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by ryandv 1y ago
Just paying it forward. As a visible minority in Canada, I am subjected to this kind of passive aggressive, plausibly deniable ad hominem on a regular basis - and often by the very same Canadian white progressives who claim to have been edu
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by ryandv 1y ago
Exactly the things that differentiate LLM tooling from traditional vim, IDEs, valgrind, gdb, linters, the coreutils, ... Jury's out on whether or not that collection is non-empty.
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by ryandv 1y ago
> But you're not making sense complaining first about the "in general" situation, then complaining about a 2% situation. The use of "in general" has long established usage in mathematics to refer to properties th
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by ryandv 1y ago
> What do you think is going to replace calculus? Until something better comes along, calculus is among the best introduction to higher theories of mathematics. > Programming and development will be transformed to use LLMs as the tool
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by ryandv 1y ago
So are you bullish or bearish on the prospect of LLMs replacing programmers? The industry is breathless with hype and media pieces on how traditional programming is obsolete; do your criticisms of my position also apply, were software engin
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by ryandv 1y ago
Anecdata that something is effective in 98% of cases is different from provable static verification that works 100% of the time.
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by ryandv 1y ago
They work well enough to a first approximation, but it's far from the certainty one has using other JetBrains products (e.g. C# ReSharper) on a statically typed codebase. RubyMine will give you "Untyped (potential) usage."
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by ryandv 1y ago
In general it's impossible to "find usages" or "go to definition" when the language not only fails to equip IDEs and tooling with the static typing information that would grant definitive answers to such questions;
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by ryandv 1y ago
Monty Python seems especially appropriate here. > It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression! [0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgp9MPLEAqA
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by ryandv 1y ago
https://archive.is/vfKOA
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Air Canada strike: Flight attendants reach tentative agreement(thestar.com)
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by ryandv 1y ago
Keen observation. Canadian white progressives have a pathological inability to state anything directly, take definitive stances on anything, or refrain from ambiguity and equivocation in their speech. You end up with so much noise in the si
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by ryandv 1y ago
Bang on the money. This trend is really just a recognition that compassion, empathy, shame, etc. have been weaponized in service of sociopathic attempts to control people and society. Too often shaming or labelling viewpoints you disagree w
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by ryandv 1y ago
I doubt there will be risk of confusion.
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by ryandv 1y ago
You can peruse my comment history and witness all the progressives who attempted to refute conservative viewpoints and failed.
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by ryandv 1y ago
> The thing about race is that it has no biological justification. > It's a powerful social construct. This is 100% correct, and yet progressive academics have yet to figure out how to slot this fact into their ideology without c
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Political Ponerology (1984) [pdf](survivorshandbook.com)
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by ryandv 1y ago
Are you a patient of this condition or something? Would you mind sharing your story?
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by ryandv 1y ago
> We girls really need to be getting out there and keeping down men, it's for their own good, I wholeheartedly agree. What western society needs is a matriarchy that will take care of its own and suppress any subversive elements. I
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by ryandv 1y ago
Just about as nonsense as Plato and the cave allegory, I agree.
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You're holding it upside down. Nobody earnestly believes in soothsaying, prophecy, or "magic missile" in this field - nobody worth your time anyway. Most of the problem with the occult is that people have no idea what the fuc
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by ryandv 1y ago
That's right. You see this aspect of the situation clearly.
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by ryandv 1y ago
It was a facetious comment anyway.
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Well, there was the Egyptian deity Khephra who was represented by the dung beetle rolling its dung along the desert, symbolizing the passage of the sun through the sky. In alchemy and western esoterica, excrement is associated with the tent
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by ryandv 1y ago
This is exactly how I feel when people start telling me about their own religious beliefs about things like "gender identity," right down to the absolute certitude in their faith and the bigoted, zealous excommunication of nonbeli
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by ryandv 1y ago
> Personally, I do think that the immaterial world of ideas must be primary—at least certain aspects of mathematics seem so necessary that they’d be discovered by intelligent life, no matter the galaxy… or simulation… For some speculativ
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by ryandv 1y ago
> It is an old Pythagorean tradition that sensation or consciousness arises out of the interaction of the immaterial soul and the material body. That “three world” idea is echoed by Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose in his book “Road to Reali
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by ryandv 1y ago
It is sometimes said that Isaac Newton, godfather of modern science, was not the first scientist but rather the last magician. The majority of his scholarly output was in fact focused on alchemy and the occult. Aleister Crowley somewhat ech
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by ryandv 1y ago
> several of the definitions in the link feel constructivist, i.e. they describe constructions of of real numbers. If you are a constructivist, then you will supply direct proofs for your results as you reject indirect proof, proof by co

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