zimablue

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by zimablue 8y ago
It doesn't just make a linked list, if I remember right it goes through a whole compiler along with using continuations to implement a type of programming where every possibility is followed until it succeeds, along with several other
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by zimablue 8y ago
We are not at below replacement rate though, globally. And we could sustain it for a very long time, at least hundreds of generations. It's not a relevant problem
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by zimablue 8y ago
Competitive woodcutting is extremely exhausting (I imagine) but we don't subsidize it or demand that non-woodcutters take equivalent time off to compensate. Having children is a choice. If you're about to say that women will be di
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by zimablue 8y ago
Your last point is incoherent. Every single person benefits from education. The person benefiting from time off for maternity/paternity is the parent much more than the child. If you're poor/young bad boss/start up and h
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by zimablue 8y ago
This is just classism dressed up as racism. People who don't want to enter the upper middle class and have strong extracurriculars are just the already upper middle class/upper class. The professions like law/medicine are wha
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by zimablue 8y ago
So any father who doesn't take several complete months off work is neglectful? Which months are these, and if you take the wrong ones off are you neglectful? Is it the very early months where kids can't speak or ever remember what
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by zimablue 8y ago
I'm British and pretty left wing, don't assume that it's all tribal. Granted my post sounded quite American. The government forcing you to take time off is absolutely mental to me. Think of the edge cases => what if I&#x27
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by zimablue 8y ago
Extracurriculars have been moved away from in the UK because you're basically discriminating on class. I went to a uni much like the one you describe, Imperial College London. It has it's problems but I wouldn't have traded a
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by zimablue 8y ago
Mandatory paternity leave! Can we do a straw poll of how many people think that if you have a child the government gets to tell you how long to quit your job for!?
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by zimablue 8y ago
Where does that happen? I've always thought that was much more logical, the current system in the UK just doesn't make sense at it's core => if you're an employer you can get saddled with an employee who you have to p
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by zimablue 8y ago
To be fair cancer is super overfunded and a waste of money to fund relative to lots of more easily cured third world diseases or poverty itself. Always someone with a better case than you.
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by zimablue 8y ago
I've done exactly this where I'm just extending my code in an ugly way. Two alternative patterns to extending a function with a parameter switch are to pass in a function to the function or split the function into multiple functio
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by zimablue 8y ago
I read a long time ago and was convinced that no nice lambdas was one of the biggest problems in python, but that poster argued convincingly that it's an unavoidable consequence of the meaningful whitespace. Are you proposing a special
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by zimablue 8y ago
I think a large part of it is that if you've read thousands of lines of python code and have all the syntax in your head, it's painful and annoying to suddenly be reading python code that is and looks different. I found this comm
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by zimablue 8y ago
There are also Germany, Italy, other states which have nukes through NATO. If the US is serious about withdrawing from NATO then the nuclear capability of these states would end up being completely independent from the US, and EU has the t
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by zimablue 8y ago
Russia's nuclear capacity? How is that relevant? The UK alone has 215 nukes (just checked wiki), so yeah maybe Russia could kill all of us and we'd only kill 90% of them but past a certain threshold additional nuclear weapons are
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by zimablue 8y ago
Because the multiple nuclear states in Europe and its standing army which would give the US itself a hell of a fight are otherwise easy prey for ... aliens?
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by zimablue 8y ago
I wonder whether it's the right timing though, how much IP does the US have left? Serious question, does anyone have a good source on IP per industry and whether the lead has changed?
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by zimablue 8y ago
For pivoting? I don't know about dependent types, sometimes it's possible in theory to know the type of the pivot columns because you know the possible combinations of column fields that you're pivoting from, but is that depe
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by zimablue 8y ago
Most typesystems are limited in what they can express, and as they get more complicated in what they can express they tend to get more complicated to understand. A typesystem is a limitation you place on your code which you accept in the ho
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by zimablue 8y ago
I've read all of Banks' SF and for one thing it's silly of the article to criticize based on specifics, he created quite a large, complicated world so obviously Elon can't agree with every specific. On the points which a
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by zimablue 8y ago
There's already a mentat, name change please
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by zimablue 8y ago
This sounds reasonable but I think it's actually pretty silly. In physics everything is at some high energy level rolling doesn't to some lower state. Your body has tons of energy. If we threw you into the right sort of fusion rea
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by zimablue 8y ago
So there's no such thing as a historian?
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by zimablue 8y ago
It's fundamentally because: a) most people are along for the ride that it's a moral imperative to keep all of the population happy b) the more money you have, the easier it is to make money. If you don't even that out at all
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by zimablue 8y ago
Abolishing corporation tax has always seemed to me like something that makes sense only in a quite naive view of the world. The idea is always just to tax methods of getting income out of a corporation instead, (income, dividends) but ther
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by zimablue 8y ago
VBA first and in second place jupyter. Everything I've ever been employed to do has pretty much been throwing data around, there's no substitute for being able to iterate and view dataframes interactively. I've used Visual St
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by zimablue 8y ago
I think your response misses the point of my post. The point wasn't that they're trying to undermine Open Source, the point was that they fundamentally and unavoidably make their huge profits by extracting rent from a platform tha
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by zimablue 8y ago
Microsoft is the heart of corporate America, it's a facepalm to imagine that any dollar they spend isn't in their own long term interest to make money. It would be illegal for them not to. You can apply that to any large corporati
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by zimablue 8y ago
I've written a clojure app, used aws and lambda functions and skimming this I really wasn't sure wtf they were talking about. Datomic... Something something lambda functions, deployment. I know that they have an existing ami that

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