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by ludston 2y ago
I think it is equivalent. It's not by default, a bad thing to take drugs in order to help control your mood. I am certainly an enjoyer of alchohol on rare occasions. It just becomes a problem when your dependence on it causes you to be
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by ludston 2y ago
So long as they are choosing to live in such a way that improves the lives of the people around them to some degree of their abilities rather than burdening the rest of us then it's fine. Do all the drugs you want.
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by ludston 2y ago
Even if it doesn't have physical side effects, it certainly must have psychological ones. My pet theory is that people relying on substances to emotionally regulate can neglect to develop the regular skills that everybody who doesn&#x2
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by ludston 2y ago
Yes. The trend is towards standardizing on an library called jzon. It's pretty decent.
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by ludston 2y ago
Roles are for services not for users. If you have a read-only Web api then it makes sense to use a read-only role regardless of which user is using it.
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by ludston 2y ago
It's not just thinking though. You're not sitting at your desk quietly running simulations in your head, and if a non programmer was watching you debug it would look very busy.
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by ludston 2y ago
Fluency in bug fixing looks like, "there was an unhandled concurrency error on write in the message importing service therefore I will implement a retry from the point of loading the message" and then you just do that. There are o
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by ludston 2y ago
Agree and disagree. Certain programming domains and problems are mostly thinking. Bug fixing is often debugging, reading and comprehension rather than thinking. Shitting out CRUD interfaces after you've done it a few times is not reall
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by ludston 3y ago
What? You mean capitalist nation rather than communist right?
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by ludston 3y ago
Yes. So you can not really argue that C# is better in the browser than javascript because unlike javascript it doesn't have native integration, or the same loads of documentation and libraries and tutorials and frameworks that are part
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by ludston 3y ago
I could probably give 20 different examples of this too. Not all of them would have identical compiler output, but the behaviour would be. E.g. you could add private int Foo { get; } = 4; To the above example given that the behaviour is ide
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by ludston 3y ago
All the same: int Foo => 4; private int Foo { get => 4; } private int Foo { get { return 4; } }
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by ludston 3y ago
Miles ahead of what? There is a reason that we write javascript in the browser and operating systems in c or c++, and telco services in erlang, and academic works in python rather than in C# or F#. .Net is the best at being .Net I guess. It
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by ludston 3y ago
I guess I can't take this seriously as soon as he said he didn't want decentralised version control.
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by ludston 3y ago
Lisp programmers often call these algol-like languages or c-like languages.
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by ludston 3y ago
> Or I can tell you that it in base 10, it has an infinite representation, Does it really have an infinite representation? I can't imagine an infinite representation fitting on a page. I'm pretty sure you're representin
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by ludston 3y ago
You can have as many different symbols as you like, so long as you can actually write them on paper. As soon as you tell me that one of those symbols is a number with infinite digits I will disagree with you, given that you are unable to te
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by ludston 3y ago
No, infinity is a different concept to all of those quite distinct concepts. There are also clear and observable uses for all of those things that make them hard to replace, whereas infinity is unique in that if you drop it as an axiom then
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by ludston 3y ago
Once you drop infinity as an axiom you have to think about fractions and repeating decimals differently. 1/3 isn't a real, it's a fraction. Fractions can be used to generate reals, and they can be used in algebra along with r
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by ludston 3y ago
Sure you can. Generate all 1 digit numbers, then generate all 2 digit numbers and so forth. Which number won't be generated?
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by ludston 3y ago
What price? In an algebraic setting you are never going to convert sqrt(2) into a real number, and in any practical setting you're going to have to round because nothing real actually has infinite precision.
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by ludston 3y ago
Sure I can. I start with the number of sheep I expect: 30, and then count backwards. When I count to -3 I know that I have too many sheep. There is no rule that says counting backwards isn't useful. Any positive number can be represent
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by ludston 3y ago
1/3 is also a special kind of procedure. It's 1 divided by 3. Either you use the isomorphic 0.3 repeater procedure where you recursively add 3 digits until you get bored or you have enough, or you use division to generate the numb
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by ludston 3y ago
If infinities don't exist then R and N don't have cardinality so that's not really a problem.
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by ludston 3y ago
Well, you have to ask yourself what is PI really? You've been taught it is a number with infinite decimal places, however, practically speaking when you use PI you actually round. Practically speaking this doesn't matter because i
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by ludston 3y ago
Yes. I have seen debt before.
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by ludston 3y ago
Yes. Infinity doesn't exist in the same way unicorns don't exist. The difference is that some people religiously believe in the existence of infinities and try to defend their existence even though nobody has ever seen one: see ot
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by ludston 3y ago
Since you can't write down this number, how can you generate a second number using this number? You'll never finish generating the first number in order to start the second. You can come up with a bunch of procedures that generate
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by ludston 3y ago
If you use "exist" to mean "is a symbol defined within some system" rather than the typical "has isomorphism with reality" then you can say literally anything exists. Unicorns exist because English has a word f
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by ludston 3y ago
You can define a procedure that reaches 2 very trivially. e.g. you generate all possible 1 digit numbers, then 2 digit numbers, then 3 digit numbers, etc. This is how natural numbers work in the first place. You're just adding a decima

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