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by wredcoll 1y ago
And if skin color and political decisions of people 1000 years ago controlled us today, this might be a reasonable point. But they don't so it's not.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
We, humanity, have literally ALREADY TRIED THIS. This isn't some kind of super hypothetical what-if scenario. We have historical records. It went poorly.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> Heredity isn’t as simple as that, but at the same time, it isn’t clear that competencies “probably” do not pass between parent and child. We have several thousand years of history recorded where people tried this and the failures vastl
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> The perspective you've adopted is exactly the one that needs to respond to intellectual competition, because this nonsense about "oh, there was just a change in civilization style and we don't know which is better so don
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> The Wikipedia article doesn't mention Ward-Perkins, a prominent scholar in the camp arguing that the dark ages represented real material decline. The Grokipedia article cites him extensively. Wikipedia is not supposed to be an a
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> his bias results in underrepresentation of Global South perspectives, limited access individuals, and women, among others. And grok is addressing this... how, precisely? I looked up your cite, this is the twitter thingy: > GROKIPEDI
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Is this political bias in the room with us right now?
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by wredcoll 1y ago
It seems intellectually vacuous. But I guess it's edgy and makes some people feel goood?
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Having to give credence to incorrect theories and lies would not, in fact, be an improvement.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
[citation needed]
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by wredcoll 1y ago
I think "email" is a bit of a overly specific term, but if we take a small step back, communicating with other humans is usually the most important part of any piece of software.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
How is that steam's fault?
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by wredcoll 1y ago
That's not the same as a "high availibility hot swap redundant multi region database". Running mysqldump to a usb disk in the office once a day is pretty cheap.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> The biggest ops teams I worked alongside were always dedicated to running AWS setups. The slowest too were dedicated to AWS. I wish I could come up with some kind of formalization of this issue. I think it has something to do with comm
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by wredcoll 1y ago
This is the root success of aws, it lets internal teams bypass sysadmin departments.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
The point isn't cost, it's dodging responsibility.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> What the modern software business seems to have lost is the understanding that ops and dev are two different universes. This is a fascinating take, if you ask me, treating them as separate is the whole problem! The point of being an en
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by wredcoll 1y ago
You just wrote a whole bunch of paragraphs talking about how appearances made you feel things without ever addressing the actual facts. >DEI is that it attempts to address the symptoms instead of the root cause of the problem. I.e. tryin
709.
by wredcoll 1y ago
The issue is not being able to type actual regexes: /\w+[a-z]$/ becomes something different when enclosed in double quotes.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> I feel like you're glossing over my main point, which is that this stuff 100% does breed resentment for the average person, which is how we end up with people like Trump (obviously there are many more factors to consider but this
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> The Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned that and it was awhile before the discrimination was rebooted to run in the opposite direction. Wow, I am extremely happy to know that all racism ended in 1964!
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Can't you use tagged literals to do something similar?
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Sure, now make it work without having to type "\\w"
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by wredcoll 1y ago
I don't want my hammer to have a razorblade embedded in the handle so if I grab it "wrong" my hand gets sliced up. Look analogies work both ways!
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> E.g., our gazillion-times better physical substrate should have led an array of hotshot devs to write web apps that run circles around GraIL[1] by 2025 Why? What problem did it solve that we're suffering from in 2025?
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> custody refused, child grew up a mass murderer as always). What?
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by wredcoll 1y ago
The road network is a much better analogy here.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Now explain how asking youtube to stop promoting covid misinfo is either of those things.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> money on medical, health and physics research directly What precisely is the difference? Where was space-race money spent that shouls be reallocated? My point is you eventually need to put the research into practice.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Isn't that basically what they did? The moon landing was just a big test of the research.

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