obviouslynotme

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by obviouslynotme 12d ago
There are MANY problems that are too politically or practically difficult to tackle for the US Military and personal cellphones aren't close to the top ten. It's far easier to force everyone to register their cells to be automatic
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by obviouslynotme 13d ago
>Someone else's battle-hardened allocator might be slow or buggy, so you write your own as part of the business logic implementation? In infrastructure where speed and reliability are highly valued? Absolutely. The gains obtained fr
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by obviouslynotme 27d ago
I second this. As a teenager, you don't have the life experience to appreciate most classic literature. I don't even think you have it in college, although this is less true. That being said, there is important literature, both fi
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by obviouslynotme 3mo ago
>weighted flat earth and spherical earth It should default to the mainstream opinion in general, but if you specifically ask about the shape of Earth, I do think it should mention the different theories as well as their pluses, minuses,
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by obviouslynotme 3mo ago
I don't think we can access the Platonic Form of Unbiased in this world. The best we can do is put forward as many points of view on a topic as possible and let the reader choose. It seems that Google's AI does the best job at thi
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by obviouslynotme 3mo ago
They are obviously using the SAT as a safer alternative to the legally dubious practice of IQ testing which can lead to running afoul of the ADA and EEOC. I'm not sure it's much safer, but I am positive it's less safe than do
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by obviouslynotme 3mo ago
You're right. If you think you are walking that line for each of your children, then you are the authority. It's just a common argument I hear from parents who want to avoid feeling bad, so I did make some assumptions.
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by obviouslynotme 3mo ago
I understand deeply. My parents delayed my driver's license until I was 17 because of financial tightness at the time, and that distanced me from some of my friends at the time. You know what I gained from that? I got to see who my rea
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by obviouslynotme 3mo ago
My parents did, and they were right. I had limited tv, games, and computer time. They kicked me out of the house after school, only to return for supper. I am eternally grateful for that decision. I have rich friendships that continue thirt
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by obviouslynotme 3mo ago
This is a symptom of not encouraging children into extracurricular activities. If all you have to bond over is social media, your friendship is empty. That's how you create terminally-online, mentally ill people. Everyone needs third s
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by obviouslynotme 4mo ago
Teacher experience means they have more say in their students. It's common for new teachers to be shoved into the worst schools and classes in the district. Teacher performance doesn't significantly effect student performance. Stu
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by obviouslynotme 6mo ago
It's not. This is just an acceleration in the unraveling of society facilitated by AI. As someone whose childhood included so many "robots will kill humans" books and movies, I am flabbergasted that the AI apocalypse will be
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by obviouslynotme 6mo ago
You are absolutely correct. Even distributing the replication around the world will only help so much. It's a small world out there and only smaller in the specializations. That's why replication has to be required and standard. I
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by obviouslynotme 6mo ago
I have worked in this particular sausage factory. Multiple funded random replications are the only thing that will save science from this crisis. The scientific method works. We need to actually do it. Replications don't have to be in
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by obviouslynotme 6mo ago
I have enjoyed this article series many times in the past. Having been in all three classes, he got losers and clueless correct, but he is mistaken on the sociopaths. 1. Sociopaths don't recruit. They build fiefdoms and leverage social
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by obviouslynotme 9mo ago
A lot of C's popularity is with how standard and simple it is. I doubt Rust will be the safe language of the future, simply because of its complexity. The true future of "safe" software is already here, JavaScript. There will
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by obviouslynotme 10mo ago
Very, very few people outside of foundational system software, HFT shops, and game studios understand why it's a great selling point. Everyone else likes the other points and don't realize the actual selling point of the language.
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by obviouslynotme 10mo ago
There is nothing new under the Sun. However, some languages manifest as good rewrites of older languages. Rust is that for C++. Zig is that for C. Rust is the small, beautiful language hiding inside of Modern C++. Ownership isn't new.
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by obviouslynotme 11mo ago
Cameras and other means of tracking cannot remove me from commerce. The problem isn't just the tracking. Cash requires no oversight to transact. If I am required to use a payment network, there are many third parties who get a say in w
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by obviouslynotme 11mo ago
I completely agree with you, but you cannot stop this train. Cash will continue to exist only as a loophole to be exercised by rich and connected individuals. Everyone else will be robbed by police for having "suspicious amounts of cas
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by obviouslynotme 11mo ago
The most important pattern to learn in C is to allocate a giant arena upfront and reuse it over and over in a loop. Ideally, there is only one allocation and deallocation in the entire program. As with all things multi-threaded, this become
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by obviouslynotme 1y ago
Except this is an article on how to perform technical politics in large organizations. Functional, intelligent, non-nepotistic leadership is the exception , not the rule. It has been this way for a long time, perhaps forever. Dilbert becam
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by obviouslynotme 1y ago
We have already removed so much liability in other licensed professions, either through law or practice. It's almost impossible to obtain a malicious prosecution or SLAPP judgement against attorneys. Malpractice lawsuits have been lega
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by obviouslynotme 1y ago
How are you going to get around Griggs v. Duke Power Co.? AFAIK, personality tests have not (yet) been given the regulatory eye, but testing cognitive ability has.
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by obviouslynotme 2y ago
I would bet that, especially outside of library code, 95+% of the typed objects are only interacted with using a single interface. These could be turned into structs with direct calls. Outside of this, you can unify the types. You would tak
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by obviouslynotme 2y ago
Outside of really funky code, especially code originally written in TS, you can assume the interface is the actual underlying object. You could easily flag non-recognized-member accesses to interfaces and then degrade them back to object ac
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by obviouslynotme 2y ago
Yeah, that is why I said TS (or something similar). TS made some decisions that make sense at the time, but do not help compilation. The complexity of its typing system is another problem. I'm pretty sure that it is Turing-complete. Th
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by obviouslynotme 2y ago
I have thought about doing this and I just can't get around the fact that you can't get much better performance in JS. The best you could probably do is transpile the JS into V8 C++ calls. The really cool optimizations come from c
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by obviouslynotme 2y ago
What do you mean, "So?" This is maybe one step below being removed from the ability to have a checking account. He has been removed from Internet commerce with Zero Recourse and even gaslit by the company harming him. This will ke
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by obviouslynotme 3y ago
It happens in all fields, at all levels. You cannot trust any papers without reproducing them. The intentional fraud is rampant. There is too much reward for publishing junk as quickly as possible and too little punishment for misbehavior.

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