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by vacuity 11mo ago
In the implementation that runs, yes, you have to choose something. However, I think the fundamental design is independent of those options, and probably should be developed independently.
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by vacuity 11mo ago
I think writing concurent programs will always be a hard problem, relative to the difficulty of writing non-concurrent programs, and the only "solution" is to isolate, minimize, and regulate contention. The implementation details
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by vacuity 11mo ago
I'm convincing myself that the root of all evils^H^H^H^H^Hpoor thinking and argumentation generally arises due to not thinking further and more critically. Those clichés are just some nicely packaged, ready-made products to induce this
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by vacuity 11mo ago
Why are you singling out Americans? Cognitive biases and hazards abound. I think that everyone is irrational on choice subjects (differing by person), more or less. The idea that humans are rational, always or mostly, seems wrong. Now, I ma
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by vacuity 11mo ago
> The basis is the context, is globalization. In prehistoric times a tribe where the people you'd physically meet. In a globalized world the tribe is much bigger, because of communication, commerce and transportation technologies br
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by vacuity 11mo ago
> I’m just following your logic. You pointed to empathy as something even animals have. Empathy is a real thing in nature, you can see those feelings in brain scans. But so is tribalism or pack behavior. Why do you privilege one type of
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by vacuity 11mo ago
I have no problem with housecats hunting, but playing with their prey seems unnecessary (as in gratuitous harm). Still, I won't try housecats in a criminal court, because my understanding of them is too alien to make me confident in my
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by vacuity 11mo ago
What makes religious beliefs more legitimate than secular beliefs?
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by vacuity 11mo ago
Why are you favoring religious beliefs? What is your basis in doing so?
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"Simultaneous" Considered Harmful: Modular Parallelism (2012)(dl.acm.org)
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by vacuity 11mo ago
I agree that religion isn't necessary, but it's not necessarily bad. You're making a big generalization. There are plenty of people who abuse religious beliefs, but I'm more concerned with calling out people who abuse pr
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by vacuity 11mo ago
I think you're being uncharitable towards religion. While I agree that a belief such as "the Earth was made 6000 years ago" is ridiculous, a belief like "God wants us to love our neighbors" is not. I think "goo
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by vacuity 11mo ago
Based on the relative numbers, how would this be possible? People who don't have kids can only turn into people who have kids, and as people grow older, they are more likely to have kids. Surely the parents aren't a minority that
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by vacuity 11mo ago
I think GP has a fair assessment of the reality today, not a distant extrapolation or hypothesis based on emotions.
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by vacuity 11mo ago
Not directly, but people find ways to believe in a manner analogous to religious beliefs. Faith doesn't have to be directed only at traditional theist objects. Religious or not, people can believe things by faith and by logic. To give
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by vacuity 11mo ago
I'm making a conservative guess, which is why I said 10 or less (10 or fewer??). So the improvement is at least a hundredfold. I might say 5 or less instead. I think the exact rate is not so important; either way, it's clear that
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by vacuity 11mo ago
Rust has the twin features of significant technical merits and a powerful hype machine. In truth, it's neither the devil nor the best thing since sliced bread. It has enough traction that the tooling and developer experience are always
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by vacuity 11mo ago
I'm very vocal that I don't like Python syntax, but I wouldn't refuse to write Python because of the syntax. If I had reason to write Python, I would grumble a bit but write the Python.
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by vacuity 11mo ago
Per million lines of code.
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by vacuity 11mo ago
Yes. I would make a guess of 10 or less memory-safety vulnerabilities per MLOC, which is still a hundredfold reduction.
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by vacuity 11mo ago
So no business exploits workers to a significant degree? I find this hard to believe.
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by vacuity 11mo ago
I'd like to make another standard file descriptor to manage the control plane, like stdin/stdout/stderr, but figuring out which file descriptor it should be is a bit complicated. I'm wondering if the OS could backwards-c
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by vacuity 11mo ago
I think standardizing a file descriptor interface would be ideal. It's ridiculous that the file descriptors are exposed and densely packed. I wonder if a protocol could be made that demultiplexes for stderr and the new file descriptor
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by vacuity 11mo ago
By the way, have you started writing your OS?
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by vacuity 11mo ago
I think this will be like the Fish shell, where backwards compatibility is left to existing tools, but a fresh environment is available going forward.
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by vacuity 11mo ago
Currently being discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45891772
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by vacuity 11mo ago
This is technically true, but not plausible in the social sense.
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by vacuity 11mo ago
I wasn't really thinking about the disclosure part, although I probably should have. I was focusing on the patching side of things. I think you're correct that disclosure is good, but in that case, I think it increases the burden
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by vacuity 11mo ago
From my reading, GP is saying that, if one problem is the main one, it is the problem of billionaires spending money on not-consumption. There was no praise for "excessive consumption".
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by vacuity 11mo ago
Both of your comments are rather silly. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/09/06/partisan-... https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/23/gop-voters-vaccines...

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