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by ryandv 1y ago
> It seems to me there are two types of conservatism: concern about a change to society that does not have a clear evidential basis (which I'll call "small-c conservatism"), and a desire for other people to not have nice t
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> shift against the progressive norms of prior generations (and a moral panic about "groomers" and "pedophiles") Not altogether an unreasonable concern, considering that the International Lesbian and Gay Association a
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by ryandv 1y ago
This is profoundly racist.
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The idiosyncrasies of Ruby, like Perl and JavaScript, lead to a certain kind of brain damage that make it difficult to build correct mental models of computing that can then generalize to other languages.
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You are implying that public space should not be safe and inclusive?
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I disagree. Sex segregation is the only way to ensure positive, safe, and inclusive women-only spaces that are free from patriarchal and toxic male influence. Any comparisons between this policy and puritanical religious societies are purel
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They should be able to. I have spoken with several drivers who are afraid of taking female passengers because of spurious assault allegations.
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> I want to insult instead of debate because I truly believe people who talk like this need to be publicly shamed for discourse like this. I will forever remember how charitable you and the white progressives have always been in their d
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> as if the liberal arts are predicated on producing language rather than language with utility I'm sure that the liberal arts are engaged in activities and the production of language with some utility, but this is orthogonal to t
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> The take that they aren’t connected to reality is chiefly among those misunderstandings. On the contrary; nineteenth century leftist thinking, and post-modernism in particular, is infamous for dispensing with the notion of objective re
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What happens when you see people make these arguments for software development? Why was this article even written?
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As a STEM field, the software engineer's role is probably still secure against AI tool wielders waving around chainsaws without the necessary training and accidentally sawing production databases in half. What LLMs are poised to replac
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See also XAML: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Application_Markup_...
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Right; though it's a special kind of function composition (Kleisli composition) and often presented in a different form (bind, >>=).
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Right, exactly. It's been said that (>>=) is a programmable semicolon. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21715426
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Strictly speaking commutativity is defined over (binary) operations - so if one were to say that two async statements (e.g. connect/accept) are commutative, I would have to ask, "under what operation?" Currently my best answe
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> The definition of asynchrony is bad. It's possible for asynchronous requests to guarantee ordering, such that if a thread makes two requests A and B in that order, asynchronously, they will happen in that order. It's true tha
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They're just different from what Lamport originally proposed. Asynchrony as given is roughly equivalent to Lamport's characterization of distributed systems as partially ordered , where some pairs of events can't be said t
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> They're socialized in such a way that sets them up for failure, and they have to actively work to overcome this. Those that don't, fail. I can unquestionably see what you are talking about with respect to white culture, but i
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Having been on both sides of the fence I can definitely speak to autodidacticism as having yielded some of the most durable and rewarding lessons of my lifetime spent programming, if only because I was really internally motivated to try m
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I still don't see the issue. Do people really have difficulty reading this level of English?
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> Men have been, understandably, slow to evolve. It's true, and for all the reasons you list, men are in fact genetically inferior. At this point all male babies should be aborted or otherwise discarded at birth. Babies born with tw
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> At least in my circle everyone I know has moved to their general computing being on phones and tablets which is not captured here. > [...] (more technical, needing to do tasks not possible on phones and tablets) Somewhat unrelated b
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Based on the history of the tech industry, Linux adoption should be kept at this level and advanced no further. This is already the sweet spot for the "year of the Linux desktop," which should be celebrated by experts, technical u
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> It leads me to the question, "Is it really 'religious hardware' or the same ol' 'make meaning out of patterns' hardware They are the same thing. Call it "religion" or "meaning making,"
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Usually I see that term applied to Turing tarpits, intentionally obfuscated languages, joke/meme languages, or ones with highly heterodox syntax. Zachtronic languages are really none of these and closer to an assembly (reduced) instruc
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> Sure they're a bit of a facsimile of a programming challenge, but they're pretty tough problems, especially in the ones that are basically using assembly. They are indeed "real," bonafide (though perhaps sophomoric)
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> We've lost all sense of judgment of what makes someone a professional or expert [...] Well you see, everybody is equal, especially in the age of AI which is the great cognitive equalizer (in the same way gunpowder and firearms equ
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Yes, thank you for calling this out. Really tired of whites prescribing their morality upon other cultures; this is how the Philippines became almost 90% Catholic, and the original indigenous religions were eradicated. Despite all the secul
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> productivity will be related to who is most creative and who has the most interesting problems rather than who's spent the most hours behind a specific toolchain/compiler/language. Why stop at software? AI will do this t

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