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by skohan 4y ago
I doubt the ratio is that extreme, but if the delta exists isn't the logical conclusion that a smaller subset of the men are having sex with a larger percentage of the women?
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by skohan 4y ago
Again in the United States and to a lesser extent in the rest of the developed world. It's very common in many parts of the world for kids to live at home until they get married, unless they have to move for work.
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by skohan 4y ago
That's a good point: it's actually a perverse incentive. If they successfully create a relationship they have lost a customer.
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by skohan 4y ago
Not only entertainment suffers from a tyranny of choice, but also sex and relationships. I heard in an interview that 50 years ago, people used to basically used to fall in love with heir neighbours and coworkers. Modern dating means brows
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by skohan 4y ago
No I am saying from the inside of a tech company, it's taken very seriously, audits are strict, and non-compliance comes with a very harsh punishment which can kill companies
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by skohan 4y ago
Theoretically, but humans are less reliable than a compiler at catching issues.
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by skohan 4y ago
I think the best solution is having a few tactical comments. Imo the best setup for a project is: 1. Some high-level documentation explaining how the key systems work and interact conceptually, to give context. 2. Comments for anything non
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by skohan 4y ago
I work in Europe and can assure you people take GDPR very seriously.
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by skohan 4y ago
Well I suppose we can believe whatever we want, but as our understanding of neuroscience increases, it seems as if the trend is that there is less and less unknown space for that substrate to exist in over time.
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by skohan 4y ago
You're basically describing GDPR right? By having state regulations, there's an agreed upon standard which is not up to the discretion of any one corporation, but rather subject to the democratic process.
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by skohan 4y ago
It's also probably one of the most uttered 1000 words if I had to venture a guess.
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by skohan 4y ago
But the undeniable experience of many many iPhone users is that you have probably seen the soft keyboard autocorrect to "duck" many times when you intended to write "fuck". The soft keyboard is always using some heuristi
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by skohan 4y ago
It's an interesting thought. I can imagine that consciousness is something like the experience of the possibility space expanding through entropy, and free will is collapsing that possibility space into a single interpretation of the
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by skohan 4y ago
Idk it seems to me like you’re reaching for something which may or may not exist - how do we know there even is such a canvas? If you can’t even define what this elusive thing might be, how can you raise this as a serious argument against t
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by skohan 4y ago
How would you define consciousness?
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by skohan 4y ago
You're right that there's no proof that consciousness can be explained by biological function alone. But my belief is that the preponderance of the evidence makes it the most likely explanation by far. > You can demonstrate
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by skohan 4y ago
I am of the mind that consciousness is an emergent property of the various interconnected information processing systems of the brain. There's just too much evidence: for instance, changing the physiology of the brain through drugs
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by skohan 4y ago
Would you say async is uncommon in writing web apps? For instance in interacting with a database or other services? I think most people would agree async is much more demanding in Rust than other languages. And I think you can find Rust in
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by skohan 4y ago
Totally agree. I think Rust advocates can be quite myopic, and tend to frame Rust's advantages relative to C++ or Python/JS in particular. But there are a great many languages which are more productive than Rust, and don't
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by skohan 4y ago
> The right choice is usually "the language most programmers are most productive in". As someone who picked the primary BE programming language for a software org in the last year, our considerations were: 1. What's a lang
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by skohan 4y ago
It already is right? A GPU is basically a purpose-built linear algebra machine.
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by skohan 4y ago
It's incredible that there's actually this much room to improve. How does this compare to GPU implementations? Also it looks like the optimization is related to running operations on a compressed representation, for the 10x vs 10
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by skohan 4y ago
Yeah but the point would be, if you can beat C++ with assembly, then theoretically there can exist a compiler for another language which can compile to that same assembly, meaning C++ isn't at the theoretical limit. Maybe it's a n
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by skohan 4y ago
> C++ is a low-level language, meaning that theoretically, it cannot be beat; given unlimited time, you can optimize C++ code enough to beat anything. That's just untrue right? You would have more room to optimize writing assembly
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by skohan 4y ago
You mean when people were forced to stay home for months, deprived of social contact, and denied a normal life due to a global pandemic which was killing their friends and family? Yes surely this is a good representative experiment.
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by skohan 4y ago
Performance is always a concern. For instance, if running a python interpreter introduces latency for each request, that can add up to perceptively worse performance when applied throughout a product.
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by skohan 4y ago
Isn't a lot of server code these days small programs that just pull data out of a database and feed it to an HHTPS response? It seems like it's a pretty good option to have your infrastructure code implemented in a systems program
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by skohan 4y ago
Go strikes me as one of the best "good enough" languages we have right now. You're not going to do HPC in Go, but it's performant enough to run circles around a lot of high level languages and dynamic languages. It abs
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by skohan 4y ago
I guess the difference is that C++ still gives you pretty much direct access to memory (i.e. pointer arithmetic). Rust tries very hard to keep you at arms length from the actual memory as a rule, and forces you to work through a safe abs
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by skohan 4y ago
Doesn't Rust mostly abstract the memory management away as well? It tends to be low overhead, and has sensible defaults with respect to memory management, but it's built around RAII and for instance if you use a lot of reference

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