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961.
by moomin 3y ago
I have absolutely no information on the viability of the Chinese military. However, I will observe that the US military a) has people with combat experience at pretty much every level b) publishes documents detailing its fuck-ups. We’re not
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by moomin 3y ago
I don’t have a particular take on the last point, but I _do_ have a strong take on the chart. If you think that the relationship of ordinary people’s life outcomes is linear to GDP, I have a bridge or two to sell you.
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by moomin 3y ago
This reminds me of the episode of Last Week Tonight where John Oliver points out the problems America has on infrastructure maintenance: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Wpzvaqypav8&si=W1TxMMu26rQNM6PC
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by moomin 3y ago
It’s been a middle-class white boy meme since Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It’s ridiculous, but it’s so embedded in Western culture by now I find it hard to get exercised about it.
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by moomin 3y ago
I mean, that was the consequence. The trigger was, I think, the greatest American loss of life on home soil since the Civil War. Imagine what America would have been like if Al-Qaeda had bombed all major cities on a daily basis for years,
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by moomin 3y ago
There was, at the time, something of a doublethink going on. Whilst publicly friendly, the U.K. was privately discussing scenarios up to and including invading the USSR (Operation Unthinkable). However, again, it was wartime. And not one of
968.
by moomin 3y ago
Auto-correct fail: “structs”.
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by moomin 3y ago
This is interesting, but I feel like it only scratches the surface. What about all the types that _aren’t_ an int or a pointer?
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by moomin 3y ago
In some languages e.g. C# you can have unboxed product types. Confusingly for anyone with a C/C++ background, they’re called “Strucks”. Of course, you lose the GC when you do so but it’s nonetheless common to see in the stdlib.
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by moomin 3y ago
Going all the way back to the Luddites, there will be those who seek to misrepresent their opposition as being “afraid of progress”. Much easier to find a friendly podcaster than engage with the actual difficulties with what you’re doing.
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by moomin 3y ago
I’d worry about the chlorine in the soil first.
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by moomin 3y ago
The thing is, there’s a fair bit of evidence around the solar system that planet and moon smashing events have happened, more than once.
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by moomin 3y ago
I mean, it’s also common with people who value great feedback in their tools.
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by moomin 3y ago
There is “the expected performance of idiomatic code”, though, which is what most people mean when they talk about the performance of a language.
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by moomin 3y ago
Here’s a version of the idea: bootstrap speedrun. Start with the source of everything but the binaries of nothing that isn’t the basics (cat/chmod) &c. Write a script that compiles gcc. Fastest benchmark time wins.
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by moomin 3y ago
Call me back when this translates into regular working people’s salaries and health care outcomes and we’ll talk.
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by moomin 3y ago
There’s multiple explanations for this, all interlinked: 1) CS is not a vocational qualification like Law. 2) Other qualifications are just as good a route into the jobs described. Arguably maths and statistics is a _better_ route. These qu
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by moomin 3y ago
Isn’t the Python data frame format becoming an established format? I mean, there’s already commercial products that talk it natively.
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by moomin 3y ago
There’s an alternative take that says that, as the universe contracts, it eventually hits a point where other effects (quantum, but also possibly unknown effects) predominate and that this kicks off another stage of expansion. Which is to s
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by moomin 3y ago
And, see above, Fortran.
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by moomin 3y ago
Which in turn was the result of… government policy.
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by moomin 3y ago
Exactly, a harvest failure for a single crop does not cause that kind of devastation.
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by moomin 3y ago
Then there’s the hilarious case of No One Lives Forever, a well regarded game from 2000, where the ownership rights are murky with several organisations willing to say on the record that they have no idea if they own it, that they have no i
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by moomin 3y ago
Yeah, the actual experience of leaky abstractions and non-portable code is forgotten. Perl solved a very real problem in the 90s. Grief, I shudder to think back to the sheer complexity of my bashrc file back then.
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by moomin 3y ago
When I was a student, a lot of people played on one guy’s machine. I got lucky with a polymorph trap and by dog became a Xorn. Inevitably I died and that bones file became the absolute bane of the other player’s existence. Someone finally b
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by moomin 3y ago
Whether or not Threads is a success, the fact remains that it wouldn’t exist if Musk hadn’t strongly signalled he was ceding Twitter’s market position. That’s the kind of unforced error you can’t sue your way out of.
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by moomin 3y ago
There are companies out there so done with Red Hat now they’re wholesale moving to a radically different distribution.
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by moomin 3y ago
I think large corporations are typically fine with criticism that doesn’t affect their bottom line.
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by moomin 3y ago
Yeah, because asking the question in 2023 would make you sound ridiculous.

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