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by mightyham 10mo ago
> such that they almost meld into Stalin or Mao Stalin was an ideological authoritarian that executed political rivals and used lethal force, price controls, and other governmental tools to control the economy and the general working pop
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by mightyham 11mo ago
How about the fact that the human mind and genetics are simply fascinating and interesting topics. I would imagine that people don't care as much about running and high school testing because they are fairly niche interests relative to
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by mightyham 11mo ago
I was also, in fact, referring to the bulk of legacy code bases that can't just be fully rewritten. Almost all good engineering is done incrementally, including the adoption of something like safe_c.h (I can hardly fathom the insanity
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by mightyham 11mo ago
Goofy platform specific cleanup and smart pointer macros published in a brand new library would almost certainly not fly in almost any "existing enormous C code base". Also the industry has had a "new optional ways to avoid s
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by mightyham 11mo ago
I get you are probably being purposefully derisive to make a point by saying the name of the dark ages is because of our ignorance, but that's also just not correct. The general consensus of historians is that Europe suffered from wide
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by mightyham 11mo ago
I agree that it's very difficult to fully understand what his real positions are, and interestingly I think he clearly wants that to be the case. Peter Thiel is interested in and has actually written extensively about Straussianism whi
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by mightyham 1y ago
Is the irony not lost you that Joe Biden pardoned his own son for crimes he was absolutely guilty of. I don't see how that is any less corrupt. This isn't whatboutism either because I'm not trying to say that what Trump is do
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by mightyham 1y ago
I can tell you from personal experience that improving/maintaining uptime (by doing root cause analysis, writing correction of error reports, going through application security reviews, writing/reviewing design docs for safely dep
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by mightyham 1y ago
I don't see what the meaningful difference is between trade barriers (assuming by that you mean tariffs) and tax incentives for specific industries. Moderate, targeted tariff policies, especially ones that gradually decreased over time
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by mightyham 1y ago
In one of James Gosling's talks he tells a funny story about the origin of this design decision. He went around the office at Sun and gave a bunch of seasoned C programmers a written assessment on signed/unsigned integer behaviors
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by mightyham 1y ago
To me this just reads like fear mongering and shilling for the status quo political establishment. I've recently been learning a bit about Russian history and it has similarities to their conservative nobility throughout the 19th centu
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by mightyham 1y ago
I don't believe that's true. You would still need something like UDP hole punching to bootstrap the inbound flow on both sides first. Also you would still only be limited to UDP traffic, TCP would still be blocked.
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by mightyham 1y ago
In practice, P2P over ipv6 is totally screwed because there are no widely supported protocols for dynamic firewall pinholing (allowing inbound traffic) on home routers, whereas dynamic ipv4 NAT configuration via UPnP is very popular and use
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by mightyham 1y ago
> No, it hasn't. None of it has, ever. Are you denying that dictionaries and comprehensive books on English grammar exist?
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by mightyham 1y ago
> English Language is the best general purpose conveyance of arbitrary ideas, and it has syntax rules just like programming languages. It's "best" by the metric of being "easiest for humans to understand". That&#
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by mightyham 1y ago
> Oh, the police is gonna show up if I verb something that isn't a verb? People only ever use grammatical constructs and vocabulary that they have learned in school? That's not at all what I said in my comment and I'm not
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by mightyham 1y ago
I didn't say poetry has to have all of those things, but it has to contain some of them or it simply isn't poetry. I would challenge you to find me one good example of poetry that has none of the features I listed. This whole poet
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by mightyham 1y ago
Not sure what you are arguing with in my comment because I never said that languages are static; obviously they change. But to pretend that language, as practiced today, is not well defined is absurd. Every part of English grammar and synta
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by mightyham 1y ago
Even though there is much more freedom in poetry, it is still defined by a specific set of rules/features: verses, rhythm, stanzas, spacing, meter, and rhyming. It's only because of these restrictions that it is so obvious when wr
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by mightyham 1y ago
Ironically, this author gets the relationship between lisp and writing totally wrong. Lisp may be much more artistic, but programming in Java, for instance, is much more akin to writing than programming in lisp is. Written languages have we
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by mightyham 1y ago
Who are you talking about?
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by mightyham 1y ago
While I agree with the thrust of the article being that students are cheating themselves by relying on LLMs, it's important to reflect on ways in which educators have encouraged this behavior. Anyone who has been to college in the age
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by mightyham 1y ago
It is complicated because tariffs are not just "passed off". In the real world, tariffs are almost always marginal, meaning each company is willing to absorb some of the cost, ie lower profits. In parent's example, the US has
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by mightyham 1y ago
This is definitely not true from a philosophical level. Contemplation of an infinite god/cosmos, and the seemingly infinite nature of time are core aspects of early Greek philosophy, which heavily influenced the philosophy of each of t
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by mightyham 1y ago
I've recently been reading the Pensees, so it feels timely that this article was posted. I'll add here a couple more practical pieces of advice that Pascal offers for dealing with what he considers the wretchedness of human experi
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by mightyham 1y ago
Wow, I never imagined you would respond to my comment, a little embarrassed ngl :D I understand that under the hood Solid's reactive system is not quite simple; though, the mental model needed to use it, is very simple, which I greatly
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by mightyham 1y ago
I've found the ecosystem to be perfectly serviceable for every complex piece of functionality I needed to bring in: remote state, forms, tables, and routing, come to mind. Complex state management can easily be handled using the librar
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by mightyham 1y ago
Having used Solid on a largish web product for over a year, I am thoroughly convinced and will not be returning to React in the future. This is somewhat of an aside: I am aware that the creator of Solid has long been experimenting with addi
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by mightyham 1y ago
> it has raised the issue of how journalists verify the credentials of sources in the AI age Performing background checks is not difficult. Professional background check services are fast and commonly used in hiring processes. It seems l
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by mightyham 1y ago
There are simply too many economic incentives encouraging doctors to not act in a patient's best interest that, as the parent comment points out, it would be irresponsible to not be skeptical of their advice.

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