astine

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by astine 1y ago
If you think it's silly because it's not a restaurant you go to, imagine if Coca-Cola replaced their script logo with some generic sans-serif one. Don't you think the outrage would be real? I can't imagine being upset
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by astine 1y ago
I definitely saw some. It came from people who were in that culture war space where they interpret every trend as being part of a big left-wing plot to impose their values on everybody else.
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by astine 1y ago
So why not just think in terms of lists, which can be nested, rather than cons-cells, which are only rarely used for anything other than to construct lists? Because, as he continues: Worse, any proper list can have improper list as eleme
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by astine 1y ago
You'll have an equivalent of a cons cell in any linked list implementation, but you won't necessarily interact with it as a user. Look at the standard library implementation of a linked list in C# for example ( https://l
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by astine 1y ago
I think that the author's complaint is that cons cells are too low level a construct to be exposed so prominently to the user. I think he would prefer that it was abstracted over with some higher level interface the way a lot of other
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by astine 1y ago
Xah's complaint appears to be that cons cells are too low level a construct to expose to the user. He seems fine with lists in general but just dislikes how they are implemented in Lisp. If I were to implement a list in a non-Lisp lang
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by astine 1y ago
Right. Presumably a car idling for ten minutes produces less pollution than a car being driven for ten minutes, but a car that is driven for ten minutes and idled for an additional ten produces more pollution than either of them. Any pollut
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by astine 1y ago
Correlation may not imply causation, but where there is causation there usually is correlation. So, if there is a rise in homelessness there is likely some factor contributing to that and if a factor is correlated there is a good chance tha
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by astine 1y ago
a camp fire gets plenty hot for blacksmithing - just wait for the coals and then blow on them Maybe if you're working with bronze or copper, but iron forging requires much higher temperatures than a campfire can provide. That's
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by astine 2y ago
> I also think the gruellingly slow death of legacy media and rise of bluesky and X (and mastodon) is a net positive for society, if only for the reason that ~tweets can be immediately and transparently rebutted, whereas brainwashing ‘ne
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by astine 2y ago
Presumably because he owns the site. You would think this would be the one place that PG didn't get much pushback on his opinions. I'm not too surprised though; he hasn't been very involved here for years so the culture has s
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by astine 2y ago
Salespeople are typically compensated based on commissions. At least the well compensated ones are. Automation can make things easier and streamline the sales process, but because the sales rep is paid a percentage of the GP of a sale, auto
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by astine 2y ago
Because then you wouldn't be doing unit testing; you'd be doing integration testing. You'd also probably not be testing the database in a realistic configuration and thereby missing the whole point.
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by astine 2y ago
Testing against a real database is an example of integration testing. Using mocks is for unit testing. Ideally, you want to do both. Unit testing entails isolating particular components for testing which is important because it let's y
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by astine 2y ago
Yes, that's true, but the problem is that these past four years have been bad for everybody, so they remember the Trump years as being better than they actually were.
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by astine 2y ago
This is probably one of the most dickish comments I've read in a while. I have tourettes too. I would never use it as a weapon to diminish other people's difficulties. Just because my problems are manageable doesn't mean othe
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by astine 2y ago
I would like to see his sources because that contradicts the most well known studies. There are still a lot of paleoanthropologists who don't think that interbreeding was possible at all and the apparent Neanderthal admixture in modern
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by astine 2y ago
The dinosaur to birds comparison isn't a particularly good one. Birds are cladistally dinosaurs, that is, the common ancestor of all birds was a dinosaur. In that sense, there are no birds that are not also dinosaurs. That's not t
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by astine 2y ago
I agree. Robots.txt is a suitable means of preventing crawlers from accidentally DOSing your site, but it doesn't really give you any protections as to how your content is used by automated services. The current anything-goes approach
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by astine 2y ago
I think that prioritizing fixing bugs, especially security related bugs, over new features makes sense for most software projects. The problem comes from defining bugs. Is a bit of unexpected behavior a bug if it doesn't impact users?
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by astine 2y ago
That's not what the GP said. They said Huberman's incorrect statements on something they understood made them more skeptical regarding his other statements, not that these other statements were definitely wrong because the first
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by astine 2y ago
But imagine if our C/C++/Java/Rust/Go/etc. compilers were like "syntax error, but ehhhhh you probably meant to put a closing brace there, so let's just pretend you did". That would be a nightmare of
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by astine 2y ago
You can talk about free will without talking about morality in the same way that you can talk about ICBMs without talking about nuclear war. Sure you can do it, but complaining when other people discuss both things together is silly.
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by astine 2y ago
On the contrary, morality has everything to do with free will. It's one of the central motivations of the concept and always has been. From the greeks right up through the enlightenment, the question was always "in what sense are
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by astine 2y ago
They did mention it. The Smithsonian piece is a response to it. They even link to the same IUGS press release that the Guardian uses as a source.
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by astine 3y ago
It's not necessarily an either-or situation. Increased population can enable increased technological sophistication and increased technological sophistication can in turn enable an even larger population. This can be a self-reinforcing
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by astine 3y ago
You can lay a foundation for a building in a couple of days and then spend however long you want building the whole rest of your house on top of that. If later you find out that the foundation has cracks or is otherwise compromised and you
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by astine 3y ago
I'm not certain of your point? Marx admits that LTV doesn't explain prices much earlier than the third volume; it's cental to his whole point, that the difference between the 'value' of a good and what a capitalist
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by astine 3y ago
This is not really true. "Power" in a social context proceeds from social relationships. A king only has power if people buy into the idea that he has power. In other words, any power beyond individual brute force is a social cons
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by astine 3y ago
Um, no that's not correct. It's true that the origin of the labor theory of value is philosophers like Locke arguing that labor is the source of all value, but in the context that Marx was writing, Smith and Riccardo had populari

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