sbmassey

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by sbmassey 4y ago
Judging by the current state of DALL-E, the generated software will look good at first impression, but have lots of weird bugs when examined closely. So yeah, not much different to current software dev.
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by sbmassey 4y ago
They should give the Covid variants relatable human names too
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by sbmassey 5y ago
The bias of this mathematician and the rest of the Royal Society working group regarding vaccination is irrelevant to the subject of these papers, which analyse how and why misinformation is spread, and how correct information can retain cr
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by sbmassey 5y ago
Feudalism is about the localisation of military and legal aspects of government. Libertarianism is about trying to restrict the power of government. Slavery requires a strong central government to be enforcible. Feudalism and Libertarianis
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by sbmassey 5y ago
According to the article, the video in question "featured clips of Black men in altercations with white civilians and police officers.", so the primates label could just as well apply to the white civilians or police.
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by sbmassey 5y ago
It is anti-Marxist, in that Marxism requires that the whole proletarian class of a society unite, whereas wokism pretty much guarantees that society will be shattered into thousands of mutually suspicious parts.
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by sbmassey 6y ago
They are a believer in defaults
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by sbmassey 6y ago
Maybe people will learn to no longer believe partisan information sources, and organisations whose reputation is based solely on the veracity of their content will predominate.
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by sbmassey 6y ago
406, mate
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by sbmassey 6y ago
Capitalism's basic meaning is that the means of production are owned by private parties. Putting them under government ownership instead doesn't seem like the solution to anything, unless you are very sure that the government will
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by sbmassey 7y ago
This would presumably include any pointer dereferences where the compiler cannot prove that the pointer is always non null.
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by sbmassey 7y ago
Rogan was interviewing Michael Osterholm, who seems to be of good reputation.
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by sbmassey 7y ago
The Gloranthan take is that the Elves - Aldryami - are more-or-less human-shaped plants, making them rather weirder in a lot of ways than their high-IQ-long-lived-humanoid equivalents.
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by sbmassey 7y ago
Nothing is sharable between Common Lisp and Scheme, either, but Scheme is generally considered a Lisp.
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by sbmassey 7y ago
Fine as long as you call the backspace character BS and the tab character HT.
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by sbmassey 7y ago
I don't think shedding ones britches has anything to do with Brexit, honestly, but if it helps you feel free, go right ahead.
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by sbmassey 7y ago
Make their own trade agreements? Hold their government accountable without having a circle of the government and the EU blaming each other?
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by sbmassey 7y ago
Imagine the chaos if she did take over and made a decision on Brexit one way or the other, though. Better to let the politicians take the heat.
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by sbmassey 7y ago
What are some good websites for discussing technical aspects of blockchain?
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by sbmassey 7y ago
The US first amendment is against Congress abridging the press as well as freedom of speech. In addition, Milton's 1644 Areopagitica is meant to be an inspiration for the first amendment, and it is all about the need for freedom of the
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by sbmassey 7y ago
The temples no longer contain money changers, however.
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by sbmassey 7y ago
... and then a movement was started in his name which resulted in big changes in how society worked, or at least changes in how the leaders had to act in public.
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by sbmassey 7y ago
Even back then, C++ introduced new keywords, so valid C code like int new; would not compile in C++.
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by sbmassey 7y ago
The tone may be confrontational, but the meaning is basically true.
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by sbmassey 7y ago
I don't hate any language myself, only the codebases I have to deal with, but Clojure is very different from Javascript in its support for immutability, such that if you want to update values you have to use atoms, agents etc. This goe
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by sbmassey 7y ago
Repeating memes is the opposite of humor.
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by sbmassey 7y ago
Taking down Twitter could be a huge boon for the economy, though.
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by sbmassey 7y ago
The Pratchett's I have read seem to be full of basic human archetypes, riffed off for comedic effect, rather than anything approximating how real people think. He's no Shakespear/James Joyce/Henry James.
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by sbmassey 7y ago
Maybe we can speciate into grunting Amazon-prime-subscribing Eloi, and the technologically literate Morlocks who feed on them.
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by sbmassey 7y ago
It sounds like a good use case for logic programming.

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