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by nudq 7y ago
> a linguist (with some understanding of development) Your wish has been granted: Larry Wall, Perl 6.
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by nudq 7y ago
> Einstein, Dirac, Pauli It sure helps to be dead by now. Try James Watson for a really motivating example.
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by nudq 7y ago
A good idea if you want your personal relationships poisoned.
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by nudq 7y ago
The guy has been doing the TED circuit for ages. I once looked closer at his claims and his supposed proof by simulation and came to agree with the more negative takes at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11588698
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by nudq 7y ago
> Without a doubt, C has "lost" nothing, because it barely changed Thanks to UB exploitation, C as implemented has been changing a lot over time. Old C was a decent low-level language. New C is barely usable.
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by nudq 7y ago
Controlled compromise of privacy for the sake of scientific insight seems like a good idea, until you realize that we either get profoundly non-replicable junk "science", or continued and unlimited re-breach of privacy for the sak
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by nudq 7y ago
> How do you prevent nepotism Why prevent nepotism when everybody is a cousin?
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by nudq 7y ago
I don't think we can simply assume that starting position matters to "pulverization" after 1500 years. Mobility is more likely; the mobile object moves along with the ice, the stationary one gets pulverized.
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by nudq 7y ago
> Some just choose to ignore them Some... like smart people with lots of money. Because, you know, the prediction market in nice oceanfront properties beloved by the coastal elites hasn't collapsed, even tough their tongues say th
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by nudq 7y ago
Going on title and comments only, sorry, but why does "it's genetic" count as an explanation for anything? An explanation for this would need ecology. Why is it beneficial for some of us to need less sleep, but not for al
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by nudq 7y ago
Because in the context of Epstein, intelligence doesn't necessarily mean CIA. Seriously, we can't say "Mossad" on Hackernews without getting flagged, can we realistically expect NPR to go there?
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by nudq 7y ago
By following Chrome every time Google wants to removes access to parts of the web not sufficiently encrypted (to thwart ISP competition for ads and data) or not serving ads (like FTP) Firefox is working to keep Chrome relevant. It has bee
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by nudq 7y ago
Wouldn't Elsevier be able to legally link to Elsevier IP on SciHub even if you can't?
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by nudq 7y ago
You realize it's problematic to emphasize typos, right? (Thanks, would edit if I could.)
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by nudq 7y ago
Not to take away from the side splitting hilariousness of this novel meme, but I just noticed Lisp is actually one of the few languages where you can't add spurious parentheses. If you find that a, (a), ((a)), etc are equivalent, it&
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by nudq 7y ago
You realize that the OP's concerns actually intesify if the author in question is perceived as an authority on the topic, right?
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by nudq 7y ago
> if 18 months comes and goes and it isn’t the end of the world No reason for concern. If failed climate prophecies had any effect, climate prophecies would be out of fashion by now. Nothing will change.
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by nudq 7y ago
> I think algebraic effects are more general Not an expert on algebraic effects, but I suspect they are both more and less general. On the one hand, "algebraic" hints at some constraints in the name of static typeability. Suc
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by nudq 7y ago
I like how these three points aren't just "strengths of Rust", but... > the necessary components ... to make imperative programming work as a paradigm You know, before Rust imperative programming just didn't work. Did
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by nudq 7y ago
Do you read your own comments? (Asking for a logician friend...)
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by nudq 7y ago
> You do not understand evolution Probably. But although it is almost tautological that fertility is heritable, it doesn't follow that the first world infertility trend will reverse. If whatever is causing first world infertility
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by nudq 7y ago
That compiles because with gcc extensions or sufficiently recent standards, variable size arrays are now a thing. The compiler doesn't insist on a static array size. What about something like this: #define ASSERT_BUILD(x) extern
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by nudq 7y ago
If you're writing 'enough' Rust, you're probably a Mozilla employee.
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by nudq 7y ago
Also, tastes of critics (journalists) and audiences have diverged, but both act as a filter. For example, critics tend to like an identity politics angle, but audiences don't like being lectured to. At the same time audiences won&#x2
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by nudq 7y ago
Interesting, and a sigh that the area of the Windows tax may be ending. Windows is now an ad delivery platform. That probably sounded like a great plan to MS management, but consumer Windows is now on its way to shovelware status. Microsoft
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by nudq 7y ago
I was under the impression that the pioneering Xerox systems were written in Mesa, which was not even object oriented. I'd love to hear the real story as well.
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by nudq 7y ago
They obviously started writing Postgres in LISP, because "we soon realized that parts of the system were more easily coded in C" wouldn't make sense if writing a hybrid had been the initial plan. They tried going all LISP a
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by nudq 7y ago
> his various personality disorders Lovely. To inject some psychological precision, only his narcissism can be considered a personality disorder. Being old, white, or male... no. Not yet.
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by nudq 7y ago
> By a process of elimination, we decided to try writing POSTGRES in LISP. We expected that it would be especially easy to write the optimizer and inference engine in LISP, since both are mostly tree processing modules. Moreo
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by nudq 7y ago
If I remember correctly, Postgres was initially developed in Lisp, but then rewritten. Was that a mistake, or evidence against the thesis of this article?

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