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You said that's not really true and the described exactly how it's true, what did you mean?

I see what you mean now. The way you phrased it came off as much more a critique of the language used and/or the developers using it, rather than the simple fact of it being a rewr…

Transpilers in general tend to be significantly less well maintained and optimised than direct APIs

> I am pretty sure the Rust version has a lot of logic bugs What makes you say that? I'm not trying to be argumentative, I'm genuinely interested.

It makes sense that a very popular language would be being used to make one of the most popular projects.

You seem to think the issue is noise, but have you considered noise might just be the most noticeable symptom of general city living? i.e. having much less personal space, nature, …

No no, maybe he's right and there are only 8536 ways to sort a deck of cards, the casinos have taken us all for fools!

Well, 0 isn't really possible, but assuming you're just asking "What would the impact be on the world if me made matrix multiplication trivial" in the same way that people ask what…

> Most real world buttons are elevated off the surface to let us know it is pressable, but digital buttons now just have a white or colored pill shape around it. I can't recall the…

Microsoft teams doesn't load slowly because of the animations, you can turn all of them off if you mess around with the settings and your windows registry enough. It loads slowly b…

I'm skeptical of the idea that anything is going to derive intelligence from the bottom up, but I'll be super impressed if that's how it goes.

In theory that would work but compilers and toolchains are far too clever now and always liable to change, so there's no way to know that in the future it won't be optimised back i…

A friend of mine has a literal heapmap, i.e. an infrared thermal camera, and that actually displays obvious outliers in striped red and white like digital camcorders show overexpos…

Most of them are bullshit, and the ones that aren't are ripe and ready to be used to bullshit people. Every new kind of forensics is treated like it's going to be the solution to s…

Complete noob question, but if it never goes away how does it get into chickens? It sounds like your point and this article combined are implying that having chickens (whose eggs y…

> The question is whether we can recognize and want to solve the problems imo. Today our media seems incapable of highlighting issues. The media pushes a narrative to effect social…

> Keyword here is "once", kids love it _once_ they're there. The point is that -at the time when the parent is asking the kid to stop what they're doing and shower- they (don't wan…

> I think the authors just need to find an easy way to say something new, and what is more easy than going against something "common"? I'm sure some of them do, but having seen fir…

Sorry I wasn't clear about what I mean. I don't mean the ends, I mean the means. like exercising, or studying, or even brushing my fucking teeth have never in my life stopped being…

I've heard this explanation so many times but it feels like it has an enormous missing piece, like, maybe I just have fucking ADHD or something but never in my life has doing thing…

> On a side note : am I the only one who is tired of the current (decade(s)-long...) trend in blogs/articles of "deconstructing" positive/common-sense behaviors? "The dangers of ti…

> Kids refuse a bath usually not because they’re rebelling against themselves or the parents, but because they don’t get the concept of delayed gratification yet I'm confused by th…

Is that a solution though? unless you send your ship instantly after those bullets another objects could still just come in from the side after they've passed, unless these bullets…

> There's a weird sense of internal entitlement where some (likely a small, but still substantial) number of people work there, are well paid, and yet act internally as if it's som…