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I'm not sure what you mean. There are many systems languages out there these days: C/C++, Rust, Zig, and even Go and Nim for things like file systems and networking!

Indeed, there is no way that I did that. GP specified that one of the two was American, and didn't specify that the other was, so I assumed it was a relevant difference.

Neat, thank you so much!

That makes sense, I suppose! Maybe if/when 10Gbps becomes more popular with consumers such highly integrated cards will come onto the market.

> learn to develop complex system-level software in the C programming language while gaining an intimate understanding of the Unix operating system

I would have loved to take a course like this in college, though I didn't have the chance. I do think [Rust In Action](https://www.manning.com/books/rust-in-action) is a good introduction to some of the same concepts, if anyone is, like me, yearning for grad school while having to hold down a job. While it doesn't use C, I think it teaches systems programming in a way that's easily applicable to any language.

This is a neat argument for spaced repetition, which I think is a great idea and generally works very well. That said, though, I don't think it's a good idea to conflate knowledge with intelligence in this context; knowledge is concrete and measurable, while intelligence is, at best, nebulous and difficult to measure.

Knowing things is really important, but I don't think learning makes you "smart"; it just makes you know more things.

Well, why call that out in a hypothetical if it's not a difference? If GP had called out the hypothetical Asian student's height or weight or video game preference but not the hypothetical black student's, I would have assumed that was significantly different as well.

I relate a lot to this. I had a really hard time getting out of the college mindset and into the workplace mindset. Ultimately, for me, it meant finding a workplace that encouraged me to utilize my ADHD, rather than trying to control it; I can't say that that's what you need (since you may not have ADHD, obviously), but I do think finding a workplace that fits with the way your brain works is very helpful.

It also meant figuring out what I really want in life, and making sure I was working towards it! Nothing leads to burnout faster than feeling like you're going in the wrong direction.

One of my favorite way to force breaks is to use a Bullet Journal and put all of my activities in a single list. As long as it's not too huge, my brain is good at breaking stuff up, and when I context switch from, say, debugging to writing a presentation, or work to emptying the dishwasher, I often feel quite refreshed while still getting done what I need to do.

This is a neat writeup. I think the ESP32, alongside similar microcontrollers that tie communication via complex protocols so close to direct interaction with the physical world for such a small energy cost, are really amazing for teaching, inspiring, and empowering otherwise "non-technical" people. Of course, you do have to be able to program, but I think we're making great strides in making that as easy as possible with things like CircuitPython and EduBlocks.

Also, this kind of shocked me:

> none of my followers had ever seen functioning WOL on any 10 Gbit/s card.

Those cards are way too expensive to be lacking such a useful feature!

I see your point, and I apologize for not being as clear as I could have been. I do still think that "this could make a poor, hardworking Asian kid not get a college position because of a rich Black kid" is a very bad criticism; it conflates some very emotionally resonant topics in a way that isn't justifiable. I also think that this conflation was done for ideological reasons.

I do want to respond to this, though:

> What you were trying to imply with your comment about "other factors" is that these asian students have less soft skills than other ethnicities

No, I wasn't. By other factors I meant the other things the GP brought up: economics (" born in poverty"), being 'weird' or just not fitting in (which I felt was implied by "got bullied in school"), and nationality ("a rich black American kid" implies, at least to me, that our hypothetical Asian student isn't American). All of these have significant impacts in school admissions, especially nationality, which can make prospective students ineligible for some kinds of aid.

You made up the relationship between economic status and race in this particular situation in order to strike an emotional chord. No?

Most of the words in the comment I replied to were dedicated to describing the economic status of the hypothetical people involved, and I think I did a good job of making it clear that that's what I was responding to.

> One wonders if slaves had other factors too.

This strikes me as deeply irrelevant and a major rhetorical escalation. My argument was that it's unreasonable to link economic discrimination and racial affirmative action.

At no point did I say that wasn't happening. I was responding to your comment about economic factors. Did I misunderstand your original comment? You said:

> I'm sure that will be a great comfort to the Asian kid who was born in poverty, got bullied in school, struggled all his life to achieve the grades and stats to qualify for a top school, then got rejected in favor of a rich black American kid

Is this not about the interaction between economic status and race in the context of affirmative action?

I'm always open to being wrong, but I'm also pretty confident that you lack in reading comprehension skills. The argument GP was making was about affirmative action being a net negative for impoverished students, and this is, as far as I can tell, utterly irrelevant to that argument.

Yeah, that sounds like racial discrimination against Asian students! You'll note that I did not say there was no such thing as racial discrimination against Asian students, so I'm not sure how this is relevant.

Some major US schools did have affirmative action for Jews for a time to offset their prior policies that banned Jews from attending. Jewish students are now not statistically at any disadvantage compared to the average, so such programs aren't necessary.

Hmm, this is not a good criticism of affirmative action programs. A child from a rich family, of whatever race, is far more likely to be able to attend the college of their (or their parents') choice, based on a wide array of factors. This is mitigated somewhat by federal and institutional need-based and merit-based aid, but I don't think it's really supportable to say that it's exacerbated by affirmative action. If your concern really is that poor students aren't able to access as many opportunities as wealthy students, you should be some flavor of socialist, as under capitalism, wealth inherently comes with more opportunity.

In clearer words: I think you made this situation up without considering other factors because you have an ideological agenda.

Japan is 98% ethnically homogeneous in part because of an immigration system that keeps foreigners from immigrating for work and in part because of lots of systemic racism - different from that in, say, the US, but still systemic - in Japanese society. It's not magic or an accident of history, it's due to social factors.

My thoughts exactly. Maybe I need to go back to lit class, but I have absolutely no idea what the argument is here.

It's a conference where people use a cutesy style to communicate about serious topics in a fun and light-hearted way. If it's deeply unappealing to you, you're not the intended audience.

If you have a Paypal account, you did, in fact, do that.

Your worldview is unsupported by the scientific and sociological consensus, and facts in general, and I'm not particularly interested in arguing about it. Many of the assertions you make here are simply untrue, and it's very easy to ascertain the truth by reading relevant research; I suggest you do so.

Wow, that's a lot of bullshit in one comment.

- "Conversion therapy" generally means programs designed to make children straight, and I have never heard anyone use it the way you're using it

- Puberty blockers are routinely used for precocious puberty in non-trans children, and are no more dangerous than any other routine medical intervention

- Given how difficult it is for minors who themselves insist that they are trans to access medical care, and the fact that I can't find any credible reports of such things happening, I don't believe you when you insinuate that adults force children into transition

- Being gay doesn't require sexual activity; we accept that straight minors can experience romantic feelings, and it's not at all frowned upon in American culture. Asserting that gay minors cannot also experience romantic feelings is simple homophobia. I was a bisexual child before I became a bisexual adult, and I dated people of the same sex in high school.

This is just textbook no true Scotsman. She's a conservative, and a prominent one.

Not only trans; many gay children and generally gender-nonconforming minors go through this.

It's Bari Weiss's publication, and she describes it, and herself, as conservative.

And, indeed, when homosexuality and transness were considered mental illnesses, people were, in fact, abused using those laws. Some minors in the US are still involuntarily sent to "mental health" or "adolescent behavior" programs that are just conversion therapy centers.

Thank you, that makes sense. That said, though - doesn't that mean those people are making a pretty rational decision about avoiding treatment?

How do you propose we identify such individuals? How do you avoid false positives? And what will you do with them once you've done so? Antipsychotics? Electroshock? Just let people rot in prison for their whole lives because they answered a question wrong on a questionnaire?