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Key takeaway from this I think is: technology alone cannot solve problems engendered by policy.

From the "Why build Carbon?" section:

> The best way to address these problems is to avoid inheriting the legacy of C or C++ directly, and instead start with solid language foundations like a modern generics system, modular code organization, and consistent, simple syntax.

That last part seems to imply that the authors don't consider C++ syntax to be a good foundation for a modern successor language, so they chose to change it. As to why change it in a Rust-like direction I'd imagine that it's both because it's what fashionable at the time and possibly to attract people who are already familiar with that style.

Who mentioned left wing news sources?

If you don't think "Breitbart is not a credible news source" is not a valid point then oof, yikes, etc.

Some people have already mentioned several problems with the article, but there's a thing that's not really discussed that I'd like to know more about: how many of the people on the "creation" side of the Long Tail i.e. the movie makers, the musicians, the writers, are actually making a living out of finding their own small niche? I have to imagine there can't be that many.

Opus Magnum is very fun and doesn't use too much of the Programming parts of the brain!

Gotta love a several-hundred word essay about swords posted on reddit by user "IPostSwords".

What is the specification problem? I don't think I've heard the term before.

Franz Ferdinand's "Always Ascending" is a fun rock song featuring a Shepard Tone in the background.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crjugtkXZN4

And of course, don't forget "The Painting Goblin", in which you make an inescapeable, fully equipped basement home and lock one of your sims in there. Then you force them to get _extremely_ good at painting, such that one of their paintings can sell for thousands and comfortably support the rest of your sims family, who never have to work a day in their lives.

Sometimes I wonder how much time humanity as a species has collectively spent first inventing and then trying to solve the problem of "making a website".

Isn't making your own tool to satisfy your own needs the most "Our tools should adapt to us" possible, though?

Programmers, much like compilers, read things until they reach a point they disagree with and then stop there to write a comment.

You could start with wage theft — unpaid overtime, not respecting break times, things of that nature.

Fiction is a tool used by humans to elicit, experience and process feelings under (mostly) safe circumstances. The details (such as how much the sea level would have to rise for this to be accurate) are not quite relevant; the point is to make the reader think about how they would feel if this sort of concern was just a commonplace consideration in their daily life. Is it not shocking? Uncomfortable? Sorta nihilism-inducing?

In summary: doesn't it make you want to act towards preventing this from ever being close to happening?

> Just wanted to follow up on my note from a few days ago in case it got buried under all of those e-mails about the flood. I’m concerned about how the Eastern Seaboard being swallowed by the Atlantic Ocean is going to affect our Q4 numbers, so I’d like to get your eyes on the latest earnings figures ASAP. On the bright side, the Asheville branch is just a five-minute drive from the beach now, so the all-hands meeting should be a lot more fun this year. Silver linings!

I... I don't think I'm psychologically prepared for tolerating the fauxptimism of corpospeak under the Slow Motion Apocalypse.

What would be a good place to post your misgivings about a general research area?

From what I can tell, the cause of this is that "number of papers published per unit of time" is the only metric institutions seem to care about when it comes to evaluating researchers' work.

I just don't like Apple, what's the problem?

Google is an advertising company. It has been for a good while.

I was just thinking the other day about how I wish there was a social network with the rhythm/vibes of email and hey look, fraidycat turns whatever into basically that!

The purpose of a business is making money. Fulfilling a legitimate need is at best a fortunate side effect to that end

That is to say, I find it hard to think of how this problem could be avoided as long as companies are rules by profit motive.

But then how are we going to serve you ads

Nim does/can indeed compile to C.

A thought just occurred to me: is there an upper limit to how much computing power (and energy) cryptocurrency mining can reasonably use? Or could all computer hardware be repurposed to mine crypto and there would still be demand for more hardware?

If maintaining the infrastructure for something a miniscule percentage of the world's population benefit from requires more energy than entire countries, surely it's worth interrogating whether the benefits outweigh the costs?

Perhaps this is proof regulations on the market should be stricter, then. After all, if a bunch of barely coordinated randos on the internet can do this through the power of 'meme magic', imagine what people with real resources and power and influence could do.

Having had it's 1.0 release a day ago might have something to do with it.

The Tarahumara are also known for being able to hunt deer and turkeys by running after them until the animal collapses due to exhaustion!

PS2 and GameCube are retro at this point.