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by weberc2 7y ago
> there are thousands of mostly far-right groups that are flooding google with garbage Is there a citation for this? I see lots of far-left garbage on social media generally (by which I mean posts espousing violent revolution, racism, se
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by weberc2 7y ago
Yup, that's my point. Saying "everything is political" might be true, but it misses the point that some things are far less political than others, and almost everyone who says things like "no political conversation"
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by weberc2 7y ago
> How can you tell if people are just ranting "because of the internet" and not because they are suffering and think your political inaction is contributing to their pains? In many cases, it's not the group which is allege
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by weberc2 7y ago
> Math is probably one of the if not the least political thing out there If you can concede that some things are less political than others, then how difficult is it to assume that "No political conversations" is a shorthand fo
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by weberc2 7y ago
This is counterintuitive. If you emphasize politics, you end up selecting for the dominant viewpoint, thereby reducing diversity. If you don't emphasize politics, you end up selecting for the people who can do the job, which is almost
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by weberc2 7y ago
Yup, and Google is letting those people know that there may now be consequences for their disruption. If those people still think their disruption worthwhile, they're free to proceed.
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by weberc2 7y ago
That's a use case, but there are many others, as the article mentions, like lightweight isolation for server side apps or writing your frontend app in a different language (not pragmatic today, but could be in the future).
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by weberc2 7y ago
Regarding purescript, I thought I saw a post on the other day that said it now has C++ and Go backends.
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by weberc2 7y ago
Maybe I misunderstood the article and the memo, but it felt very much like it was saying, “I have to deal with racists at work, like that time no one supported a political issue that I care a lot about”. Maybe it was more the article’s edit
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by weberc2 7y ago
Many would argue that it depends on the race/sex. They would also fail to grasp the irony of their argument.
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by weberc2 7y ago
Ironically this article is still referring to Damore’s memo as an “anti-diversity memo”. What an overt falsehood. There are lots of valid criticisms of his memo, but this isn’t one of them.
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by weberc2 7y ago
Even then sentiment analysis is comically broken. I was playing with a tool that analyzed Tweets and plugged in a variety of words and phrases. It thought the term “white male” generally had a pretty strong positive sentiment, but on drilli
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by weberc2 7y ago
Which is great if your project treats warnings as errors. Not sure how common this is though since every time I compile a C program it’s just pages and pages of warnings.
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by weberc2 7y ago
The problem is that our culture doesn't really agree on whether it's the responsibility of the speaker to avoid offense or the listener to "suck it up" or whether it varies based on the relative identities of the speaker
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by weberc2 7y ago
Didn’t people recently freak out about the ethnicity of the convenience store owner?
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by weberc2 7y ago
I think critics of preferred pronouns would argue that there are virtually no Americans who have problems as trivial as the pronoun issue; that it’s a contrived problem. In other words, it’s not that suffering is relative—everyone agrees on
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by weberc2 7y ago
Pipenv is plagued with problems and issues. It takes half an hour to install dependencies to our project. The —keep-outdated flag doesn’t (didn’t?) work, so I don’t know if my pipfile is being modified because the constraints require changi
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by weberc2 7y ago
Interesting that you mention the difficult problems being around CI/CD and operations. I had to get our Python application’s CI/CD pipeline off the ground and it was much harder than it would have been in Go, for example. Notably,
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by weberc2 7y ago
> I would take a Python job over a Java/C/C++/Go/Rust any day. Why do you group those languages like they’re similar but different from nim and crystal? They’re wildly different in terms of their target domain, runtim
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by weberc2 7y ago
What stops LEO from contracting with a digital forensic company or consultancy?
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by weberc2 7y ago
Wouldn't the relationship between the meat industry and federal immigration authorities be the opposite of symbiotic? Federal immigration aims to curb the illegal immigration off of which (we reasonably alledge) the meat industry is pr
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by weberc2 7y ago
We’ve had to build a lot on. Like support for passing state across jobs in a workflow, or branching, or triggering a workflow with parameters, or triggering a workflow from a different branch, or etc. CCI went to unnecessary lengths to not
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by weberc2 7y ago
Facebook is different. Your friends are the product, not the tech. With Github the tech is the product.
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by weberc2 7y ago
CircleCI invented many of their own problems. No API to trigger workflow runs and the only trigger “API” is pushing to a git branch. A horrible job-centric UI when all you really care about are workflows. Workflows that don’t let you expres
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by weberc2 7y ago
These are strawmen arguments. No one is arguing that libraries matter more than organizations/teams, and no one is arguing that it's impossible to build good/bad frameworks in any given language/framework/etc. You c
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by weberc2 7y ago
Right, but will they be able to say that the customer was thrilled with their rewrite? Probably not; they're already mostly happy with the simpler site and now they've paid to make things (almost certainly) more complex than they
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by weberc2 7y ago
I’m not familiar with Popper’s work, but I see that quote (“tolerate everything but intolerance”) used to rationalize intolerance toward perfectly tolerant individuals. Any evidence that the target is “intolerant” suffices, no matter how te
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by weberc2 7y ago
And like this disease, Syphillis was initially terrifying, with flesh falling off of victims' faces, before the disease "decided" that it was better to let its victims live with genital sores rather than die horrific deaths.
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by weberc2 7y ago
What's interesting is we don't look back on all people evenly, nor do we esteem people less who lived farther back in time. For example, we tend to esteem the Greeks and Romans more than the Medieval Europeans. The author has a ch
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by weberc2 7y ago
This could allow us to build a universal distributed network of compute resources and a real-time auction system that allows agents to bid for time on. No need to worry that the hardware owners are snooping on your computation. Of course, e

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