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by staunton 4y ago
> How about super markets stop selling peeled oranges in plastic packaging? Wow that's actually a thing in the US... mind blown
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by staunton 4y ago
I guess this has to do with people trying for (in any sense) "higher standards" being perceived as hypocrites when they fail to meet them. Whenever you have a movement that claims to be "trying to make things better", yo
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by staunton 4y ago
> everyone actually adopts them I think that scenario is unrealistic because if a majority of people are at a point where they would go to such lengths for privacy, democratic governments wouldn't be monitoring everything in the fir
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by staunton 4y ago
I think the appropriate way to understand blame and guilt is as social technologies. Who is responsible for some event depends on perspective. Any actor should assign blame, guilt and responsibility in a way that leads to preferred outcomes
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by staunton 4y ago
> For physics reasons the integration density of optical compute elements is abysmal and will remain so forever. Could you give some details? Claims about "forever" often don't hold up. I guess you're referring to thi
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by staunton 4y ago
Just to make sure there are no misunderstandings. ChrisRackauckas was talking about Julia's package manager, (which is called Pkg, if you need to name it, although I would just call it "the package manager"). Cargo is the Rus
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by staunton 4y ago
It's not actually tied to GitHub. If GitHub died tomorrow, they would easily be able to move on and host the packages somewhere else. There's no way to do this without hosting. Also, there is a way to pin a version or commit. Juli
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by staunton 4y ago
The Julia community is small and has no large commercial backers. Projects such as TF/PyTorch require community support and a lot of investment which Julia just doesn't have. In fact, Julia isn't even trying at the moment to