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You think it's nitpicking because you don't care much about truth when it comes to history, and that's perfectly fine. But it's weird to complain about other people's baloney while…

Damn that lying Joel... who is Joel lol? Of course human directed selection is a thing, when did I ever say otherwise? This is the problem with the Sagan types, you actually think …

>> Eh, hard to say what is magic and what is not. > I don't think it is? I think there's a difference between the plausible but wrong and the impossible. I find that the word "magi…

I actually kinda like Sagan, Cosmos is seriously gorgeous (though Vangelis does a lot of the heavy lifting there). I'm just kinda tired of the whole "Library of Alexandria" myth th…

People like Sagan have a worldview in which we are all either rational robots that only believe in "science", or else silly magic-believers that can't think by themselves. Of cours…

I think "made up" is fair. I can't know what his process was and everybody makes mistakes, but almost every single thing he said about history was wrong in a way that was convenien…

I just found out that his story about the Heike Crabs is also complete baloney. That makes me sad, it was really such a great story.

I wonder how well Sagan's own "baloney" holds up against his kit. Historians despise the guy for all the stuff he made up about the library of Alexandria, Hypatia, Eratosthenes, et…

It won't be Lebesgue integrable because it won't be measurable. Your function is actually a good (though not rigorous) argument for the existence of non-measurable sets.

> yet its integral over any interval is exactly zero That function doesn't actually have an integral in any sense that I know of. The Riemann integral doesn't work because, for eve…

That's for uniform distributions. We don't know the distribution here, that's part of the problem, but I would expect early cave art to be more sparse and worse preserved.

The rotation is not reversed though (at least not with the same speed), that's why it's always been interesting.

> If that were the case why did humans not evolve to have 17 times more female babies than male? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s_principle

This seems to cover it: https://web.archive.org/web/20181123085448/http://www.contro...

> And milk can get pretty expensive pretty fast in this country: It always come in 1 litre recipients, and the cheapest one (The one that is within the mentioned program) is right …

OK, I thought you meant rust because that's the only other language with chances of getting support inside the Linux kernel right now. > I'm simply disputing your general claim tha…

Not sure why you are telling me this, I don't know anything about Apple's internal development process. I assume they did run a lot of tests. But I recall at least one serious bug …

If you are thinking about rust, we don't have any data about it in the context of the kernel yet, not even for device drivers. It may prevent some exploitable bugs, but those aren'…

Shims in the kernel seem a bit anti-social, since all module developers are expected to contribute to the shared core code. Of course it can be done, and it has been done. But I th…

> C being a shitty language that does not force or even encourage programmers to handle errors I don't see where this is coming from. Most of the world's top filesystems are writte…

I don't think I can, I'm using gpl code from other parts of the kernel. I'm not sure I would want to either, I put a lot of work into this and the gpl gives me more of a feeling of…

The main problem is simply that people really really really don't like losing their data after they saved it to disk. A simple app that corrupts its in-memory state once a year is …

Oh, I wasn't trying to diss FreeBSD. It would probably have been better to write my driver for fuse to make it portable, but it's too far along at this point.

> compatible with macOS filesystems (HFS+ and APFS) How far along is this? I think she's underestimating how hard it is to implement a modern filesystem that won't eat users' data.…

Sure, but there's plenty of starving people in Argentina as well, not all the country is as wealthy as Buenos Aires. So the question is, why do they come here instead of going to a…