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by moomin 2y ago
It also repeats itself. The question is interesting, but the article is blogspam and could be AI-generated.
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by moomin 2y ago
I can tell you that when I went to university the catholic chaplaincy maintained a library, and none of it was about how to prep a sermon for youth group. There’s plenty to criticise about the Catholic Church, but it takes scholarship extre
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by moomin 2y ago
I’ve read things that basically say the group re-integrated with politics when Jim Crow stopped being a thing.
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by moomin 2y ago
I think it would be operationally of great interest to those who maintain Bible translations. I read a book by someone who worked on the New Jerusalem text and they read every source they could for clarification. New Jerusalem is, of course
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by moomin 2y ago
Dude deserves to be forgotten. Pamela Jones deserves to be remembered.
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by moomin 2y ago
The bindings are only valid for the expression following in. Haskell does the same thing.
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by moomin 2y ago
I’m sure you can point to many things Rider is better at, but I’ve found enough sharp edges (including, annoyingly, it not being able to infer types that Roslyn can) that it’s not a sell for me. It’s also much faster and supports NCrunch.
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by moomin 2y ago
I’d argue there’s no such thing as ideologically neutral, just a bias you happen to share. Turns out that even if you consider certain things to be self-evident, not everyone will agree. IQ is, honestly, a great example of this, where you h
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by moomin 2y ago
Doesn’t work that way. Cheaters ruin regular player’s experience, bans are easily circumvented. This is a recipe for “No-one plays your game.” I think kernel-level anti-cheat is a security nightmare, but denying there’s a genuine economic m
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by moomin 2y ago
And the latest version is massively relaxing the ref restrictions on generics.
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by moomin 2y ago
These days, JetBrains have stepped into the gap with Rider. Rider isn't perfect, but there's definitely people who prefer it to Visual Studio.
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by moomin 2y ago
Fun fact: Barbara Liskov's PhD 18 years later developed the "killer heuristic", a minimax optimisation useful in, amongst other things, playing chess.
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by moomin 2y ago
You can’t do experiments on entire populations. That’s precisely why we have studies in the first place.
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by moomin 2y ago
The good news is it doesn’t really matter. The absolute numbers might be inaccurate, but the skew is likely to stay the same over decades. So it probably is dropping.
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by moomin 2y ago
If the Washington Post only reported facts, it would be the most left wing newspaper in the US by a country mile.
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by moomin 2y ago
I saw a rant on here about this not so long ago: it feels ridiculous that nearly all of our security code is compiled using compilers that cannot provide the guarantees these algorithms need.
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by moomin 2y ago
Amazing the way these principle apply when it’s them, not us.
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by moomin 2y ago
Face to face, proctored and standardised exams are, indeed, pretty much the only way most of the rest of world allows kids _into_ university. One thing I was reasonably certain of at my university is everyone _arriving_ at it to study maths
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by moomin 2y ago
Honestly I suspect a lot of potentially able people get left by the wayside in our lowest cost educational system. It's particularly tough on neurodiverse people, which one has to suspect included Ramanujan.
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by moomin 2y ago
Here’s the thing: languages like C#, Java and Rust all have extensive libraries and packages that implement many common data structures and algorithms well. With all due respect to the incredible work that goes into projects like lodash, Ja
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by moomin 2y ago
Lousy person, lousy psychologist, his stunt did lasting damage to our understanding of the human psyche. The sooner he and all his work is forgotten the better.
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by moomin 2y ago
I remember when the big layoffs were happening, the dominant narrative I was hearing was that the firms wished to re-establish dominance. In practice what they’ve done is make themselves look less desirable. Get rid of people for good strat
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The Case for Legalisation (2001)(economist.com)
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by moomin 2y ago
You talk like you haven’t even heard of drug cartels or narco states. We have organised our entire society and foreign policy around the prohibition of certain substances. It’s not an unreasonable question to ask if our time and effort woul
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by moomin 2y ago
This, btw, is why open sourcing proprietary software rarely happens: you actually have to go to a fair amount of careful effort to get it right. If you don’t, you end up with this debacle.
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by moomin 2y ago
I can’t speak to all of this, but I imagine very few English people of the time could sit on a carpeted floor for long periods of time in a way that suggested they did it all the time the way most Egyptians can.
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by moomin 2y ago
I was going to ask what possible motivation this dude had, but you’ve answered that quite well.
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by moomin 2y ago
Apparently Microsoft hold a patent on “yield!”, which makes it all the more frustrating that they haven’t included it in C#.
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by moomin 2y ago
I take your point about mastery. Especially FP, where it's very clear that mastery of it is extremely powerful. On the other hand, there are some like our regular synchronization primitives where not even mastery will save you. Even ex
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by moomin 2y ago
I feel like CPS is one of those tar pits smart developers fall into. It’s just a fundamentally unfriendly API, like mutexes. We saw this with node as well: eventually the language designers just sighed and added promises. You’re better off

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