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Idiomatic Panics in Go(stonecode.ca)
2 points by rwj 5y ago|0 comments
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by rwj 6y ago
This argument is full of equivocation. The consequences of speech are exactly what is being debated. An exchange of ideas, then yes. Censorship by the mob (instead of government), then no.
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by rwj 6y ago
Or, that any impact is too small to measure, and so not meaningful.
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by rwj 6y ago
The article is a good overview, but I don't think saying that Gebru was fired is accurate. This fact is commonly repeated, but I believe she resigned.
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by rwj 6y ago
Yes, take their lessons with a grain of salt, but they have a ton of experience, and shouldn't be dismissed out of hand either.
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by rwj 6y ago
Just one data point, but doesn't Google advocate for living at head? Long-lived software can't be static.
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by rwj 6y ago
I doubt that everyone is being as deligent as you. I suspect leaving security updates to upstream is not a recipe for secure distributions. For the record, I see both sides as having legitimate concerns.
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by rwj 6y ago
You should give Pinker a closer read. He does not say that progress is uniform in space or time. He certainly acknowledges there can be set backs. This is exactly why he emphases the importance of reason - to avoid the setbacks that woul
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by rwj 6y ago
I'm sure that many could read it, but reading it and understand are not the same thing. Understanding takes time, often a lot of time. And this is where the simplified bit comes back. Discussions on social media rarely indicate much e
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Free Speech and Twitter(stonecode.ca)
1 points by rwj 6y ago|0 comments
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by rwj 6y ago
Your comment about char* aliasing everything is for C, not LLVM.
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by rwj 6y ago
It's true that gold and silver have industrial uses, but you don't see people hoarding bars of chromium as a store if value. I doubt that gold's price is entirely due to industrial demand...
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by rwj 6y ago
Peer review for academic papers is typically anonymous. She would have been familiar with the process. In the end, the editor (in this case the manager) takes responsibility for the decision.
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by rwj 6y ago
I've found it pretty easy debug GitLab CI issues. You know the docker image, so you can create the environment locally. You then need to concat the scripts together.
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by rwj 6y ago
I will need to check out aerc. I've only submitted one patch, but there are enough differences from regular email to create quite a barrier.
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by rwj 6y ago
Don't know the author well enough to know if this is a joke. However, saying something is "easy to see" that has not been accepted for a century must be satire... In the second paragraph, there is a faulty assumption that al
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by rwj 6y ago
There has been some talk of support for renters. I'm fairly convinced that this is a bad idea, as any increased will go to the property owners. Bring rental prices down means increasing stock, but I'm not sure anyone has a plan
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by rwj 6y ago
This is a really tricky thing to get right. If you put too many controls in place, people route around and you lose control. If you place too few in place, you lose control. If you try to make the rules flexible, people don't unders
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by rwj 6y ago
The syntax is definitely Go :) The approach is a hybrid. The declarative approach with reconcilation (tree diffing) comes from React. The automatic layout with constraints does come from Flutter.
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Tutorial on building a desktop app with Go and Goey(bitbucket.org)
119 points by rwj 6y ago|24 comments
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by rwj 6y ago
That's true, but I put that in the bucket of "C++ needs a package manager so that we can use dependencies more complicated than a single header file".
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by rwj 6y ago
May I ask what's wrong with using xxd? I don't have an opinion about C, but C++ is already pretty complicated, and adding features to the language when there are already well-known solutions doesn't seem wise. (For the recor
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by rwj 6y ago
I also did quite a bit of benchmarking, and never saw any quadratic behaviour [0]. However, there is a floor for RSS and and elapsed time, but you would need to test assets less than ~1MB to see it. For assets over a limited range, the gr
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Advanced 'super-planckian' material exhibits LED-like light when heated(phys.org)
1 points by rwj 7y ago|0 comments
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by rwj 7y ago
It's silly, but when I was moving some projects to SourceHut, this was one of the first things I noticed was missing.
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by rwj 7y ago
There are other ways in which the incentives are misaligned. Granting agencies that prefer to fund researchers who nearly always "succeed" in proving their hypothesis will find that research proposals are low-risk and low-informa
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by rwj 7y ago
And how was that measured? One of the lessons from the falls of authoritarian governments was how big a gap there was between public expressions of support and peoples' true feelings.
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by rwj 7y ago
I'm not sure the implementation details can be ignored so easily. With certain exception, the Go authors do not like implicit conversions and the associated runtime costs. I look at the discussion of covariance/contravariance and
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by rwj 7y ago
What's rational for the individual is not always well aligned with what's rational for the society.
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by rwj 7y ago
See also false dichotomy.

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