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It's the smallest number bigger than 0.

That's a coincidence of the particular number system you use, and many programming languages have multiple number implementations. Racket starts with arbitrary precision rationals.…

You must go up to something like limits to make ... meaningful.

Professor N.J. Wildberger is probably among the most well known "ultrafinitist" on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WabHm1QWVCA I mention him because I would think he sympa…

What are generators for you?

Summary: 2011 OO FizzBuzz joke...

> A stateful function with effects. Your language just doesn’t have a primitive to express it. I wonder what about generator functions?

I find it somewhat comical that the governor of Maryland had his wife pull South Korean connections to buy masks. So terribly ad hoc.

So should black people stop organizing along lines of race, because that doesn't seem like an effective way to fight racism? That just means less black representation.

Plenty of people are hurt or killed through clerical errors by medical professionals, but you're not going to get anyone admitting that. Even for something simple, if you have any …

I think tech moved too quickly and in some ways, due to power being left on the table by government, tech became responsible; much like how businesses have taken up the responsibil…

Previous discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22931290

Supreme Court opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-5924_n6io.pdf

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/18/820953617/the-killer-at-home-...

I'm talking about whether anecdotes of safe dogs is an argument that we might need different levels of licensing. Yes it's an argument, especially in the face of empiricism on the …

Of course it’s an argument because we can simply license based on predictors of burden. Small dogs which are projected to fall below a risk tolerance threshold should have less lic…

IMO what’s important isn’t merely whether something poses proximal danger to human life (which asks for immediate and more severe solutions), but whether something poses greater co…

That's a bit different. I can fake swipe-up on a GUI but I can't fake Ctrl-Alt-Del.

Many reals are constructible so they are accessible in the sense that it's a theory of phenomena I can act and build upon, and the theory discusses up to an infinite number of case…