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by pcstl 6y ago
Oh, I'm sure of that. But the point I was trying to make is that he wasn't going for accuracy to ancient myth, just as Ginsberg wasn't.
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by pcstl 6y ago
Who'd guess that advocating for less policing without providing a clear alternative would be terrible for everyone except for those who can pay for private security. Even bad cops are better than no cops.
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by pcstl 6y ago
Probably getting the good old HN hug right now. Might want to try later.
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by pcstl 6y ago
I guess a big part of it is that Scott just took the name from the Ginsberg poem and probably only did a quick lookup on who Moloch actually was (as he was more interested in Ginsberg's Moloch than in the Canaanite Moloch)?
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by pcstl 6y ago
I actually intended to, but when I finished writing the comment I forgot to paste the link in. Thank you.
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by pcstl 6y ago
I feel like I need to plug Zvi Mowshowitz's "Immoral Mazes" series of blogposts here, as it goes pretty in-depth into the whole matter of efficiency, slack, and "how hard should we work". https://www.less
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by pcstl 6y ago
Spiraling out of control and accelerating. Brazil is dominated by very powerful interest groups, some of them corporate, some of them unions, which lobby for laws mostly in order to ensure they keep their power. The unions keep wanting stro
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by pcstl 6y ago
They don't help either. Most of our labor laws are there for middle-class people to look at them and think "wow, aren't our labor laws great?" while most actual lower-class people can't get jobs that actually follow
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by pcstl 6y ago
Don't think he's being dishonest. Vargas was indeed a fascist, and I don't see what our being shamefully late to abolish slavery has to do with our labor laws being good or bad.
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by pcstl 6y ago
That has a lot to do with Rich Hickey and Cognitect encouraging cultishness.
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by pcstl 6y ago
"Anti-rust sentiment"? I'm a Rust user, a fan of the language, and I believe it's a great step forward for systems programming. However, it's kind of ridiculous how on any thread about Rust, anyone who brings up cri
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by pcstl 6y ago
I really don't care what the default name for a branch is. I don't care if people want to change it. Hell, if GitHub starts defaulting to "main" instead of "master" I probably won't even care enough to cha
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by pcstl 6y ago
Seems interesting, but all I can think of right now is the video game Ace Combat 7.
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by pcstl 6y ago
That's why a lot of functional language research is moving towards effect handlers, which could be explained in a nutshell as "coroutines, but for anything"
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by pcstl 7y ago
Yes and no. Yes, you can make compile times _extremely long_. They're not unbounded, as code you use in types needs to pass the _totality checker_, which proves it terminates. (The totality checker requires code to follow certain forma
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by pcstl 7y ago
This reminds me of the book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", which is also about a father-son roadtrip, and which uses it as an excuse to talk about what happens when we do long, boring tasks requiring some focus but l
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by pcstl 7y ago
Could you elaborate on this? I'd be interested in a few examples of Taleb's cherry picking and counterexamples to his statements on antifragility.
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by pcstl 7y ago
Not particularly close. The feature seems to be progressing slowly, but very deprioritized (which is understandable - Rust has a bit of a reputation for being hard to learn and too feature-heavy, so it's natural for them to focus on st
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by pcstl 7y ago
It's going to be fun to see this whole recognition proof clothing turn into a low-key "war" as states demand better recognition systems that can bypass this kind of thing, and privacy activists keep developing new ways of foo
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by pcstl 7y ago
Kotlin can generate both JVM bytecode and iOS binaries. I've successfully shared code between iOS and Android projects using Kotlin before. The overhead is quite low, and, all in all, I was quite satisfied with the results. However, a
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by pcstl 7y ago
Fonts aren't just images. Characters have certain visual features we rely on to differentiate them from each other. When characters are scaled in size, the scaling is usually not done in a uniform manner - instead, the less significant
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by pcstl 7y ago
As someone said in the replies to this, Evangelion is, in a way, to giant-robot anime what Watchmen is to superhero comics.
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by pcstl 7y ago
What do you mean by "stimulating your brain"? If you mean being mentally active all the time, in the long run that'll make you less productive, not more.
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by pcstl 7y ago
~ does indeed denote named arguments. To call a function named f which has an argument named arg with arg set to the value x, the syntax is: f ~arg:x
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by pcstl 7y ago
Haskell does use green threads. The thing is, Haskell code is managed by a Haskell runtime, and each runtime manages a single (processor) thread. So the usual parallelism model for Haskell is to spawn a runtime for each processor core and t
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by pcstl 7y ago
Haskell is a lazy-by-default language and the most practical way to disable laziness is that syntax extension. You can do it without the extension, but it'll turn ugly really quick (lots of uses of the "seq" function everywhe
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by pcstl 7y ago
You really don't need to know more than "it's technically true, but also completely useless for anything practical".
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by pcstl 7y ago
It is unclear whether biodegradable plastics break down fully to non-plastic products or whether their breakdown produces microplastics, unfortunately.
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by pcstl 7y ago
>I'm not saying you are wrong, I'm trying to give you a framework to understand your own opinion. The fact that you don't seem to comprehend how absurd and arrogant it is that you think you need to help me understand my ow
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by pcstl 7y ago
I never said that 'good' was an objective measure. Quite the opposite, in fact. I quite explicitly said that rationality is about acting toward achieving what is 'good' for oneself.

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