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>This seems like a viciously difficult problem to solve to me. How do you hire someone for a city's transport agency who has the ability to manage a multi-billion dollar construction project? Anyone with those skills will surely be able to earn 10x more in the private sector.

You pay them 5x as much as they would get in the private sector. In all my hiring trouble never have I been in a position where spending what I was told was unreasonable money on staff did not result in a better outcome.

My only explanation why no one else does this is that CEO will never let anyone else in the company earn more than them.

This strawman is getting tiresome. You're equating the virus escaping from a lab with the virus being engineered with the virus being a bio-weapon with the release being intentional.

I've been 50 since I was 12. I wonder what will happen when my body catches up with my age.

Not really. There's just as many opportunities in every age, it's just that you've been burned enough times to realize that the majority of opportunities are nothing of the sort.

1 and 2 are great, 3 isn't.

>Needs a timeframe and context. Back in the, say, 1990s or maybe even early 2000s, when the modern world was just forming and the only languages students would work in were C and C++, maybe with some Bash and Perl on the side, 25k lines is a reasonable estimate for a brand new symbolic engine- a thing that in imperative languages didn't exist- with some element of typical PhD edge case over-engineering.

The modern world was very much formed by the 90s. Mathematica, Axiom, Maple, etc were all mature software written a decade or more ago. What people were doing wasn't writing a CAS from scratch but writing one that could slot into whatever program they needed at the time, e.g. chaotic simulation of the solar system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_o...

>Where do you even begin decompressing a claim like this?

Start writing the code and see where it takes you. Having done that type of work in grad school I moved from C++ to Guile for exploratory work for that very reason.

I then rewrote the slow bits in C as custom functions much like how you would in Python.

No, those people are idiots.

Don't just talk about injustice, do something about it.

The bureaucrats who should have been enabling and coordinating scientists instead decided what the policy should be for Covid19 and ruined the lives/careers of anyone who did not fall in line.

The worst of these decisions by far was the policy that covid was spread by aerosols and not airborne: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00925-7

This was nothing short of Lysenkoism in the 21st century.

I used to agree until I saw what has happened to biology in the last few years.

Economics is a science as good as any other. It's just that a lot of people with a lot of money want it to say something so it does. No science is insulated from its practitioners being bought out and the few with principles being silenced.

An extremist is someone who can't change her mind and won't change the subject.

>Others have documented the sordid tale of Mastodon’s development better than I could, but suffice it to say that many queer people, people of color, and women have been cast aside by Rochko despite significant and often culturally defining contributions to the software and ecosystem.

This is why pandering to extremists never works.

It's time that everyone born after 1980 realize the Christ Freak of your childhoods has wrapped herself up in rainbows and moved onto a new culture to destroy.

In 202X The last refuge of the scoundrel is diversity.

>What’s more terrifying is what happens to explicit material where consenting adults use filters like this? Is the law keeping up with tech like this?

I hope not. I'm sick and tired of everything being illegal because someone finds it yucky.

All my dealing with GNOME have made me dread the day that happens. We need a polyculture because we will never beat $mega_corp on a polished monoculture.

>Zoom, Slack, Spotify, Steam, Discord, Obsidian

Well yes, these are all closed source binaries. In terms of usage it's not all that different to running them in a VM. In the bad old days we just did it in an XP windows VM instead.

They don't teach you that any more than current books do.

You might gain that because you compare the two and notice the old books are obviously wrong against new data ... something the current books happily tell you too.

This reads like someone whose spend a lot of time thinking about the problem and a lot less time working on the problem.

The main gist is: Why is memory shared between two processes?

The answer is: you can unblock a deadlock when you have a consumer and producer by just turning one of them on and off. In all other cases you can't. All the 'solutions' to that problem make assumptions about the processes sharing state which are somewhere between difficult to impossible to keep valid in the real world.

In short: 2 is a magic number and it's not the fault of posix.

If that were the case why are we letting bureaucrats write these?

Did anyone check if they also used ChatGPT to write the apology?

It's like a wind powered Tibetan prayer wheel.

It can say the right things for me so I get forgiveness without actually doing anything.

Old forums aren't much better unfortunately. Going back to the places where I hung out in the 00s the inmates are running the asylum now.

It's much worse than that. The people doing the banning on reddit aren't doing it because they are paid or told to, they are doing it because they think stopping wrongthink is a public service and will feel right doing it every time.

HN isn't much better with flagging of posts. The highwater mark of this was PG's heresy post being kept off the front page for 6 hours before dang made the post unflaggable. I would have loved to see the Monday meeting where he had to explain why that was needed.

The web is boring now because everyone interesting is banned by bland mediocrities. If you don't follow the current thing to the letter every major social media platform - bar twitter for the last two months - would remove you from circulation pretty much instantly. The only people who agree with everything that is popular right now are the ones incapable of thinking. Ergo a chat bot trained on old forum data seems more genuine than anyone left on Reddit.