mostly had jobs, which was good, but income inequality was nuts and lots of jobs d
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by ghettoimp 7y ago
One of my most successful development experiences came from starting not with code, but with a keynote/powerpoint slide deck. It made me think through exactly what it was I was trying to achieve, what it would involve, and how it woul
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by ghettoimp 7y ago
This seems like a really nice chart. I haven't seen the data "normalized" to start date like this before.
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by ghettoimp 7y ago
Hrmn. This makes it sound like you can only implement a systematically racist system if you are overtly/intentionally trying to be racist. I suspect in many cases, folks who implement racist systems simply do not care whether their sy
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by ghettoimp 7y ago
This rings so, so true. At my very large company, in my particular department, any one trouble ticket may bounce between (1) a Java ticketing app (2) a web/email ticketing system (3) a Jira issue, or (4) a Gitlab issue, or (5) a compan
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by ghettoimp 7y ago
Definitely. At a very large company, I was involved in hiring something like programmers for a particular niche department. Over years we developed a good set of battle-tested questions, and had a clear process for evaluating candidates. B
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by ghettoimp 7y ago
Yes exactly. TCL is somehow even more weakly typed than conventional dynamically typed languages. For instance, in Python, len(3) is an error, but in TCL, llength 3 is 1.
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by ghettoimp 7y ago
Not to be mean about it or anything, but I really dislike TCL. Granted, you could do much worse. Unlike shell scripts you at least have access to sensible data structures like lists, dictionaries, and so on. And unlike shell scripts or Ma
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by ghettoimp 7y ago
All of hardware is tradeoffs. A huge L1 would be slower to access. You might end up slowing down all memory accesses by a cycle (or more) just for accessing the large cache. You also have to find some place to put the thing in your floorp

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