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by zaphar 2y ago
That is not what I said though. I said that a lot of people who claim they are transumanist claim that transhumanism is those things. Which is not the same as what you are describing.
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Unfortunately as someone of the christian faith I have first hand experience that you can not control someone else's use of language. Whether that is the meaning it was originally intended to convey or not that is the meaning that it c
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by zaphar 2y ago
Strange how a number of Transhumanists are claiming significantly more than you list here as their ideology.
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The Singularity is a belief that you can extrapolate from history and current events to a specific point in the future that will lead to some very religious sounding results: * Eternal life * A powerful entity or entities who will fix whate
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by zaphar 2y ago
Skip a couple framework versions and indeed entire frameworks. Maybe go a couple years before you "upgrade" to something else. It is entirely possible you could go as much as 5 or 10 years on something. You'll still have to e
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I know a lot of people well enough that they know they don't have to be afraid to admit such things to me. This is not a critical distinction because assuming you know what people think is a great way to completely misunderstand them.
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by zaphar 2y ago
I'll counter your anecdotal experience with my own. I can count on one hand the number of people I know well who voted against Harris because of her gender or color. And I live in the rural south. The simple truth is that Harris failed
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by zaphar 2y ago
I can create tagged unions in literally any language not just C++ including Assembly. Rust having syntactic and compiler checked support for them as a foundational part of the language is a material difference in the design that differs fun
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by zaphar 2y ago
I instantly thought of this when I saw the title.
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by zaphar 2y ago
The Rust Result type with accompanying `?` operator and the `Try*` traits are how you implement exceptions correctly. It makes it easy to model the error domain once in your trait implementations and then the `?` does the rest of the work.
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by zaphar 2y ago
The counter point here is that at least with Checked Exceptions you know only those 20 functions are part of the code path that can throw that exception. In the runtime exception case you are unaware about that 21'st function elsewhere
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by zaphar 2y ago
While I find it entirely plausible that Trump's character is such that he might accept bribes I am aware of no credible evidence that he has ever done so.
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Except the literature from studies on the subject suggest that homeschoolers on average do slightly better than public schoolers on this specific metric. The data suggests public school has worse outcomes.
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A rope is only concerned with manipulating a string with very low cpu overhead while maintaining the illusion of a sequence of characters or bytes. It doesn't really care or maintain any other text decoration you might be maintaining.
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There are a lot of schools that get funded quite well and perform very poorly. It matters how you spend that money. The data on this is hard to properly interpret too since higher income parents tend to live in higher income areas which mea
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by zaphar 2y ago
No apologies necessary. You were just sharing your own personal experiences. I wasn't offended or hurt.
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There are definitely hero teachers and administrations in public schools. They aren't the norm though and it's a bit of a lottery whether your child will end up with one.
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by zaphar 2y ago
Did they?
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by zaphar 2y ago
The big difference about that reinvention is that there are way more parents present in those environments than the typical public school variant. So both good behaviors to observe are more visible and also interventions are significantly
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by zaphar 2y ago
It didn't mess me up and I didn't treat any interaction as a peformance. They were just fun conversations.
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Practice, with guidance is superior to practice without guidance. Homeschooling doesn't mean isolation in the average case. You get a lot of practice as a homeschooler. The primary difference is that your practice is both with other
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by zaphar 2y ago
I can't really know nor do I care to speculate on why it's becoming fashionable. But I'm a successful, well adjusted, homeschooled child from when it wasn't fashionable. This comment stood out to me: "Opt out of int
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by zaphar 2y ago
The beverage that is best for you is also the cheapest. Water. From a tap. They may have less access to certain types of food but when it comes to beverages nearly every food stamp user in the US has access to clean, cheap, good for you wat
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If you are starving you need both calories and nutrients. Missing either one of them means you will still be starving.
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Perhaps ironically the collapse of agricultural state economies would mean considerably less dust since the fields would recover within a few years after not being over farmed.
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by zaphar 2y ago
I just kinda doubt they ran a banking startup without ever consulting a lawyer or an accountant. Why do you find this hard to believe? I find it hilariously easy to believe.
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There is a big difference between can't and won't. In the DoD case they "won't" for legal, and/or national security reasons. In the Synapse case I have no problem believing they can't because a bunch of te
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by zaphar 2y ago
I disagree with this previous premise: In finance, you should never assume incompetence over malice. It very rarely works out that way. Malicious incompetence maybe. I suspect it's informed more by confirmation bias fed by the news cyc
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Why would debugging be a team culture thing? It's very individual in practice.
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The term robot in no way indicates AGI. It's a term meaning automation. The robot's in most factories are not intelligent. The linter I use for javascript is also not intelligent. I refer to both of them as robots.

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