hearsathought

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by hearsathought 8mo ago
> 4. Make questioning it feel wrong. Frame the story so that scepticism looks like moral failure. You antisemite!
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by hearsathought 8mo ago
Lisp and Prolog never really "vived" nor were they ever really gone/dead. So they can't be revived. They've always been there, in the background, in their niche. As they always will.
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by hearsathought 8mo ago
Surely they will be sanctioning Israel like they sanctioned russia for attacking ukraine? After all aren't Canada and europe self proclaimed beacons of light?
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by hearsathought 8mo ago
> America and Israel are lawless countries. America is as much a victim of israel as iran is. You act like we have a choice in this matter. We are forced to cut funding for food programs, education, healthcare, etc because of soaring deb
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
> I think we can do without the baity title since most HN readers should know who Cantor and Dedekind are. Edit: okay, maybe not Dedekind. If you think most HN readers would know who Cantor is, let alone his ideas on infinity, then you h
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
> > Suddenly, the monstrosity of infinity, long feared by mathematicians, could no longer be relegated to some unreachable part of the number line. It hid within its every crevice. Think of the number line stretching from negative inf
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
> For much of history, this complexity was invisible to Westerners. Northwestern Europeans assumed that their way of doing things, lifelong monogamous marriage sanctified by religion and nuclear families with male breadwinners, was the n
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
> non-programmers began programming without knowing they were Using excel in the traditional sense isn't the same as programming. Unless they were doing some VBA or something like that which the vast majority of excel/spreadshe
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
> Not to mention all the numerous threats to wipe Israel off the map by Iran, Hez etc. That's a well debunked lie told by zionists for decades. Nobody cares anymore. Besides it's "israel" wiping palestine off the map.
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
> It was nitpicky and aggressive, as well as offtopic. What is aggressive about "Math, not Maths. You wouldn't called it Econs 101 would you?"? How is a comment directly about the headline offtopic? Nitpicky? Also every co
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
Do what? State my opinions? What exactly is wrong with my comment?
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
> * Chip design pays better than software in many cases You are comparing the narrowest niche of hardware engineering to the broad software profession overall? > (US and UK included; but excluding comparisons to Finance/FinTech s
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
> When we realised that in order to live in a society we’d need things like laws, democracy, courts, human rights, and so on. That's odd because the prononents of laws, democracy, courts, human rights, etc have shown to be not so ci
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
You would first have to imagine portuguese being the lingua franca of the iberian peninsula. Hard to imagine. Passing that hurdle, then you'd have to imagine portuguese being the lingua franca of western europe. Hard to imagine that. T
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
> it understands you intend to wash the car you drive but still suggests not bringing it. Doesn't it actually show it doesn't understand anything? It doesn't understand what a car is. It doesn't understand what a car
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
> We are, after all, a couple centuries of civility pained over millions of years of vicious apes. Interesting. When were these magical centuries of civility?
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
> It's still absolutely fascinating to me that basically the whole modern tech industry and the economic growth from it rests on the shoulders of a single company Stop getting your news from news. > that has all of their importan
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
If we are talking underrated films he was in, my choice would be Deep Impact.
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
> For a community that prides itself on "one small tool for a specific purpose," You think this "community" is a tech community? Let alone a unix community? And using a text editor for text processing is definitely al
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
> > And culture is, by and large, random, arbitrary, and self-reinforcing. Culture, by and large, isn't random nor arbitrary. Culture is obviously influenced by the past and the environment, but it's mostly artificially crea
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
> Doesn’t silent, invisible, intangible also apply to software? No. Because software is hardware. > You can’t really tell a particular piece of hardware is running software by a direct physical measurement. You can only infer that ind
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
> He was living a normal life. He has a family. He works. His IQ was tested at the time of his complaint. This came out to be 84, which is slightly below the normal range … So, this person is not bright — but perfectly, socially apt Was
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
> I use Opus 4.6 all day long and this is not my experience at all. It's not the experience of anyone who uses AI. People have put these AI through freshman level college CS courses and the results weren't impressive at all. &g
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
> She was director of program management at Macromedia, which anyone who works in tech knows is more like a secretary type of role asking for project updates and timelines. Also called Project Manager or Product Manager. It's genera
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
> > He contended the A was for addicting, the B for brains and the C for children. I thought it was Always Be Closing. > I guess feel the need to really dumb things down? Or making things simple, emotional and memorable?
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
> I never invited the extra surveillance middleman What's an extra layer of surveillance? Why accept the "credit and debit" surveillance middlemen but not the google/apple middlenmen? What the world needs are "ca
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
Isn't reddit infested by people complaining about "incels"?
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
> there is a also a very strong anti india sentiment on twitter / x just search for #india or look at the comments of posts made by people like vivek ramaswamy , nikki haley, and any other politician and you ll see it. In a time of
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by hearsathought 9mo ago
Why not call them yamnaya explorers? These "Indo-European" explorers were neither indian nor european. Not to mention the yamnaya language is neither an indian nor a european language.

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