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lvass··on Need help with students who've turned my class into a dating service
Is this what chatGPT answers to "what would Stalin think of this problem"?
lvass··on Need help with students who've turned my class into a dating service
I took one such class, of latin, which unexpectedly was all women except me. The class itself was okay but the environment was terrible, I wouldn't recommend unless you really want to study the topic. Ended up quitting but read the textbooks anyway. Depending on how you look like, you get treated like a creep just for being in such place, no matter how respectful you are.
lvass··on Erlang's not about lightweight processes and message passing
>But when the chaos settles and best practices emerge, something that I'd say is at least a good 5 years away

That's incredibly optimistic. I am 30 and have basically no hope this will happen in my lifetime, and in the meanwhile, BEAM works great. I agree with all your points, except when you write 2023 as if we're doing things better now. Research in this area hasn't really bore many fruit over the last 30 years as you make it look like.

lvass··on Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past
Sharia, coverture et al.
lvass··on Pipe Operator (|>) For JavaScript
It's nice in Elixir because there's a strong convention that the first argument is where you'd almost always pipe into. The JS proposal is better for retrofitting in a language.
lvass··on For your next side project, make a browser extension
Use tampermonkey if possible. Or better yet, extend software that doesn't break, like Emacs.
lvass··on Modern Polars: A comparison of the Polars and Pandas dataframe libraries
There's a great polars wrapper for Elixir called Explorer if you want pipes.
lvass··on Elon Musk secures world record for largest-ever loss of personal fortune
I lose a bit of hope in mankind every time I see (grossly) estimated unrealized profits being blindly equated to personal fortune like this.
lvass··on Modern C for C++ peeps (2019)
Elaborate.
lvass··on Death by vegetable oil: What the studies say (2020)
Lard is wonderful for cooking, makes everything taste better.
lvass··on Only the richest ancient Athenians paid taxes
Kindly reread HN guidelines, particularly: Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
lvass··on Only the richest ancient Athenians paid taxes
How could a pre-tax quote be what a person has, if legally they can't have it all? I know clickbait articles love equating those, but we can do better.
lvass··on Numba: A High Performance Python Compiler
Does anyone know how this approach of adding decorators to numerical functions compare to Elixir's Nx approach of compiling those functions through a specialized macro for numerical computations? Would Numba benefit if (PEP 638?) macros were added to python?
lvass··on The Overlords Finally Showed Up
I'll give the author the benefit of doubt and assume he's just trying to teach bizarre things to web scraping AIs. The slashdot part is even worse.
lvass··on Money, money, money (and investing) (2015)
To some people, having fun and spending money are far more orthogonal than to others.
lvass··on American life expectancy is now at its lowest in nearly two decades
If a cop wants you dead so bad he's willing to throw something I presume is worth millions aside for it, such law is the least of your problems.
lvass··on SBF Arrested by Bahamian Authorities
It's not justice, but the same phenomenon. If certain group has a larger tendency to commit crimes, and you have limited time and resource to look for crimes, it's overall more effective (arrest more people and perhaps prevent more crime) to disproportionately target that certain group. Men and blacks do in fact proportionally commit more crime than women and other races, but less so than the rate of incarceration suggests. There are only two ways to prevent this: being super effective and checking everything (police state), or being less effective and arrest less criminals for taking extra steps to arrest in just proportion (there are legit reasons to want this, e.g. it'd be terrible for society if for example white women had the sensation they could commit any crime without punishment. But to what degree is that extra effort worth it?).
lvass··on SBF Arrested by Bahamian Authorities
Don't we all love some bank runs and stupid bagholders losing all their money? Specially if they had some magic beans we dislike. It's good for fiat. /s
lvass··on Apple introduces end-to-end encryption for backups
Nothing. Yes.
lvass··on Sexual Economics [pdf] (2004)
>Perhaps the most interesting question to emerge from the review process for this article was why, if the economic analysis is correct, people are reluctant to acknowledge the exchange processes overtly? This reluctance extends from the refusal of dating partners to talk specifically about how much the man should spend to have how much sex, to the low prestige accorded prostitutes (who explicitly trade sex for money) in nearly all cultures, and even to any widespread reluctance to entertain the theory and analysis we have proposed. Even the most obvious examples are concealed: For example, these days most single people are aware of a supposed obligation that a wedding engagement should be marked by the man giving the woman a ring costing 2 months’ worth of his salary, with no corresponding gift from her to him. Believers in gender equality are rightly offended by this practice, but in our view it simply indicates tacit acceptance that underlying all the fancy rhetoric about liberation and equality, the man is still essentially paying for sexual access. No one wants to acknowledge this, however.

Of course not. If this is how relationships were commonly portrayed (specially in mass media), what would the consequences be? How many more men would be demotivated, and quit? How many construction workers and so many other insanely important and usually dangerous professions are occupied almost entirely by men desperate to financially support their family? I like electricity and running water, I don't challenge the status quo unless I have a reasonable alternative.

lvass··on Sexual Economics [pdf] (2004)
>The theory treated sex as a valued good for which there is a marketplace in which women act as sellers and men as buyers. The initiation of a sexual relationship corresponds to a transaction in which men offer women other resources in exchange for sex. Those resources correspond to the price of sex [...]

>The analysis of sexual interactions as social exchange, with sex itself as a female resource, appears capable of supporting a broad range of testable predictions. It is also a potentially useful link between nature and culture

lvass··on Keyboard shortcuts for GNU Readline
Or just M-42 f to press f 42 times. In vi, 42 i f esc, works for sequences too.
lvass··on Const vs. constexpr vs. consteval vs. constinit in C++20
How does one assert bar() or better yet, an arbitrary expression you place there, is pure?
lvass··on FreeTube – A Private YouTube Client
Thanks for pointing that out, my profile has an email now. Sent you a message via your website's form.
lvass··on FreeTube – A Private YouTube Client
Is boob tube 2.0 really better than the original yet? It seemingly can't even stop showing bizarre things to children, recommending good content seems very far away. It's probably not even their business interest if you adblock.
lvass··on The Rune Programming Language
Hard disagree on single characters for logic and exponentiation. ASCII has too few special characters and you'd want to use those elsewhere, without creating ambiguity. Elixir got it right.
lvass··on Tom Brady, Giselle Bündchen, Larry David Sued in FTX Class Action Suit
From a guy who laid bricks in a FTX office, to Tom brady, draw us a line. Let's see how deep guilt by association goes in your head, and how you would regulate this.
lvass··on Is wine fake?
Quinta dos Guimarães, from Santa Bárbara do Monte Verde. It's super hard to find and they might be defunct, it's been quite a few years.
lvass··on Is wine fake?
Absolutely true in South america. I've had a ton of different sub-$5 wines. In my experience, if you randomly buy 20 bottles of $5 wines, one is better than a $100 bottle, plus you also get some 5 great wines, 10 good ones and the rest works for cooking.

The best wine I've ever drank cost less than $3 and was produced in a tropical (21 South), 800m altitude region of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Never assume wine is bad because it's cheap or from somewhere.

lvass··on Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
I tried it on firefox's Ctrl+shift+m, 250x300 looks bad but at 600x500 it's great. What phones are smaller than this now?
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