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by vacuity 10mo ago
While the FSF's vision for the GPL is clear, the GPL itself is not so powerful that it is more than a "gift" that has some terms if you want to do certain things you are not obligated to do . It is like a grant that enforces
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by vacuity 10mo ago
You may be right. I made too strong of a statement; there is too much variability even if some good predictive features are used. I believe that it is not too difficult to identify groups where one group has significantly higher risk of bei
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by vacuity 10mo ago
No data, and I imagine there isn't much to say either way, since collecting the data is difficult at best. I think part of the discrepancy is that you're talking about abusers you've "heard of by name". The other is
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by vacuity 10mo ago
I disagree. The link is at best one data point, when the comments provide a whole body of content. Of course, the bulk of the comments should be productive, then, in order for the thread to be productive. While HN is not great on politics,
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by vacuity 10mo ago
I assume you're talking about the "would you rather encounter a man or a bear?" thought experiment. I do think some people (presumably men) respond in disturbing ways to the women's responses that choose the bear. But I
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by vacuity 10mo ago
Well, I was commenting on why I think the thread was flagged, not whether I think it should be. Also, the main content of an HN thread is typically in the comments, not the link.
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by vacuity 10mo ago
I think this thread has not been so bad so far, but it is early.
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by vacuity 10mo ago
The issue with moving topics elsewhere is that the most important part of a forum is the community. Forums are not interchangeable.
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by vacuity 10mo ago
I don't think it's generally believed that a mentor has to come from outside. In fact, I think it's because mentors coming from close family is not prevalent that pushes these boys and men to find mentors elsewhere.
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by vacuity 10mo ago
To be fair, no one person or even group defines "feminism", or "masculinity", or anything of the sort. It's a big cafeteria, and there's a lot of food to be flung around.
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by vacuity 10mo ago
Abusers are not evenly distributed over all men, so the target group is not "men" but "men who we knew were probably sketchy anyways, and some we unfortunately didn't know about".
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by vacuity 10mo ago
I agree in one sense, but in another, the extremes seen on Twitter are not where the madness ends. The Overton window shifts slowly.
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by vacuity 10mo ago
I'm not sure if you're asking a rhetorical question, but I believe it's because (whether right or wrong) the linked thread is perceived as belonging to the "redpilled, conservative, traditional masculinity" subcultu
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by vacuity 10mo ago
In the instance of your simulator, I think this is moreso due to the popular idea that people in tech tend to be autistic and the cultural desire to be part of the ingroup, rather than a snub at autistic people/men.
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by vacuity 10mo ago
There is not an inherent ideology to psychology, and I'm not sure what you mean by statements such as "the idea of a health individual does not pay any idea to the shared whole" (not even judging; I actually don't know w
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by vacuity 10mo ago
Not GP, and I don't use LLMs either, but I find software design far more fun than software engineering. Software engineering feels like I was put in a zoo with Lego pieces scattered by all the animals and I have to recreate the model i
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by vacuity 10mo ago
How much does the door help? I think generally people don't follow hygiene to the point that particles anywhere in the bathroom won't get tracked out of the bathroom. Don't get me started on people who touch their phones whil
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by vacuity 11mo ago
See my comment to @Capricorn2481 here[0]. You seem to be saying that unsafe code can be made correct so as to ensure soundness. This can be done by verifying invariants in unsafe code, but it is generally discouraged, as it tempts large uns
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by vacuity 11mo ago
As I said here[0], although I can't speak for what @Dylan16807 intends, invariants required by unsafe code are required exactly to the extent that some code can alter the invariants (the module boundary). In this sense, Rust's uns
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by vacuity 11mo ago
I can't speak for everyone, or even the majority, but I know that oftentimes large projects focus on build times, undergoing refactorings as you describe, and their compile times are still high. To make up some numbers, maybe the fract
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by vacuity 11mo ago
If the goal is to make a safe abstraction, which is what I'm talking about, proper use of visibility and safe code at the module boundary encapsulates the unsafe code soundly. You seem to be talking either about improper encapsulation
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by vacuity 11mo ago
I do not understand how you justify your claims. Should I link any number of instances where Rust team members admit to compile times being a major issue, one which prompts significant effort to improve? Perhaps you are right about 10x spee
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by vacuity 11mo ago
Thank you for engaging. I'm having a good time talking with you. Maybe I ought to read older texts more often...I do not fully understand what Butler means by terms such as "plain"! But that was a good read. I do wonder whi
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by vacuity 11mo ago
Rust certainly takes after C++, but it's not the same. It's more like C++ if it was made today. For instance, Rust's destructive move semantics are the better default. (However, Rust making everything moveable by default is a
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by vacuity 11mo ago
> Refactor your build. People do this, and at best it works for some people. This kind of messaging towards people who bring up a valid criticism of Rust does not help.
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by vacuity 11mo ago
Thanks for the laugh!
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by vacuity 11mo ago
While unsafe is always a risk in Rust, measuring the risk is not nearly as straightforward as counting lines of code. In particular, Rust focuses on encapsulating unsafe code behind safe wrappers that prevent misuse, so the better measure i
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by vacuity 11mo ago
You don't have to call unwrap()...Rust provides alternatives, which are very prominent.
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by vacuity 11mo ago
Mutable shared state is literally the nature of contention. It's true that locking is the mediocre default, but "avoid locks" is not a silver bullet. Alternatives have their own tradeoffs. If you "carefully design"
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by vacuity 11mo ago
Seeing this comment from Kent Overstreet was hysterical: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46029555 . He's not even criticizing Rust, nor is he the author, but still... But yes, this sure is a nice and sane thread.

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