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by throwaway999888 11y ago
The comparison was between cat + pipe and < ...
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
I know.
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
I guess the conclusion to yummyfajitas' scenario then is to not give a woman frozen yogurt or pizza, but broccoli or spinach instead.
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
It would seem more abnormal if you knew an Australian that didn't use the word cunt liberally.
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
BTW, the authors effectively embraced having the functionality of using `cat` instead of < . > The use of cat to feed a single input file to a program has to some degree superseded the shell’s < operator, which illustrates that ge
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
> except the first one spawns an extra process for no reason. I wonder how many processes I could spin up in the time it would take for me to figure out "hmm, no, invoking that command would use one more process than necessary...&qu
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
> That is asinine. Why would a program be called ‘cat’ if it can’t concatenate multiple files? Because he only thinks it's the "echo file to terminal" command. The main use of cat was mentioned in the Programming in the UN
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
If it's an illusion why is it set up like an illusion at all? If you don't have free will, it's not like you'd be sad or would do something about it. You have no free will . You can't even think negative philos
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
> How much control do we really have over our feelings, our attitudes and our emotions? How much do people try? Most people don't even try. At all.
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
It must be very convenient for employers to have employees that feel that their whole lives are leased to them. Modulo burnout and things like that, of course.
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
It seems there are enough people with modest-enough expectations to carry on the torch. As opposed to the perpetual silver-bullet chasing types.
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
> As a foreigner, my great admiration of the American society is that of the Self Made Man. That working hard you can have a decent life and even become rich. That everybody should have the same opportunities. Even if this is all a myth
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
Sounds like bogus. Being primed for math and being primed for sex feels like two completely different modes to me.
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
Another comment mentioned that she's an actress.
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
> Anything that can help make this subject more approachable is alright in my book. Alright? Yeah, why wouldn't it be alright?
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
*choking you.
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
I know right? It's an automatic bodily function so it's fruitless to worry about it unless someone is actively choking us.
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
> One of the major roles of academics is to put words and define concepts around things that already exist but that lay people do not consciously think about. But people _do_ consciously think about it. Most people have conceptions, inse
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
Do you know if there was some correspondence with seniority and teaching higher or lower level courses? One way or the other. It seems to be that some things that are female dominated at lower levels, like undergraduate studies, might still
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
> I'm not sure that changes my view on the piece though, In the spirit of gender equality , it shouldn't in any case. ;)
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
> Male violence happens probably partially because of testosterone. But cultural factors is significant too. Nobody questions your masculinity after such horrid act, probably out of respect to the victims. It seems somehow disgraceful to
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
The author is a woman. Which seems typical these days with regards to articles talking about men. Or maybe it's just that more sociologists are women (?).
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
I'm sometimes intrigued that working class men have the time and energy to worry about abstract concepts like "what it means to be a man". Things relating to gender sometimes seems like something academics would care more abo
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
I guess having a negative reaction and voicing it is "assigning blame". That seems watered out though. And being aware of some dynamic is totally different from being free or above its influence.
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
> This makes perfect sense. Just-so stories have that trait. "There's a huge evolutionary advantage in calling attention to good actors (someone behaving a way which is advantegeous to the tribe), because that person will have
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
Being able to represent the same things in different ways is simply captured by the syntax/semantics dichotomy from disciplines like programming language theory. There is no need to invoke philosophy. Programmers care about syntax, too
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
> "Looking more like math" is not so vapid. Looking more like math _in itself_ is vapid. Sure, you can make cases for why looking like math is good. But by itself it's vapid. > Fortunately, we long ago invented and most
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
You're right that "it's more like math" is a vapid argument by itself. Personally, `star` versus (×) feels like a wash, in particular. Most of the multiplication I've done by hand has been with a dot (•) and not a `
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
> Speaking to my daughter's teacher, it's not just the academically-bright kids getting into Scratch - the academically average and academically behind ones do too. It appears to satisfy requirement #1: get the kid interested.
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by throwaway999888 11y ago
I don't know if I should interpret this common sentiment as programmers being humble about their jobs and lives, or being braggy about it. What is the huge difference between programming and most other white-collar jobs, really? Is pro

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