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by grandempire 1y ago
I think that is merely skin deep - Catholicism provided an interesting setting or scenery for a story, rather than being the subject.
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by grandempire 1y ago
Yes I think that’s right. Thanks for sharing. Kids of the 60s-70s who were outsiders because of their academic/nerdy interest became teachers and created a culture with the ideals they thought were missing. And that’s what I experience
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by grandempire 1y ago
It is a function. What do you mean?
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by grandempire 1y ago
Ok, I don’t think OPs comment is about eliminating lgbt books from the library.
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by grandempire 1y ago
> reeks of "I don't want LGBTQ representation in my library" or similar. Hmm I thought that libraries promoting lgbt content to kids was a conspiracy theory.
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by grandempire 2y ago
What seems silly to me is the particular cultural excitement and optimism around education and liberalism, and the way it was manifest in school, that I lived through as a kid and is now dead.
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by grandempire 2y ago
What did it do for you?
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by grandempire 2y ago
> The idea they are under the control of the president and his staff is a novelty Not true. Do you know about how these agencies came to be? And the presidency under FDR? The executive Power shall be vested in a President Find a single
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by grandempire 2y ago
> I still think the most important thing we can do is empower children to be as smart and well-rounded as they can be I agree. If we were actually gifted kids they should have given us real challenges with a chance of failure or discover
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by grandempire 2y ago
It’s safe to say the market who purchases books is women, under the age of 40.
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by grandempire 2y ago
No I don’t doubt your ability to read. I just happened to grow up in a similar time and culture with libraries, child prodigies, etc and it seems quaint and a little silly in retrospect.
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by grandempire 2y ago
> I had a collegiate reading level since i was 6 or 7 They told me that one too.
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by grandempire 2y ago
Libraries vary greatly in quality. I don’t know why this is downvoted.
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by grandempire 2y ago
dei programs in academia and corporations aren’t limited to breaking ties at the end of hiring. But I can consider the possibility in good faith. I think giving someone who might normally not have the chance is a good tie breaker. I’m oppos
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by grandempire 2y ago
I think this is an online minority positions. There are a lot of well intentioned concerns which have nothing to do with “supremacy “
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by grandempire 2y ago
Why even have an interview or evaluate performance if everything is unknowable? You use your best judgment and consider many factors. You make mistakes and get better with experience. What we don’t want to have happen is a conflict between
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by grandempire 2y ago
State is just values which are not considered to be variable function inputs - in other words each time you change state you have new functions. For example f(x, y) = xy and then defining a differentiable function g(x) = f(x, a). You can im
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by grandempire 2y ago
This is also an advantage of blocking code. It’s just regular code. The async stuff is handled by the operating system.
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by grandempire 2y ago
My original comment here has not been flagged - but all my responses to other comments have. This is distorting the conversation. There is only one DOGE narrative allowed on this site.
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by grandempire 2y ago
Good comment.
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by grandempire 2y ago
So then your comment about C being an outdated PDP-11 must be equally true of other languages. So it says nothing.
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by grandempire 2y ago
Indeed the meaning of independent is more limited. But what wants to be implied by the media and posters here - the reason why the article leads with this, is to suggest these are groups that cannot be commanded by the president and his sta
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by grandempire 2y ago
I think a lot of Supreme Court cases will come out of this administration, I just don’t think the sovereignty of independent federal agencies is going to be one of them. I guess we will wait and see.
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by grandempire 2y ago
> The idea that the president can just ignore these laws because of a "unitary executive" theory is authoritarian bullshit. The question of whether the president is violating congresses power by downsizing or neutering an agenc
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by grandempire 2y ago
> That a federal agency can be small & independent? Yes. They are either in the legislative, executive, or judicial branch. And before you send more Wikipedia links, be aware there is a long history and chain of Supreme Court cases a
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by grandempire 2y ago
> particularly when those staffers noticed a spike in data leaving the agency. It's possible that the data included sensitive information on unions, ongoing legal cases and corporate secrets This entire article appears to be specula
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by grandempire 2y ago
Are we having a discussion about the greatest language of all time? What’s your context here.
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by grandempire 2y ago
There is unpopular - and then there is can I get a working toolchain for modern OS that’s not emulated.
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by grandempire 2y ago
Well sounds like you are confident and we are going to get into a semantic argument about what qualifies as a pointer. So which of these languages do you think is a better representation of hardware and not a PDP-11?
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by grandempire 2y ago
It also has pointers which are absent from most languages but essential to instruction sets.

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