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>weighted flat earth and spherical earth It should default to the mainstream opinion in general, but if you specifically ask about the shape of Earth, I do think it should mention …

I don't think we can access the Platonic Form of Unbiased in this world. The best we can do is put forward as many points of view on a topic as possible and let the reader choose. …

They are obviously using the SAT as a safer alternative to the legally dubious practice of IQ testing which can lead to running afoul of the ADA and EEOC. I'm not sure it's much sa…

You're right. If you think you are walking that line for each of your children, then you are the authority. It's just a common argument I hear from parents who want to avoid feelin…

I understand deeply. My parents delayed my driver's license until I was 17 because of financial tightness at the time, and that distanced me from some of my friends at the time. Yo…

My parents did, and they were right. I had limited tv, games, and computer time. They kicked me out of the house after school, only to return for supper. I am eternally grateful fo…

This is a symptom of not encouraging children into extracurricular activities. If all you have to bond over is social media, your friendship is empty. That's how you create termina…

Teacher experience means they have more say in their students. It's common for new teachers to be shoved into the worst schools and classes in the district. Teacher performance doe…

It's not. This is just an acceleration in the unraveling of society facilitated by AI. As someone whose childhood included so many "robots will kill humans" books and movies, I am …

You are absolutely correct. Even distributing the replication around the world will only help so much. It's a small world out there and only smaller in the specializations. That's …

I have worked in this particular sausage factory. Multiple funded random replications are the only thing that will save science from this crisis. The scientific method works. We ne…

I have enjoyed this article series many times in the past. Having been in all three classes, he got losers and clueless correct, but he is mistaken on the sociopaths. 1. Sociopaths…

A lot of C's popularity is with how standard and simple it is. I doubt Rust will be the safe language of the future, simply because of its complexity. The true future of "safe" sof…

Very, very few people outside of foundational system software, HFT shops, and game studios understand why it's a great selling point. Everyone else likes the other points and don't…

There is nothing new under the Sun. However, some languages manifest as good rewrites of older languages. Rust is that for C++. Zig is that for C. Rust is the small, beautiful lang…

Cameras and other means of tracking cannot remove me from commerce. The problem isn't just the tracking. Cash requires no oversight to transact. If I am required to use a payment n…

I completely agree with you, but you cannot stop this train. Cash will continue to exist only as a loophole to be exercised by rich and connected individuals. Everyone else will be…

The most important pattern to learn in C is to allocate a giant arena upfront and reuse it over and over in a loop. Ideally, there is only one allocation and deallocation in the en…

Except this is an article on how to perform technical politics in large organizations. Functional, intelligent, non-nepotistic leadership is the exception , not the rule. It has be…

We have already removed so much liability in other licensed professions, either through law or practice. It's almost impossible to obtain a malicious prosecution or SLAPP judgement…

How are you going to get around Griggs v. Duke Power Co.? AFAIK, personality tests have not (yet) been given the regulatory eye, but testing cognitive ability has.

I would bet that, especially outside of library code, 95+% of the typed objects are only interacted with using a single interface. These could be turned into structs with direct ca…

Outside of really funky code, especially code originally written in TS, you can assume the interface is the actual underlying object. You could easily flag non-recognized-member ac…

Yeah, that is why I said TS (or something similar). TS made some decisions that make sense at the time, but do not help compilation. The complexity of its typing system is another …

I have thought about doing this and I just can't get around the fact that you can't get much better performance in JS. The best you could probably do is transpile the JS into V8 C+…