konjin

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by konjin 6y ago
The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, and the lapdogs of the 1% are using divide and conquer to keep this going. That is something Cicero would understand, let alone someone with a working brain from 1984. Of course one
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by konjin 6y ago
Wikipedia is a not for profit and it's still been acquired, just by people who are insane instead of rich. Until everyone can own their own copy and moderate it the dream of an open network is just that: a dream.
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by konjin 6y ago
GCC is a great C compiler and most of us are happy to keep it that way. The constant drumbeat of 'different different different' is not something I'm interested in. That I can compile C code written before I was born is more
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by konjin 6y ago
>Are you also outraged by the existence of clang, as it has a permissive license and competes with GCC? Yes.
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by konjin 6y ago
How many people who clean toilets do you know?
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by konjin 6y ago
Or a vocal minority cares a lot more about inserting capitalism everywhere, even when there are plenty of examples of places where toilets work fine without being paid.
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by konjin 6y ago
I look forward to the day that we can't use reheated arguments from last century about current events. It doesn't help that people who want to destroy our ability to think use Orwell as a manual - hate speech might as well be some
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by konjin 6y ago
Only if you know nothing about him or his life. He was cancelled in Britain from when he went to fight in the Spanish civil war until the end of WWII and the start of the cold war. Which is what makes his quote so noteworthy, he was right,
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by konjin 6y ago
If you ever had to deal with the literati you'd know that they never got past the level of 14 year olds. I'm convinced that they are lgbt friendly because it lets them have twice the drama since they aren't limited to sleepin
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by konjin 6y ago
The hardest thing for my generation to understand is that the politics of our youth are no longer the politics of the present. To quote the many times canceled Orwell: And this tolerance or plain dishonesty means much more than that admira
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by konjin 6y ago
More like: imagine if your code wasn't run on computers but written by hand, then it was rated by hn comments and finally the highest scoring comment was put into production which happened to be a fully automated pace maker used by mil
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by konjin 6y ago
Who exactly forced the NYT to support the Bush administrations preposterous claims about WMD? If journalists want to be lionized instead of demonized they should perhaps stand up to power, and not only when their friends don't like the
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by konjin 6y ago
> By modern standards he would be a sex offender for life. Age of consent in Britain in 16 and 14 in Central Europe. We also don't imprison 15 year olds for life. Not all the world suffers from Yankee puritanism to the benefit of ev
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by konjin 6y ago
Humor is a harmless pressure valve, why should those in power be worried by it?
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by konjin 6y ago
I feel the article ended before it started. Did they find anything? What are some interesting rules of thumb? Is there any theory you can draw about long path networks?
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by konjin 6y ago
This sort of comment is sexist. It adds nothing to the conversation and is made just to demean a group of people you dislike.
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by konjin 6y ago
>So should a human born as a woman who happens to naturally have higher testosterone than is typical in other women, be excluded from women's sport? Of course not. Should women who inject testosterone be banned from sports?
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by konjin 6y ago
All of them.
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by konjin 6y ago
In the same way that objects are just tables in disguise. Sure it's true in some way, but the impedance mismatch is huge and horrible. There is a reason why the internals of all major cas systems use rewrite rules instead of objects wi
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by konjin 6y ago
Types only appear in type theory in mathematics. The rest of it is based around objects built on top arbitrarily tall towers of sets which types are simply unable to capture. The smarts in mathematics is based in the rewrite rules, not the
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by konjin 6y ago
After playing around with them for a while types seem like the wrong paradigm for symbolic work. Term rewriting systems based on rules capture most mathematical manipulation far better than ones based on functions and classes. Differentiati
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by konjin 6y ago
I have a stone that keeps covid away, you can't afford to not buy it.
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by konjin 6y ago
You're just moving the complexity from strings into unsigned integers. Your strings are limited by the size of whatever you put in the head of the string. Sure 16 exabytes sounds like a lot today, but so did 4 billion ip addresses. Dif
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by konjin 6y ago
In a toy language I once wrote I got around that by encoding binary values as quaternary values and using a ternary system on top of that with a termination character: 11 = 1; 01 = 0; 00 = end; 10 was unused. Having truly unbounded integers
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by konjin 6y ago
Smaller than the energy required to run Ireland, unlike bitcoin. An algorithm designed to be wasteful in energy wasting energy is not something we should be shocked at.
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by konjin 6y ago
Alienating 50% of customers, and lets be honest these are the stupider customers you can more easily monetize, is not a good move for anyone trying to make money, which is the point of a startup. A well thought out Gab that was politically
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by konjin 6y ago
Ok, I can see why you'd get expelled over that.
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by konjin 6y ago
That isn't anger, it's genuine incredulity.
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by konjin 6y ago
I'm a minority, and I feel really fucking stupid that I have to say that so I don't get banned, but how on earth can anyone get expelled for saying they support the policy of the US government? That is insular to the point of cari
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by konjin 6y ago
Space only grows as l^3 and the speed of light. Any species that does not limit the number of surviving children per parent to two will run out of space no matter what they do.

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