spopejoy

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by spopejoy 5y ago
Wait wait wait let's get back to how white dudes are dropping out because of woke tyranny! Nobody wants to hear about failing DEI efforts. Sure whites still dominate the workforce but it just isn't fun anymore!
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by spopejoy 5y ago
> usually the issue is with your resume or application The parent commentor stated that their cohort has seen evidence of systematic rejection of their resumes. It is a well-documented fact that this happens all the time for female-sound
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by spopejoy 5y ago
> memory safe That's an incorrect assumption if you haven't audited the code. > likely to be written by a someone that cares about performance and efficiency Ah, the stamp of approval that comes from signalling to the "
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by spopejoy 5y ago
> There is no need to interject social wokeness into every conversation Your parent comment "interjected" gender roles into the discussion in a jarring and frankly outdated way. Not sure why an obscure TNG reference makes you i
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by spopejoy 5y ago
It looks like Copilot is an EDSL for making C99 programs. I would think both OCAML and Haskell (and Java for that matter), as GC'd runtime langs, would be unsuitable for realtime "out of the box". The best marriage of functio
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by spopejoy 5y ago
Jean Michelle Jarre had a marimba-like version of this in his early-80s concerts, along with a laser-light keyboard https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hRzzF-WObYE
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by spopejoy 5y ago
> they won’t unionize no matter how many times I insist they do Wow ... I would think if management is convinced it would make life better for the workers, management could make the case, bring in the organizers and get it done. There ar
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by spopejoy 5y ago
Can you elaborate, what do you think a union would provide that's missing? Also, are you in management there (and thus more pro-union than the rank-and-file which is quite remarkable)?
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by spopejoy 5y ago
How do they prevent impersonation? There's no way a cryptosystem can prove that two different people actually have two different keys. If I want to pwn Cardano/Polkadot, don't I just need to run a bunch of different staking k
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by spopejoy 5y ago
There is a fair amount of branding on the Youtube channel around "Sabine", so she might be deliberately encouraging the informality.
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by spopejoy 5y ago
It doesn't have to have a particular animus to have the effect. The question is, why make a big blog post about it in the first place? They can't claim innocence, since they followed Brian Armstrong pretty much to the letter, and
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by spopejoy 5y ago
I suspect that this represents a practical consolidation of power by leadership in tech. While you can't come out and say "hey, we want to corner the market in white male nerds", you can say things like "Mean people suck
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by spopejoy 6y ago
> I mean, the way I see it, explicit financial discrimination is still happening today. Its just called affirmative action. Nope. Redlining, the entire history of USDA subsidies in the 20th century, the GI bill etc are far more economica
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by spopejoy 6y ago
> One paragraph after detailing why Scott requested his name to be kept out, the reporter complains about the online abuse he received, which could have easily been prevented by not using real names. This is a false equivalence. Alexande
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by spopejoy 6y ago
> Cardano I believe uses PoS of some sort. Yes, but smart contract languages (Plutus in Cardano's case) generally are unrelated to the specific consensus algorithm of the blockchain platform. > What is the thinking about what kee
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by spopejoy 6y ago
I think smart contracts are actually extremely novel in the form they take in Ethereum EVM, Tezos, Cardano, DAML and Pact (I'm author of the latter). TBH I'm a little frustrated with the evolution of smart contract langs post-2017
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by spopejoy 6y ago
It's actually worse than that. > The insurance company even assigned me a nurse to "check in on me" as a resource back in November and December, which sadly was more of a nuisance than anything else. Sadly but at least tha
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by spopejoy 6y ago
(should be) obligatory (now get off my lawngrange) http://eyebeam.com/1985/index.php?num=45
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by spopejoy 6y ago
> Is it even possible to win this battle? Things like this keep coming up year after year Most fights worth fighting are like this. Resistance doesn't guarantee success; indeed it usually loses. But that's no reason not to figh
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by spopejoy 6y ago
The problem in Flint and in countless American cities is not incompetence but the invasion of private equity into government. The truism that somehow capital is better at unprofitable public goods like water, prisons etc than the evil lazy
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by spopejoy 6y ago
> Facebook brought a vastly better user experience that seems mundane in retrospect but it won because it was so much better. My impression is more that FB won because of Zuck's talent/luck/vision for weird acquisitions (i
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by spopejoy 6y ago
One thing the example shows is the classic problem with OO's mechanism, namely binary functions. For a given class, something like `+` is impossible to implement elegantly, it has to bias one operand over the other -- after any syntact
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by spopejoy 6y ago
What's more FF History window is fully searchable, to the point that I am regularly (it seems) bringing up results from years past, and have actually restored my firefox profile from Time Machine to get my history back. The location ba
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by spopejoy 6y ago
That's not true, many applications have moved to the "constant save" model (and games too). For instance, you never ever save in Final Cut Pro anymore (I wish ProTools would go this route). There is no reason a browser can&#x
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by spopejoy 6y ago
It won't, but don't worry -- megabanks can't hire anybody good anymore now that FANG pays the big bucks. Yes, they've got deep pockets, but they are bean counters and notoriously cheap -- startups and tech cos are way, w
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by spopejoy 6y ago
Oh we will all char together when we char And let there be no moaning of the bar Just sing out a te deum When you see that ICBM And the party will be come as you are [his rhymes are nothing short of amazing, cf the one in his college applic
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by spopejoy 6y ago
"Deutschland 86" makes some pretty good TV out of West Germany buying arms via South Africa (from East Germany? can't remember) to escape sanctions
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by spopejoy 6y ago
Smoke on the Water, obviously
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by spopejoy 6y ago
> Meanwhile there are still millions of projects done with OOP, including super-complex AAA games I've heard that OOP in game engines is in decline with so-called "Data Oriented Programming" taking over, that Unity's
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by spopejoy 6y ago
> I really think that all of this DeFi stuff is playing with fire. If these tools scale large enough, it's easy to imagine breaking the right link in the system at the right time to cause catastrophic failures. We've already be

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