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by s_kilk 9y ago
> I don't think the issue it with "political", but rather with "glib [...] and of little informational value". Full agreement on that one, but those labels are sometimes applied unfairly to any comment which does
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This supposed separation between the technical and the social/political is illusory, and shows a very blinkered and sheltered view of the world. In actuality the technical and the social are deeply enmeshed, the society we live in shap
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Take a look at Elixir, it covers most of what you want.
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Ok, thought experiment, what is the death-toll of Capitalism in the last century?
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Hey all. I've just started publishing a new podcast, analysing the intersection of Technology, Politics and Philosophy, from an unapologetically far-left perspective. You can find us on iTunes ( https://itunes.apple.com/
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> the fact that a war is fantastic for the economy is common knowledge It's pub philosophy, usually based on a very thin understanding of the economic and political conditions of the early 20th century. Unfortunately a lot of people
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Clojure/JVM apps are very slow to start, which makes them particularly unsuitable for a shell, where you typically don't want to wait a few seconds for the prompt to become interactive.
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Would this mean having something in Java like the M:N thread model we see in Go, Erlang, and such?
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> where's Peter Thiel in all this? The evidence seems to suggest Thiel has gotten in with the "throne and altar" crowd, the Neo-Reactionaries and self-described "Dark Enlightenment". https://thebaffler
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Pretty much. The 'optics' of a situation are the appearances, the visuals, the perceptions. So when someone says a thing has "bad optics" they mean that it looks bad to observers.
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> ”Our civilization cares about whether Microsoft stock will be priced at $37.70 or $37.75 tomorrow afternoon.” This is not a good thing. Vastly more effort is being poured into this than is being dedicated to averting climate catastroph
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I can attest first hand that iOS11 slowed my iPhone to a crawl. We're talking multiple tens of seconds lag with basic operations like opening the camera, opening the keyboard, etc. The same is true for everyone I know personally who ha
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iOS11 has been bad enough that I've moved over to a Galaxy S8. The difference in stability and smoothness is night-and-day.
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I'm most concerned about interacting with other systems, like databases, http services, whatever, where the data that's being worked on includes such values as `false`, `null`, and `[]`. In that context it's hard not to simpl
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If I may ask a related question, how do lispers deal with the absence of a real boolean type in CL? My mind absolutely boggles at the prospect of not being able to tell the difference between null, false, and the empty list. Am I missing so
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I’ll second this, appear.in is great for lightweight small-group video chats.
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Its the end folks, Apple is officially dead.
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> Otherwise, how could there be articles about how "white" is on the verge of becoming a minority? Because the people writing those articles are full of shit.
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It was a misunderstanding then, all cool :)
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In my reading, the ellipses imply a certain condescension, which is a fairly typical response used to de-legitimise the other participant in a conversation.
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> You sound a bit... passionate? Thinking that emotion invalidates any argument, the dumbest fallacy of all.
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This sounds like the kind of thing the average 17-year-old edgelord comes out with, completely devoid of content.
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Why would it? In the Colemak layout, 't' is on the left-hand index finger, it couldn't be more convenient.
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This would effectively freeze all development and leave us collectively stuck at the current level of expertise. If every doctor trains an ML algo, then forgets how to be a doctor, then medicine stops dead at that level.
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> (and t is not a stretch on my keyboard layout) Colemak?
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It really is remarkable how efficient capitalism is at ensuring that proles are born with nothing and die with nothing. Every tiny bit of surplus beyond maintenance of the body is siphoned away into the pockets of the capital class.
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OT, but I had no idea tuna were that big.
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The class relation
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> This is finally changing thanks to D, Go, Swift, Rust, but slowly. This whole thread has me imagining what it would be like if all the energy that went into Go/D/etc had gone into Free Pascal instead. Imagine if Free Pascal h

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