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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
Let’s address the reality of the situation first. I am not interested in playing this stupid game where the private acts of private corporations suddenly become the acts of government. A private content publisher is allowed to moderate the
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
The salient comparison is Bezos and WaPo. Even if Trump can’t attack a newspaper directly, he can (and has) attacked other business ventures to try to force censorship - hit AWS hard enough that Bezos interfere with his newspaper to get Tru
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
Literally hundreds of people, including children, have died drinking bootleg alcohol being hawked as a COVID-19 cure. It is simply not the case that “any reasonable adult” knows your joke is a joke - that may be the case in developed countr
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
If the transaction surcharges were 30% then people would be demanding we stopped using Visas. You are being deliberately obtuse and dishonestly sidestepping the issue at hand. The exploitative and abusive charges have gotten dramatically wo
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
This is arguably true in a pre-pandemic world. Post-pandemic restaurants have far less choice, especially since delivery apps have an exploitative advantage over smaller shops that can’t create their own mobile phone apps. So the delivery c
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
No, you are just playing word games. "Free speech" does not and has never meant "the right to get any letter to the editor published in the New York Times" and therefore does not mean "the right to get any video I w
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
And those pale in comparison to the worst crimes of YouTube: - demonetizing videos that advertisers don't want to be associated with - age-restricting highly questionable content - deleting videos which I, like, worked really hard on,
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
The progress on the error messages truly is worth highlighting, and kudos to the team for all the hard work there. It's one of the hardest things to get right in a programming language, particularly if that language has a fussy compile
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
This is the real point: Facebook's "Ministry of Truth" is currently a "Ministry of Clicks and Ad Engagement" and Facebook is happy to interfere in the free flow of information if they can make a quick buck off it. L
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
Unfortunately the real way to be an "interruptible programmer" is a) be self-employed, i.e. be your own boss b) have the kind of good work hygiene This advice is worthless for 95% of programmers contending with interruptions, whic
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
I have not kept up with recent developments, but Fortran has historically been noticeably faster than even C/C++ for numerical computations. This difference used to be quite stark due to limitations in C itself: http://www.i
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
An important caveat here is that Georgia has also seen only a slight increase in non-lockdown activity despite whatever Governor Kemp may say Georgians should be doing: https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/05/
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
I would not describe his approach as “the US approach” but it is a pretty standard approach to introducing linear algebra to engineers, which is the theme of the course. I was also taught linear algebra this way, by an applied mathematici
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
Speaking as someone who might be in your target audience: my experience with Databricks (back in 2017/2018, without Kubernetes) is that their product is just as unreliable and frustrating as deploying a Spark cluster manually, but also
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
This is an extremely dumb article. a) Today intense partisan divisiveness and animosity is felt by the overwhelming majority of the US electorate, not just among extremist groups with no formal political representation. Even taking the auth
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by ojnabieoot 7y ago
It's true this kind of stress and feelings are universal, but doesn't mean it's not a potentially serious psychological concern. Parents who feel extremely overwhelmed with lots of young children in the house are understandab
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by ojnabieoot 7y ago
(sorry for the late response, I try to avoid social media of any form...) I love F#. F# is by far my favorite programming language when it comes to writing enterprise software. The problem with the F# job was that many on the sales team, an
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by ojnabieoot 7y ago
20 years is a long time in anything. My first piece of advice is that nobody here knows who you are, nobody here knew you as a teenager, and nobody is going to understand what "love programming" and "don't enjoy it"
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by ojnabieoot 7y ago
> FP people don't use the term "design pattern" often, but that's what most monadic stuff really is. This is exactly backwards. A monad is not a design pattern - a design pattern is an awkward manual reimplementation
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by ojnabieoot 7y ago
Being an OCaml/F# fan, I find this comment amusing. Rust is in fact heavily influenced by functional languages, particularly OCaml - OCaml-style algebraic datatypes and pattern matching are huge advantages Rust brings over C++ in terms
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by ojnabieoot 7y ago
I think there's a lot of semantic confusion and industry vagueness going on here - not about OP, more about software generally. - "Virtual machine" is a term that means a lot of things in different contexts. Your last example
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by ojnabieoot 7y ago
There are serious and intellectually honest disagreements about how to actually measure wealth and taxation. And I don't want to accuse the author of outright bad faith. But in my view this segment - the core of the argument - plays fa
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by ojnabieoot 7y ago
I have not read the paper, am not an expert, and can't judge with 100% reliability - but my understanding is no, I don't think an experiment of this type will necessarily provide the insight into a quantum nature of gravity. The e
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by ojnabieoot 7y ago
The public should probably feel a bit better about having a tobacco veteran who knows better than to get the bosses in trouble by deliberately market to kids. Juul's former CEO took the startup strategy: disruptfluence the vape market