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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 foundat…

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 th…

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 _e…

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 th…

> 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 swall…

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 researc…

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 c…

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 repurpos…