shadowfox

I am not sure how much you have looked at these newer plants? While must can use since amount of nuclear waste (which is great), their biproducts are only somewhat less toxic than the original. These are nowhere as clean as people seem to imagine.

> The democratization is the problem. There is usually little due process

In context of what the parent post, are you under the impression that gay people were cancelled after going through some due process?

Slightly orthogonal to this: is there a good tutorial on writing your own simple Xserver?

Or use a `make` from any of Msys, Msys2, Cygwin, WSL, Gow or any of the assorted GNU util ports.

> There doesn't appear to be any inordinate lock-in or something of that sort.

> > For now. Perhaps they're on the "embrace" phase still.

I suspect I am missing something here. What exactly is the "threat model" here?

MobaXterm seems to be a product with a fairly old school model - you pay money and you get a perpetual license for that version of the product. It also throws in 12 months of updates. But, It is not a subscription service like a ton of SAAS products. The license appears clear as to what you are getting.

Are you worried that they will retroactively revoke your license in the future?

> Is it really worth sacrificing your freedom for a little bit of convenience?

While I am not particularly fond of MobaXterm, I am wondering what freedom am I sacrificing here? It seems to be a regular software product that you can switch out to something else if/when I feel like. There doesn't appear to be any inordinate lock-in or something of that sort.

Or do you mean "Freedom" as in the GNU?

> We actually pioneered agriculture

No doubt America has made many advances in agriculture, but that statement seems way over the top for a practice that is more than 10k years old.

> creates an incentive to present the facts in the way that maximizes the payday rather than the public good

Sure, it may create an incentive to do so. However, the facts must prove to be true and enforcement action must happen before the payout happens. So, however exaggerated the claims being made by the whistleblower in question, if it is not borne out by facts and substantiation, they are not getting anything for it. I am not sure I see an issue with that.

It is the "law of the topmost comment" [1] in action

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26357974

An issue, though not an unsolvable one, is that you probably need a standardized representation of the AST to write these optimization passes against; it is not uncommon for compiler writers to disagree on what representation is the best for what purpose.

Then there is the question of optimizations that are (typically) easier/possible only at the code-generation phase.

All of this is solvable of course, but there needs to be some will to do so (or in the case of companies, enough commercial benefit).

Out of curiosity: what sort of apis are we talking about?

> It's not a contradiction, if each successive generation is more terrible than the one that came beforehand.

The OP considered this though, to quote: It's possible that there is a constant decrease in standards, such that every generation is worse than the one before it. But I doubt it. If such a steady decline had been happening since the 8th century BC civilization ought to have collapsed several times over.

Err. What does that last one mean?

What feature of rust traits make them "dynamic" as opposed to the traditional notion of typed interfaces? The latter had been part of static languages for quite a while.

Not that OP, but in keeping with his concern about incentives, it is not like Karpathy (at least) has no incentive in keeping Elon Musk's public image intact.

Exactly. And the usage of something like "asti" (for "existence" or "being") is at least as old as the Rig Vedas.

> thus a record of a time when man had no independent word for ‘existence’

This also seems a bit strange to me. Sanskrit has words for 'existence', in fact more than one, that has nothing to do with 'bhu' (the growth bit).

There are equal number of these where after a short training montage the protagonist is not only an expert in said tradition, but in many cases better than the long term practitioners.

So maybe people are focusing on the second lesson rather than the first.

> there is power in the insinuation that you have more evidence than you actually have

This is true and there is power in all manners of things, including very abusive, immoral and possibly illegal things; there is a lot of power in threatening physical (or psychological) violence to people, for example.

I guess the question is about which usage of power we should (ideally) endorse as a society as a matter of course .

Libertarianism tends to skew that way, often. So I wouldn't say it is surprising in the case, whether we agree or not.

Another alternate is "Practical Foundations for Programming Languages" by Bob Harper [1]. It is a bit more broad than TAPL (imo).

[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/pfpl/

Probably "Molecular Dynamics".

I can imagine that! In my university, we insisted on having the sheets be handwritten, which (at least) acted as a dampner.

Not the OPP, but you say:

> I think it's pretty significant that they are able to run a country with that demographics most of whom were not even educated.

and then eventually switch to

> I don't think K-12 attainment is an appropriate metric. Like I said elsewhere it's like comparing hygiene standards by saying we all have access to soap. But that's the most basic standard we can achieve

> I think if you compare the % of Chinese who go to world-class universities, it's a lot more relevant

This seems like a major shift in goal-posts. If your concept of "uneducated" means not going to a world-class university, then most of the world, including most people in the US are "uneducated".

How different is that from at-will employment though? You can be fired at any time and for more or less any non-federally-protected reason (and can quit any time too). That seems pretty uncontroversial in the US at least.

> That used to be the way that news was done, right?

That seems like a bit of a rose colored view of news in the past.

It is overruled by the "law of the topmost comment" - the top comment is very likely a negative take on some subpart of the topic at hand, sometimes unrelated to the actual article, worded in the strongest way possible.

Well, the general upvoting of the free versions of things seem to indicate that it is pretty interesting to a lot of people here. I mean, not everyone here is in a position to pay for these things especially when in many cases you don't know what you are getting or you are not in a position to judge it's value.

Also it is not merely a failure of people (in putting too much confidence in to these algorithms). It is also often actively marketed as such (fine print about culpability not withstanding).

Are there features in WizFile that make it better than Everything?