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by sfpotter 3y ago
I don't disagree with what you're saying, but it isn't mutually exclusive with having the government do what it can do educate the public in order to get them behave more responsibly and civically minded. Obviously this would
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by sfpotter 3y ago
"It's hard so don't try."
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by sfpotter 3y ago
"Getting buyers and sellers to both behave responsibly is mutually exclusive."
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by sfpotter 3y ago
To echo you, I was going to say myself that if anything current web design is more like brutalist architecture. It is a celebration of the raw materials and structure: HTML, CSS, JS. There are confusing features, technical flourishes, … wel
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by sfpotter 3y ago
Why should we not try to get the population to behave a certain way? The alternative is a society full of people who behave antisocially, acting as if only their needs matter. It’s hard to say whether a concerted effort to make people more
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by sfpotter 3y ago
Pretty wacky syntax. I'm not a Julia fanboy, but I don't quite see the point of something like this over it. From the "basis function regression" example: struct SolverState(n|Ix) = x : n=>Float r :
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by sfpotter 3y ago
Just seems kind of weird to refer to someone you don't know by their first name. I don't ever do it, personally. I'm not that familiar with this blog or the group of people who follow it closely. But if it's common to re
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by sfpotter 3y ago
Why are you both referring to him by his first name? Do you know him personally?
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by sfpotter 3y ago
I find Koyaanisqatsi very enjoyable to watch.
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by sfpotter 3y ago
Check out Page 11.
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by sfpotter 3y ago
What do people get out of reading Seth Godin's blog posts? Genuinely curious. It's a blog post with 9 "paragraphs". The number of "sentences" in each "paragraph": 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 5, 2, 3, 2. Many of th
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by sfpotter 3y ago
Same here! Can’t believe I had never heard of it before… I wonder why it isn’t the default for CMake and Meson. Are there any drawbacks?
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by sfpotter 3y ago
Following a proof step-by-step != understanding the proof
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by sfpotter 4y ago
You're so right! By the way, I have a bridge I've been trying to sell, let me tell you about it...
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by sfpotter 4y ago
I’m assuming there’s a productive middle ground between “do nothing destructive” and “burn people’s houses down”.
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Why does it need to be non-destructive?
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Agreed. I personally reach for Makefiles in exactly one situation: in research, when I’d like to collect lots of results from many computational experiments to make some plots or tables. I might have the whole process of re-running the expe
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Why do you think that is?
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Stop writing articles titled "Stop Doing X".
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by sfpotter 4y ago
I have piles and piles of extremely interesting work to do in my job. I am a talented software engineer and do my level best to factor things correctly the first time around, but it’s hard to get things right all the time. Inevitably I’ll h
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Refactoring is the least interesting part of programming provided that what you’re programming is interesting.
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Why?
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Not sure why this was downvoted. This is absolutely true.
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Why the fixation on coffee? If you bought a $5 latte every day you went to work, you’re look at, what, a bit more than $1200/year? If you make $150K/year, that is a perfectly reasonable outlay that won’t compromise your retirement
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Too bad we can’t try to focus on building people computers that last decades.
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Why? Give some examples. As someone with little Rust experience, it appears similar to C++, which I have a lot of experience with. C++ is a chore to refactor.
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by sfpotter 4y ago
I don’t like how verbose Pascal-like languages are. I don’t want to have to type tons of keywords to get anything done. Curly brackets are a big improvement over pairs of “begin” and “end” all over. Makes it hard to see the forest for the t
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by sfpotter 4y ago
I think you may not have understood those books…
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by sfpotter 4y ago
That’s not surprising. Your average Democrat is a “liberal”. The Democratic Party is center or (arguably) center right, and that is born out in the political views of the average member of the party. They have been trained to think that lef
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Optimism for something so incredibly unlikely is delusional thinking. What would you say about a gambler who is “optimistic” about their chances of winning the lottery?

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