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by rntz 10y ago
> That was absolutely not what I intended to say with this admittedly tongue-in-cheek quip. Thank you for clarifying. > There is a kernel of (subjective) truth in there though: if you find yourself agreeing with one side of a meme war
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by rntz 10y ago
In this context, it just means "very strong". The idea is that biased investors have a lot of leverage, despite being a minority, because of the environment they're in. So yes, it's that their behavior is driving everyon
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by rntz 10y ago
GP meant to say GGP is arguing against emotions, not arguing using emotions. He's accusing GGP's detractors of emotionality, not GGP.
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by rntz 10y ago
Message-oriented no-shared-state approaches (whether you call it Actors, objects, CSP, session types, or whatever) to concurrency have proved much easier to write correct software in than the traditional threads, locks, and shared memory ap
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by rntz 10y ago
In the end, it doesn't matter who it's "fair" to assign responsibility to; a language you can't rely on is a language you can't rely on. All esr is pointing out is that there's a problem. Personally I thin
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by rntz 10y ago
This is true. It does seem, however, like that is the short-term trend of the last decade or three. Things don't have to be as bad as the mid 20th century to be worrying.
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by rntz 10y ago
> As a rule of thumb: if both parties are angry at you, you're on the right track. No; this is an excuse to pat yourself on the back for being contrary. Don't validate your beliefs by how much they make others angry, any more t
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by rntz 10y ago
GP: and the response from the devs is simply to grumble that old-school Opera was best and all other browsers today have bad defaults P: It's the wrong default behaviors You're talking past each other.
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by rntz 10y ago
Perhaps the common cause here was disqus, rather than anonymity per se? Does anyone know if there any features of disqus that might encourage trolling? Also, I've certainly seen plenty of flaming in FB comments on news sites.
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by rntz 10y ago
Location: Oxford, UK Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes (NB. I am both a US & a UK citizen, so no visa issues w/ moving to US.) Technologies: I design, implement, and improve programming languages. Do you have a problem that coul
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by rntz 10y ago
Exempting fresh-out-of college students from requirements that apply to others seems like straight-up bullshit to me. Either those requirements are flexible, or they aren't.
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by rntz 10y ago
Is there any evidence that they have different underlying causes or are otherwise fundamentally distinct rather than one simply being an extreme case of the other? (Honest question; I'm not familiar with the literature here.) Or, even
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by rntz 10y ago
This isn't as inconsistent as it seems. People would probably also be equally uncomfortable with both the idea of "editing" an embryo's genome to make it light-skinned, and the inverse idea of editing it to make it dark-
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by rntz 10y ago
A melodic minor lacks C major, and instead has C augmented.
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by rntz 10y ago
No, not unless you can fortuitously find a mode that has exactly the chords you need. But for some progressions there is no such mode. I believe "House of the Rising Sun" has such a progression, but I haven't exhaustively che
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by rntz 10y ago
I like it! but I really wish this would allow you to borrow chords from other keys or modes. Even a song as simple as "The House of the Rising Sun" (which The Animals famously arpeggiated) borrows chords - it's in A minor but
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by rntz 10y ago
Sure, that's fair. I think Bostrom is no Einstein. But I maintain that he's no crank, either. There's a lot of space in the world for people who are neither.
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by rntz 10y ago
I believe so, yes.
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by rntz 10y ago
1. Plenty of academics write books. 2. Comparing a paper and a book for length is obviously unfair. Bostrom has also written papers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Bostrom#Journal_articles_... 3. "Concrete the
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by rntz 10y ago
By this measure, I would say Bostrom is not a crank. Yudkowsky is less clear. I'd say no, but I'd understand if Yudkowsky trips some folks' crank detectors.
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by rntz 10y ago
> But I think I'd see a lot more use case for something that lets me do a very tiny amount of things, maybe just headings and bold and italic, and avoids not only ambiguity but any risk of ambiguity. When you build that, let me know
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by rntz 10y ago
I use markdown for writing blog posts, and I need arbitrary HTML all the time . For tables; or for custom syntax highlighting; for drop-down menus that let readers choose what PL they want to see examples in ( http://www.rntz.net
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by rntz 10y ago
I tried to switch from markdown.pl to Pandoc and encountered some problems, one of which remains an open issue ( https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/1841 ): https://twitter.com/arntzenius/
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by rntz 10y ago
> But anyone who has studied the Sokal hoax knows very well that _Social Text_'s editors were bullied into relaxing their peer-reviewed standards at Sokal's insistence. This is misleading. First, Social Text at the time explici
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by rntz 10y ago
No, it's possible. The key insight is that a "rational number of unlimited precision" can be used to store an arbitrarily large amount of data; it can emulate a Turing machine's unlimited working tape.
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by rntz 10y ago
Often reference counting is considered distinct from GC; sometimes the term "tracing GC" is used to disambiguate. Refcounting & tracing GC have the same purpose, but different implementation techniques and performance implicat
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by rntz 10y ago
I have no reason to believe that Russell wrote a garbage collector for the first Lisp implementations. I used the adverb "properly" specifically because it's possible to implement Lisp without GC, but this isn't really a
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by rntz 10y ago
> Also, recursion arises in a different form in lambda calculus than it does in the approach to computability that is based on general recursive functions. Again, I think that LISP is closer to Gödel here than to Church. I think I unders
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by rntz 10y ago
The specification allows for this, yes. However, on some platforms (including linux glibc by default, I believe), malloc() never fails, but allocates virtual memory optimistically; the first you hear of an out of memory condition is when th
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by rntz 10y ago
"saving the world to disk and rebooting" sounds like a primitive form of garbage collection to me :)

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