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by rectang 5y ago
> That is, it largely came to be appreciated after it had been superseded, You don't "supersede" the idea of applying computation to purposes beyond number crunching. > As for the comment that upsets you, I would ask
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by rectang 5y ago
If you maintain that the idea of applying a computation machine to purposes besides calculation wasn't particularly "influential", I question the usefulness of whatever definition of "influential" you are applying h
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by rectang 5y ago
> as far as I know her contribution did not have a great influence on any later work From the Wikipedia article on Ada Lovelace... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace "She was the first to recognise t
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by rectang 5y ago
You're probably right that the Times has "one of the best processes". However, the Times also employed Judith Miller, which goes to show how little such processes are worth.
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by rectang 5y ago
> ‘Yes, He Would’: Fiona Hill on Putin and Nukes https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/28/world-war-... > Putin is increasingly operating emotionally and likely to use all the weap
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by rectang 5y ago
I figured from the HN title this would be a link to that XKCD cartoon, which is probably my favorite XKCD ever. I feel let down that it's just an editorialized title linking to Cunningham's Law. The XKCD is not really related in
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by rectang 5y ago
Location: San Diego, CA, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Possibly Technologies: C, Go, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, React, Rust, SQL, TypeScript; fulltext search, Open Source, Unicode, testing, Git. Résumé/CV: ht
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by rectang 5y ago
Yes! Other interesting districts in San Diego are Convoy Street in the Kearny Mesa neighborhood and National City, both of which fit that description. In contrast, I went to 100+ restaurants in the Del Mar area (which is quite wealthy) and
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by rectang 5y ago
> Don't go into a michelin level restaurant expecting "well it's expensive so it should be what I normally eat but better", think of it as its own category of food, that happens to have a really high buy-in price. Lo
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by rectang 5y ago
The demo video sounds fantastic. Great playing, tone, harmonic balance with both large and small chords, articulation, variety (dynamics, runs, even some overload distortion). I listened first on my MacBook Pro laptop speakers then pulled
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by rectang 5y ago
What hasn't changed are the disproportionate consequences should disaster strike, and the emergent tendencies of energy utilities towards corruption, incompetence, and corner cutting. Eventually somebody running a plant will screw up,
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by rectang 5y ago
NATO "firing bullets" is not and has never been on the table since NATO is a defensive alliance and Ukraine is not a member. The idea of bribing Russian soldiers radically underestimates the brutal control exerted by the Kremlin o
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by rectang 5y ago
https://translate.google.com/?sl=de&tl=en&text=Pullis%20gege... > Sweaters against Putin XD
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by rectang 5y ago
That rings true. It reminds me of the US reducing its dependence on foreign oil, which was also very hard and took a long time — but was worth it.
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by rectang 5y ago
> the Ukraine FYI: today "Ukraine" is preferred over "The Ukraine" because "The Ukraine" can be understood to imply a region rather than a country.
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by rectang 5y ago
The West is looking for ways to impose effective sanctions. Investing in increased trade between the US and Europe which also hits Russia seems like a promising approach. Russia is obviously geographically closer than the US to Europe. On
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by rectang 5y ago
> unless American gas producers artificially lower their gas prices Is that an option? Through US government subsidies or something similar?
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by rectang 5y ago
This link reads to me like Putin propaganda justifying an unprovoked invasion by claiming Russia as the supposed victim of western aggression.
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by rectang 5y ago
If Europe stops buying Russian gas (a big if, and something that might happen later rather than sooner), are there other countries which would buy it? China, for instance?
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by rectang 5y ago
What are the completeness levels of the various editions (edition-1, edition-2, and edition-3)? In which editions, if any, is the OS anywhere close to feature-complete (i.e. close to meeting a base set of pedagogical goals as a "smal
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by rectang 5y ago
> In fact, all they've done is push it further underground. Deplatforming revenge porn is a win. Having less revenge porn on PornHub is a win. You're welcome to disagree, just as advocates for Voat, Parler, etc. would — and
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by rectang 5y ago
Content quality is key. The post "We're choosing Rust, and not Go, C++, or Node.js" got flagged a few hours ago after reaching the front page briefly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30465632 Although
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by rectang 5y ago
As a practical matter, throwing the matter to civil court ensures a vast epidemic of revenge porn. There are a lot of people who don't think that's a big deal. But there are also a lot of people who do: 46 US states have have pa
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by rectang 5y ago
Thanks, I thoroughly enjoyed your reasoned example! > starting from a non-maladaptive state of mind This stage-setting phrase seems to be doing a lot of heavy lifting. Because of course "I should not break the arm of X" is s
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by rectang 5y ago
> Logical fallacies are why I dislike talking to people. Well, I admit I'm finding the exchange increasingly unpleasant as well. I'd like to think that if we were speaking in person with the benefit of tone of voice and body
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by rectang 5y ago
> Isn't it just a fatalistic coloring of ethical relativism? To me, "the universe is indifferent" is ethical relativism but not at all fatalistic. If there is no deliberate outside guidance, then we are free to construc
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by rectang 5y ago
I hold the opposite perspective: world wars are brought about by those who are convinced that there is only one correct moral system — theirs — and who therefore have no compunction about inflicting it on others. The belief that the no mora
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by rectang 5y ago
> But morality is an aspect that separates humans from "beasts". Over the course of human history, claims of moral superiority habitually accompany great atrocities. Give me a humble ethics which seeks to change that which c
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by rectang 5y ago
One perspective: The universe is indifferent to your ethics and whether they are self-consistent or inconsistent. Choices "matter" insofar as they have observable effects that somebody cares about, but ultimately all morality is
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by rectang 5y ago
Well, although civil suits are an utterly inadequate stratagem given the scope of the problem (which includes millions of victims who are not practially in a position to pursue and win a suit), at least it's something.

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