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by keybored 1y ago
> Zig does share some things with C - the language is simple and values explicitness - but at its core is one of the most sophisticated (and novel) programming primitives we've ever seen: A general and flexible partial evaluation en
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by keybored 1y ago
What’s the evidence that it is human-generated? Oh I see. If it is AI generated then you still have to judge it by its merit, manually. (Or can I get an AI to do it for me?) And if they lied about it being human-authored? Well what if the a
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by keybored 1y ago
As we know AI is at least as smart as the average human. It knows the Zeitgeist and thus adds “No AI used” in order to boost “credibility”. :) (“credibility” since AI is at least as smart the average human, for us in the know.)
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by keybored 1y ago
Let me google that for you? No. It’s more like. Let me read the error message for you. The error message says what is wrong. The one that you posted (to your credit). It’s right there. Or they say that they don’t know what is wrong. And t
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by keybored 1y ago
Us Euros here are all terminally online^W^W well-educated English-speaking citizens. Reader discretion is advised.
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by keybored 1y ago
Given that the problems are known and given that things are changing rapidly, we should expect them to be solved eventually (by some force)? No, I think the burden of proof is on whoever wants to address those problems. Not just refer to
907.
by keybored 1y ago
I don’t understand why the software luminaries are coalescing around rapid-coding. Code generation was already a thing for forever. And deterministic code generation is as good as it possibly gets for “what I would have written but faster”—
908.
by keybored 1y ago
Neither are the real metric here. Taiwan is a US ally, China (mainland) is not, this is a US board. The reasoning goes backwards from that point.[1] You have to be on the level of Israel’s aggression to lose the “liberal democracy” cover th
909.
by keybored 1y ago
Is this democracy according to the math department? This does not conflict with the claim I made.
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by keybored 1y ago
Remember a basic premise. For actually existing democracy the people have power. The people have power yet they have urgent “fish to fry” like getting food and keeping their homes? Why are they so apparently downtrodden when they have power
911.
by keybored 1y ago
Then it has never existed.
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by keybored 1y ago
Democracy which is all about "leaders" is not democracy. Find another word.
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by keybored 1y ago
> Markets tend toward monopoly like democracies tend towards dictatorship. Democracies tend towards dictatorship? Oh right, most nominal democracies are liberal democracies. Makes sense now. > Changing a failing system is very hard. I
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by keybored 1y ago
> Lack of autonomy is the most draining thing. ... > Markets are beautiful things when they work. They allow individuals to offer their services to the world in exactly the way they find best. Which feels good. And is great for a posi
915.
by keybored 1y ago
What if work felt easy? > I felt like I should catch up to stay relevant in the changing tech landscape, but that feeling just didn’t translate to action. > Then, a few months ago, I had this silly idea for a Trader Joe’s snack box bu
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by keybored 1y ago
Out of the mountains of content, one single symbol would provoke the ire of non-ascii reactionaries. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44072922 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45766969 https:/
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by keybored 1y ago
Please spare us the typical - Look at people using identity-focused reasoning with politics - It’s research! - That’s the same as those <programming language tropes> - Because I have some anecdotes about that But the person making the
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by keybored 1y ago
Okay. All fair points. :)
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by keybored 1y ago
> I was referring to this specific part of the comment I replied to: "Americans are averse to learning languages as opposed to other people". My response is a very accurate explanation of the reasons why this is a) an unfair wa
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by keybored 1y ago
> Very uncharitable way to phrase that, American second language prevalance is similar to other English dominant countries like the UK or the Australia. No. Yours is uncharitable because it has got nothing to do with how many languages y
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by keybored 1y ago
Maybe you’re an exception but this place’s demographics probably does not have a wide Latino-American network compared to other demos.
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by keybored 1y ago
> I have never heard this term before, > > In Spanish, the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas (English: Pan-Hispanic Dictionary of Doubts), published by the Royal Spanish Academy and the Association of Academies of the Spanish Langu
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by keybored 1y ago
People discover that they are healthy until one day (when they live long enough) that they are not. > The point I’m trying to make isn’t to make you sympathetic. It’s to reinforce in all of the great technical minds here that healthcare
924.
by keybored 1y ago
> If this were true, the number of Americans I have known who People only live in one unvarnished (more or less) reality at a time. Americans live in America and get told stuff about “Europe”; Europeans live in Europe (or their respectiv
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by keybored 1y ago
Thanks. That’s helpful.
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by keybored 1y ago
A Princeton study showed over a decade ago that the policy preferences of the vast majority of Americans have no correlation with actual policies. That you put forth these completely detached theories is quite impressive. I don’t know if th
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by keybored 1y ago
When you get downvoted for making the obvious statement that you have to maximize profits as a capitalist entity, well, you know you’re in a venture capital forum.
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by keybored 1y ago
Why do you address us as if we collectively went down to the town center and three dozen times in a row and decided on the same thing by consensus? For most of us this was shoved down our throats by sheer force of violence. And why always t
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by keybored 1y ago
IANAA.
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by keybored 1y ago
> The problem is that we are running out of alternatives. But why is that? HN told me that ads were just reserved for people who refused to “pay for the product”. By inference we must conclude that for-pay products shall not have ads on

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