shadowlight

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by shadowlight 5y ago
The world is full of gradients but also binary (aka black & white) systems. Charge is binary, computers are binary, life and death are binary. Systems can be either binary or gradients if one person believes something is binary or discr
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by shadowlight 5y ago
I actually find this technique used a lot on HN. They disagree with someone but they want to insult them without violating HN rules so they treat the person as if they're some kind of lab experiment and observing how they're behav
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by shadowlight 5y ago
I don't agree with this article but it is not perplexing at all. Dead ends exist. The universe is highly, highly limited and everything eventually has a dead end. The question is, are we there yet? For certain things yes, for other thi
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by shadowlight 5y ago
I'm not against the free market. That's the problem with people like you. It's an either/or thing and you completely fail to see the nuance behind the issue. The free market is an example of a system with many upsides an
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by shadowlight 5y ago
Literally. He called it his own billion dollar mistake. But if I say the exact same thing. People vote me down. It's an example of human psychology at play here. People don't vote based off of correctness. They vote based off of e
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by shadowlight 5y ago
A claim that is correct is voted down because it has no warrant? A better way is to ask for a warrant rather then voting based off of your gut and assumptions as people are doing now. People don't like being told they are wrong. Why do
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by shadowlight 5y ago
So? I said Tony would not like it listed as an achievement. I never said the OP listed null as an achievement (Which is True). Let's not get too pedantic. The way I said it obviously implies that the OP listed null as an achievement. S
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by shadowlight 5y ago
He did many great things, most of which were not terrible at all. Null, however, was terrible. Glad to see I get voted up for referencing Tony saying the EXACT same thing I said while I get voted down for saying the EXACT same thing Tony sa
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by shadowlight 5y ago
For people voting me down who don't know any better. Tony agrees with me and even himself calls it a great mistake: Speaking at a software conference in 2009, Tony Hoare apologized for inventing the null reference: "I call it my b
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by shadowlight 5y ago
Null is garbage and responsible for billions of dollars worth of net loss. I wouldn't list null as one of his achievements.
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by shadowlight 5y ago
You should see the opposite of this. Where every module of code is unit testable with zero mocks and just a small subset of untestable IO functions packed in a neat corner.
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by shadowlight 5y ago
Mocks mean your code is too tightly coupled. You should be able to unit test your code by creating only fake data. Things like dependency injection increase coupling to the point where you have to mock. Avoid dependency injection and other
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by shadowlight 5y ago
Nothing should ever be mocked. Period. If you don't agree you likely don't understand many things. Think about why mocks exist in the first place. Mocks exist for things that can't be tested. What you are doing is creating so
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by shadowlight 5y ago
> I would advise a) keeping any biases in check They are in check. I said you seem like a rich person. I didn't say you ARE rich. I would still wager a guess that although you grew up poor you currently are quite well off compared w
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by shadowlight 5y ago
That is completely civil. It is just to the point and adamant rather than fake and simpish and overly polite. Whether what I stated is true or untrue, the nature of what I said was not derogatory or insulting. I specifically stated that th
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by shadowlight 5y ago
Except I'm not doing ANY of that. Your comment is deceptively insulting and your tone is overly polite and fake. Case in point: "Hi shadowlight!". Look, I remained impartial and neutral and civil in my comment. Read it carefu
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by shadowlight 5y ago
> Yes they fought through the means of consumer choice, the least oppressive means in history. And they lost. They lied and deliberately used biased scientific research. These execs even swore on oath IN a congressional hearing before co
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by shadowlight 5y ago
Short term is relative though. Is it short term relative to a couple years, a human lifetime, or the life times of generations? Two good examples of industries that historically only looked at short term interests: Oil and Tobacco. These co
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by shadowlight 5y ago
3. Business Incentive. It's very simple. If I'm the owner a plastic factory not only will I fight any product that can potentially replace the product I make, but I will delude myself and pay to delude others into thinking the rep
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by shadowlight 5y ago
>Remember that the vast majority of capitalism is little businesses like your local veterinarian or florist, not FAANG. That is the vast minority. Corporations dictate much of the business in the states and the world. It's really ea
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by shadowlight 5y ago
Sardinia Italy is a blue zone with some of the longest living people in the world. Many people live to and past 100 in this area. Guess Casu Martzu must be the secret ingredient.