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As a dev that has worked with C# for the last 3 years I gotta say it's really amazing how productive you can be with it and how easy it was for me to pick it up when I joined the company I worked for at the time. Fun fact is that I didn't know it was a C# shop before going to the interview. During the interview I iterated multiple times that I don't know C# but have a vague idea (coming from a C++ background and done some projects with Java). I got the job and was doing normal feature work and bug fixing in the first week.

I really enjoy the language and the functional features that seep from F# are great. Right now C# is my goto language for fast prototyping of anything really. At this point I trust Microsoft to push the language in the right direction.

EDIT: A bit more detail and typos
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A core challenge is to grasp your own subjectivity/qualia/mind. If you can grasp it then you can write it down in some form. But the tough part is that "grasping" is a thought production. So how can a specific thought production represent the whole functioning of thought? And if it's not a thought production how can it be 'understanding'? This is where the mystics come in, who present us with a different definition of "understanding" which doesn't involve thought productions, as in an intuitive "getting it". That may well be, but it's useless for science and engineering.

So I think we're limited to speculation, which may well be fine.
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There's no "gauging potential". Would you suddenly go with OICC if it has extremely high IPC?
How about old Core instead of new Skylake? Oh shoot, there is no potential in Core if it's not being made!

Even different Zen 2 CPUs have varied performance properties not just due to cores, but due to CCX count.

The exactly one use for such microbenchmark and that's optimizing the compilers.

Even if there were multiple implementations?

Also remember that x86-64 unlike x86 is not closed, and unlike POWER, RISC-V, ARM or MIPS is not actually well defined.

If AMD suddenly adds a new but useful instruction set like they did with 3DNOW in ancient times, or accelerate something reasonably common that way, say add a special SIMD conditional, where do you even start in comparison?
What if Intel actually does add a useful FPGA programmable computing capability as promised or enhanced DMA?
Arch Linux appears to have some Pantheon applications in its repos, and the rest of the desktop is in the AUR: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pantheon
That is not really true, "CE marking involves self-certification only in case of minimal risks products. In most cases a notified body must be involved. In these cases the CE mark is followed by the registration number of the Notified body involved in conformity assessment." [0]

Also, if you import CE marked products into the EU you as the importer are responsible for the conformity, which is what Amazon tries to dodge here.

"Importers of products have to verify that the manufacturer outside the EU has undertaken the necessary steps and that the documentation is available upon request. Importers should also make sure that contact with the manufacturer can always be established.

Distributors must be able to demonstrate to national authorities that they have acted with due care and they must have affirmation from the manufacturer or importer that the necessary measures have been taken.

If importers or distributors market the products under their own name, they take over the manufacturer's responsibilities. In this case they must have sufficient information on the design and production of the product, as they will be assuming the legal responsibility when they affix the CE marking." [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE_marking
Thoughts are a process, so if they were supported by a crystal lattice, that lattice would have to go through changes.

As to your other point, the ergodicity of the system at the very least places a limit on the timescales over which consciousness may persist. I'm fairly confident in my belief that a rock cannot be conscious in any appreciable way.
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No, it's far from a tautology. A strong belief in individual liberty was a distinguishing characteristic of that society. And especially of that political society, which meant landowners. Having lots of slaves was another characteristic.

The useful comparison is just up the coast, Massachusetts was almost the opposite, a theocracy of busybodies. Where a town council could re-arrange people's living arrangements if they thought X was a bit of a loner wanting to be out in the woods. And of course enthusiasm for every detail of the approved religion was not optional.
Let's say I want to research something in private. I can absolutely connect to tor and have my identity hidden from the surveillance networks that track us all. Of course, I can't hide from the NSA. If the NSA wants me, they're gonna get me.

Also, if Google's devices or networks get hacked and used for extortion, they've got deep pockets. It'd be a cool plot for a movie, but I'm personally unconcerned about that scenario.
It's not about throttling. What will happen is that the CPU won't automatically clock up dynamically as much if you have worse cooling.

They behave like GPUs more and more with regards to clocks.
I hope I don't come across as projecting. I am just sharing my own experience in poverty. I am still not wealthy by any stretch of the imagination and I have no support network.

Obviously everyone is different. This is why I asked for other points of view for a better sample size.
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I would bet a lot of money they dragged the files to the "recycle bin" then maybe emptied it

If they were external drives it's likely they were on FAT32 which makes it even easier
Yeah being software engineer in europe is not much fun. It can be worse than just 'not making as much as a bricklayer'. for instance, your house might not be a house, but an appartment in a run-down area of town, much like the McD employee of this story.
> Junior staff often don't understand this

As people move up they either still know the business or they don't. Not trusting the people whom are running the actual business is IMO terrible.

The COO at the company I work for (recently left) could describe the daily work in detail. He could have conversations with any recently hired staff, various level of management, but also with the board, investors and customers. Lastly, he (amazingly) knew all the people he worked with before. No matter if that person 10+ years later is still in the same position (or not).

IMO having a good network, being able to communicate with various levels is highly beneficial. Your post seems to suggest some staff should not be taken seriously. That's utterly weird to me.

> How do you decide which idea is right?

From your post it seems one of the options is not to listen to staff. Further, junior staff won't gain experience if you do not let them develop.

> They have responsibility to make sure that the organization survives no matter which scenario pans out.

For one, why isn't this explained? Secondly, some decisions are bad without actually going into it any further. Then multiple years are wasted while everyone involved knew this from the start; they were just not listened to.

IMO regarding "scenario pans out": for some cases it's entirely true. But also sometimes it's not the case at all... just nobody listened to the people running the business and too much disconnect.
I’m not sure we need initonly.

Constructors are a design pattern that works and is intuitive at this point. Fair enough there are differences, but the overlap in use case is significant enough that I don’t think it warrants a rival implementation of a core language feature.

The irony of me complaining about it is that I’d much prefer we get proper object composition by letting extension methods support extended state, which would rival dependency injection in its current form.

This would overturn the apple cart even more but it’s long overdue - I implemented this years ago by using conditional weak tables but didn’t trust it even in my own work solely because if MS isn’t standing over the implementation then I’ve no way of knowing how the GC is going to handle orphaned references over time.

Example:

A car has five (obvious) wheels, only four of which have tyres and rims.

Modelling this from interfaces and injected dependencies on a parent class is a laborious anti-pattern that C# still forces me into.

I love C#, but this could be so much better.
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Is Python popular *because* it is slow?
> sometime I feel like there should be a fork, with a legacy C#

You don't have to use language features you dislike. If you want to prevent them being used, you can set the c# language level to an old version using the LangVersion element in your csproj file.

if working in a team, your team members are unlikely to thank you!
The fact that crackpottish nonsense such as Manzotti's gets any mainstream attention at all shows that we're not even remotely there yet.
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"The management of Ultrawide Band compliance and its use of location data is done entirely on the device and Apple is not collecting user location data."

Call me paranoid, but this statement is telling us that:

"The management of UWB compliance and the management of its use of location data is done on the device" -- which okays that the data can be used outside the device, only the management needs to be done on the inside,

"Apple is not collecting user location data." -- which could mean that some other parties (not Apple) _could_ collect user location data.
Can you back this up with some examples ? I feel it is exactly the opposite. For loops, mutable dictionary, in place updates to name a few imperative things you can do with easy in F#
You could use an MRI machine to show that their brain activity is the same as yours, and if you know you are conscious then that should be evidence enough. Or you could just ask them.
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To be fair, Mojeek addressed the search engine privacy problem long before DDG existed.
i think you're not wrong in the sense her living standard would be higher in a lot of ways in emerging economies. it does leave the question where the us should source its service workers from.
Because Hacker News is pretty much the more educated comment section of breitbart, with a ton more Objectivism and just slightly less white-supremacy.
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My argument is that connecting to a Google server is a better way of hiding than connecting to some obscure peer to peer messaging system.
I'm from the UK and I'm shocked at the discussion going on here. Most people commenting here are in vastly different situations to the person written about - probably both in terms of natural ability as well as education, not to mention actual salary or opportunity. Do we agree as a society we need people to work these jobs? Because if we do, it is not an argument to point out ways an intelligent person can manuveure themselves out of it. How can people be so callous and selfish?
How do you tell whether something can do that?
I suspect it doesn't exist, we wish it exists, otherwise we are machines.
> In any case, I don't see a problem with global variables.

well, that cuts short to the discussion. There are plenty of places & coding standards where those are outright forbidden.

> If you prefer having everything switched behind your back, resulting in unreadable and unintelligible source code... you do you.

we have very different notions of readable. For me the less stuff I have to read and the more readable it is - I just want my code to be the pure domain problem and could not give a rat's ass about how logging or networking or whatever is implemented if those aren't my domain.

> Can't I just add another function without breaking everything?

that does not break the code but that breaks Joe intern's mental model and expectations of anyone who will think that log_* functions are from the same library

> then why not have an explicit context argument?

and here we are, reinventing OOP by hand in C. There is literally no difference between log_event(context, ...) and context.log_event(...) - but you get better tooling :

* completion -for the first I'd most certainly end up typing the full name if there are a lot of l-started functions while for the second I'd type c<shortcut>.l<shortcut><enter> and only see the few relevant functions in the autocompletion list) etc... in the second.

* namespacing - if I want to see all the logging functions available I can just click on "context" and my IDE will happily show me all the available methods in a panel and nothing else. With C functions, well, I have to scroll in a list of 150000 functions. And also wonder (& have to explain) why log_event() is in <util/logger.h> and log_event_core is in <core/core_logger.h>.

* split implementations - if at some point you want to port your software to, say, an arduino without network capabilities (talking literally forom past experience here), the monolithic log_event function now becomes an #ifdef HAS_NETWORK / #ifdef HAS_JOURNALD / ... mumbo-jumbo. While with multiple logger subtypes it's just a matter of changing your build system to not compile the unavailable implementations, without even needing to change the code (or change a list of types in a header if you use static polymorphism instead).

> What would you do if we go for the OOP approach with a virtual method, and now call into a different module that would need a different logger?

dependency injection ? modules can request either for a default logger which will be sourced from the gui configuration, or whatever specific logger they actually need due to functional requirements.

Besides, I still don't see the readability problem with virtuals. Again in my IDE if I want to see "what happens" I press F2 on context.log_event and it displays me the list of all the possible implementations if it isn't able to determine that one is used statically at that point. And I much prefer to read three five-lines email_logger::log, journald_logger::log, websocket_logger::log functions than a pile of if/else's.
I'd be more worried about subtle long-term mutations which won't have obviously observable effects at first but will severely disadvantage us in the long run. Or only become enabled in combination with some future mutations. If a gene increases chances of a disease by 5%, how soon do you identify that?

Once a gene is widespread enough, good luck preventing gene carriers from reproducing. Most people won't care enough to screen potential partners, or even worse, it could create social tension.
I guess a hammer takes care of that too :)
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I seem to remember Microsoft paying half a billion dollars for Danger and then spending years rewriting everything on Danger's platform from Java into their own in-house technologies. (with the usual infighting about what division would own the rewrite and which in-house technology it would be based on)

By the time they were done, the iPhone had launched and it was just too late.
Doesn't work ATM, but examples here are incredible.
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When you say slicing the Gordian Knot (and fixing the lack of agency), what would be some examples?
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This is also a problem in the UK. When my children were young, it made little economic sense for my wife to continue working - practically all of her salary would have gone on childcare.

If childcare was made tax-deductible, my wife could have returned to work earlier. This would have meant our household could have contributed a far larger wedge in taxes to support society.
I've been researching and thinking about consciousness (and specifically the hard problem) for a while now, and while the whole discussion is interesting, it seems to me that invoking qualia as evidence for the existence of the hard problem (or for there being something "to explain") doesn't really make much sense. Its perfectly plausible, if not likelly, that qualia is also part of the emergent phenomenon . I'm saying this more so to hear what your (or anybody else's) thoughts here are - why would qualia lie "above" or be "unexplainable" by materialism alone?
Rent is the main problem. We are not subsidising McDonalds, we are subsidising landlords. If rent price would stay the same, the minimum wage job wouldn't need subsidies from the state.

The problem is that all powerful people own properties and they want to keep prices high. Main voters base also owns properties. It's an unsolvable problem.
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Context would mean many things. A percentage, for example, would let you see if there are areas that exceed the average. Or driver demographic slices (age group, for example). Or time of day/week. Or comparisons to other related industries. If it's higher than regular taxi service, that might help you see if they are doing something you aren't.

It's hard to improve things you don't measure with actionable data.
When I ran create-react-app npm said it audited 960000 packages. I wonder where it got that number from then?
The truth is, I think, nobody perfectly optimizes their prospects. People are people and people like to be in their social groups and compete in their social groups, which puts you on a track to a specific future.

I'm not asking for perfect optimization. Getting out of a minimum wage salary in a 15-year span doesn't require much optimization for most people. So I am asking about the cases where it does.

I hear that college is inaccessible for many Americans, maybe they should fix that. Equal social comfort opportunity can create a much more just society.

Some states offer free tuition. However in the state I grew up in, we had to get scholarships based on scholastic merit.

I worked hard and aced my tests which lead to a full 4-year scholarship along with room and board and an on-campus job, plus I qualified for government aid due to my situation (living on my own since 16 due to homeless parents).

Right before graduation a vindictive teacher changed my final project grade from a 100 to a 0, ignored school policies as well as ignored a doctor's note for excused absences, and the school administration promised they would follow up.

Well, they didn't, and on the day I received my final report card I had an F in a class I should have received a B in, and had to forfeit all of my state scholarship money. I ended up not being able to afford college and was homeless and very sick for a year after high school until I was able to get on my feet and pursue my own education online.

This is an example where working hard was not enough, and I got completely railroaded by a system designed to keep the impoverished as such. If I or a family member could have afforded a lawyer, I would have gotten my grade fixed and been able to attend college.
I think the best we can do is to build AI that is to us externally indistinguishable from consciousness, or "conscious enough." Which I think is totally doable. But that just represents what we know or recognize as conscious, which can be a very superficial understanding. If it looks like a duck...
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I think that my consciousness (that perpetual “now” we’re trapped in) happens in my brain based on information about the past state of the world. I know it isn’t a perfect rendition (see illusions, hallucinations, cognitive biases and other brain farts). I totally go by Anais Nin’s “We don’t see the word as it is, we see the world as we are”.

I know it has anything to do with the rest of the world through the impact of my actions.
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