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by vba616 3y ago
If you care about anything, you work on it and you develop knowledge and positive emotions so you can recruit others.
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The US being an exception that failed or successfully resisted switching is a false premise in the first place, based on obscure and pedantic definitions of metric acceptance. We learn the metric system in school, and it's not some sor
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Why don't you go harass capitalism instead of people? I question whether a constant barrage of "everything is bad, and you should feel bad about it" is really that profitable or if there is some other reason for it. I used to
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by vba616 3y ago
It sounds like someone took for granted that all problems with a system would be non-reproducible and thus deniable, and is shocked that isn't the case. As Tyler Durden said "You have to consider the possibility that God does not
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Just to follow up on that last sentence, I read this, today, confirming I wasn't the only one thinking it: "So accustomed are we to viewing Putin as a master tactician, that the opening salvos of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s d
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by vba616 3y ago
Everything is an exception to the rule! There is nothing so contrary to the Guidelines that it won't show up. I see "Taboola" items on the default Microsoft front page of Edge and they appear on HN. I grant that the worst of
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by vba616 3y ago
It's not a news source! And increasingly nearly everything that is mainstream news or clickbait shows up on HN anyway, despite the Guidelines page saying it's off topic. If CNN, Reuters, the AP, the NY Times, are covering somethin
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>a genuinely scary and unsettling experience for me Every time I think of a good thing to ask ChatGPT (free version), it gives me garbage. Not only for programming tasks, but also for, basically, short essays in English on some topic.
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CNN is much maligned, but at least they mentioned Rostov is a long way from Moscow. If CNN and others are covering it, I think it reinforces my point, that censoring HN is irrelevant.
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If it were true, it would make no sense to try to censor it, so I'm going to bet on it being a joke? I really have no idea who would care specifically about censoring it on HN, anyway. I always thought everything he said was on orders
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"Overwhelming expert consensus" implies that you know who is an expert so I don't see how it helps an idealized clueless average citizen who arguendo cannot judge accurate information from mis- or dis- information. Also, yo
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The relevance of MIX/MMIX is that to me, MIX is a lot like C in its aspirations and failures as time passed it by. Knuth described similar motivations in terms of portability, not wanting to choose a favorite architecture, and so on. B
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If you stopped at that sentence, then the rest of my comment might clarify. It's hard for me to elaborate further without any idea of your background. How long have you been programming in C? Have you encountered TAOCP and MIX/MMI
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“Hi there! This is Eddie, your shipboard computer, and I’m feeling just great, guys, and I know I’m just going to get a bundle of kicks out of any program you care to run through me.”
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>A person not trained in virology or microbiology is absolutely unqualified to discern the difference between good information and bad information on the topic of vaccines. It seems hard to argue with that...but what exactly is the meani
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I learned C in the 1980s. At that time, for practical purposes, it seemed it was the same as Pascal, only with less verbose syntax - { } instead of begin/end. But then I discovered Usenet and the - I don't know exactly how to desc
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Because I enjoy the torque of an electric motor, but not the weight of a battery, I have a dream of making a simple series hybrid from a classic car, with a motorcycle (sized) engine and a battery and a high torque electric motor. Last I no
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>In the latter case, there is no such thing as production or growth. The fact that you can't define production or growth in terms of indestructible atoms is presumably why economists don't.
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Most people would move on. Just like most people would not stand up to a robber at a minimum wage job. But those who do make it a tiny bit less likely that you or I will face a similar situation. So it's not appropriate to call them st
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Yes, it does kind of prove the point, but you wouldn't really confirm it if you perceive an author, a genre, a category, whatever, through some sort of filtering mechanism. I think you can turn this saying around and consider that if
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Based on a couple of his best known stories that I read when I was pretty young, I revered him as an author. But a few years ago, I found out that his short stories had been collected in a multi-volume series, and I started reading them. I
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Well...I mean it's a logical conundrum because if you take the timeframe you can justify and double it, by definition you can't justify half of the time it will take. On the other hand, a minimum amount of time required for a pr
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x^2 and 2^x manifestly both involve exponents, so I think it's valid - outside math class - to call anything involving accelerating growth "exponential".
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>if the correlation holds up and turns out to have some predictive value
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The "Jim Cramer of tech" is John C. Dvorak. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_C._Dvorak "The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a ‘mouse’. There is no evidence that people want to use
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I spent a few years working in a project (program?) management office as an administrative assistant. Somewhere in there, I announced to my manager that I had figured out how to accurately estimate the time a project would take - of course
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Is it a trademark/appellation contrôlée?
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"In our system"? As if there is a system that catches, charges, prosecutes and/or convicts everyone who breaks the law.
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No, it's impossible to prosecute every violation of law, and this has been true since the beginning of time. Would you agree that each library can't have every book ever written, and do you think there is a distinction between not
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Every organization has limited resources. A library can't have every book in the world. This doesn't mean that not selecting a book is exactly the same as "banning" it. It does mean the issue is nuanced.

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