ookdatnog

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by ookdatnog 2y ago
Writing a text of decent quality used to constitute proof of work. This is now no longer the case, and we haven't adapted to this assumption becoming invalid. For example, when applying to a job, your cover letter used to count as proo
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by ookdatnog 2y ago
I don't think "deprecated" is the right terminology here. Nowhere on the Khronos Group website can I find a statement that OpenGL is considered deprecated. Not on the landing page for OpenGL ( https://www.khronos.or
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by ookdatnog 2y ago
I think it is, and if you don't want to take my word for it, John Carmack thinks the same :) There's an old video [0] where he talks in-depth about his explorations of functional programming. It's perhaps a bit more about Has
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by ookdatnog 2y ago
Of course you can. For instance, if you would reply to the request by insulting the physical appearance of the one making the request, that would be rude.
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by ookdatnog 2y ago
I would respond to your request with "no" instead of ignoring it. Saying no isn't rude. Ignoring that someone has spoken at all is, in most cases.
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by ookdatnog 2y ago
Regardless of hierarchy, responding to a request by ignoring it is pretty rude.
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by ookdatnog 2y ago
> They make lots of money Will they though? Last I heard OpenAI isn't profitable, and I don't know if it's safe to assume they every will be. People keep saying that LLMs are an existential threat to search, but I'm n
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by ookdatnog 2y ago
> von Neumann's fear was that nuclear war was inevitable Ethics is messy, but in this case he made an actual, verifiable prediction: that the USSR would use their nuclear arsenal and unleash nuclear war. He said "With the Rus
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by ookdatnog 3y ago
> Sorry for those 1% of you out there who are actually useful and efficient leaders/managers; you know who you are 100% of managers nodding as they read this
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by ookdatnog 3y ago
Come on, let's not be reductive. We didn't just eat them, we also ground them up to make paint! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown
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by ookdatnog 3y ago
This may actually be relevant if OP has to take remote exams with mandatory invasive proctoring software :/ Although I'm not sure if these attempt to detect VMs.
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by ookdatnog 3y ago
That seems depressingly solipsistic. I think part of the appeal of art is that it's other humans trying to communicate with you, that you feel the personality of the creators shining through. Also I've never interacted with any pi
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by ookdatnog 3y ago
> Romanticism of 19th century can be thought of as rationality winning over less rational religion. Quite the opposite: Romanticism was a reaction to (and rejection of) the rationality of the Enlightenment. Romanticism celebrated strong,
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by ookdatnog 3y ago
I haven't done any serious lisping outside of tutorials and books, but I warmly recommend the wizard book of myth and legend, SICP ( https://mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/b... ). I had
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by ookdatnog 3y ago
I'm not arguing against economic freedom, I'm arguing against your argument in favor of economic freedom. And I'm arguing against you ranking it higher than, say, freedom of speech.
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by ookdatnog 3y ago
Your entire argument is nonsensical, but this part: > With enough money you can buy all the others is particularly easily falsifiable. A billionaire in China does not have freedom of speech and cannot buy it.
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by ookdatnog 3y ago
It's clearly allowed, but I think the reaction here is negative because, unlike for example Python, this isn't someone making their own language from scratch which is then organically adopted. Instead, it's essentially someon
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by ookdatnog 3y ago
> People with IQs below 91 walk among us. I feel like you're misrepresenting what the article is about. I'm pretty sure it's not the people whose IQ is a bit below 91 we're really talking about here. As the article st
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by ookdatnog 3y ago
Given OP's (presumed) age, curiosity and enthusiasm, my advice to OP would be to not worry about what language you are going to specialize in at all. That can come later. In fact, do the opposite: learn every language under the sun and
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by ookdatnog 3y ago
They did end up doing so, but they insisted on unconditional surrender regardless. Even though they knew that they would end up meeting the singular Japanese condition.
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by ookdatnog 3y ago
The website is called "incrementalelm.com".
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by ookdatnog 3y ago
It is unknown, and will forever be unknown, exactly which terms the Japanese would have agreed to in the event of an earnest attempt at a negotiated peace, because there was no earnest attempt at a negotiated peace. Truman was dead-set on a
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by ookdatnog 3y ago
I listened to this >2h essay about the atomic bombing over a year ago. I'm writing mostly from memory, so there might be errors in my summary. I think the argument was that the reason for the atomic bombing was not really a military
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by ookdatnog 3y ago
This is true in many European countries. But for a kid from a poor family where no one has an academic background and chances of success in higher education are low, a good technical education can still provide significant upward social mob
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by ookdatnog 3y ago
It's just not the case that the arithmetical algorithms implemented in circuitry have "nothing to do" with pen and paper algorithms. The core ideas of the algorithms we teach kids to add, subtract, multiply, and divide carry
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by ookdatnog 4y ago
SF might be the a progressive city for US standards but there are many cities in the rest of the western world with social democrat governments, sometimes even under social democrat national governments, which have much lower crime rates. I
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by ookdatnog 4y ago
> adults in same bathrooms with opposite gender children Gender-neutral bathrooms aren't some theoretical possibility where we have no idea what would happen if we introduce them. They're already a thing in many places, at this
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by ookdatnog 4y ago
The fact that you agree with the police brutality example directly contradicts your first post, which stated > Calling people fighting for REAL issues "woke" is incorrect.
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by ookdatnog 4y ago
So you state that there are at least two axes -- severity of the problem and how widespread the problem is -- that influence whether a problem is worth addressing (or whether it is a "real" problem, as you put it). I agree so far.
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by ookdatnog 4y ago
Are you implying that issues that don't affect the majority of the population aren't real issues?

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