robot_no_421

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by robot_no_421 2y ago
"As it master, I should be able to force my machine into giving me access of private fields." If you're writing the code then you can do whatever you want with it. But if I'm writing the code you're using, I want th
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by robot_no_421 2y ago
The difference between a heap allocated string (String), a static string literal embedded in the binary (&str), and a stack allocated string ([char], but this is more common in C than Rust) is the simplest introduction to manually manag
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by robot_no_421 2y ago
Not at all, that's why we have moderators. Hacker news is interesting because they stay focused on the right topics. If you let people just talk about whatever they want, you're just gonna get an inferior Reddit. Topic != "Wh
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by robot_no_421 2y ago
Right, but you could theoretically say this about any software or technology (and this argument has very frequently in the past been used to argue against technologies like cars and airplanes). DNA sampling has "flaws" and "b
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by robot_no_421 2y ago
> "you can't think of any uses for facial recognition surveillance that pegs you at specific locations at specific times? You can't imagine a single way how to monetize that data and use it against you or other law abiding
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by robot_no_421 2y ago
“There has long been a concern [facial recognition] could invade upon people's lives through expanded surveillance and through the criminalization of just existing within the public sphere,” Mamdani said. Except, nobody is calling the
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by robot_no_421 2y ago
I say that you're not thinking critically because your arguments are very weak and you don't provide any inference or evidence to support your conclusions. It's irrelevant that "you read both Chinese and English" or
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by robot_no_421 2y ago
>Say what you will, but I won't be able to espouse the virtues of freedom of speech in China anymore. The real reason you can't "espouse the virtues of freedom of speech in China" is because they will arrest you. Let&
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by robot_no_421 2y ago
This is a really poor argument. You are equating banning one social media app with the GFW, which is obviously a huge hyperbole which has nothing to do with reality. The Great Firewall operates by checking transmission control protocol (TCP
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by robot_no_421 3y ago
> Is it acceptable to correct the answer to the query "Eminent scientist" from 95% men, 5% woment to 50%/50% or to the current ratio of men/women in science ? Should we correct the ratio of black to white people in an
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by robot_no_421 3y ago
The longer I remain a software engineer the more I hate relying on computers. Maybe the people closest to the technology are the ones to first realize how superficial and downright damaging these innovations actually are.
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by robot_no_421 3y ago
> It’s a bit nonsensical to compare the number of words in English to the number of packages in PyPi, but we can agree that both English and Python are very rich languages, and no single person can reasonably understand the full scope of
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by robot_no_421 3y ago
Yes, in the sense that if P = NP, it would conceptually be a lot easier in theory to break a lot of public key encryption, which are NP hard problems.
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by robot_no_421 3y ago
>Probably more of those, but the stories are far less dramatic. Evidence shows that having an excess of resources actually leads to more financial irresponsibly, not less. Or as the Illustrious Notorious B.I.G. eloquently put it: "m
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by robot_no_421 3y ago
>Where management is helped more by having resources than it is by understanding it. There are many examples of lottery winners, athletes, and celebrities who came across considerable resources yet still went broke because they didn&#x27
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by robot_no_421 3y ago
I'd argue that you're not really using the credit on your credit card as a credit card. You're using it as a charge card. Exponential growth is a fundamental concept of financial literacy. If you want to invest in the stock m
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by robot_no_421 3y ago
> Using a credit card isn't very abstract. To use a credit card responsibly you need to understand the concept of exponential growth, or you might accidentally turn a manageable $500 debt into a burdensome $5000 debt. Same goes for
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by robot_no_421 3y ago
It's way, way more than just a tool that improves thought. It's a necessary tool to organize your life. How can you even budget or use a credit card responsibly if you don't know algebra? You need algebra to know how long a p
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by robot_no_421 3y ago
The CMF was designed by people who don't like math and prioritize the "human experience" over physical reality. When you read through the CMF, you begin to see all sorts of hints that their ideology is inspired by Continental
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by robot_no_421 3y ago
A linter or IDE can only "suggest" that you don't access null objects without a null check. You as the developer can choose to ignore the linter or IDE and write bad code anyway. Enforcing behavior via the typing system preve
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by robot_no_421 3y ago
Article is subscription locked, so I just read the (patronizing and reductive) headline. The problem never has been lack of housing. The problem has always been lack of land. You can only build new homes on existing land and nobody wants to
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by robot_no_421 3y ago
"In hight school your math teacher may have started a treatment of linear algebra by making you solve a system of linear equations, at which point you very sensibly zoned out because you knew you’d go on to program computers and never
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by robot_no_421 3y ago
3 is the following function: 3 == lambda x: 3*x But I think that the technical, mathematical way to think about it is: The monoid of linear functions L:R->R is isomorphic to the monoid (R, *) Meaning, the structure of 1x1 matrices under
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by robot_no_421 3y ago
I'm a Python dev who uses this feature frequently. But the more I use Python (and the more I use Rust in my spare time), the more I realize that I use it only because it's what Python expects me to do. If it was up to me I'd
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by robot_no_421 3y ago
> What’s important is what kind of operation you want for when implementing algorithms, and False is what I always want in cases where I do “all”. Why would you want "all" to produce results that are inconsistent with logic and
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by robot_no_421 3y ago
Well at least I have more than one bakery in my neighborhood, so it could be worse.
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by robot_no_421 3y ago
>I'm sure you're aware that the term "lame" is offensive, discriminatory, and should really be avoided? I get a strong feeling that you were bullied in school when you were a kid.
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by robot_no_421 3y ago
If you live in an area where there's only one bakery in town, then there's no pressure at all for that bakery to improve their process. What is your point? I live in a city where it's common to see multiple bakeries on the sa
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by robot_no_421 3y ago
Instead of me trying to explain it to you, maybe just try it yourself. You saying "I've never needed this and I never tried it, so I don't understand why anyone else would" isn't exactly a robust argument. In fact,
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by robot_no_421 3y ago
The last thing I bought from a bakery was a $50 dollar cheesecake for a birthday party. And you can bet I looked up reviews from at least 5-10 different bakeries. And also visited their websites. But sure, whatever you think. You're ju

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