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by konjin 6y ago
What would success have looked like? Stealing the original copy of the constitution and using whiteout to change the bits they didn't like?
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by konjin 6y ago
>We created Glamorous Toolkit to provide a concrete start for the "how not to read code" conversation. Glamorous Toolkit is a moldable development environment that makes it possible to create custom tools about software systems
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by konjin 6y ago
I'm old enough to remember that being said about chess and go. We do not need general purpose AI to solve either of those, and neither do we need it for solving mathematical problems.
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by konjin 6y ago
Were that the case we could use human brains in jars to solve np problems. We can't. Human intuition is a poor thing that got us through the middle ages. It should stay there.
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by konjin 6y ago
>For those who disagree, how do you explain the very large number of people who spends tons of time and energy trying to get good at maths but fails to even grasp simple concepts like calculus? Calculus isn't simple, calculus is an
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by konjin 6y ago
A good time to shill for the open source, distributed reddit alternative: https://getaether.net/ It even includes mining for new posts which is a simple yet surprisingly effective way to limit people's willingness to s
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by konjin 6y ago
A good time to shill for the open source, distributed reddit alternative: https://getaether.net/
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by konjin 6y ago
It must have been a very bad history class then: >required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp.[1][2] Printed materials included legal documents,
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by konjin 6y ago
The subreddit is also ~banned~ private. A good time to shill Aether : https://getaether.net/ Like reddit, but decentralized and distributed. They even have a wsb sub.
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by konjin 6y ago
It's going to be a long four years: https://twitter.com/jeneps/status/1354495049397055494
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by konjin 6y ago
Yes. Python is glue. If you build a stick bridge with just glue you sound like the type of person who ate most of it.
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by konjin 6y ago
Indeed, I've moved to Guile as my small scripting language. It has much better integration with the gnu user space, and much like pythons early days if you know C you can write extremely performant code. The fact that I can write a DSL
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by konjin 6y ago
That's not been the case for a very long time now.
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Yes, I already said a tsunami of developers who do not know how to use python.
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>People who use dynamically-typed languages are finally realizing that having to simulate a type-checker mentally is a bad idea. I'd say that the pool of python developers has been swamped by a tsunami of former java/c# develop
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This is what it looks like anyway. You just don't put it in any form that can be subpoenaed.
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by konjin 6y ago
If this helps anyone: I bought options for Palantir because whats his face is a vampire. I will continue my vampire based trading ~~strategy~~ gambling, so all CEO better start stealing blood from teenagers if they want my money.
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by konjin 6y ago
That comes from chans, which the average wsber from 3 years ago would have spent their teen years in. It is literally men hitting middle age, finding they have more money than they know what to do with and shit posting with it. This is said
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by konjin 6y ago
Why?
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Another word for DSLs is functions (and objects). DSLs are just better integrated into the base language so your source code doesn't look like: three = two.add(one)
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>So he’s a scientist. Yes, not an engineer.
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As opposed to shadow pollution, and air obstruction. A lake somewhere being unswimmable is a small price to pay for a livable world.
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by konjin 6y ago
>Why does this non-sense get constantly rehashed all the time? Because journalists are not engineers: https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
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It doesn't.
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>If my first employer had told young 20-something Me "I'm afraid we're not going to let you come in and sit in this felt cube every day after all. Instead we're going to ask that you fly to Thailand and work from a la
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by konjin 6y ago
It's hard to get sick from my coworkers when I have literally not been face to face with them in months.
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Again Americans aren't any better. My blond grandmother was in a camp because she was a slav but somehow racism against white people doesn't exist. Both are equally stupid, but in different ways
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by konjin 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOA75NAoN6Q There is a low tech solution to every problem. For a real world example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Igloo_White#Conclusi...
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by konjin 6y ago
The US isn't better or worse than Europe, it's different. Having lived in both the hypocrisy of Europeans when it comes to police brutality to gypsies is astonishing, doubly so since I'm half gypsy but white enough to get a f
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by konjin 6y ago
Same thing as old industrial buildings: artists, then gentrification. "This is the old converted office of Microsoft. In these very rooms people used to write the operating system that used to run the world."

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