repolfx

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by repolfx 8y ago
Thanks, I hadn't heard of the elastic clause before. I was only referring to the latest version of the text. I know it was racist in the past. But I am not a constitutional scholar, indeed.
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by repolfx 8y ago
What do you mean by growing quadratically, exactly? The rotational drift of the Earth is growing that fast? Where can I read more about this?
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by repolfx 8y ago
My sense is that in the post-Snowden era, most of his articles focus on hypocrisy of some sort. At least that seems to be a dominating theme. I don't read every article he publishes but that's what I associate with Greenwald - he
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by repolfx 8y ago
Are there any such people? I tried to figure out what was going on from your story but it's like coming into the middle of a family fight that's been going on for years. The stuff they're currently arguing about is probably n
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by repolfx 8y ago
I don't know anything about Alex Jones and never listen to his shows. But this is the second time now I've investigated an apparently absurd statement from him and discovered it's being selectively quoted to make him look bad
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by repolfx 8y ago
It is on a whim. "Hate" clauses are essentially put there to let companies or governments make decisions on a whim. Try nailing down a precise definition of the term and then applying it consistently and you'll find it's
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by repolfx 8y ago
I've been reading Greenwald for years and don't recognise that description at all. But it comes from the New Yorker so this is perhaps not a surprise. It's worth being extremely careful paying any attention to American media
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by repolfx 8y ago
Or a runtime equivalent, e.g. the java.time package gets this stuff right.
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by repolfx 8y ago
But offset of UTC for TAI is like 37 seconds or something poxy like that. Nobody cares about this, the sun moves too slowly for that to make any difference. There's been talk of setting UTC=TAI for quite a long time and I think it&#x27
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by repolfx 8y ago
Java was open sourced in 2006.
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by repolfx 8y ago
The concern is not that they're currently doing it at scale, but that they're about to. It also frankly looks like they're already doing it at scale for Google News specifically, vs general web search results.
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by repolfx 8y ago
Well, let me rephrase. Why wouldn't he be worth defending?
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by repolfx 8y ago
Is that a valid analogy? The US Constitution tries not to be vague, and is extremely clear about its aims. Being updatable is not the same as having a generic "... and anything else that we might consider problematic" clause in it
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by repolfx 8y ago
Has the Linux kernel project ever had a real problem with that? Linus is not racist or sexist, and nobody is saying he is. Just that he loses his temper and yells at people when he shouldn't. It appears that Linus' temper problem
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by repolfx 8y ago
"Them's fightin words"? Why, what's wrong with Jordan Peterson? He's rather the celebrity these days, I saw his book in the number 2 position at the bookstore only a few days ago. Your post doesn't seem to have
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by repolfx 8y ago
No, it isn't easy to have (1) without (2). The people telling you that you were wrong in those arguments are correct, and you're still mis-understanding cryptography. Encryption without identity verification is objectively worse
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by repolfx 8y ago
If you don't have identity as part of the process, the result doesn't do anything. TOFU is broken completely, there are studies showing SSH key rotations in a computer science department triggered no attempts to verify the key
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by repolfx 8y ago
If that was true the US would have had giant import tariffs after WW2 and been promoting the absence of them in other countries. Even if you assume the US would have abolished tariffs knowing it'd cost them little immediately after WW2
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by repolfx 8y ago
I wonder what that terrible experience was and how it could be so bad. After all I've had bad experiences with apps written in C, C++ and Python but I'd still use these tools when necessary. To write off something as huge as the J
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by repolfx 8y ago
SubstrateVM does support that pattern. What people are talking about is different. It's when the app genuinely loads plugins that weren't available at compile time, or generates bytecode on the fly.
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by repolfx 8y ago
AOT can deal with it. In Java 9 or 10, they added an ability to AOT compile modules. You can still do dynamic classloading with the result, and the JVM still warms up to higher peak performance than you get with a static AOT compiler alone.
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by repolfx 8y ago
This is true of many, many open source projects and has always been true. My first Linux was SuSE. Had to pay for it. The source was there but if you wanted Linux in an easy to use form, not so much. It was no big deal to pay because I knew
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by repolfx 8y ago
What licensing issues do you have in mind. Graal and SubstrateVM are all GPL-with-classpath-exception licensed, same as Java itself. It's an open source license.
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by repolfx 8y ago
Art? Any criticism of art is always inherently subjective, it can easily be blown off as the critic not getting it, not liking that style of art, etc. I mean if someone presents to me some totally abstract splashes of paint style work, an
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by repolfx 8y ago
That's extremely rare, in my experience. Nowhere near what developers go through. It's rare even for basic things like spelling errors or typos to be pointed out, let alone more serious problems like a presentation containing stat
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by repolfx 8y ago
That relies on a rather specific definition of knowledge. Thomas Sowell has done a lot of good writing on these topics: the nature and varying definitions of knowledge, the role of academics and intellectuals, etc. It's ironic because
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by repolfx 8y ago
Yes to all the questions in your first paragraph bar one. Completely rely on the private sector, check. Sponsors tell what to teach, check - that in fact is the entire point! The closed-loop unaccountable nature of current teaching is hugel
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by repolfx 8y ago
I was thinking in the context of a tech company, where you also have non-technical business people. Yes, obviously in some fields tough peer review is also common.
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by repolfx 8y ago
Just eccentric and annoying to you . This entire discussion is largely about the fact that different people interpret the same style of feedback either as offensive or as refreshingly direct. For instance, Page one told someone that what t
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by repolfx 8y ago
You can be super nice and not upset anybody without compromising on technical rigour. That's the ideal. In practice there are always people, a minority, who can't or won't separate criticism of their work from criticism of

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