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Re:Abolish High School (2015) on Saturday May 29, 2021 @05:31PM (#27328385)
I don't think it's anything but myth that it be a any better outside the borders of America.
The conclusion of connections season 1 pretty much is that knowledge needs to made more freely available. He has also held a dozen of long winded talks on the topic like e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvIy52kX-uU There also exists this quite more concise interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3XoLycc9io
I'm looking forward to when academia actually tumbles down. People like James Burke have been awaiting this for ages.
Re:ABI Mistakes on Saturday May 08, 2021 @06:06PM (#27091193)
"Well, what’s wrong with that? Surely we can just do what we did in the days of dumb compilers and pass structures by pointer. Unfortunately, that doesn’t work anymore; compilers are smart now, and they don’t like it when objects alias. " What does that even mean? Does gcc cry after I make it translate code with pointers, I simply don't get it.
The only thing lacking is a link to the technician's manual, but I imagine that might unfortunately provoke some legal trouble.
Re:The Two Cultures of Mathematics (2000) [pdf] on Monday April 26, 2021 @07:31AM (#26941411)
You bluntly imply that j.blow wouldn't perish from using unity, but offloading to monopolies is really just a race to the bottom.
Rather sad all of her prior employers are without any regard to humans.
Re:I'd like to review your README on Saturday April 17, 2021 @07:40AM (#26843493)
Code for asynchronous work, but it's isomorphic whatever that means.
Re:The Lucrative Art of Chicken Sexing (2017) on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @06:42PM (#24703227)
The wikipedia article slightly disagrees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_sexing#Vent_sexing