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@dang, can you do something about the flagrant bigotry contaminating this board?

It's a classic refrain in a petty "revenge of the nerds" mindset. All the "haters" are wrong, unconditionally, and acting like an asshole is excused as being very special and brave…

If you think that this kind of healthy education is decadent, there may well be more wrong with you than with the Danes. Worth reflecting on.

I know this is not what's happening here, but I just love the idea of a MySQL function where it spins up a new instance for every connection and promptly throws away the data after…

No, it just proves that Marx was right about the nature of the wage/salary. The value of labour power is the cost of reproducing/maintaining that worker at a particular standard of…

Or, as a former boss put it: "the problem with this place is that anyone with 'get up and go' has already got up and gone." Come to think of it, he was gone too about a month later…

Lot of mental gymnastics in this thread to defend some godawful AI.

Marx - Capital

Thanks for the clarification, that makes sense.

I was taught that viruses are weird little machines, similar but unrelated to the things we recognise as alive. Interesting that there's difference of opinion on the matter. Edit: …

Don't misgender people.

> rather than what the questions and the answers are? The answers are utterly trivial, which is par for the course with PG.

It's just Red-Scare nonsense reheated for Clinton dead-enders.

Even DNA wouldn't work because of weird shit like chimerism. Our classic assumptions about this stuff just don't hold in reality.

I think it's dreadfully naive to assume there's a single, identifiable reward function.

Correct, if the information simply isn't present no amount of trickery will conjure it up.

It is extremely unrealistic within the next few decades.

Map is data manipulation, whereas pattern-matching is control flow.

It's from Gibsons "Virtual Light", a vastly better book than Snow Crash. Highly recommended!

I do all of the same in emacs (and vim), and because I use doom-emacs I get all this basically for free without much configuration on my end. - Go-to-definition is `g d` (with the …

An object lesson in the problems of using emoji to actually convey meaning :)

That's certainly true of the Soviet case (the fear instilled by the Stalin years left everyone lying constantly just to avoid the bullet), but Chile was very different. The whole p…

His writing style is strong for sure but the concepts and observations are fairly trivial. I suspect it says something about the kind of ideas and discourse which are thought of as…

I think that's a large part of it, yes, but a lot of folks saw the demented weirdness of perl and were (rightfully) turned off. And by that time there were sane alternatives availa…