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My theory is that is what is latent in the terrain of human psychology is a propensity to view misconceptions about which problem it is, as evidence there isn't one. When I stop to…

I tend to agree with your general intuition that presupposing modern understandings creates all kinds of problems understanding ancient texts, some of which is in translation. But …

I suppose a different claim strikes me as false. "should have been deemed classified at the time they were sent" is one thing, "there was, in fact, confidential stuff in there" is …

In case you are interested, here is some data on how scholars view apostolic authorship: https://thesacredpage.com/2024/12/13/the-2024-survey-of-paul... To me, it is apparent that …

Consider an alien which subsists on photons, which is a form of life that exists today. We know from heseinberg that the sensing of this food "here" or "there" is nonphysical. Pres…

I am also writing a game engine, also because of the gameobject issues, also doing tens of thousands of simulated AI agents. In my case they are GPU-accelerated and I'd guess you a…

So, one answer (not necessarily the right one!) to how you can use software without copying it is that "the license says you can". In other words the license definitely views "runn…

The main problem with the interpretation that the GPL sets conditions for use of software is that it specifically claims it does not: > Activities other than copying, distribution …

OED gives the following usages, the first of which suggest users predate computers: 1950 Science 112 732/1 Analog machines..are enthusiastically supported by their users. 1959 E. M…

In general, a retained object is deallocated on last release. However ownership of some objects somewhere may have been given to an autoreleasepool, in which case “the last release…

That discussion is a bit strange. In that example Foo is implicitly #[repr(Rust)] meaning it has an undefined layout. In particular, a,b is unordered, and even if you don't care wh…

Concurrent memory safety is definitely a goal. Try the new ‘-warn-concurrency’ flag to see what I mean, it is comparable to rust and quite different than thread sanitizer. There’s …

I think it boils down to the fact that time isn’t reversible, so the “reverse problem” isn’t like the “forward” version. Let’s take some new problems. Suppose you have 100 doors an…

It’s an interesting conjecture but I don’t think the data makes a compelling case. When you compare 2 points in time you have a lot of alternative hypotheses, like the 2016 languag…

I’m affected and have been stress-reading every report ever about this since it began. The short version is, to a first approximation power generation requires power first. For man…

Queues are a dynamic concept; which queue you’re on is a runtime property. For this reason you may be familiar with assertions to check if a function is running on some queue. Acto…

I freely concede that I'm doing a poor job of defending it, because it isn't my view to defend. The part of it that I don't understand is limited to how it is self-consistent, whic…

It's pretty simple, although it may not be obvious. There are 2 different views about "what freedom/democracy is" that are presently doing battle in america, at least among intelig…

We do have a secondary form of capital: what we charitably call ethics/guidelines, or uncharitably - peer pressure. This is the currency that dominates FSF language like the “harm …

A lot of this disconnect has to do with values. Please understand I don't in any way mean to pick on you. The comment has 8 paragraphs that are mostly a description of how property…

The median educational attainment is "some college". In my state we require teachers to hold a degree and do some postgraduate work, so by definition it isn't a "median" position. …

While I agree with all this, I think a lot of the frustration around "cancel culture" is a general frustration about the politicization of everything. Without denying the reality t…

SML, D, etc., are compiled GC languages but not in wide use. These days you can make a good argument for .NET/Java, although the traditional implementations are not compiled. The c…

I'm an iOS developer and I have 3-4 location-based products. Maybe I'm just not in your target market, but this component doesn't solve any problem I have. Seeing a bunch of dots t…

The joke's on you if your interview process consists of asking googleable questions. Asking "Define X" questions is a really bad proxy for assessing development skill. If you think…