rcoveson

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by rcoveson 6y ago
You're overstating my premise. I was not saying very much, and you're implying I was saying a lot. Who said the clusters were neat? Or that characteristic distributions were Gaussian? "Women" and "Men" are word
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by rcoveson 6y ago
> In some ways, homosexual men might very well cluster away from females, even more so than heterosexual men. Aren't we back to what the person I was originally replying to would describe as "dangerous stereotypes"? The po
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by rcoveson 6y ago
By default, let’s assume that homosexual men have the same distribution of all other traits as heterosexual men. In N-dimensional space, they are biased slightly away from dead center of the male cluster towards the female cluster because o
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by rcoveson 6y ago
Isn’t “being attracted to males” a predominantly female characteristic in animals that reproduce sexually? On the “sexuality” dimension, do not gay men fall closer to the female cluster than the male cluster?
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by rcoveson 6y ago
If I follow you, you're suggesting that these Asian and African societies you have in mind would be more accepting of LGBT rights if they were convinced that it was something biological and immutable. I present the counter example of b
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by rcoveson 6y ago
> It's like you see a bully picking on a kid every day at the park and you just decide to go to a different park. Maybe you feel a little better about it yourself, but it doesn't help the kid. I think this is a really good anal
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by rcoveson 6y ago
I'm confident we only disagree on the threshold of injustice. Surely there is a point where exiting the market is the only moral thing to do? Or does the responsibility-proportional-to-power argument justify subjecting your business to
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by rcoveson 6y ago
And the (rather massive) flaw in yours is the idea that "fixing" and "not fixing" a problem are the only two possible outcomes. Would Apple and Google condemning this policy and refusing to comply "fix" the pro
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by rcoveson 6y ago
Better to compare it to Cap'n Proto instead. Arrow data is already laid out in a usable way. For example, an Arrow column of int64s is an 8-byte aligned memory region of size 8*N bytes (plus a bit vector for nullity), ready for random
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by rcoveson 6y ago
I had the same thought. If I saw these posts 5 years ago I would have assumed that "diamond hands" and "to the moon" were slogans from r/The_Donald. The spirit of these meme cults seems to be, "Isn't it in
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by rcoveson 6y ago
> Know that we don't know what kind of deals are happening behind closed doors in these two last days of manipulated activity. As the saying goes: If you're at a poker table and you can't tell who's the fish, get up.
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by rcoveson 6y ago
I think OpenBSD stopped shipping `sudo` in the base system in favor of `doas`.
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by rcoveson 6y ago
I wouldn't say "no problem whatsoever." Lots of things encode Unix time as a 32 bit signed integer, which can't date back further than 1901. Any fixed-with type is going to have a lower- and upper-bound; whether it has a
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by rcoveson 6y ago
I do something like this in "modern" Java to get for-each with index: { int i = -1; for (V v : list) { i++; // stuff } } While declaring i = -1 to start is a little gross, I like that it has some of
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by rcoveson 6y ago
> It's for theft, because getting something of value for free feels good. I love this too. I steal the mountain air when I hit the trails, I steal the sounds of nearby conversations, and I steal the memories of songs I've heard
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by rcoveson 6y ago
That would justify requiring semicolons/parentheses. It doesn't justify making them optional. The real explanation is that they were mimicking another language, Ruby, that had made that mistake.
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by rcoveson 6y ago
Maybe the rest of Ruby is more "beautiful" and "simple", but those adjectives don't apply to the inconsistency caused by optional code punctuation. I think Ruby users even realized this, and have since imposed stric
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by rcoveson 6y ago
How is talking about mechanisms for taking parler.com offline "entirely inventing the slope"? It was taken offline by its cloud provider and its apps were removed. Google was even involved in the takedown. Nothing outlandish is be
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by rcoveson 6y ago
No, they were taken down by their cloud provider and by the two mobile app stores. My story was hypothetical, though disturbingly the companies involved don't entirely change when you talk about a take down from a different layer.
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by rcoveson 6y ago
Can anybody explain to me why it ever seemed like a good idea to make both: (1) Semicolons at the ends of lines and (2) Function-call parentheses, not required , and not illegal , but optional ? It strikes me as an abdication of the resp
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by rcoveson 6y ago
No, I don't think that's how it would play out. 1. Google bans parler.com on Jan. 8th by adding it as an "unsafe URL" to their blacklist. 2. Mozilla issues statement: "While we don't believe it was prudent to u
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by rcoveson 6y ago
Yes, this is true. I'd also point out that members of "polite society" may ostracize you for many reasons, including perceived sexual deviancy, punk rock music, dancing, any degree of alcohol or drug use, communist leanings,
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by rcoveson 6y ago
It's unpopular because that disruption hasn't happened yet, and there's no guarantee that it will happen in the next 50 years. In the mean time, the average American is stuck interacting with cutting edge research--research w
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by rcoveson 6y ago
Can't host it with Google or Amazon, though, as those companies are also willing to take you down before any injunction. DNS providers will also take you out if there's social pressure to do so; see the recent GoDaddy action again
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by rcoveson 6y ago
There are some old games I can't get to work on Windows 10 which worked fine on Windows XP. Amusingly, what usually ends up working best is wine.
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by rcoveson 6y ago
That and pizza delivery.
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by rcoveson 6y ago
> I really hate censorship from institutions and providers where it would be better if they were naive and impartial. Situations where the company doing the proactive banning is practically invisible are downright concerning. It's g
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by rcoveson 6y ago
I understand where you're coming from, but I reserve the right the call out an extraordinarily strong claim as questionable. I stand by what I said. GP may not be lying, in which case I believe they have either only just started the
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by rcoveson 6y ago
> Meditating on Stoic mantras helps you accept our inability to control the world, and therefore the pointlessness of taking a world view in the first place. Instead, Stoicism encourages you to focus on maximizing the good within yoursel
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by rcoveson 6y ago
To restate: You "haven't run into a single glitch or problem of any kind ." Emphasis mine. Then you are either not past the railroad stages of the very early game, or you have not been paying attention. Or both.

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