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(author actually shows up to advocate for rust)

I don't have links handy but the gist of it is that regular people do not automatically interpret questions asked of them in a technical manner (carefully parsing AND and OR logically), but instead try to intuit the asker's intent based on context.

So many of the studies concluded that the general population is unable to reason about trivial problems involving likelihood. However, when given more context about what's being asked, they absolutely can.

That's pretty broad. I am referring to the style of analysis that heavily attributes slight environmental priming over all others factors (character, education, religion, mood, etc).

A store owner does a marketing survey to find out what kind of music customers might like. The narrative is that he turns on a mind control device that makes you buy 5% more.

With the debunking of "Thinking fast, and slow" this branch of psychology has hopefully run its course.

I hadn't considered that people might still be complaining about Florida in 2000 in light of 2020.

Good thing its not Memoji.

This comment does not address anything in the article or say anything of substance.

Everything is more exciting when it’s novel. That’s part of the fun of consumer electronics, games, movies, etc.

I don't understand, is installing and running python easier than running an install command?

Thanks for the advice.

I can’t imagine a single feature that would be worth a change, and I have plenty of complaints about the library.

I also can’t see how that would make it more popular.

apt install sbcl

sbcl —script hello.lisp

because of competition with peers.

Publish or perish is primarily about peer competition and promotion, not pressure from admins.

Teaching is the money maker.

That’s also true of c++ and C and doesn’t hold them back.

It has both of those features in several forms.

You’re biasing yourself to what you already (probably looks like C). There is nothing more difficult about some paren except you didn’t learn it first.

> nobody will ever advance the CL standard

And that’s a good thing.

You only have to dig because you are less familiar with the language.

> copy list

Almost all functions have a copying and destructive variant.

I think the software for managing servers was internal, not the massive build out of hardware.

Wow sounds like they are still growing!

Of course we can’t know,but your assumption seems to be it’s bad because you don’t understand it.

> Is that evidence that it’s a good deal?

Yes. Evidence the old one was good. They had a Long time to think about it and clearly decided it’s worth even more. (And there is no interest free funny money)

Have you ever tried to make a prediction model with more than 1 parameter?

you are mistaken if you believe your knowledge of tech gives you power over it.

Exactly. The ai car ethics news was always marketing to distract from the fact that it doesn’t work.

The Joe Rogan scapegoat is silly. Just a few months ago HN was talking about how much of a business disaster it was. And here Spotify just renewed it.

> but how do my personal decisions affect society?

You don’t live in a bubble. It does matter.

I am not at that stage of life and have a few question.

What was your biggest concern about school? That they would become involved in bad behavior? Or that they wouldn’t be educated?

My experience from public school is that it’s basically worthless. Could you treat it as social time and make up for the school in your own?

They certainly do. But not enough to do it themselves.

Time and care from capable parents are more effective than money. However many people who are poor do not have those skill. Upper middle class just prefer to use money instead of time. The upper class does not outsource parenting lightly.

Every assumption in this post sounds out of touch.