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by randomdata 2y ago
> it was common to have company-provided before Google. IBM and Motorola had cafeterias. I'm not sure that was popular, though (as in something the majority of the population believed in). Grandma in Poducksville almost certainly
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by randomdata 2y ago
> It’s about pleasing upper management. It's about the customer recognizing the product as something they are ready to buy, which is associated with the dictionary definition for shipped "(of a product) be made available for
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by randomdata 2y ago
> I feel that people underestimate the impact of this. Do they? As a non-American just watching in, I got the impression that Trump won on this very issue, promising that "Christian family values" would bring about a reversal
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by randomdata 2y ago
> AGI is just an unbelievably high bar. Technically it is an impossible bar as it, like AI, is a forever moving target. When chess was still considered AI, the Turing Test was considered the bar for AGI. Now passing the Turing Test is
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by randomdata 2y ago
> What's your end goal here? To understand the missing gaps you have left open. I assume you took the time to respond to the original comment because you wanted others to understand you. But, with those gaps still open, we don&#x2
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by randomdata 2y ago
>> made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally Implying that humans don't produce humans, or that human intelligence is artificial? > It's not exactly the same, it's a subcategory. So, again,
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by randomdata 2y ago
> An artificial intelligence is an intelligence. If artificial intelligence is exactly the same as intelligence, then wouldn't we just call that intelligence? People won't use words if there is no useful meaning conveyed. I a
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by randomdata 2y ago
> An intelligence should be able to actually understand its input / output (rather than appear to understand), be able to reason about itself recursively , be able to learn and generally have state, be able to have an internal thou
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by randomdata 2y ago
See, now that is a solid, logical, good faith response (if not a duplicate of what you already said earlier, and what I already acknowledged as being reasonable). What was the reason for going down the strange rabbit hole of irrationalness
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by randomdata 2y ago
> To say a better C means it is clearly influenced by C Influenced by the same person who influenced C, at least, but it is nearly a straight up clone of Newsqueak, with a dash of Oberon, combined with a will to be more Zen than Python
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by randomdata 2y ago
> Your initial post in this thread naturally raises the question of whether or not anti-sodomy laws in the US should be enforced. It did ask why the law wouldn't want to enforced? In other words, why would Americans have laws if t
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by randomdata 2y ago
> Hmm, I do not understand your position then. You don't say... What I don't understand how you ended up writing so many words without taking the time to understand. How does one end up there? > then you are taking the po
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by randomdata 2y ago
> but some remain on the books because it takes time, money and effort to remove them. If it takes appreciable amount of time, money, and effort to no longer agree to something everyone already agrees that they no longer want to agree
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by randomdata 2y ago
> Ok, you can hold to the position that no-one has a fundamental right to enjoyment of their sexual and romantic lives I could , but why would I? Then I'd be among the very people I'm questioning, which would then question w
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by randomdata 2y ago
> Would you have the same reaction if a state had outlawed heterosexual sex? Yes, I would equally question the logic of a population who thought that was a good idea. > Most constitutional democracies recognise, one way or another,
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by randomdata 2y ago
> people who use go are using it in situations where [...] Python would have been appropriate I'm not so sure about that. Python is a DSL for connecting C functions together. Whereas the biggest criticism of Go (gc, at least, but
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by randomdata 2y ago
Which law prevents a convicted felon from running for and/or winning the presidency race and why are those currently tasked with enforcement not enforcing it?
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by randomdata 2y ago
Isn't the law to be enforced? It is terrifying that the public want such laws in the first place, but that is the democratic right for them to choose, I guess.
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by randomdata 2y ago
> The reason we’re not all using Haskell is because like any language it has pros and cons and isn’t the best choice for every niche. Exactly. Thanks for reiterating. > Anyway, why do Go fans always reach for the Haskell strawman i
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by randomdata 2y ago
> I’ve never seen this pattern anywhere in my career Me neither, but I've never actually tired to look. In honesty, have you? It is not exactly to the faint of heart to study. I suspect only Google is willing to go to the necessar
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by randomdata 2y ago
There may be innumerable (ironic) ways for someone else to explain what it means, but we are here to understand what you mean. The only logical way to achieve that is for you to tell us. 1. If you have a pet sum type definition, let it
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by randomdata 2y ago
> What Haskell allows you to do in practice is defining required and missing control flows It allows that in theory, at least, certainly. That's the whole reason for its existence. But in practice, developers become enamoured with
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by randomdata 2y ago
> The purpose of a programming language is literal instruction for a machine. Toggle switches are for giving instructions to a machine. Programming languages are a higher level abstraction over the toggle switches so that the intent of
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by randomdata 2y ago
> What makes one of them a right choice over wrong? Realistically, there is no such thing as a wrong choice, only different tradeoffs. I assume "wrong" here means wishing you made different tradeoffs later on. But will you fe
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by randomdata 2y ago
Numerous languages already got rid of C++ compile times. That didn't necessitate another one. Certainly Go wouldn't want C++ compile times any more than any other language, but as far as justifying its creation that would not be s
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by randomdata 2y ago
Exactly. One describes a type, the other a numberer. Very different concepts, even if the latter is often used in the implementation of the former (e.g. in Pascal and Rust). Glad to see you are past your earlier confusion.
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by randomdata 2y ago
I expect nobody outside of Google has ever truly taken the time to study it. When was the last time you saw a programmer actually research the effectiveness of their tools and not just land on "I like this. It feels right." I ne
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by randomdata 2y ago
> This is the sum type This is the exact same thing, except in addition to the tag there is also a data component. Yes, this is the more traditional representation of sum types, but having an "undefined" data component is sti
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by randomdata 2y ago
> which I think is why people like it Do people actually care that much about languages? I mean, we're here writing English, which is a complete dumpster fire. Go is undeniable perfection compared to the horror that is English. Cl
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by randomdata 2y ago
But then what purpose would it serve? The last 30 years has brought no lack of new languages, not to mention evolution of older languages. Just use one of them. The purpose of creating yet another language with Go was to break from what eve

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