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by rixed 1y ago
Imagine a future where the government is the terrorist.
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by rixed 1y ago
I find it totally inline with expectations that, given sufficiently accurate measurement aparatus, one could detect a difference in light (and sound, and moves, and smell...) between living, stressed or dead things. After all, those are ver
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by rixed 1y ago
Most people in the world have very little economic agency. They don't "choose" to consume rather than to save, they just can't save. And even if the consumer were allmighty, in most countries the state itself is spending
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by rixed 1y ago
I don't understand where you stand. Surely, you don't mean that all C programs have memory bugs. But on my side, I'm not claiming that discipline makes C a memory safe language either. This discussion has taken a weird turn.
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by rixed 1y ago
Impressive erudition and interresting list of nice languages, some of which I'd never heard about, thank you. Yes indeed not all GCed languages suffer from mandatory boxing. I've been both picky and wrong, which is not a nice plac
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by rixed 1y ago
It is of course subjective. For you hate speech does not justify censorship but for me it does. Probably because we make different risk assessments: you might expect hate speech to have no consequences in general and censorship to lead to a
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by rixed 1y ago
> People usually like to believe that they're at least better than average A majority of people can believe that they are better than the average, and be right. Now, if we were speaking about the median...
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by rixed 1y ago
Tihs is complicated by the fact that we seem to intimaly comply with others expectations. That is to say, if I'm expected to be a hard worker, I will work harder than if I'm expected to be a lazy sloth. If I'm expected to beh
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by rixed 1y ago
Instead of investing resources in education, why not let people discover by themselves the virtues of education? Sarcasm aside, we tend to focus too much on the means and too little on the outcomes.
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by rixed 1y ago
It doesn't have to be national threat. Social media can be used by small organisations or even sufficiently motivated individuals to easily spread lies and slanders against individuals or group and it's close to impossible to prev
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by rixed 1y ago
Is your point that any message is information? Without truth there is no information.
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by rixed 1y ago
"your adversary"? I think this post makes clear who our adversary really are.
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by rixed 1y ago
From the readme: [1, 2, 3] * 10 // [10, 20, 30] (because [1 * 10 = 10, 2 * 10 = 20, 3 * 10 = 30]) [4, 5, 6] > 3 // true (because [4 > 3 = true, 5 > 3 = true, 6 > 3 = true], so the condition is true for
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by rixed 1y ago
Sure. What about non primitives?
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by rixed 1y ago
What makes python very slow start up has little to do with the GC though. Actually, a GC program for a short-lived program such as most CLI tools can be the fastest option since you could disable the GC and let the OS dealloc all memory at
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by rixed 1y ago
> How is it that people simultaneously believe > 1) GC makes a language slow, and > 2) Go is fast? Easy one: either not the same people, or people holding self contradicting thoughts. GC are slow not only because of scanning the me
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by rixed 1y ago
> "Just don't write (memory) bugs!" hasn't produced (memory) safe C Yes it did, of course. Maybe it takes years of practice, the assistance of tools (there are many, most very good), but it's always been possible
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by rixed 1y ago
Could you be more specific about what's not perfect yet with the hardware support?
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by rixed 1y ago
Err, no. Politics is the art of manipulating people so they act differently than what they would be inclined to. Modern politics is made possible by psychology and sociology (that and the more traditional use of violence of course), and a l
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by rixed 1y ago
It's not +, but it's |, like OR which is the + of logical operators.
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by rixed 1y ago
That would be a trait of character that most inhabitants of a country acquire by education, mimetism or mere abituation, that distinguish them from inhabitants of most other countries; Like a taste for some kind of food or music, a respect
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by rixed 1y ago
Are they actually fighting?
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by rixed 1y ago
Unless we disagree on the meaning of "national character", isn't that easy to come up with 100 other reasons to explain those economic/political differences?
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by rixed 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties#/media...
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by rixed 1y ago
It doesn't matter if Trump is Hitler or not (what does that even mean?) Stop paying that much attention to people, they mostly do not matter. Think instead about the circumstances. What matter is that the USA in 2025 is not Germany of
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by rixed 1y ago
It certainly depends what you call child-hostile and I have no statistics on this. What I do know though, is that one of the denser area in Europe is the famous triangle Rotterdam-Amsterdam-Utrecht, which can hardly be described as child-ho
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by rixed 1y ago
Exactly how I picture things. AI is the next step after good search engines. We dreamed about the semantic web but never really delivered on this. AI is the semantic search we were longing for; Still a bit fuzzy, but already very useful.
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by rixed 1y ago
At the end of the day, what we have been experienting since the early 2000s is just the industrialisation of software development. 20 years ago it was still a craft and it has become a job. 20 years ago if you needed to do something serious
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by rixed 1y ago
Haven't Google also famously faked a phone call with an AI some years ago for an event? https://www.axios.com/2018/05/17/google-ai-demo-questions
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by rixed 1y ago
Any source is better than "oh you know what I mean". Even if nobody is going to change their mind, it helps to stay aware of where others stand on an issue. Better than to be completely alien to each others.

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