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by randomdata 2y ago
> Instead of using whatever scripting language available This is just another scripting language available. It only differs from something like Lua or Javascript in that it claims to have less complexity. Complexity which, while not fu
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by randomdata 2y ago
Replacing is better than helping, though. It frees people up to develop capital – the very source of progress you speak of! More capital development, more progress. If you still have to do the same job, but better, then you aren't be f
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by randomdata 2y ago
> Returning an error has this property, yes. Only in the same way that returning an email address does. That does not change the color, though. It remains "black". This is just "normal" use of a function. Yes, you c
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by randomdata 2y ago
Automation may be a concern. Not because of Hinton, though. There is only so much time in the day. You don't become a leading expert in AI like Hinton has without tuning out the rest of the world, which means a random Average Joe is ap
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by randomdata 2y ago
> Yes, but that's irrelevant. "Regular" return values don't have this coloring effect It is certainly not irrelevant as that is the very topic of conversation. The topic of conversation was clearly and specifically
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by randomdata 2y ago
Strictly, it is just SQL. It doesn't stand for anything. The project was originally known as SEQUEL, a fun word play on QUEL (from the Ingress/Postgres camp), but trademark issues saw it later lose the vowels. "Structured Que
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by randomdata 2y ago
> Also, this should have a (2022) in the title. Is there something about the current state of world that has invalidated some or all of the content in the article?
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by randomdata 2y ago
If that is the case, pick another interpretation and describe to us what "non-scripting" then might be.
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by randomdata 2y ago
What's missing that would necessitate an update?
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by randomdata 2y ago
> Your email address example is backwards: you can indeed get function coloring with just regular functions but its not the return value that causes it, but the input parameters. Uh, what? Convention in Go and Rust sees errors be ret
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by randomdata 2y ago
> I don't understand what you mean with your email address example. But you didn't think to ask any followup questions to help with your understanding? > The key thing is that as long as you have some effect [...] happeni
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by randomdata 2y ago
> It does! In both case you need to "unwrap" the value Just as you do with any value, such as an email address, returned by a function. It is curious that you avoided my question as it would help us better understand where yo
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by randomdata 2y ago
You're misunderstanding. async/await creates a dependence. errors do not – at least no more than any other type. Would you say your perspective on "coloring" is equally applicable to email addresses? I might buy into you
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by randomdata 2y ago
Script usually implies some kind of task that runs once and the exits. As opposed to a system that is expected to run indefinitely. There are good reasons for why scripts are often interpreted and why systems are often compiled, but that&#x
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by randomdata 2y ago
> In Go or Rust, returning an error is also a “color” that spreads out to the top of the call stack. Not unless you're doing it wrong. Errors need to be handled. That may, in some cases, mean handling it with another error, but th
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by randomdata 2y ago
The trouble with your position is that economic conditions haven't changed through the rise of college. Incomes have held stagnant as can be from when college was unheard of right through until today. While the labour market is certain
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by randomdata 2y ago
> It rather seems to me that fewer men (proportionally) are attending college because the value proposition has substantially declined. That's exactly what the article is saying. It, however, argues that the presence of women is w
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by randomdata 2y ago
It seems a bit strange to frame it as a struggle. Like the article alludes to, men seek high social status. University no longer provides greater social status. So men have moved on to the next thing that will give them what they seek. They
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by randomdata 2y ago
I am a farmer, although one that isn't big enough to buy new equipment. Essentially, what happens is that only the big operators buy new – or more likely lease new – where they only keep it for a season or two. They aren't apt to
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by randomdata 2y ago
> but something tells me if you do you'll find our Canadian [...] friends are doing drastically better than those in Jackson, MS. Perhaps true, but also keep in mind that Canada and the US were on more equal standing until the las
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by randomdata 2y ago
Programming languages are quite uninteresting and not particularly notable. What ended up being so horrible about the codebase that you couldn't take any developer and throw them at the code?
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by randomdata 2y ago
> The bit that you're (intentionally?) missing is that this is just a polite way of saying "you're full of shit". If someone is full of shit, and assuming you care, then logically you would put in the effort to fix
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by randomdata 2y ago
You're thinking of Extreme Programming (XP). Many of the Manifesto group participants came from that camp. You might say that Agile is mostly based off of XP as a result, although Schwaber is certainly among the signatories. Kanban com
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by randomdata 2y ago
Questioning the person who made the claim, sure. Get them to elaborate. That improves the discussion. But halting discussion until they can come up with the words of someone else to justify their claim, as seen here, just makes you look s
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by randomdata 2y ago
Perhaps it is actually you who misunderstood my question?
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by randomdata 2y ago
Maybe. If more people are less willing to have sex, does that harm the animals (meaning humans) who still seek it/want more of it?
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by randomdata 2y ago
> Generally here if you make a claim it's totally fair to be asked to substantiate it. Anything is fair. It is a discussion forum. You can say whatever the hell you want. But it is equally nonsensical. > so I'm looking to
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by randomdata 2y ago
Does it matter? This is a discussion forum, not a scientific journal. If you have something more informative to add, just do it.
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by randomdata 2y ago
> In short, some would argue suffering is multiplied by the number of sentient beings that experience it Factored by how cute the animal is. As a producer of plants for human consumption, it's quite obvious that orders of magnitud
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by randomdata 2y ago
Maybe. There is some evidence that the decline in fertility rates are associated with overweight and obesity. Social and biological factors leave having children more difficult when one is outside of a "normal" weight range. If ev

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