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by moomin 3y ago
Boy do I have some codebases I could show you. I mean, the biggest problem isn’t that they’re written in C++, but it really didn’t help either.
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by moomin 3y ago
I mean, you can call it a rebuttal, but this: “There are two problems related to safety. Of the billions of lines of C++, few completely follow modern guidelines, and peoples’ notions of which aspects of safety are important differ. I and t
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by moomin 3y ago
Yeah, I’m not sure legislators should be on the hook for malicious compliance, though.
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by moomin 3y ago
I’d ask you what you think the purpose of a local politician is, if not to reflect the local people’s wishes in the development of their area.
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by moomin 3y ago
I’ll accept that. But do notation is the closest thing to sensible we have, whereas most of these articles are just constantly trying to chip away at part of the problem in the hope that they’ll be able to make the whole mountain disappear
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by moomin 3y ago
Seriously, I met the dude once 25 years ago for a single evening and I still remember it vividly. Charisma seems an inadequate word for what he had. And he had the chops to back it up. Meanwhile my University group invited Benoit Mandelbrot
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by moomin 3y ago
It's fascinating how much of this there is about. It gets worse when people don't realize there's other ways of looking at things. You'll note there's a whole social movement based around what its proponents refer t
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by moomin 3y ago
I feel like there's a whole genre of essays (red vs green functions is the worst example) that could be summarised as: * Monads naturally arise out of many problems in programming. * But I don't want my language to support monads.
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by moomin 3y ago
Quite a few died in their own homes. Worth mentioning the IDF know where everyone in Gaza lives.
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by moomin 3y ago
Yeah, it's been commonly used when the object (in the grammatical sense) would typically have a gender but it is unspecified. In fact, it's so common native English speakers don't even notice they're doing it. (Which pro
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by moomin 3y ago
Leto II is the only person to get this joke.
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by moomin 3y ago
The 13th
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by moomin 3y ago
Yet another article fetishizing Plan 9 accompanied with a history lesson that doesn't support the conclusion. No, not everything is a file. Having a somewhat standardised way of accessing certain features in a stream-like way is cool,
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by moomin 3y ago
If you could actually build them effectively with a personal port it would be a lot less painful. As it is, slapping down a huge ghost rail isn’t as useful as it should be.
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by moomin 3y ago
Factorio, Satisfactory and Oxygen Not Included (very different games) all have this thing of building something while it's running, debugging and expanding it, and give you fairly meaningful rewards in terms of new challenges and remov
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by moomin 3y ago
I remember Elon Musk complaining about this, frankly near trivial application of open source intelligence.
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by moomin 3y ago
Not saying some people shouldn't have the right, but the way the Canadian system works can be horrific. Especially when it comes to people who should be receiving support, aren't receiving support, so end up being encouraged to di
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by moomin 3y ago
You're not wrong. Sometimes you're better off on a random sci-blogger's site. But there's always a level where we have to take things on trust. Understanding who is actually trustworthy I'll leave as an unsolved pro
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by moomin 3y ago
The problem is that skepticism on its own isn't a route to the truth. An embarrassing number of people "doing their own research" are doing on reddit, not e.g. arxiv.
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by moomin 3y ago
Anyone else think this dude should write a book of fake articles and market them with the Atlas Obscura story, only their version contains several falsehoods?
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by moomin 3y ago
Not quite true: it’s amazing how many mainstream media figures have nasty things to say about social media.
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by moomin 3y ago
One of these days they should make a movie about him (one that isn’t based on his own testimony).
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by moomin 3y ago
It would be interesting to see what shows are considered to be important in the development of culture in a hundred years time. Buffy is definitely a candidate, but my money is on The Shield. The storytelling hasn’t dated at all (although t
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by moomin 3y ago
It's quite an entertaining rant, but the scattergun approach means that it's one of those things where it's impossible to address the points made because there's so many. But to just look at the first paragraph: "Th
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Revisting Madonna-Ology in the Era of Taylor Swift Studies(lareviewofbooks.org)
46 points by moomin 3y ago|38 comments
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by moomin 3y ago
There’s also a fair amount of talk that those numbers were juiced in a way that no-one else can expect.
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by moomin 3y ago
Honestly think at this point I should recommend hbomberguy’s video on “Woke Brands”. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=06yy88tLWlg I’ll appreciate his politics are way to the left of yours and he’s making this point for a left
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by moomin 3y ago
I'm not sure what mechanism you're ascribing to reach falling due to "political pressure". Who's exerting this pressure? On whom? Why am I still using the site despite being a dyed in the wool leftie? You say a comp
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by moomin 3y ago
The closest thing I can think of is patio11’s Bingo Card Creator. But he moved on to… venture funded payments processing. I think, though, the people who can and do bootstrap small businesses like that don’t necessarily hang out here. The s
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by moomin 3y ago
You say that, but the company valuation and revenue fell through the floor, to an extent that everyone can tell, even though the reporting burden is much less now the firm is private. Maybe some of the activities you decry as censorship and

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