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TooBrokeToBeg··on Why not program right?
People don't even think consistently, so correctness is an ever-moving target (aka a negotiation).
TooBrokeToBeg··on New Study Confirms That American Workers Are Getting Ripped Off
> But history doesn’t show anything of the sort?

Depends on the timescale, but it looks a lot more like the hierarchies re-establish in a similar fashion. Often from the same lineages, over time!

TooBrokeToBeg··on Why not program right?
> unless you don't write tests either.

You mean "oracles" (from the blog post). Just program correctly amirite? eyeroll

If your example doesn't deal with user input, you're talking about a problem of modeling under known conditions, which is trivial and ivory tower arrogance.

TooBrokeToBeg··on Uganda Bans VPNs to Prevent Users from Dodging Its New Social Media Tax
> it's morally just

Morally? Definitely. Incentivizing trade promotes human survival. Is it "just" is a different question, because justice requires a set of idealogical social principles to start from. Natural rights, divine will, reparative, or some other. YMMV

TooBrokeToBeg··on Most of what chimpanzees and humans do today is not directly comparable
> This isn't fair,

Of course it's fair, in a discussion.

> the OP broke down his arguments for why the author was wrong,

No he didn't. There are no "arguments" presented. There's a vague premise (It can all be compared to how most social mammals operate. <--- not an argument in any sense) then some 1 line ramblings that seem thinly related.

TooBrokeToBeg··on Reasoning, and What It Is To Be Rational (2000)
By the time you get to 2 or 3 points deep in any rationalization, you've made such ambitious leaps of (subjective) assumption, that your view isn't more logical than any one else's. This is fundamentally different than the postmodern assumption that any given categorization (and following assumption) is as good as any other.

e.g. If you think that tigers are woozles, ok. If you want to attribute woozles with subjective properties outside of a label, you're very likely going to die when you try to interact with them.

TooBrokeToBeg··on Python 3 at Facebook
FWIW that's not a true statement. Large companies have roles and vacancies where there are expectation and existing code to maintain.
TooBrokeToBeg··on Barents Sea seems to have crossed a climate tipping point
> Do you have any idea what you're talking about?

I think I have a better conceptualization than many people "discussing" this issue.

> That would be the largest migration in human history, by a wide margin

Nope. How many people have migrated from mexico to the US over the last 50 years? Are you assuming that one day 1 million people wake up and everyone has to move because the ocean is rising? How many feet to permanently displace 1 million over what time and how far do you really think anyone will go? You get people living next to live volcanos in Hawaii where the largest island is kinda the size of Orange County, CA. smh

Calm down and rethink what we're talking about.

TooBrokeToBeg··on Plastic recycling is a problem consumers can't solve
> the executive branch followed certain norms around this, until this administration

Which norms? Which administration didn't act differently than all others? Reagan firing the FAA unionizers was a new one.

Obama said he couldn't “waive away the law Congress put in place.” DHS went and legalized a few million anyway, years later. Sounds very familiar, but somehow different?

I'm not sure what you're talking about, but it sounds awfully revisionist.

TooBrokeToBeg··on Plastic recycling is a problem consumers can't solve
> We know that a human is smart

Not every person is smart, nor does that translate into correct behavior. Even herd mentality has limits.

TooBrokeToBeg··on How to Survive When Money Is Worthless [video]
> Capitalism is

The items listed have nothing to do with capitalism. More like "things you often find" or "things you wish were true", or more aptly, "things you are told are true, but are misleading". "freedom" to own things is not a freedom nor is it guaranteed in a capitalism economy nor is it true when faced with anything other than a nascent capitalist economy where other actors make the decision of who owns what, beyond your own agency.

I'm not sure you know what capitalism is now.

TooBrokeToBeg··on Anti-If: The missing patterns (2016)
Depending on the language and values, the latter does not mean the same thing.

    <?php
    $x = 1;$y = 2;

    function test1($x, $y) {
        if ($x) {
            return $y;
        } else {
            return false;
        }
    }

    function test2($x, $y) {
        return $x && $y;
    }

    var_dump(test1($x,$y));
    echo "\n";
    var_dump(test2($x,$y));
TooBrokeToBeg··on Anti-If: The missing patterns (2016)
> There are no null values,

Unbound variables are the equivalent (detected if used, at compile time), but a much saner way to deal with value-less variables

TooBrokeToBeg··on On the obsessive statelessness of Peril
I have no idea what this is about, so I had to look it up. Not something I care to get involved with, but the README here is useful context to this story.

https://github.com/danger/peril

TooBrokeToBeg··on Barents Sea seems to have crossed a climate tipping point
> But if a billion people have to move within 20 or 30 years because large poor cities can no longer be defended against the sea or because technology to deal with desertification

That seems perfectly reasonable. Nowhere near doom and gloom. There's no doom there, that I can see. Moving a billion people is not that big of a deal, as long as there is incentive. The idea that "the sea" will push people around has been going on forever and doesn't cause mass migrations in terms of the earth. It's the food and distribution a population has to worry about that will cause trouble. Everything else is well within human abilities to mitigate (even when average lifespans decrease by a few decades).

TooBrokeToBeg··on Michel Foucault’s lessons for business
> Mr Bezos changed its taxonomy by “breaking out” AWS, its cloud-hosting business

So this is revisionist fluff. How meta.

TooBrokeToBeg··on Personalisation Is Asymmetric Psychological Warfare
> The only difference in whether data is creepy or not lies in the answer to a single question

Not at all.

> Did you willingly provide it AND REMEMBER?

People have inherent expectations and soft historical memories. The idea that consent is some boundary line is a dystopian legal mechanic, which is specifically at odds with the psychology of humans. Agreeing to something doesn't affect if it's "creepy" (a psychological defense mechanism).

TooBrokeToBeg··on How to Use Slack and Not Go Crazy
> Not sure why you're getting downvotes

I am. Not contributing to the discussion by dismissing the topic.

TooBrokeToBeg··on Gravity – An embeddable programming language
Magic methods are wonky. Things that get called, although they don't exist, have to traverse an arbitrary system to determine an implementation (may or may not exist). Now add that you can determine that system of traversal, at runtime. Now add arbitrary constraints like 42 local vars per scope, singular inefficient table, no switch (but currying is ok, certainly one of these is more confusing than the other in every CS class) ultimately forcing some wonkiness in every project. It's truly a strange confluence of features leading to an even dumber javascript. I use Lua a lot.
TooBrokeToBeg··on Gravity – An embeddable programming language
This has been my experience.
TooBrokeToBeg··on How to stop the decline of public transport in rich countries
> It's easy to compromise and take public transit instead of a car when the public transit saves you time.

And/or money. The public parking in the city is prohibitive, alone.

TooBrokeToBeg··on The Death of Postmodernism and Beyond (2006)
> Postmodernism is the final philosophical analysis.

Hardly. There are plenty of psychoanalytical models (still being) explored that have more utility and the inevitable philosophies that extend from them will be just as final. The tools of measure are the roots of modern philosophy and postmodernism is little more than an ancient narrative about behavior that sprouts from mass media.

TooBrokeToBeg··on Three proposals for the C standard WG14
> The standard doesn’t describe transformations; it describes behaviors.

That doesn't seem to be an argument against, or even related to, what the proposal entails. All of these proposals are reductive attempts to curb the instability that UB introduces, for little value (see the linux kernel).

> because there was nothing to transform them _from_

Yes there was. Anything that can result in UB.

> For C, that’s not something we can realistically do in every case.

That's why the proposal is not exhaustive, as described.

TooBrokeToBeg··on No: Body: Wants: To: Write: – YAML
use it almost every day. it's an ugly little notation with super-limited utility, but when JS gets its act together, we can finally abandon it forever.
TooBrokeToBeg··on YAML: probably not so great after all (2017)
> it seems to be the case that the majority of libraries are unsafe by default (especially the dynamic languages), so de-facto it is a problem with YAML.

It may seem that way, but it's not. Re: cryptographic functions

TooBrokeToBeg··on European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrous’ copyright bill
> It’s wrong

...and natural and efficient. ie Not wrong or right. I'm not sure where you get your ideas from.

TooBrokeToBeg··on [dead]
That's a terribly curated headline for clickbait.

It's a list of concentration and internment camps. I'm not sure how it's much different than any juvie jail throughout the US, but it's just a political move that happens to fit with a certain narrative.

TooBrokeToBeg··on Wealth of millionaires surges 10.6% to top $70 trillion for the first time
They did invest in bonds and have massive pensions. Lack of savings hasn't prevented them from growing wealth.
TooBrokeToBeg··on What's the origin of Picard's signature phrase, “make it so”?
I'm not sure what you've tried to communicate. Your phrase hasn't added anything to the discussion.
TooBrokeToBeg··on China is winning the global tech race
> It never comes to fruition.

In a number of gaming sectors, it's already done. Steam is majority Chinese players, mobile gaming revenue has been from China. Steel (until the tariffs) has been dominated by cheap Chinese offerings, killing off a bunch of suppliers in the last 15 years. I dunno what you're talking about, but reality doesn't care what you think anyway.

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