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by tovej 11mo ago
When I said it's not complex I did not mean it's perfect or that it is easy to write flawless code in C++. And obviously C++ is most relevant within its own niche: video games, scientific computing, and performance critical softwa
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by tovej 11mo ago
That is a naive view to have. Languages have massive differences which directly impact how software is developed, built, distributed, and executed at runtime. Not to mention how it is used and maintained. And I've yet to see an LLMs ha
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by tovej 11mo ago
Have you written C++? There are no "mutually exclusive" feature sets. The only deprecated language features I can think of are auto pointers and trigraphs, and I have never seen them in the wild.
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by tovej 11mo ago
C++ is not that complex, and honestly it's one of the best documented languages out there. The semantics are very clear and you can easily decide to stick to a smaller subset of C++ if you don't like the advanced features like con
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by tovej 11mo ago
What do you mean? Programming languages all have different strengths and weaknesses that are completely orthogonal to LLMs. Even if you vibe code an entire system, a human will eventually have to read and modify the vibe code. Most likely i
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by tovej 11mo ago
This reads as if it was written with ChatGPT, find-replacing all the em-dashes with elllipses. Nearly every paragraph ends in a "That's not X, that's Y" -type statement. If this isn't AI slop it's certainly bad
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by tovej 11mo ago
Just read your own text back please. It is full of ideological rhetoric and devoid of calm rational discussion. Let's just pick out some examples here: "Your head is so far up your ass that you don't even realise that you bas
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by tovej 11mo ago
Betty Snyder, Betty Jennings, Kathleen McNulty, and Grace Hopper were not doing calculations by hand. I am obviously not saying that the human computers are the same as digital computers, that's your misinterpretation. I was explaining
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by tovej 11mo ago
Ok, you seem to be some type of conspiracy theorist. I have lived in the EU my whole life, and have always followed politics with an analytical eye. I'm not a Marxist, I just follow politics closely because it is important for my job.
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by tovej 11mo ago
On that same wikipedia page you cite, we have the following on the EU: "The European Union (EU), created in 1992, is sometimes considered a neoliberal organization, as it facilitates free trade and freedom of movement, erodes national
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by tovej 11mo ago
They were heavily involved, computing was seen as a female profession. The human computers we had before digital ones were women, and they were very heavily involved until computers became profitable.
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by tovej 11mo ago
Men and women. Women were heavily involved in the engineering work at the beginning of the industry. The industry only became male dominated in the late 20th century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_disparity_in_co
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by tovej 11mo ago
Centrally planning? My guy, the EU is not founding companies, it is giving existing companies subsidies. The profits of those companies will not be public, they are private. Nationalization and regularization are both on the decline. The op
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by tovej 11mo ago
The EU is aggressively neoliberal or liberal-conservative, and that is the reason universities have begun to be more expensive. It's related to austerity, privatization, the aggressive revision of tax codes, and New Public Management.
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by tovej 11mo ago
The middle class is something in between the capitalist class and the working class, it's badly defined. If you're in the capital class, you're getting your income from the assets you own. If you're in the working class,
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by tovej 11mo ago
Open source is defined by the Open Source Initiative: https://opensource.org/osd At least it should be. I'm not sure what definition this petition would use.
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by tovej 11mo ago
Yes. I usually test AI assistants by giving them my own work to summarize, and have nearly always found errors in their interpretation of the work. The texts have to be short and high-level for the assistants to have any chance of accuratel
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by tovej 11mo ago
Whenever xenophobes get into government, they start cutting social safety nets, because it disproportionately hurts minorities. This eventually hurts everyone else as well, but at least the brown people got the worst of it.
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by tovej 11mo ago
Sweden has aspects of both. But the thing that makes Sweden good is the social democracy. SD = Sverigedemokraterna, the right-wing populists? They are attempting to make it illiberal, but also remove social policies.
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by tovej 11mo ago
Democracy is one imo. And at the very least it's something I think we can agree is debatable. Liberal democracy thinks the economy, even natural monopolies, should be organized around a free market of LLCs that all get to act self-inte
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by tovej 11mo ago
Close, but not quite, political as a term refers to polities, groups of people that make decisions together. Political as an adjective refers to anything related to making decision on the behalf of a social group of people.
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by tovej 11mo ago
Here's your own "source" (wikipedia) on neolithic people on the British isles. "Recent genetic studies have suggested that Britain's Neolithic population was largely replaced by a population from North Continental E
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by tovej 11mo ago
You think the wealth inequality is set up to exploit poor people, but you don't think contributing to the wealth inequality is immoral. That's an interesting position. I would guess that in order to square these two beliefs you ei
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by tovej 11mo ago
I appreciate the response, but I see the same pattern repeating. You admit to Israel's actual wrongdoing, but equate the hypothetical wrongdoing of Israel's opponents. There is no equivalence here. Also, Israel has nuclear weapons
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by tovej 11mo ago
Could you please back that up with some evidence. Right now you're just claiming that there are a lot of anti-social businesses but that unicorns are separate from this. That's quite a claim, as there's a higher probability o
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by tovej 11mo ago
Is anybody keeping statistics on the frequency of these big global internet outages? It seems to be happening extremely frequently as of late, but it would be nice to have some data on that.
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by tovej 11mo ago
The risk profile being the same does not mean that the actions are the same. The unicorns that make it rich invariably have some way of screwing over someone else., Either workers, users, or smaller competitors. For Google and Facebook, use
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by tovej 11mo ago
The reasonable way to think of it is that if you were not paid those 50k, the chatity eould be less able to deliver on this. It would be amortized over the entire sum of people being helped by the charity, eventually becoming a negligible o
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by tovej 11mo ago
If you're vibe coding a front end, you're going to run into issues with technical debt eventually, so that's a very short sighted way to handle things. Or if you do have the technical skill for front-end work, you could have
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by tovej 11mo ago
Have you given thought to the fact that there is an overlap between "jobs easily replaced by AI" and "jobs that are easy to consolidate into existing roles", or even "non-essential jobs"?

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