mmirate

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by mmirate 8y ago
> Things where a little bit different back then, don't you think? Do you believe nothing that's happened in the last 70 years (most notably nuclear weapons) changes this scenario at all? The majority of the Cold War happened wh
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by mmirate 8y ago
I'm saying that the patches he has reviewed may have been given more attention-to-detail by submitters and lieutenants because of his personality, in which case by being nicer he would lend his time to be abused to a greater degree. No
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by mmirate 8y ago
Convey to us reasonable people, reading it at a distance as 3rd-parties? Absolutely. ... Convey to the intended recipient, with his inevitable personal/emotional/etc. attachments to the topic, in such a way that it takes the inten
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by mmirate 8y ago
That's one person of many. And it's not a question of aesthetics of the message in the short term, but of the quality of the overall results in the long term and the effort needed to achieve them. Hopefully this won't happen,
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by mmirate 8y ago
Only time will tell whether that change is for better or for worse. (Unless your chosen metric-of-value relies on feelings instead of actual concrete results.)
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by mmirate 8y ago
The inherent limitations of human memory likely made that person assume you use a single password everywhere. Your response makes me assume that you memorize a unique password for every account. You do you; but personally, I would rather me
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“Equality of Opportunity” is Overrated(mises.org)
5 points by mmirate 8y ago|1 comments
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by mmirate 8y ago
> I'd say, "what you should do" is to organize with others and enforce boundaries on those who are in the "bubble" of not giving a (meaningful) fuck of continued organized existence of the human race. Dumb questi
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by mmirate 8y ago
Why is the .NET integration a feature rather than an antifeature? Don't null and subclassing tend to poke holes in F#'s type system's ability to detect mistakes? And would it not be better to compile to native code than to re
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by mmirate 8y ago
And also wonderfully devoid of error-handling, too. It's the most common way for beautiful-looking C code to look beautiful.
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by mmirate 8y ago
Satisfying the borrow-checker usually ends up implying that either: a) you used .clone() everywhere and therefore are probably modifying something and failing to propagate the modifications to where they need to go; or b) your design is inh
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by mmirate 8y ago
I've said it before and I'll say it again: loneliness isn't the problem; it's our physical dependence on non-loneliness that is the problem.
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by mmirate 8y ago
(Note: I'm not the OP.) I don't get paid by-the-hour to drive; I get paid to arrive on-time. So commuting in my opinion (like IT in MBAs' opinion) is purely a (time-)cost center. And from that POV the average driver is indee
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by mmirate 8y ago
That ought to be a oneliner in any sane language today: numbers.into_iter().filter(|n| n>10 && n%2!=0).for_each(work); map work . filter ((/=0) . (`mod` 2)) . filter (>10) $ numbers Insert tirade about how
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by mmirate 8y ago
> as long as they can charge reasonably quickly. Commercial battery tech is going to have to improve a lot before this qualifier begins to hold.
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by mmirate 8y ago
> Were not for the battery degradation ghost, people would be switching in droves already. But they are familiar with laptop batteries, and they think car batteries degrade the same way. Don't they? Elsewhere in this thread it is sa
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by mmirate 8y ago
How is improving a handful of people tantamount to poisoning everyone?
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by mmirate 8y ago
The GCs alone? Yes. The rest of their respective runtime architectures? Highly doubtful. As GC-dependent as Go may be, it still does end up as native code. But frankly, comparing Go to Java when things like Rust exist ... seems analogous to
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by mmirate 8y ago
Because the JVM takes another tradeoff against Go and Rust: it has a runtime interpreter+JIT, which causes even more performance overhead than Go's GC let alone Rust which - at runtime - is effectively a zero-cost abstraction over C an
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by mmirate 8y ago
As I read the article, I was most puzzled as to how people could possibly be afraid of such a trifle as loneliness. The answer is in the buried-lead at the end: >According to the Campaign To End Loneliness, loneliness has been found to
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by mmirate 8y ago
> A boost in one area tends to cause problems in other areas. Some problem areas are no longer as such because today's environment is much better at compensating for them than the environment that we actually evolved-for. Energy eff
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by mmirate 8y ago
What exactly would remain after this "destruction" of yours?
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by mmirate 8y ago
Unfortunately, back here in the world of today's reality, the "intelligent consciousness" phenomenon still requires this shitty fragile "meatbag" form, to carry it around ... ... but if it makes you more comfortable
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by mmirate 8y ago
Why does scientific reductionism need an antidote? "antidote to scientific reductionism" seems about as useful as "antidote to nonblindness".
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by mmirate 8y ago
On larger Linux distributions, the trust is less with Mozilla and more with the distro-package maintainers - use of dynamically remote-loaded JavaScript here shifts the trust back to Mozilla; if you trust your maintainers but not Mozilla, t
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by mmirate 8y ago
This is Hacker News, not Manager News or Lawyer News.
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by mmirate 8y ago
Ever heard of something called an unjust law? Today there are very few of them in the US, and fewer still of them (if any at all) that actually matter. But it's not hard to find other nations where the story is very different.
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by mmirate 8y ago
When you overestimate a foe, you waste some resources; when you underestimate them, you die or get tortured or etc.
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by mmirate 8y ago
I agree it isn't. The person I was replying to, implied it inherently is.
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by mmirate 8y ago
That's easy, and the answer even has a googleable name: "first past the post".

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