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by motorest 1y ago
> Seeing comments here saying “this problem is already solved”, “he is just bad at this” etc. feels bad. He has given a long time to this problem by now. He is trying to solve this to advance the field. And needless to say, he is a legen
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by motorest 1y ago
> HTTP Range Requests solve this without any clever logic, if mutually supported. Understated comment in the thread. The very first search hit on Google is none other than Mozilla's page on ranged requests. https://develo
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by motorest 1y ago
> Society is a perfectly valid response to your question. You are used to a certain society, societal rules that doesn't care about it's people. No, it's quite the opposite actually: you clearly do not care about society i
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by motorest 1y ago
> I don’t understand your comments about “fairness” in the context of UBI. Doesn’t everyone get the benefit whether they work or don’t? Otherwise that wouldn’t be “universal”, would it? Your comment would only make sense if somehow you f
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by motorest 1y ago
> It’s a common framing, but UBI does not have to be that. Do you understand your comment is a textbook example of moving the goalpost? I am not "framing" anything. I am describing to you exactly how a universal basic income sc
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by motorest 1y ago
> Denmark already have a limited form of the UBI when seen in that light. The state offers free education and a monthly "basic income" for people studying for a degree, for up to five years. Your example has absolutely nothing
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by motorest 1y ago
> It is exactly this "lulled into complacency" that I rail against when most people cite that line. Far too many people are trying to shut down down dialog on improving code (not just performance) and they're not above App
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by motorest 1y ago
> VCs fund a lot of companies, even though they only get a return on a few. You're not talking about long-shot bets in a system where everyone is expected to produce. You're talking about income redistribution schemes. This mea
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by motorest 1y ago
> Simply put the observer affect shows that somethings cannot be measured without causing change to the system hence may not be verifable. That's fantastic, but fails to provide any meaningful input. I mean, the whole point is to ha
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by motorest 1y ago
> Its not a strawman. The argument is: because you need the other people in the society. No. Your argument is that other people exist. That's great, everyone had the right to exist. But in the meantime, why do you think that just be
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by motorest 1y ago
> You would have the option to do what they’re doing if you prefer. You just wouldn’t have as much disposable income. That's fantastic. So let's build upon your personal belief, and as the system is universal then your recommen
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by motorest 1y ago
> The point is hollow, as is your restatement of it No. I'm not sure if you failed to understand the question or you tried to avoid it. My question refers to the core argument involving any economic system: fairness and equity. Why
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by motorest 1y ago
> Because you have to live in a society with those other people. Your reply was a strawman arguments, and fails to address OP's point. The point is quite simple and straight-forward: if your argument for UBI is that people could h
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by motorest 1y ago
> Because the taxi driver could keep all of his money and still wouldn't make very much. So what does this have to do with income inequality? If you try to make a living from a business and the revenue you get from it is not enoug
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by motorest 1y ago
> Until we start viewing "fanciful" ideas as realistic, our problems will persist. This article is another in the long series of observations of seemingly distinct problems which are actually facets of a larger problem, namely
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by motorest 1y ago
> The only "ish" evidence for this kind of raving is this stuff: That is far from even coming close to qualify as evidence. At best they are unverified hypothesis.
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by motorest 1y ago
> Even without an explanation, you can use statistics to find the fruits of the beliefs, though. I hope you are not serious. > Does 100 people believe in not working and rather join a cult that worships the watermelon god? Hundreds of
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by motorest 1y ago
> It’s really sad, all of these sharp modernists determined upon the cult of science explanations for everything. That which you try to attack and downplay as "cult of science explanations" is actually something extremely simpl
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by motorest 1y ago
> I don't know about everyone, but I found the whole PKM/second brain "industry" a bit much, I was never able to stick to complex rules and things like atomic notes. I agree. I think that ultimately their product is n
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by motorest 1y ago
> The problem with hoarding is that, on the whole, the hoarded items are worthless. There’s too much noise and too little signal. I don't think that's a problem. What turns logs into a problem is misplaced expectations on what
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by motorest 1y ago
> I would never delete my own archive of notes, because it contains a different kind of information: howtos for things I do infrequently, current state for personal projects I rotate in and out of over years, maintenance logs for my vehi
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by motorest 1y ago
> No, there are entire classes of memory vulnerabilities that are impossible to check with static analysis because checking them is equivalent to the halting problem. This is the sort of goalpost-moving that lays bare how superficial and
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by motorest 1y ago
> This is not a very good example Feel free to pick an example that tickles your fancy. https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=rust
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by motorest 1y ago
> Possibly because a large number of organisations don't really have a good system for capturing somethings as "messy" as notes. To build upon this point, there's a problem that writing docs is a thankless job: those
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by motorest 1y ago
> Why do you keep what is clearly critical project documentation in your personal notes though? a) how can you tell some random note you took today is critical project documentation? b) why do you believe people read through project docu
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by motorest 1y ago
> I think this part answers your question. A novice could produce reasonably safe Rust code by just reading a book. That blend of comments is at best grasping at straws. How long do you think a developer stays a "novice"? Does
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by motorest 1y ago
> The duplicated code that needs updating in 50 places every time a bug or new feature comes in? Yes, I'm sure. If you're talking about duplicate code showing up in 50 places then your problem is not code duplication but incomp
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by motorest 1y ago
> Presumably because decades of experience has shown that it doesn't. What definition of "doesn't" do you adhere to? Because there are use-after-free CVEs from Rust code. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln&#x2F
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by motorest 1y ago
> In safe rust you cannot read uninitialized memory or variables, you cannot dereference a null or freed pointer, you can't concurrently mutate the same variable from multiple threads without locking primitives, you can't accid
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by motorest 1y ago
> This seems like a clear case-study that compilation can be incredibly fast (...) Have you tried troubleshooting a compiler error in a unity build? Yeah.

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