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That's the huge difference between private schools like MIT (Ivy League and Stanford too) and public schools like UC Berkley. Public schools receive a lot of funding from the state and they should be audited by the state and have some transparency in their admissions process. California clamped down on the UC schools years ago for admitting too many out of state students, and they had the authority to do that. I don't think it's unique to Berkley at all, all state schools have to answer to the state they serve.
As a rule all women breed (there are exceptions of course). In some societies high status males breed with multiple females and low status males have none. In most societies today marriage is 1:1, though there is lots of cheating but in general it means that some women will breed with low status males just for someone - thus all genes get carried on.

As I said I assume the powerful selected politically powerful mates for their girls, which might or not be intelligent as well. However it is possible that high status was high intelligence. The lower castes not following that.

Look, the above is all just barely possible. you will have to work with me here...
It's time to end that stupid competition, and have UCs admit 10x as many students.
> subjects that working devs basically never use, like calculus, Java, and recursion

I don't know about you, but I've used all of those in real software. Additionally, I'm happy teaching myself skills needed for programming that I wasn't taught in college, but I'd much rather learn something like calculus from a teacher than on my own.
I thought you meant native desktop apps, not web apps.

I remember when ExtJS was positioned in the late 2000s to mimik rich desktop UIs and I think there are still lots of component based frameworks to use and pay for, if Bootstrap doesn't cut it. The prices are steep though.
.Net 5 and C# 9.0 are very much 100% open all the way down to the core.

https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn (c#)

https://github.com/dotnet/winforms (UI)
https://github.com/dotnet/wpf (UI)
https://github.com/dotnet/core (Foundation)

I don't consider the Win32 API itself part of .NET or C# as they've existed long before either.
> if you get recruited to play Water Polo, Crew, Golf, Volleyball, or Beach volleyball at UC Berkeley, and ~95% of kids who play those sports come from wealthy families, and recruiting gave them an edge in admissions, does that count as "inappropriate?" I would say so, but I doubt this report would.

The report comes close: "the average grade point average for the bottom quartile of applicants whom UCLA admitted for academic year 2019–20 was 4.15, but the average grade point average for its admitted student athletes was 3.74. Similarly, two‑thirds of the admitted student athletes whom UC Berkeley evaluated through its holistic review process for academic years 2017–18 through 2019–20 received the lowest possible rating from its application readers—which is equivalent to a recommendation that the applicant be denied admission."
I looked at DE Shaw's "philanthropy", the dude just gave top colleges a million dollars a year for like 5-6 years, which according to Wikipedia represented "60% of the Fund's philanthropy"
No, it really is not more complicated. The US has its own implicit systems of discrimination. The white racist from Tennessee is going to be looked down upon by the white racist from Connecticut who will be looked down upon by the white racist with a Central Park apartment.

Affirmative action is not "always bad." There are multiple purposes of affirmative action, some of which have NOTHING to do with the individual student.

About 60% of NFL alumni in the US are of African-American origin, and that number climbs every year. Most coaches in the NFL are either former players or coaches at some other level of football. The VAAAAST majority of coaches at the NFL level at ALL levels are white. Of the 32 head coaching positions in the league, only 3 are held by black coaches, and black coaches are more likely to get fired quicker than their white counterparts.

You know why? Because the owners are white. People hire who they relate to, and a white guy is going to relate to another white guy more than they will to most black guys. It's simple.

Same thing applies to affirmative action. A lower caste person who gets a chance and succeeds is more likely to hire lower caste employees. So even though those lower caste employees may not have been direct beneficiaries of affirmative action, they can still benefit from the network effect.

There is no reason to identify as "upper caste" unless one is interested in maintaining that hierarchy.
Shouldn't it be named DINE?
That's a nice announcement to see. How are Sourceforge and Slashdot these days? It's cool to see this umbrella opening up. Have the dynamics changed for SF and /. since the purchase? I interact with Sourceforge for downloads a few times a month, but I don't spend much time there otherwise.
The problem is that if we normalize it, then they will get addicted to the money and ONLY let in people who's parents can make a large donation. Finally what will be considered a large donation, will go up rapidly.
I don't think it's inappropriate and also not unexpected. It is inappropriate to pretend to have an impartial process when money drives the admission process for as long as the American universities (either public or private alike) have existed.

It's a part of the nature of these schools that money/donors get kids into school. That's the way it's always been, and it's worth saying it up front. That's the first step.

And face it, this is the reason UC Berkely, etc are so great. It's because there are donors supplying a huge stream of funding dollars. Without these kinds of favours, UC Berkeley will be a 4th or 5th rate school.

You want that new lab or that new library wing? Accept some kids with rich families. That's how it works.
But who decides what merit is, and who deserves it?

And certain kinds of merit can come primarily/only from high caste individuals. How do you choose merit that isn't coloured in race or otherwise?
Would you please explain?

In my understanding, a cult is hard to leave. For the town I want to start, anyone can walk out at any time. They can to take a chunk of money with them, determined by what jobs they worked and how long.

Cooperative communities exist in USA and around the world and can be nice places to live. Most are based on religion or ideologies like permaculture or veganism. I want to live in a secular cooperative community that prioritizes quality of life. It's how I imagine human societies could be 200 years in the future. We already have a post-scarcity economy, it's just unequally distributed.

Many people give up the ability to walk to live in suburbs. I'm willing to give up the ability to be rich to live in a nice city.
Don't you have a process where you ask the basis for both yes and no?

Both yes and no need to be substantiated by examples by the interviewers and that should be able to tell you whether there is any bias or not.
You're trying to compress a bunch of dimensions all into one explanation of "IQ", and you're assuming a lot of things here, such as physical isolation would cause divergence in IQ; that divergence in IQ would also cause later societal hierarchical advantages (over natural resources, physical power, or other non-IQ circumstances or differences); and that later removal of the physical separation and original selection pressures would continue to select for IQ in the subgroup. Maybe once your elites get entrenched, they select for other attributes like physical ones instead. I don't see a lot of societies out there where marriages are formed based on pure intellect.
I've seen people who have been on vi/emacs for decades. They truly have zero idea of what an IDE can do.

As a personal anecdote, I've seen people switch from vi to IDEA after a pair programming session. In that session they learned that IDEA has full understanding of the frameworks, configurations, code annotations and bindings etc. that we used in a project, and that you don't need to spend 15 minutes furiously searching in files for stuff when you have to change something in two or more places.
There is another solution to the area/perimeter problem used as an example.

Represent a shape as a series of edges and verticies. To compute the are of any shape, sum the lengths of the edges. To find the area, sum the signed areas of the triangles formed by each edge and the origin. Works for all shapes, just define a new one from points and edges.

The point of TFA remains. What abstraction or data structure you select can determine what opertions on the data are easy or hard. This is why we need to study data structures and such - so you can choose the right one for the problem at hand, not so you can pick your favorite and shoehorn every problem into it.
this is not about comments, it's about a lot of other interactions, many outside Facebook apps and sites - Facebook has info about websites you visited and links you clicked and webpages you liked, and where and when you did that
Not necessarily yours but yes, there's a weird lot of "AML sucks so hard so don't bother". Without suggesting what better way to approach the problem of fighting criminality[0]

If you want a precise criticism of your post, I gave it, in maths. Your figures don't seem credible and you gave no backup of them.

[0] Which eg, HSBC seems happy to indulge in while others supposedly on the side of law & order let it.
Nice charts, did you draw them by hand?

You are right. That directly contributes to latency. This effect is called pixel response time [1], and is usually measured "grey-to-grey" [2]. Nowadays, though, I think monitors usually have a short response time (<1ms for "gamer" monitors).

> Persistence is the time it takes between when the luminosity goes up and when it goes down

Right. But that proves the two are somewhat linked, especially as pixel response isn't symmetric (0->1 and 1->0).

Reading a bit more into it, the industry terms for persistence seem to be both grey-to-grey (GtG), and Moving Picture Response Time (MPRT). The latter is a measurement method [3] for perceived motion blur. It directly depends on the time each pixel remains lit with the same value ("persistence" strikes again), so a slow (>1 frame) or incomplete transition can create motion blur (contributes to persistence).

> low persistence is emulated with a high refresh rate and black frame insertion

It can also be achieved wit backlight strobing on backlit displays: strobing for 1ms on a "full-persistence" (pixel always on) display gives a 1ms persistence regardless of the frame rate. A ~1000 FPS display would be necessary to get the same level of persistence with black frame insertion alone. I believe this is part of the reason Valve went with an LCD instead of an OLED screen to get the 0.33ms persistence on the Index HMD.

[1] https://blurbusters.com/gtg-versus-mprt-frequently-asked-que...

[2] (from the above) https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00177263/document

[3] (also from blurbusters article) https://lcd.creol.ucf.edu/Publications/2017/JAP%20121-023108...
The solutions to fines not being enough is really simple (provided we assume a functional justice department). Put people knowingly involved in committing fraud in jail.

Edit: but frankly if the law was regularly enforced I expect fines would be enough here.
Probably an isolation transformer. A search for “cable tv isolation transformer” gives lots of results.
> I think the person writing this report clearly has an agenda, as can bee seen in the level of sensationalism in the clip art.

It is a non-editorialized factual report by the office auditor of CA. It's literally their job to audit things
It's probably true that generally rich kids could go to school pretty much anywhere and be okay, and that non-rich kids can have their lives transformed for the better by going to a reputable school. But isn't the latter due to the fact that people with power associate reputable schools with elite social status? Presumably if rich kids stopped going to a reputable school, it wouldn't take long for that school's reputation to diminish, even if the actual merit's of the education provided by the school didn't change.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24558590.
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The hate for stupid laws in CA is stuff like CEQA which is ostensibly about protecting the environment, but really used as a blackmail tool for residents to block more environmentally friendly apartment buildings they don't like to protect their city subsidized parking and in the end causes housing to cost more than it should.

Or the useless "anything could cause cancer" labels that get slapped on everything so everybody just ignores them.

Or the classic prop 13 which helps fuel housing affordability.

Or AB5 which will get rid of a lot of gig economy jobs outright and needed 100s of profession exceptions to not destroy even more people from getting employed.
Oh, I'm all in for email/attachment based distribution. Just not with Firefox sporting it on the web browser where you'd in all certainty require someone to host a server and for you to trust them that no changes have been made to the content.

That was the entire point of my comment at the top.
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Are Dalits in different nation now?
Idk, university classes seem a bit more efficient than African tribal dancing?
The problem is that you can only sell prestige if there is strategic ambiguity between the two categories.
Imagine seeing that type of perverse qualification for sports teams? Some players that pay for the privilege to play, others through dedication and skill. Is this the type of spectacle you would want to watch? Actually, maybe seeing some spoilt rich brat getting creamed on a football field would be worth admission.
Yes, they do provide a basis. In this case the basis was weak and lazy, though that is the style of work I've come to expect from working with this person.
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> It would be perfectly within the rule of law to allow people to pay for admissions

Not if a law exists to the contrary. And that was the point I was agreeing with -- the solution should be to write a law if one doesn't already exist; or to enforce it if it does.

> power also needs to be distributed correctly for rule of law to lead to good outcomes

Agreed, though distribution isn't the word I'd use, as it implies the existence of another human authority to determine how it should be distributed (thus granting that person or group of people improper power).

But if the placement of power is determined by duly enacted law, that's acceptable.
Giving in the end you are comparing, for me at least Rust is more in the family of languages like C++.

Very powerful, fast and close to the metal, but with uglier* syntax and not as productive as the next family of languages. Which are:

Java, C# and Swift (unlike C++ and Rust) for me are pointing into solving a very hot spot of programming, with the balance of power, being more pleasant to program in and feeling more productive.

Your code will be almost as fast as a C++ program, but you dont need to feel (that much) miserable writing stuff into it. (And i say this as someone that likes C++, but knows its not the most productive and pleasant experience)

It remedy some pain points of programming, that in my point of view at least, Rust didnt addressed the same sweet spot as Swift does.

Theres also some good things about Swift right in the corner, that is support to C++ bindings and a more fine-grained control of memory.

Once the memory ownership changes, than we will also be able to consider Swift for the same things as C, C++, Rust and Zig can right now.

Also i would say that dinamic calls while embedding script languages and function builders are very strong points that the language is becoming more powerful with each release.

Also some things like binary stability that Swift have that Rust doesnt are thing to take into account for, giving there are a lot of cases were shipping just the binaries and know they will still work is something very important for projects that cant afford to be open source.

I would consider to use Rust whenever C++ would also fit, but if i can use Swift i would not consider using Rust, because at least for me is a much better language to code.

I think people from the Rust community dont need to fear, because Rust have a strong community right now, and in that particular topic, is Swift that need to catch up and shake up this feeling of being a "apple owned language".

So i dont think they are aiming for the same thing, and therefore they dont need to be compared in a us vs. them basis, giving you can code on both, and i think it could be great if you do it.

Theres a false adage that you need to pick just one language, and having used a lot of languages and platforms over the years, im pretty happy now that i know that such thing doesnt exist.

You are better picking from 2 to 3 languages and use them according the goals of what you are building.

For me, my three languages are: C++, Swift and Python.

C++ for hardcore stuff, Swift for everything that a language like Java or C# could be considered and Python for the more relaxed (and now also expert) stuff.

You can replace Python with Ruby, Lua, etc..
replace Swift with C#, Kotlin, Java, Go, Scala, etc..
and replace C++ with Rust, Zig or C.

But if you mix the families, i say you will have a hard time using Python or C++ in the wrong places.

And this rule is also valid for Rust unfortunately.

* Note: i know this is subjective and a lot of people would find it more beautiful than Swift instead. Its ok and even good that we dont all have the same tastes.
Well, that's the HW. As with video, the 16-bits went on further than just mere hardware limits.

When we talk software mixing, STE maxed out CPU at 8 channels 50kHz, here's an example: http://yerzmyey.i-demo.pl/YERZMYEY-Octopush_ATARI_STe.mp3

Even plain 520 ST can do a lot on this YM chip.

Amiga 500 on the other had could a bit of this but only with 12kHz samples, and no volume control per channel, also those pesky filters.

Amiga 1200/4000 could do same - as per much faster CPU, but... they still left the old audio 8-bit chip in it :/
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> the only reasonable assumption

I see this forum contains a lot of people stealing sensitive government information every day to know exactly why people do what they did in Snowden’s situation.
If you attract enough hummingbirds they will go after each other, trying to spear their competition.
You've got to admire the kid that got in for babysitting for the director of undergraduate admissions...maybe they are smarter than most of the other applicants or they just happened to live next door.
it’s been legal since the 70s outside of california and outcomes for minorities have steadily gotten worse not better.
Then they could just run a dutch auction for the spots!
Ah yes, interleaving of the sectors. More prominant with early HD's and using tools like spinwrite to optimise the interleaving. Today it's all 1:1 as processing from the heads just been fast enough for decades to handle the speeds.

Spinwrite still exists, though in the early days/versions it was the golden tool for tuning up a system and could make huge differences. Like double your drive speed and more in some instances, but talking late 80's early 90's here when interleaving was thing and mid 90's 1:1 became the norm and made it moot. https://www.grc.com/Spinrite.htm
Are you sure? The source is available for both Core and old .NET and to me they all seem to be Win32 controls with some customization... unless I'm missing something. AFAIK WPF uses DirectX for rendering, so it's a bit different (it's more like Flutter... or a game engine).

Button: https://github.com/dotnet/winforms/blob/master/src/System.Wi... / https://referencesource.microsoft.com/#System.Windows.Forms/...

Toolstrip (also base for menu): https://github.com/dotnet/winforms/blob/master/src/System.Wi... / https://referencesource.microsoft.com/#System.Windows.Forms/...
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//How the fuck is a person's caste relevant? This is normal for you?

I agree. It shouldn't be. But then it shouldn't be relevant during admissions too yeh?
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How did we go from 'more lenient war indemnities' and 'false flag operations are bad' to German and Ottoman occupation?
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Hmm... my Thinkpad P53 has 2KRO on hjkl. I wonder if that'd be a problem in practice.
Well, plain ol' Prince of Persia looked much better on ST - if you compare PC/Amiga ports. Look at the torch animation.
You want money? You gotta do something to earn it. You either accept in some riched and money folk, or you get it from rapists

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/23/jeffrey-epst...

What I'm trying to say is that it's a world of greys and putting things in black and white terms doesn't do any good. MIT doesn't get money from selling spots, but they misstep and get money from other even less savoury places. You gotta get your money somehow.

If MIT did let in some legacy admissions due to donations, could it be said that the donations department would have been more discerning about not taking money from someone like Jeff Epstein? It's impossible to revisit history, but nobody is clean in this higher ed game.
I haven't had this experience - but I do have a relatively powerful PC (16gb ram, SSD, Ryzen 3600). IntelliJ has always been really responsive for me, even on large projects.
Thinking of it another way, the author is challenging the efficacy of learning from books, which is actually a pertinent point to make in a post GPT3 world. But, tbf, the author doesn't make that specific point.

So long as I am able, I will always try to find time to read something new. Especially from books. I can't be precise about this point, but I seriously believe that the kind of information that can be conveyed in a book, cannot be communicated any other way.

I think it's fair to discuss what can be gleaned from a single reading of a book, but there can never be any question of just how much can be communicated by a book, and how much can be learnt from one.

The advent of cinema, and even personal computing, has only served to show how essential a technology the written word is.

It's going to take a very radical piece of technology to improve on it. One that we probably won't see in our time.
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I wonder if a blind interview would help.

Could you guess a person's caste through his accent?
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