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by patrec 7y ago
Don't worry, Western universities are working hard on fixing that.
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by patrec 7y ago
Not so. At the beginning it looked like Google would basically magically fix advertisement. Instead of being bombarded with gaudy invasive flimflam trying to sell you stuff based on buildling up some asinine aspirational self-image almost e
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by patrec 7y ago
In my case: Yes and yes. Wildly guessing, about 90% of the errors I find at runtime with dynamic languages would would be caught by a sane type system at compile time. If I'm comparing a completely mis-engineered statically typed langu
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by patrec 7y ago
Here's a concrete example: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio... Maybe the three most noteworthy things are: 1. it's not hard to write your own nix expression 2.
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by patrec 7y ago
Do you sometimes pick up a different child from kindergarten just for a bit of variety in complexion and looks at the dinner table, since that child will be essentially indistinguishable from your son in development and personality anyway,
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by patrec 7y ago
How many bugs did you find in (production versions of) your applications? How many in compilers?
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by patrec 7y ago
What makes you think so? Have you seen any great code he has produced or are you aware of him having implemented something decidedly non-trivial? I might be wrong, but my impression is that he's someone who spends almost all his time t
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by patrec 7y ago
https://www.research.ibm.com/5-in-5/ai-and-bias/
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by patrec 7y ago
Is there a single example of a notable great programmer who uses TDD?
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by patrec 7y ago
All those sharp edges must make running over pedestrians even more fun than with a plain SUV or truck. Looks easy to clean, too.
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by patrec 7y ago
Well, people like St Augustine, Erasmus, Newton, Leibniz, Descartes, Gauss and so on also kinda matter, and even if there is no disputing that Ancient Greece was intellectually far more important than Ancient Rome, the fact that Ancient Gr
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by patrec 7y ago
A) I'm well aware of clasp, and its a cool project (and post javascript, as well) but it's hardly anywhere near production quality right now (unlike say, clojurescript). So I don't think it's a counters my argument about
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by patrec 7y ago
a) Common lisp was already in undead state when Javascript became big. Semi-dead languages as a rule have worse tooling for "new" stuff. b) Clojure didn't really fully succeed, there were annoying differences between Clojure
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by patrec 7y ago
Is just patching the url in the binary an option?
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by patrec 7y ago
So what happens with those angry spouse chargebacks? You just eat the loss if that happens (and ban the customer)?
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by patrec 7y ago
> I don't know why mental illness like PTSD would in any way impact our ability to procreate as a species or at an individual level. One wonders if you could imagine anything that might in any way impact an individual's ability
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by patrec 7y ago
Sure – I'm just taking issue with the "in retrospect obvious". PTSD might still be real, or it might turn out to be in fact several different phenonema, with possible some more real than others. But there is a lot that's
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by patrec 7y ago
No one is making arguments for optimality of society! If your argument is that societies which traded off mental health of their members (almost certainly an individual fitness hit) for other benefits that allowed them to outcompete individ
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by patrec 7y ago
Your analogy does not work. The reason people succumbed to widespread and severe physical illness, despite clear evolutionary pressure not to do so, is because there is equal evolutionary pressure on pathogens to successfully bypass host ad
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by patrec 7y ago
Exactly -- Lactose tolerance is a common counter example to the strange notion that evolution in humans has somehow stopped either literally or practically (given supposedly glacial timescales).
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by patrec 7y ago
He does indeed make the very same point and his review suggest he thinks of the author as more or less a proudly scientifically illiterate witch doctor whose patients' behavior bears not resemblance to that of his own patients. This do
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by patrec 7y ago
> Like so many things, PTSD feels self-evident once you know about it. Only from the myopic perspective of people only used to a life of luxury and ease. Throughout most of history several of the people most close to you would have made
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by patrec 7y ago
The most transparent way would be to add a [First Published: ..., last updated: ...] header. But if the content is really reasonably up-to-date wrt the latest publishing date, I don't think you're doing something shady.
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by patrec 7y ago
You want to read a "classical" comparison of SES vs SendGrid? Really?
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by patrec 7y ago
Python simply should never had = as assignment, and always used := just like pascal does. Using = for assignment and == is part of C's toxic legacy.
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by patrec 7y ago
And I've seen reports of significant data corruption that are much more recent than 3 years ago. Also: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg81293.html
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by patrec 7y ago
> Also the "next gen FS" is just ZFS, first released in 2005 (and they say software moves fast) And yet, ZFS still seems to be the only filesystem in the world that looks remotely appealing. Or can you name a single newer files
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by patrec 7y ago
That scaling dbs is hard is so perf argument makes no sense is a questionable claim. Almost nothing needs to scale horizontally-but almost all software is so slow that users notice. I agree with you that there is a big practical tooling pro
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by patrec 7y ago
Nitpick: Cliff left H20.ai more than 3 years ago – I agree that he's very worth while listening to.
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by patrec 7y ago
Can you explain why you think that complying with hard legal requirements that are a hard pre-requisite to doing business in an authoritarian country is worse than eroding freedom of speech in a non-authoritarian country? Apple can chose to

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