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841.
by pohl 7y ago
Why limit it to media? Ideas travel through so many other vectors, too, like from n-chan-denizen to n-chan-denizen via comments on n-chan.
842.
by pohl 7y ago
I thought maybe this was a reference to constructivist mathematics, to refer to only this numbers that are algorithmic and exclude numbers we know exist in ℝ but have to be proven to exist using the axiom of choice.
843.
by pohl 7y ago
...and name it with a numeric prefix followed by the suffix "chan".
844.
by pohl 7y ago
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/x22-report/
845.
by pohl 7y ago
I don’t think it’s a mistake, but a prerequisite. Oligarchs and autocrats only have their own interests in mind.
846.
by pohl 7y ago
If there's any groupthink somewhere, it's in the notion that "[N-chans] are hot beds for the 1st amendment." They are not. Nothing prevents them from creating and enforcing standards of conduct, not even the constitutio
847.
by pohl 7y ago
The 1st Amendment is irrelevant. At best you can appeal to a general principle of "freedom of speech," but you cannot appeal to the right to free speech protected by that amendment, which has to do with limiting the Government&#x2
848.
by pohl 7y ago
No newlines allowed. No semicolons, either. In my head I read this in the voice of Harry Dean Stanton (Repo Man).
849.
by pohl 7y ago
The python runtime is not the bottleneck. This smells like an overgeneralization. Often things that aren’t a bottleneck in the context of the problems you’ve faced might at least be an unacceptable cost in the context of the 16.6 ms budge
850.
by pohl 7y ago
The caller of the function knows nothing about what happens within the body of the function. (Is it just doing computation, or is it doing I/O?). The async keyword is how the author of the function makes it explicit that caller shoul
851.
by pohl 7y ago
You might want to clarify in the readme that the red X means non-goal. Until I read this comment I thought it was a goal that had not yet been implemented.
852.
by pohl 7y ago
Probably an intern on his staff did the research.
853.
by pohl 7y ago
The sofa is an example of the concept of an "extended phenotype," isn't it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Extended_Phenotype
854.
by pohl 7y ago
This brings back memories. I still have the paper subLOGIC Flight Simulator documentation that came with my copy for my TRS-80 Model I. The blocky graphics made it so that it only looked good if you were banking.
855.
by pohl 7y ago
“...that you cannot produce it.” It sounds like you are conflating type 1 and type 2. The mechanism of the latter begins with insulin resistance.
856.
by pohl 7y ago
If anybody catches the titular moment, drop the time index here, please.
857.
by pohl 7y ago
I've never understood the use of the word "semantic" in the dismissive sense. Meaning is everything when parties are trying to communicate. This thread finally got to the heart of the miscommunication, and instead of celebrat
858.
by pohl 7y ago
This would be an interesting strategy to apply towards measuring how an open source community feels about difficult tradeoffs in design where there is no clear winner among many proposals, such as the recent survey meant to measure how peop
859.
by pohl 8y ago
Would it be fair to expect the performance to get better once the Web IDL Bindings Proposal for WebAssembly is done?
860.
by pohl 8y ago
I walked to get lunch down the street from the office today, listening to a podcast on my way. Midway, a stranger that I did not want to talk to tried to get my attention, gesturing up to his ear. I smiled and waved hello, pretending that I
861.
by pohl 8y ago
I imagine this will unshackle some people who have been wanting to use Rust within organizations.
862.
by pohl 8y ago
Nate hasn't been trying to predict elections that far out, either, to be fair. He has always said some variant of "if the election were held today" when discussing the model.
863.
by pohl 8y ago
I know, right? Every time my meteorologist gives me a probability of rain on a day that it doesn't rain I ask the same question.
864.
by pohl 8y ago
People say that a lot, but without really thinking it through. There are 2.79M civil servants, each of which can be pejoratively referred to as a "bureaucrat" if that is your wont, and pretty much every one of them wants governmen
865.
by pohl 8y ago
I grant the existence of some who seek to make government less expensive for the sole sake of it being less expensive. (Existence proof: Grover Norquist, who wants to drown it in a bathtub.) Who are these mythical creatures who want it to b
866.
by pohl 8y ago
Daisy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bu-gl7v-P8
867.
by pohl 8y ago
Here you go. That was news from a budget proposal on March 16, 2017 https://www.space.com/36090-trump-2018-nasa-budget-request.h...
868.
by pohl 8y ago
[in the year 2000] Conan: our modems will no longer be slow, so we'll fake the slow, client-side.
869.
by pohl 8y ago
They're only at the beginning of development, and they're starting at a small scale, so it's not clear whether the smaller scale drones can't achieve perpetual flight or whether that was simply not a necessary goal at th
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by pohl 8y ago
Rust is an interesting one to compare to: it has been public for about 8 years, I think, and the first 5 years was a lot of experimentation. It started to have stability as a deliverable in 2015. Swift became public in 2014 and, when it was

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