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by lordlic 6y ago
That sentiment makes me pretty uncomfortable given the proximity of this article's topic to wider ongoing events. Like we should all pour glasses of single malt and sit around a table in our smoking jackets having a languorous discussi
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by lordlic 6y ago
> Go had first class tooling Eh, I would describe go's tooling as "minimalist" or, less charitably, as "barely adequate." Pre-modules the global GOPATH approach was hacky and ugly, and post-modules the go command
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by lordlic 6y ago
The reason that RDMSes aren't dead isn't that they have too much momentum to be displaced by NoSQL. The reason they're not dead is that they're a good data model for lots of applications, and their consistency semantics
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by lordlic 6y ago
I read that the same way until I realized that it would be fair to say that even I'm "intimidated" by C++ despite having quite a bit of experience with it. It's not a matter of cleverness or experience. You can know some
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by lordlic 6y ago
How much does this actually cost? I don't see pricing anywhere on the site. I assume that info comes with the trial email but TBH I don't want to waste my time with the trial if it's going to be out of my price range.
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by lordlic 6y ago
> We need to explain that the information about you can be passed among 25 different ad tech companies or it can be passed among 25 parts of Google. Which one of those is better or safer? That’s hard to know. Really? Neither option is gr
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by lordlic 6y ago
The largest system in the human brain is the one responsible for vision. There's a scary amount of computational power involved in a human completing simple-seeming visual tasks, and that's not always easy to reproduce with comput
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by lordlic 6y ago
Well, the cultural chauvinists elsewhere in this discussion are certainly in for a rude awakening but I don't know how much pain American programmers will feel. We have a lot of really first-rate engineers and product people, and we wo
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by lordlic 6y ago
The Gini coefficient would be a much better proxy for economic inequality/oppression than GDP per capita: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient
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by lordlic 6y ago
I guess it's worth clarifying what exactly you're talking about. If you want to share images and text with a small group of people, okay, that might be useful in some cases. But that's not the use case that Facebook users hav
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by lordlic 6y ago
I'm sympathetic to Chinese-style censorship, at least in theory before it degenerates into the state trying to suppress anything it considers embarrassing to itself. "The government thinks it knows what’s best for people" bec
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by lordlic 6y ago
> I don’t want youtube to be in charge of deciding what is credible or not. YouTube has to make these decisions because there's no one else willing or able to do the job. If the government established a Department of Social Media to
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by lordlic 7y ago
Setting aside all of the discussion about Microsoft's perennial new UI frameworks... does anyone else really dislike the Fluent design language? It feels weird and mobile-optimized and spaced-out and infested with odd special cases, an
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by lordlic 7y ago
> Many of us are sick of ... Not many enough to matter. > who cares BeCaUsE mAh BaLaNcE sHeEtS It is an actual concrete fact that in many (most?) cases the total cost of developing and owning an Electron-powered app is going to be low
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by lordlic 7y ago
I'm all for expanding Medicare and Social Security, but to be fair the government is perfectly able to continue funding these things on a temporary basis without payroll tax receipts. Presumably a bill to freeze FICA taxes would also c
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by lordlic 7y ago
The payroll tax holiday idea is bonkers. The people most in need of help here are hourly or gig workers who are told to stay home from work or who get sick and can't work. Paying less taxes on nonexistent wages doesn't help. It se
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by lordlic 7y ago
US national defense hasn't really been about, you know, defense in a long time. Politically-motivated proxy wars don't count.
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by lordlic 7y ago
The real solution, at least in metro areas, is using public transport instead of driving. And that is another reason not to buy a Tesla, because of the Musk empire's ongoing crusade against public transportation. Dollars spent on Tesla
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by lordlic 7y ago
I'm not just willing to accept some small tax increase, I'm willing to accept (and actively advocating/voting for) radical socialist transformation of our economy to a point that would be far beyond anything that would be in
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by lordlic 7y ago
By analogy... I'm a well-off technocrat and I think the big tech monopolies should be broken up and taxed more (and I think I should be taxed more also). That doesn't make me a hypocrite, it makes my position stronger because it
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by lordlic 7y ago
Those judgments appear organically through mechanisms as simple as how much coverage a topic gets. The worst case is that a bunch of circa 1900 Europeans write this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_histo
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by lordlic 7y ago
> You're making the bold assumption that the robots will actually work, instead of wasting ammunition on all the wrong targets, including friendlies I could easily imagine the US military deploying autonomous combat bots to some mid
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by lordlic 7y ago
I don't see the point of linking that either, but your "reality is neutral" argument is severely flawed. Wikipedia doesn't cover merely technical topics. Obviously there's not going to be a problem with systemic bia
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by lordlic 7y ago
Ads allow whomever has the deepest pockets to dominate the public's attention. Incumbents will have more money to spend, chilling the influence of new competitors. Most of the "disruptor" success stories that come to mind sta
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by lordlic 7y ago
> Neighbors previously complained about the replacement of historic streetlight poles for Van Ness BRT. Replacement poles made to look like the originals ballooned the project cost by $6.5 million, according to city documents This is a p
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by lordlic 7y ago
What a depressing attitude. Just because something is common doesn't mean it's acceptable.
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by lordlic 7y ago
Compared with Russell's day, we have those magic replicators. Agricultural technology today is such that one farmer can feed thousands of people. We're off in an asymptote where we gets closer and closer to zero cost for basic n
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by lordlic 7y ago
> The world has tremendous labor to be done. Is that so? There's already enough housing for everyone, with more empty houses than homeless people. Hunter-gatherer societies worked half or less as much as we do today, and they didn&#
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by lordlic 7y ago
"Kids these days with their wokeness. Back in my day we didn't care about things like human rights, wealth inequality, the plights of underrepresented groups, or destroying the planet. All these damned messy ethics are interferi
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by lordlic 7y ago
My eyebrows are practically in orbit. If you believe that, you're being fooled. There is plenty of money to give employees these kinds of benefits, especially in a high-margin business like software. We don't see it very often b

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