> Should the insurance just find a way to exclude massive, correlated events? Why exclude when reinsurance can deal with them fairly easily? The insurance company sells bonds that only pay when the massive, correlated…
> Until OS vendors are willing to provide a safe sandbox to run untrusted code in Thing is, "safe" OS-sandboxes are not safe; "local" privilege escalation vulnerabilities are still pervasive. Until OS's are safe enough…
Not "income inequality", but inequality in the marginal disutility of labor. Someone who works many hours per week in high-effort jobs will be eager to outsource even trivial tasks to a "gig economy" worker who is in a…
Surely not "because of the borrow checker", since it's trivial to relax its enforcement with very limited runtime overhead. The tasks that essentially require GC (and this is pretty much always the case, even wrt. C!)…
You'll always be able to roll your own. What this is about is like running a live distro w/ "persistence", except from your own hard drive instead of external media. With comparable benefits and drawbacks, I assume - in…
> It's claiming that patrons and other financial supporters are being too conservative, asking for too much certainty about the finished product There's a reason for this, of course - most customers don't want to incur…
The "Linux" kernel even in something like LineageOS is heavily forked and in practically every case relies on userspace binary blobs for critically-important functionality. It's a far cry from what you can run on PC's,…
It's even better than that. You can grind metal oxides that form a sizeable fraction of Earth's crust and are relatively easy to extract into a sort of "dust" or "sand" that will actively sequester carbon out of the…
Peak carbon-sink will probably be a bigger factor than peak oil, all things considered. But the social consequences are not that different - especially since most "enhanced", unconventional oil sources are quite dirty…
> ...you're more likely to get terrible neighbors. ... the types of people renters brings tend to care less about the neighborhood Nice classist stereotypes right there. Sounds like the local fire department was not…
This, basically. People should stop thinking about "composition vs. inheritance" and start thinking of implementation-inheritance and thus OOP in a strict sense as "composition plus open recursion". Open recursion (viz.…
> but the underlying assumption is heritage for white southerners. It’s a dangerous thing to honor. Actually, I've consistently been trying to make the point that the things being honored in this way do NOT include…
> in the US, the letter of the law is all that matters This is very wrong. In common-law jurisdictions (which the U.S. is broadly-speaking one example of - some exceptions may apply which are not relevant here),…
More specifically, it's called the Dunning-Kruger effect. Impostor syndrome is a broader description that heavily overlaps with the "give up competing due to perceived losses" that the article talks about. (As a side…
Yes, it's interesting that the overestimate seems to be occurring on both sides. If more people realized just how small the whole LGBTQQetc. minority is, attitudes around these issues would be a lot more relaxed.
> The suggestion that encouraging contributions to OSS might expose someone to being harmed in some way is absurd. Ironically enough, given the way this woman has been treated, and with CoC's that are explicitly open to…
The libhybris support that's mentioned near the end is the most interesting part, IMHO. In principle, that should ultimately be enough to run a postmarketOS-based userspace (and of course, a Debian Mobile based one, or…
> For all but the last instant of our cultural evolution, humans have been information starved. In one generation we have become a culture that has instant access to unbounded quantities. "... The story is that in the…
> What does PWA stand for? https://xkcd.com/1367/
Well, Go has excellent support for parallelism and excellent support for safety - whereas Rust actually supports parallelism with safety. Rust is also gaining lots of useful "tweaks" that will make it quite a bit easier…
This is stuff that's severely misrepresented by the alt-right. Yes, there are statistical variations in IQ and criminality across social groups. No, there's no consensus whatsoever that all or even most of that is due…
Fascism was not "reactionary". It was, in many ways, a sibling ideology to 'communism', but with glorification of violence, a broadly "irrational" (i.e. explicitly anti-intellectual, and almost relishing in the use of…
You can use full words or even short multi-world phrases in math expressions. From a typesetting POV, write them in roman (upright) type, and enclose them in brackets whenever ambiguity arises (due to the possibility of…
But it's clearly not a "paltry amount" if it's enough to fund the work and ensure that it gets made. Isn't that ultimately what matters?
"Those who don't know Lisp Machines are doomed to reinvent them, poorly."
> Should the insurance just find a way to exclude massive, correlated events? Why exclude when reinsurance can deal with them fairly easily? The insurance company sells bonds that only pay when the massive, correlated…
> Until OS vendors are willing to provide a safe sandbox to run untrusted code in Thing is, "safe" OS-sandboxes are not safe; "local" privilege escalation vulnerabilities are still pervasive. Until OS's are safe enough…
Not "income inequality", but inequality in the marginal disutility of labor. Someone who works many hours per week in high-effort jobs will be eager to outsource even trivial tasks to a "gig economy" worker who is in a…
Surely not "because of the borrow checker", since it's trivial to relax its enforcement with very limited runtime overhead. The tasks that essentially require GC (and this is pretty much always the case, even wrt. C!)…
You'll always be able to roll your own. What this is about is like running a live distro w/ "persistence", except from your own hard drive instead of external media. With comparable benefits and drawbacks, I assume - in…
> It's claiming that patrons and other financial supporters are being too conservative, asking for too much certainty about the finished product There's a reason for this, of course - most customers don't want to incur…
The "Linux" kernel even in something like LineageOS is heavily forked and in practically every case relies on userspace binary blobs for critically-important functionality. It's a far cry from what you can run on PC's,…
It's even better than that. You can grind metal oxides that form a sizeable fraction of Earth's crust and are relatively easy to extract into a sort of "dust" or "sand" that will actively sequester carbon out of the…
Peak carbon-sink will probably be a bigger factor than peak oil, all things considered. But the social consequences are not that different - especially since most "enhanced", unconventional oil sources are quite dirty…
> ...you're more likely to get terrible neighbors. ... the types of people renters brings tend to care less about the neighborhood Nice classist stereotypes right there. Sounds like the local fire department was not…
This, basically. People should stop thinking about "composition vs. inheritance" and start thinking of implementation-inheritance and thus OOP in a strict sense as "composition plus open recursion". Open recursion (viz.…
> but the underlying assumption is heritage for white southerners. It’s a dangerous thing to honor. Actually, I've consistently been trying to make the point that the things being honored in this way do NOT include…
> in the US, the letter of the law is all that matters This is very wrong. In common-law jurisdictions (which the U.S. is broadly-speaking one example of - some exceptions may apply which are not relevant here),…
More specifically, it's called the Dunning-Kruger effect. Impostor syndrome is a broader description that heavily overlaps with the "give up competing due to perceived losses" that the article talks about. (As a side…
Yes, it's interesting that the overestimate seems to be occurring on both sides. If more people realized just how small the whole LGBTQQetc. minority is, attitudes around these issues would be a lot more relaxed.
> The suggestion that encouraging contributions to OSS might expose someone to being harmed in some way is absurd. Ironically enough, given the way this woman has been treated, and with CoC's that are explicitly open to…
The libhybris support that's mentioned near the end is the most interesting part, IMHO. In principle, that should ultimately be enough to run a postmarketOS-based userspace (and of course, a Debian Mobile based one, or…
> For all but the last instant of our cultural evolution, humans have been information starved. In one generation we have become a culture that has instant access to unbounded quantities. "... The story is that in the…
> What does PWA stand for? https://xkcd.com/1367/
Well, Go has excellent support for parallelism and excellent support for safety - whereas Rust actually supports parallelism with safety. Rust is also gaining lots of useful "tweaks" that will make it quite a bit easier…
This is stuff that's severely misrepresented by the alt-right. Yes, there are statistical variations in IQ and criminality across social groups. No, there's no consensus whatsoever that all or even most of that is due…
Fascism was not "reactionary". It was, in many ways, a sibling ideology to 'communism', but with glorification of violence, a broadly "irrational" (i.e. explicitly anti-intellectual, and almost relishing in the use of…
You can use full words or even short multi-world phrases in math expressions. From a typesetting POV, write them in roman (upright) type, and enclose them in brackets whenever ambiguity arises (due to the possibility of…
But it's clearly not a "paltry amount" if it's enough to fund the work and ensure that it gets made. Isn't that ultimately what matters?
"Those who don't know Lisp Machines are doomed to reinvent them, poorly."