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by prewett 10mo ago
I'd like to see that argument. Russia pre-WWII and Mao's China don't seem to me to have much capitalist pressure against them, yet Stalin and Mao killed millions. Stalin's purges were internal, against people who were on
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by prewett 10mo ago
I don't think it has anything to do with Python. I had plenty of 'if' errors in C++ caused by indenting the second line and not putting braces around it prior to Python. They were always painful to debug. I finally just _alwa
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by prewett 10mo ago
It is true that manufacturing reduced the time spent making clothing, but a) a lot that time weren't really career jobs, but women spending their time spinning and selling the results for a small amount to supplement what the household
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by prewett 10mo ago
Maybe accepting that they do not agree with you?
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by prewett 10mo ago
That assumes that the union never unfairly exploits the company. I think historical evidence shows that unions sometimes do exploit the company (and that union leaders sometimes exploit the members). Humans exploiting other humans is a flaw
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by prewett 10mo ago
Heh, that reminds me of the BASIC games I used to write as a kid. I didn't know that variables could be more than one letter, so S would be score, but then if I needed speed and S was taken, I'd just use T. After a while I'd
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by prewett 10mo ago
I have a feeling she would have said that 10, 20, 30, and 40 years ago, too. But she's probably not wrong. Over the course of her life, the US has gone from mostly farm communities which for good or bad have long-standing social networ
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by prewett 10mo ago
Blaming academia is misguided, and "drive change" has never been in their job description until Progressivism took hold. The problem is each one of us: we want to numb out more than we want to do something hard. The problem is als
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by prewett 11mo ago
We've also been rebelling against traditional values for over fifty years and even celebrating it in song and movies. We've adopted a utilitarian ethic in lieu of the traditional values we've rebelled against. I think those a
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by prewett 11mo ago
Well, if your calculator has a loose wire that sometimes flips a random bit somewhere, you might find that a slide rule that is consistently correct has a certain value.
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by prewett 11mo ago
> If something "seems right/passed review/fell apart" then that's the reviewer's fault right? No, it's the author's fault. The point of a code review is not to ensure correctness, it is to improv
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by prewett 11mo ago
In the late '90s, when CPUs were seeing the advances of GPUs are now seeing, there wasn't much of a market for two/three-year old CPUs. (According to a graph I had Gemini create, the Pentium had 100 MFLOPS and the Pentium 4 h
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by prewett 11mo ago
> I'm not sure what you mean with the "code snippets are straight out of Stackoverflow". That is factually incorrect just by how LLM works. I'm not an AI lover, but I did try Gemini for a small, well-contained algorit
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by prewett 11mo ago
I'm think that ObjC's dynamic dispatch is reasonably fast. I remember reading something about being able to do millions of dynamic dispatch calls per second (so less 1 us per) a long time ago (2018-ish?), but I can't think ho
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by prewett 11mo ago
Boy, I hope you enjoyed driving! And had a bunch of audio books you wanted to listen to. And there's an easy solution for them, too: pay with the company card. If the company expects me to use my personal financing on their behalf, the
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by prewett 11mo ago
In other words, she doesn't like them--and apparently she is self-righteous about it, too.
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by prewett 11mo ago
I was pretty unimpressed with _SQPR_. It's a nice survey, but she keeps saying things like "this list of consuls since the kings can't possibly be right". Ancient people apparently could not maintain a straightforward li
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by prewett 11mo ago
I think "3D" and "1-2 month project" are incompatible. 3D is a big mess to do anything, whereas it's easy to blit some sprites.
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by prewett 11mo ago
That is an interesting way of thinking about UI design, and I think I tend to agree. I was talking about the programming level, though. The code using a text entry box should not need to know the details of the position of the selected text
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by prewett 11mo ago
A dividend is one mechanism for financial rigor and focus, since shareholders don't like dividends being cut. Having large piles of cash lying around is a temptation to use it for sub-optimal returns, or even worse, empire-building. An
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by prewett 11mo ago
Speaking for myself, I see unions as frequently corrupt, being intransigent (such as essentially making Detroit not cost-effective) and just as self-serving as management. Every union experience I have had or hear about involves arbitrary r
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by prewett 11mo ago
It's unclear to me what the author thinks OOP is, and what he thinks we are replacing it with. The main point of OOP to me is hiding internal state. So OOP is great for user-interface, because there's all kinds of state there (not
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by prewett 11mo ago
> on a literal different planet than civil government Unless the military was relocated to Mars (or at least the Moon) during the shutdown, I think the word is "metaphorically" instead of "literal".
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by prewett 11mo ago
Traditionally one is supposed to return money you don’t have anything better to do with to shareholders in dividends, but that is sadly out of fashion with tech companies.
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by prewett 11mo ago
"Energy insecurity" transforms the problem from lack of "energy" into an emotional problem. The problem isn't feelings of insecurity, it's lacking electricity. But now we can feel all self-righteous that we&#x2
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by prewett 11mo ago
> I'm just making shit up in my alternate history Isn't that the whole point of alternate history?
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by prewett 11mo ago
"They could shut down three product lines with an email" If you (Amazon, in this case) can put it that way, it seems like throwing them 10 or 20 thousand a year would simply be a good insurance policy! Any benefits you might get i
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by prewett 1y ago
Part of the problem is that ACA made catastrophic insurance illegal, because all insurance had to have lots of minimum coverage. I don't want insurance to provide one free checkup per year, I want to pay for normal stuff normally, and
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by prewett 1y ago
How do you check if you're running any x86 apps?
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by prewett 1y ago
I've slowly been coming to see voting for Trump as a populist revolt against the educated elite. The educated elite has embraced the Progressive Left, but refuses to acknowledge that a lot of people are simply do not agree that this is

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