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by moomin 3y ago
I’m not sure you understand what advertising cares about. They care about reach and brand value, both of which have dropped for Twitter. “Politics” is a component of brand value, but it’s got nothing to do with reach, which is falling throu
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by moomin 3y ago
You’re all over this thread but I think you need to read it a bit more carefully. There’s no reference to any belief system in the post you’re replying to, there’s an assertion about expected profit and control. You can disagree with that a
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by moomin 3y ago
I’m saying it’s what people want. Very few people complaining about it being undemocratic actually want it to be “more democratic” because that would involve a transfer of power from the member states to the EU. In as much as it is what peo
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by moomin 3y ago
Glad to see I helped get Rudin into the top 10. :D More seriously, I remember many of these questions and it’s important to understand sentiment matters. Many of the mentions of SICP are not glowing. Indeed, they’re specifically written by
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by moomin 3y ago
Modula-3 (not designed by Wirth, but tangentially mentioned in the article) was a practical disaster. Phenomenally verbose, and with a type system implementation that could easily confuse a complex class with an int. It also had go-like str
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by moomin 3y ago
There's plenty of reasons to not use fingerprints to unlock an iPhone, just saying.
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by moomin 3y ago
One thing I noticed: the movie is very careful to lay out how the betrayal of House Atreides actually works. Every other time I’ve watched a version with someone I’ve ended up needing to explain who the heck the Sardukar are.
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by moomin 3y ago
I mean, Sam Altman won this battle months ago. It was all anyone was talking about on here.
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by moomin 3y ago
Famously, in the UK, Railtrack outsourced basically its whole operation. Including inspections, often to the same firms doing the work. This culminated in the Potters Bar crash. I worked with someone who survived it. He was, by his own esti
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by moomin 3y ago
It’s an interesting idea, but I worry about the determination of axes. What if one of the axes is science versus time cube? Feeding versus murdering children? Are these things we want to factor out?
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by moomin 3y ago
Yes. But the Iron Law of systemd is that you should never mention it unless you’re prepared for a tangential argument about systemd and other init systems.
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by moomin 3y ago
It’s not a matter of scale, it’s a matter of lifetime. You can’t roll over a loan indefinitely because you will at some point die and lenders will factor that in to their calculations. But even in the small, plenty of people take out mortga
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by moomin 3y ago
For that to be actually good, you don't just need AGI, you need an LLM with the writing quality of a New Vegas writer. The difficulty there is that the training corpus is too small to create one.
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by moomin 3y ago
I think this is a bit misleading. The EU is the way it is because of democratic decisions. The commission isn’t democratic because it’s a civil service. The Parliament is less powerful than you’d expect because it would challenge national g
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by moomin 3y ago
I mean “responsible spending” is just a right wing talking point that is only deployed on things they don’t like. Governments, like companies and individuals, can and should take on debt in appropriate circumstances. The shocking thing with
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by moomin 3y ago
Yes, but I’ve literally never heard anyone say that.
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by moomin 3y ago
Not a great article, but if colonising space is a desirable goal, it’s important that people properly appreciate what we’re up against. I’ve seen Mars described as one of the most human hostile places in the solar system.
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by moomin 3y ago
The claim is literal: that they supplied water instead of rocket fuel.
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by moomin 3y ago
In hbomberguy’s recent video about plagiarism, he points out that one of the dumb side effects of YouTube’s content ID policy is that claiming is so common and usually bad that people assume actual serious infringements are benign.
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by moomin 3y ago
> That's something that is not often not acknowledged: Go's sort is implemented as a function that operates on an interface. This is not the style of object-oriented programming most people were familiar with, but it's a v
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by moomin 3y ago
C# not only has channels, it has async/await, which he concedes is the actually popular form of concurrency in that others have adopted it.
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by moomin 3y ago
Yeah, they managed to recreate the advantages and disadvantages of Modula-3's typing system within three decades. Groundbreaking.
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by moomin 3y ago
To the extent that Go has features that no other popular language has, it is not influential. To the extent to which it invented those things, it's not influential. And that's why he didn't make that claim, he made a much bro
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by moomin 3y ago
Yes, they work the same way as Modula-3's did in 1988. Still not exactly innovation.
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by moomin 3y ago
Which I’m pretty sure CLU did first (honestly, I’m pretty sure nearly every good idea was in CLU first).
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by moomin 3y ago
Graphics card drivers are the absolute worst because not only do you have these licensing issues, but many games have workarounds because the API isn't called correctly so the driver just... makes up what should have happened.
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by moomin 3y ago
Material made of carbon and nitrogen is nearly as hard as material made of carbon.
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by moomin 3y ago
I mean, this article suggests that Binance isn’t a scam, rather it has a perfectly sound business model that is illegal and immoral.
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by moomin 3y ago
From the article, it seems that the lesson they learned was that public feedback is bad, which was the wrong lesson to learn.
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by moomin 3y ago
See also NOWEB, a system that developed the ideas of CWEB. Wrote my dissertation using it. https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/noweb/

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