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by wwright 6y ago
I’m really not sure this is the case. For example, we know that we have far more than enough capacity to produce food for the entire world, we just simply don’t do it. Of course, Americans are very wasteful, and we can’t scale that amount o
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by wwright 6y ago
I think this is a fault of language ergonomics rather than static typing. If you are gluing components together, then surely the components have a common interface that uses compatible types. And surely you need to tell the runtime what tho
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by wwright 6y ago
Ada has this without general dependent types AFAIK
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by wwright 6y ago
This seems like an incredibly presumptive and onerous process to expect an interviewee to go through.
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by wwright 6y ago
> Languages like C and Rust do not have any equivalent to JVM tuning. They absolutely do. It’s called “managing memory.”
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by wwright 6y ago
And a much more modern set of defaults and user affordances.
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by wwright 6y ago
Do your compiles write multiple gigabytes of data? Within seconds?
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by wwright 6y ago
What does an impartial website look like? How does one have a website that sees no particular group as more correct than any other?
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by wwright 6y ago
"Never ascribe to malice" itself is specifically Hanlon's razor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
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by wwright 6y ago
Well, it doesn’t help that the “infamous dossier” literally states that a sitting President can’t be charged for the crimes that were investigated. And the author explicitly stated that he did not find Trump or his campaign innocent of the
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by wwright 6y ago
Well, multiple members of the Trump campaign have literally pleaded guilty to lying about involvement with Russia; that story does have that going for it :)
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by wwright 6y ago
> So? Other fake stories are certainly not censored in this manner. To demand the White House press secretary delete a tweet? Frankly, they should do this much more when officials lie (which the current administration has demonstrably do
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by wwright 6y ago
Literally the same thing that happened with the FBI announcing that they were "reopening" the Clinton investigation right before the election and then promptly deciding that they found nothing afterwards.
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by wwright 6y ago
How is school only toxic for boys?
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by wwright 6y ago
It does, in a sense; you could say it has a “structured” way to overload functions that significantly simplifies resolution and predictability. People don’t really call it overloading, but it has many similarities.
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by wwright 6y ago
It's not a pun, it's an analogy. When we want to see things in a different way in the real world, we literally use lenses (or more generally, optics).
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by wwright 6y ago
Fair point! MagSafe 2 was introduced in 2012. 6 years after MagSafe 1, and 5 years before USB-C. 6 years is double the median lifetime of a laptop in that period IIRC and MagSafe 2 was ditched for a charger that is included on many other de
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by wwright 6y ago
Magsafe was introduced in 2006 and the last products with it were replaced in 2017. Lightning was introduced in 2008. Thunderbolt 2 is definitely the shortest-lived one (clearly due to a big change in technical direction with TB3) but even
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by wwright 6y ago
You make a lot of fair points, but I think this is off the mark: > Proprietary connectors that change every couple of years? Is there any connector in particular you are thinking of that has been cycled out in just two years? All the one
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by wwright 6y ago
> Isn't this the whole point of work? Exchanging your own preferences and time for money? In our current economic system, yes for some people; but less so for some individuals, and again even less in economies with UBI. A founder, f
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by wwright 6y ago
I (and many others) are of the opinion that you can’t truly be apolitical; claiming to be so is its own form of politics (and generally one that supports the status quo). Politics is ultimately about how we engage and collaborate with each
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by wwright 6y ago
I agree. It helps show off your proposed model for the problem, your priorities, and other factors like your style. I think these go a long way towards “grokking” the library.
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by wwright 6y ago
This is very informative and clear, thanks :)
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by wwright 6y ago
In my opinion: when you could be paying tens of thousands or more to support others, instead you are paying $0, and you know other people who barely make half the median household income are paying 20–30% of their total income. Do these rul
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by wwright 6y ago
Yeah, which IMO is a shitty thing to do at this scale
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by wwright 6y ago
Does that apply to the President? (At this point it seems clear that nothing applies to the president; let’s hope to god that someone makes a new amendment for that.)
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by wwright 6y ago
The problem here is that American culture has made you entitled. You think that, just because you can get into grad school and bump shoulders with the elite, you should be able to deduct $70,000 of haircuts, too. (This is a joke, to be clea
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by wwright 6y ago
Not a crime != not an absolutely shitty thing to do
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by wwright 6y ago
The “verbose syntax is good” stance seems to have been a lot more common back in 70s–80s language design, hence why I call it “old-fashioned” :-) not trying to make a judgement against the language (I personally love Cocoa-style method name
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by wwright 6y ago
To be clear, that’s kind of what I was trying to say :) maybe the “only advantage” part at the end made that unclear. I think the problems you’d want to use Go for, the problems you’d want to use Rust for, and the problems you’d want to use

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