weberc2

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by weberc2 7y ago
My comment was about culture, not government, so I’m not sure how to address your question.
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by weberc2 7y ago
I think the former may require the latter. I’m not sure how an atheistic (in the literal sense) population could resist the forces of selfishness and tribalism over generations (again, this isn’t to say that religious people are unwavering,
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by weberc2 7y ago
Most of this doesn’t refute my point; it’s largely enumeration fallacy and I tried very hard to address this in my post (“not a panacea” and all that). The thing that is probably most valid and damaging to my model is the bit about evangeli
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by weberc2 7y ago
> I don't think I'm a moral relativist, but this is a non-sequitur. It's possible for morality to be relative, but still have guiding principals. At an individual level, I agree. But I stipulated "at a cultural level&
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by weberc2 7y ago
> I'm not saying there are not busy people who volunteer or go to church, but I think there's a "have time and patience" factor associated with it. The average Churchgoer works full time and has a family. They don&#x2
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by weberc2 7y ago
Membership in a community is one benefit that churches/religions provide. Another is a worldview that values selflessness, altruism, and honesty. I don't think those things can exist apart from religion (at a cultural level, anywa
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by weberc2 7y ago
> You're trying to make it sound abundantly reasonable that the OP's ideology is inconsistent No, I'm asserting that it's inconsistent (based on studying these sorts of purportedly "egalitarian" racial&#x2
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by weberc2 7y ago
There isn't a reactionary movement that sees "women in tech" as an existential threat. The "reactionaries" you're alluding to are properly known as "liberals" or "egalitarians".
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by weberc2 7y ago
There is an imbalance, but no unfairness (or at least no established unfairness--and to the extent that there is an unfairness, it probably runs in the opposite direction due to the aggregate actions taken on behalf of a popular political
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by weberc2 7y ago
> you know perfectly well why they are doing the things they do, what value system informs their actions. So what's the point of protesting it here like you're bewildered about it? For me, it's fascinating how people can a
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by weberc2 7y ago
That reduces to "you don't have to worry about performance because the GIL doesn't let you write performant code". That's not what I think of as "helpful".
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by weberc2 7y ago
This whole thread is the worst kind of whataboutism. Trying to justify or normalize the consequences of drug use by equating drug users with consumers who don't know how to optimize for their values (and trivializing the work and speci
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by weberc2 7y ago
You're conflating suboptimal decisions about essentials (people need food, clothes, and transport and optimizing for good is a complex problem) with paying for something that you don't need and directly harms the cause you purpo
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by weberc2 7y ago
I agree. I’m sure this will be an unpopular opinion, but it’s bizarre how fashionable it is to advocate vaguely for “social justice” while directly financing gang and cartel violence. Sure, you can blame the government for making it inconve
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by weberc2 7y ago
I wonder if this is true or if we will just use cheaper, dirtier technology to get by?
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by weberc2 7y ago
I agree it's overused and abused, but this is pretty straightforward. The author is attributing the rise to "men can't control themselves" instead of the obvious "men are afraid of false accusations". Even if t
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by weberc2 7y ago
According to that page, it's only 2-10% of cases that police were able to determine that no crime had been committed. Given how difficult it is to disprove a sexual assault, the number of false accusations must be must higher. Consider
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by weberc2 7y ago
Calling it merely "uncharitable" and not "overtly bad faith" is a very charitable interpretation on your part. :)
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by weberc2 7y ago
Would be interesting to study the evolution of the organisms contained therein over very long timescales.
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by weberc2 7y ago
If I understand correctly, the distinction between immediate mode GUI and retained is that in the former, there aren’t stateful widgets so there is no copy to reconcile.
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by weberc2 7y ago
The edit window had already expired.
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by weberc2 7y ago
S/handles/handled
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by weberc2 7y ago
How are these other state concerns you mention (e.g., focus) handles in immediate mode GUIs? Do the components retain those states or do you keep a separate model for those states that needs to interact with the application model? If so, ho
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by weberc2 7y ago
Until someone adds a callback from C back into Python and the unexpected GIL contention makes performance dramatically worse even as compared to the single-threaded version.
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by weberc2 7y ago
How does the GIL help you write concurrent code?
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by weberc2 7y ago
Having worked in Python and other languages for many years, I can tell you that 1) this doesn't matter and 2) many of the ways people write Python are much uglier than the conventional formatting in other languages. Most notably:
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by weberc2 7y ago
I shouldn’t have said repo, but rather some agreed upon unit of code. It could be a single package or file as long as all contributors touching that file adhere. You should not use black for any unit of code that you can’t get buy-in on. Bl
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by weberc2 7y ago
Sounds like you're using it wrong. The autoformatter is for the whole repo, not for individual contributors. The point is that the whole repo has the same style, so you should only ever get diffs on the lines that were changed or the f
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by weberc2 7y ago
Scala was not on my radar in 2012; take that for whatever it's worth to you.
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by weberc2 7y ago
We are using a pre-commit hook but I also have an on-save hook in my editor. Further, we also have a CI job that runs `black --check` which returns 1 (failing the build) if the files weren't completely formatted with black. In Go, the

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