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> Yes of course, why wouldnt I? Trying to understand that opinion and maybe bring us closer to agreeing on the underlying issues would be my first aim,

I think the promotion of liberalism and the lack of critical thinking has created a society of fanatics. For the vast majority of disagreements, it's good to try and understand other perspectives and to work towards compromise. What compromise should the German jews have offered the Nazis? What insights could they have gained from understanding the Nazi perspective?

> You can say anything you want, acting on it is what turns that into illegal activity.

Everything Hilter/Stalin did was legal. When families were gassed and thrown into ovens, that was legal. In fact, it was illegal to impede them. That started as somebody's political opinion, they were able to foment support for it, and it happened.

And finally, I understand what the law is in the US. The US basically allows any speech that doesn't threaten the government's monopoly on violence. I'm saying the Europeans are right to criminalize some political ideas. There's been no slippery slope in German because they don't let you wear swastikas.

I hate how the word "disagree" is used to strip all nuance out of political conversation.

If I said it was my political opinion that the gestapo should show up to your door, and drag you, your wife, and children to a death camp - we don't just have a "disagreement." Would you tolerate a discussion around somebody who said they personally wanted to do something like that to you?

There's a line somewhere around political opinions that involve using the state to inflict violence on another that I believe should be inexpressible in public, and I think it's fine for non-state actors to ensure that's the case.

Skill issue. Time spent learning make will help you understand bazel etc.

If it’s a tool you use every day, it’s worth understanding on a deeper level. I’ve used the shell probably every day in my professional career, and knowing how to script has saved me and my team countless hours of tedious effort with super simple one liners.

The other thing that’s worth learning is that if you can find tools that everybody uses regularly, but nobody understands, then try to understand those, you can bring enormous value to your team/org.

I've just been using them for completion. I start writing, and give it a snippet + "finish refactoring this so that xyz."

That and unit tests. I write the first table based test case, then give it the source and the test code, and ask it to fill it in with more test cases.

I think what I’m missing is why all of this is necessary in a world without dynamic linking. We’re talking about purely build time dependencies, who cares about those matching across static binaries? If it’s this much of a headache, I’d rather just containerize the build and call it a day.

I don't believe AGI at that level has any commercial value.

What are the chances that the CIA has a manhattan project style quantum computer somewhere? I can’t believe that if the current SOTA could break commonly used encryption methods that it would be widely known.

It’s information taken from many other photos and embedded into a single one of interest no?

Well, we're probably a F10 company and my project had to move off of our vmware environment because prices were too high. Even at enormous companies, these things matter, and there's still accounting for resources at the local level.

Service mesh is complicated, but the reason you use it integrate services across clusters. That and it has a bunch of useful reverse proxy features. On the other hand, It took me and 2 other guys two evenings of blood, sweat, and tears to understand what the fuck a virtual service actually does.

It’s not strictly necessary, but if you’ve had to put in the work elsewhere, I’d use it.

The most frequent use case I and my coworkers run into where we use them is when we want type covariance on a slice.

I.e., when you want to write a function that take some slice of any type T that implements interface I, such that []T is a valid input instead of just explicitly []I.

I think he talked about being a libertarian in his early years (who wasn't?), and moving to progressivism in one of his revisionist history episodes.

https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/in-tripl...

To an extent. Take cooking for example though- I don't doubt that writing recipes and trying them builds ones creative muscle, on the other hand, I don't think being we'd be at a loss for great chefs if we were to automate the cutting of onions, the poaching of eggs, and the stirring of risotto.

Or maybe, the limiting factor in one's ability to create art will be... creativity rather than the technical skills necessary to make movies, draw, or pluck strings.

mark my words, this will be worse than the reddit meetups.

Well, water is a solvent and dirt isn’t. That’s probably the reason why oil isn’t harmful in the ground and it is harmful when it’s spilled in the ocean.

In golang I think just

    type Task struct {
        Sender chan Task
    }

no?

Why stop at the country level? We could just as easily have ethnic and cultural homogeneity on a global level. We'd have much lower crime and higher employment if all culture world-wide were homogenous. No ghettoized countries and such. /s

4070 worked out of the box on my arch system. I used the closed source drivers and X11 and I've not encountered a single problem.

My prediction is that it will continue to improve if only because people want to run nvidia on workstations.

I think the fact that nobody knows how to deal with negative correlations in functional connectivity takes away from the validity of the whole concept. People literally throw out negatively correlated voxels/ROI's. This, on top of the fact that functional connectivity is only related to physical connectivity in the abstract. (it's about the correlated time series activity in pixels over time, and isn't bound by any cellular connectivity). I just struggle to discern any meaning from the concept.

I feel like some creative use of beta could make this a very lucrative deal for a patient, but unscrupulous fund manager.

When you say “profitable software designs” my bet is that if you have any person off the street a “tour” of google and how their data is actually treated, more than 1/3 of them would be okay with sharing that information, and wouldn’t believe it to be a violation of their privacy.

What happened to Google on privacy could easily happen to any company- people complained about the total amount of data Google had, the gut response of the devs was

“oh, you can trust us, we’re not using it for anything nefarious, just features/debugging”

And then Apple took that and used it as a marketing opportunity.

And now, once you get to a certain size, you start having to develop without metrics/logs, or go through a bunch of red tape to get them.

Well, for the sake of argument, let’s say the federal government prints all of the money the state would need for an endowment and hands it to the state. There is inflation, but the state never has to collect taxes again.

I think there are some small optimizations we can make to this flow though, like what if the feds who printed the money held the endowment for the state and just distributed payments, instead of letting each state manage its own endowment.

Pretty much the same? Inflation, but no taxes.

So, lets expand that idea a bit. Why doesn't the government just buy a lot of shares in index funds, kind of like an endowment, and then never collect any taxes? I can see a world where a large portion of private enterprise is held/managed by the government, and the proceeds of that is used to fund public works.

To me, the way they've done it seems correct. In your mind, where does the interest come from on the money saved for the bridge? The government has to be collecting interest from somebody no?

I think it is super unclear how this works, and I would prefer the same control flow using goto, rather than the duffs device style switch abuses.

I have a gaming PC running arch, and the experience has improved immensely since I last tried it 4 years ago. Legitimately incredible what valve has done for the platform, and my suspicion is that AI/ML investment will continue to have secondary effects that make gaming on Linux even better.

Holy shit. I wondered if this was possible a few weeks ago and couldn't find anything on it. Thanks for the link!