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capr

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About capr

Programming since 1995. C, Lua, Terra, JavaScript.

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    Comment #49251386

    performance specialist, really?

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    Comment #49171680

    Strawman - it wasn't arbitrary at all.

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    Comment #49171644

    I think "Good thing that is not your problem." includes inability to do such a thing.

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    Comment #49171520

    Likewise for you following them blindly.

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    Comment #49020517

    It doesn't require that at all, on the contrary. Why don't you educate yourself on these basic assumptions?

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    Comment #48908330

    That analogy works for app code, it doesn't work for technologies, library, frameworks, algorithms. Why build a compiler for this app? YAGNI! makes no sense.

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    Comment #48879613

    Yup, because perfect competition is fundamentally the same as the salary cap, except for companies instead of employees. Specialization leads to natural monopolies at company level…

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    Comment #48830784

    but that's not what they're doing. that's just you believing the rhetoric

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    Comment #48726531

    so the doctors acted just like the LLM

  10. comment
    Comment #48614247

    That smells a lot like Facebook making a php compiler

  11. comment
    Comment #48241193

    He made an economic argument that went straight over your head.

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    Comment #48233254

    I personally love how AI shows through sheer indifference how the whole concept of intellectual property is completely incoherent.

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    Comment #47547365

    > Do you disagree that this person followed the law, and that politicians enacted those laws, and that we voted for these politicians? This is the definition of brainwashing. You h…

  14. comment
    Comment #46491421

    I don't believe any of this.

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    Comment #46279693

    "due to voters making bad choices" ahahahahahaha

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    Comment #46154718

    way to prove his point

  17. comment
    Comment #46150961

    Maybe if they would've let their engineers use Borland C++ they would've learned a thing or two for their own product.

  18. comment
    Comment #46073558

    And that's about the only type of visa where that happens.

  19. comment
    Comment #46040013

    try it, like these people https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7iJDMU43iUk

  20. comment
    Comment #42757414

    But profit _is_ the driving force of human action. Doing anything voluntarily is by definition profitable, otherwise you wouldn't do it.

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    Comment #42627729

    there's absolutely something wrong with the fruits of their labor though, which I am forced to use every day

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    Comment #42626667

    not true at all, only socialists think that (I'm also from Europe where everybody and their dog's a socialist)

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    Comment #42609584

    compared to what? most doctors never heard of Bayes rule

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    Comment #41282221

    There are no core tenants of democracy other than majority rule. The actions you listed (with the exception of canceling elections) do not actually destroy the ability for the majo…

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    Comment #40336325

    How about this music chord formation program with a virtual six-string guitar fret that I wrote back in 1999? https://github.com/capr/chordclopedia