mmirate

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by mmirate 8y ago
> genetic predetermination == ancestry You're the best kind of correct: technically correct. Different ethnicity+gender combinations do in fact produce differing relative-frequencies of IQs (and EQs, and VO2Max'es, etc.). Howe
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by mmirate 8y ago
> racism Sorry, but I didn't actually say anything about drawing final conclusions about individuals' predeterminations based on their ancestry. What I will gladly say, however, is that individuals who don't contribute to
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by mmirate 8y ago
> In the same way that 20 yards of linen exchange for one coat, although they are qualitatively different, there is a mechanism which allows them to be exchanged. Indeed. But because they are qualitatively different, the opportunity cost
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by mmirate 8y ago
Why, necessarily, must human value be remitted by a central authority and its inherent fickleness? Or, more importantly, why does belief in predetermined value, cause a belief that the State should suddenly take charge of measuring value an
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by mmirate 8y ago
Sorry, I don't have those numbers on-hand. What I do have on-hand is that NH has a higher median income than any other nation in the world (incl Luxembourg), despite being a net-payer of federal taxes. (Source: https://mis
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by mmirate 8y ago
How does > if you believe so, then you believe that human worth is predetermined constitute a challenge to > human worth should be tied to mental and physical abilities ? Is there some implicit negative value attached to the hypothesi
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by mmirate 8y ago
The other party wants to make revolt impossible by dismantling the 2nd Amendment. So it's a choice as to whether one wants slightly-better politics or much-better metapolitics.
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by mmirate 8y ago
Replace "Oregon" by "New Hampshire", and you can say the words with pride instead of sarcasm.
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by mmirate 8y ago
> decades-old, unsupported and vulnerable stacks Oh, dear. Is this the same kind of decades-old TCP/IP stacks that crash if you ping them the wrong way?
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by mmirate 8y ago
> Trivial example: a = a+b is slightly easier to say (and think) in English than a += b Native English speaker here. "+=" is pronounced "plus equals", meaning that you've got it backwards, with the margin being b
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by mmirate 8y ago
> That's a good thing. Maybe, maybe not, but luckily that question's not very important. Here's what is: Where is the cleverness and beauty in Yet Another Boring LLVM Frontend (tm)? Zig and Rust are more than that, I&#x27
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by mmirate 8y ago
That says a lot more about HN than about anything else...
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by mmirate 8y ago
That's entirely the point; he/she isn't expecting to call deinit on an i32, but is expecting to call deinit on an ArrayList(i32) if said ArrayList(i32) is in fact an element of an ArrayList(ArrayList(i32)). And calling dein
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by mmirate 8y ago
Good for you, no good for people who wanted to take a structured+exhaustive approach to learning CS.
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by mmirate 8y ago
Isn't part of the blame also upon primary and secondary education, for not producing graduates who can work at a car rental shop?
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by mmirate 8y ago
This here is precisely the problem, and is also precisely why these types of students aren't mere "cash cows"; they're existential threats to engineering management's ability to hire people who can actually do what
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by mmirate 8y ago
Pass through some visibly-weakening barriers into an industry where you are in high supply, and you might even agree with your own words.
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by mmirate 8y ago
1. As your other reply said, crossbeam is Rust's gold-standard for this. 2. Make the front-pointers be Rc's or Arc's, then use the downgrade() method to construct the back-pointers. 3. Array-based ring buffer instead, perhaps
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by mmirate 8y ago
Where are they suggesting that we witch-hunt the Commies? I see no such call-to-action. Or are you saying that is it McCarthyistic to merely remember the past and attempt to avoid repeating it? https://eureconciliation.eu/in
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by mmirate 8y ago
You're thinking solely about materials, and thusly forgetting about energy. (So did Star Trek , I reckon, but I degress.) Humans require a timely supply energy to live and act. Converting energy into human-usable form, requires energy
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by mmirate 8y ago
Superficial; after, at worst, a brief demonstration, a stereotypical Nokia would elicit a different response.
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by mmirate 8y ago
Show it to the people who designed the PDP11 at the time they designed it, and chances are they won't. The uneducated masses of soldiers and workers are much easier to dazzle and fool than technical personnel; and I apologize for not q
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by mmirate 8y ago
Citation needed. As far as I can tell, post-scarcity is almost fundamentally unachievable; and, at best, achievable with technology that today's eyes would confuse for magic.
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by mmirate 8y ago
> Would you really want to work for an organization that plays those sort of mind games? With each other, on a regular basis, for little more than shits, giggles and office-politics? Probably not. Which is why it's more likely that
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by mmirate 8y ago
> even the inbuilt UEFI firmware of most manufacturers. I have a <3yo laptop that boots NVME OSes fine, Windows and Linux alike ... except for the Windows feature-upgrade process, which just hangs indefinitely on the OEM logo.* I also
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by mmirate 8y ago
What about safety differences that don't affect pedestrians and other such (nigh-)stationary objects? For instance, I could easily imagine that some cars might have more powerful kinematic-prediction software+processors and therefore a
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by mmirate 8y ago
Single-digit Cortex-M models? Dinosaurs, all. Hold your applause until we can see the innards of an AArch64 implementation.
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by mmirate 8y ago
> is that it allows running Linux kernel directly as a UEFI executable Like rEFInd?
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by mmirate 8y ago
The avionics and EW systems are probably being redesigned on a much more regular basis than ... well, than almost any other component of a fighter.
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by mmirate 8y ago
Public-key identity verification wouldn't even require substantial upgrades to anything except the phone hardware itself - when making the call, just convey the signature upon connection via a dialup-modem-like encoding, and the receiv

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