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by tightbookkeeper 2y ago
And with this black and white thinking you won’t find any trends or patterns anywhere in real life. To rephrase the question, who was influential on the internet? What biases and ideals were on the internet due to those selection effects. F
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I just don’t think that’s true. The sampling of early internet users and writers is not the general population.
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In the past century Psychology transformed from speculative writing combined with clinical observation, to sophisticated statistical analysis and attempt to follow scientific methods, because many audiences including yourself believe that m
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Sophisticated marketing annd political campaigns include everything from bikini clad women to academic papers. Using mathematical language is always a rhetorical choice to suggest precision and authority.
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Of course nothing on the internet is new, it just assumes a default culture and philosophy which is less prominent in real life. It would be interesting to pin early internet to a particular demographic. Is it 90s stem graduate students pri
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to hold the libertarian belief that “people will do it anyway so might as well make it legal”, you must believe marketing and ease of access have no impact on usage.
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There is only so much a compiler can do when any operation can result in a complex function call or variable sized data.
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The full numeric tower sounds like a great idea. But in retrospect you almost never want uint32 silently converting to bignum, or ending up with a low precision float. Has anyone had a positive experience?
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It’s funny when engineers think they are immune to sales and marketing. Strength is knowing your human weakness and avoiding it, rather than having super will power.
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Yeah it’s “cool prototype” vs debugged assembly line, manufacturing process, customer complaints, etc.