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by hhas01 7y ago
“perpetuating this mindset is the ultimate sin of modern psychiatry and the entire industry of psychiatric pharmaceuticals” O-kaaaay. But, as the science kids all say: [Citation required] (Please note Scopie’s Law is now in full effect.
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by hhas01 7y ago
Ooh, and while I remember: https://archive.org/details/thirtyyearsinmo00chrigoog Written by this fellow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugald_Christie_(missionary)
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by hhas01 7y ago
“In the Asian world, traditional Systems of Medicine focus on "holistic" treatment” [rant on] I believe the term you’re looking for here is “fabulist bullshit”. “the general public often calls Western Medicine, "Allopathy wit
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by hhas01 7y ago
“Your take is like a professional sports manager saying having good athletes isn't important, the quality of the manager's managing is the only thing that matters.” Postscript: You misread me. I understand where Jobs was coming fr
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“Jobs was far more of a "tech guy" than either Sculley or Cook.” Very true. “Renaissance Man” is a such cliche, but Steve Jobs really was. Having those tech skills and interests under his belt is what made him such a fabulous tech
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by hhas01 7y ago
ISTR a tale of Legal keeping a large slush fund from which to pay off all the ex-Apple-employees that Steve 2.0 would straight tell to their face to fuck off. Just because that is what worked best for him †. :) “But let us admit, it is not
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by hhas01 7y ago
“Those people deserve respect and recognition too.” ORLY? Name them. -- Not “great man”. Great vision . Geeks tend massively to overrate the importance technical aptitude, which is what they’re good at, and underrate everything else—busine
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by hhas01 7y ago
True, but a technology is only a means to an end, not an end itself. What sells is product. You may have the finest tech on the planet—and that means precisely squat. What counts is putting bums on seats. Your seats. And keeping them th
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It’s a matter of scale. Driver crashes a car, kills a few. Personal liability, local reporting. Rest of world rolls on. Airliner crashes, kills hundreds. Global headlines. Massive corporate responsibility. Very bad for business; just ask Pa
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Indeed. This is not an accident. But memories are short and greed is long, and those who “forget” that every safety reg was written in the blood of others can sleep easy beneath golden parachutes and very good lawyers. Honestly, best thing
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“We need to draw a line somewhere between safety & cost.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiB8GVMNJkE
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by hhas01 7y ago
“Mutable<Pointer<...>> either makes the wrong thing mutable, or makes too much stuff mutable.” You may be reading `Mutable<>` overly literally. I just used generic notation for familiarity; that doesn’t mean it’d map direc
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by hhas01 7y ago
Correct. `let` = constant binding, `var` = variable binding, and except for top-level (global) declarations they are always block scoped. BUT, there is a gotcha: this “constantness” only applies to the name-value binding, not to the value i
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by hhas01 7y ago
“If only C had those how safer it would be!” Indeed it would be, because then no-one would want to use C. All languages are abstractions, but there are good abstractions and there are bad abstractions, and a truly depressing number of Swift
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by hhas01 7y ago
“Almost every language is multi paradigm” Considering most language paradigms are mutually contradictory, this only serves to increase the LOLs.
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by hhas01 7y ago
I make languages and I LOLed. Self-awareness, good knowledge of CS history, and a huge heaping helping of humility are all key prerequisites to inventing a language that is even marginally less appalling than all of its predecessors. “You
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by hhas01 7y ago
Public interfaces should ideally be formally typed, both to provide a behavioral contract between parties and to serve as user documentation. Whether the contract is enforced at compile- or run-time is secondary to having a formal mechanism
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There are ten different pointer types, all with different and not easily memorized APIs.
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by hhas01 7y ago
Would not be my first choice. A good REPL allows you to write code quickly and off the top of your head. As article notes, Swift’s C pointer/buffer semantics are absolutely horrendous, liable to melt the top of your head instead. If yo
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by hhas01 7y ago
“To wit what comprises "hate speech". It's basically come to mean "point of view in disagreement with my group's current position which may change in the future"” Citations required.
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by hhas01 7y ago
“But then, it's also possible that some of the WHO staff or consultants were biased.” Indeed. Which it is why declaring COIs is so important. e.g. From a followup piece on Forbes (emphasis mine): https://www.forbes.com/
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by hhas01 7y ago
Interesting. Hadn’t heard of Cap’n’Proto. A clever idea, although I do wonder if it’s being too clever for its own good, being unnecessarily restrictive. Dr William Cook (who designed much of Mac OS’s “RPC-plus-queries” IPC model) explored
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by hhas01 7y ago
“Are the variables "copied"?” Thinking in terms of C-style variables may be unhelpful. Instead, consider Smalltalk “variables” as scoped names bound to heap-allocated objects. You can bind as many names as you like to a given obje
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by hhas01 7y ago
Self doesn’t have classes or inheritance, and it’s as [single-dispatch] OO as they come. (Certainly moreso than something like C++, which wouldn’t look out of place on a Melanesian island. Never could figure why C++ and all its typed kin wo
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As this needs clarified: You’re the one who brought up the state’s overriding “interference” in parental decisions that impact their sick children. You’re the one bringing black-white thinking to a complex and difficult problem space th
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by hhas01 7y ago
Ah, the familiar pseudo-libertarian argument: the Rights of the Individual Trump All…also, my child is not an Individual but parental chattel to do to as I will. Mate, that’s not Libertarian, that’s “Egomaniacal Authoritarian From Hell” w
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by hhas01 7y ago
>> Sorry, but you appear to have gotten Religion in your science. > I'm not drawing parallels between the two as I'm personally not Religious And if I say “It’s just a metaphor, dude”, your reply is…? .. Here is your prob
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by hhas01 7y ago
I’m sorry, it’s hard to remain polite when posters talk of playing with others’ lives like they’re the latest Apple geegaw. Especially nerds, who—let’s admit it—are amongst the world’s worst at owning their own screwups. Honestly, if some f
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by hhas01 7y ago
“Biohacker community” Sorry, but you appear to have gotten Religion in your science. Not that I give a crap as long as it’s only your funeral, but like all evangelicals you never can just stop there. “corrupt Western model” Paranoid and rac
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Insanity. (Though when end-user automation does work it is epic AF.)

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