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> believing that religious believers accept 100% of religious belief without reasoning about them is a misunderstanding.

I didn't say anything about religions and ideologies not using reasoning. Anyone who has read, say, Thomas Aquinas is perfectly aware that religious people can use all kinds of complicated reasoning to justify their beliefs.

What I did say is that the set of beliefs in question are "all asserted as justification for each other in what amounts to a logical circle". For example, Thomas Aquinas spent a lot of time building up a huge edifice of interlocking propositions about God, all logically related to each other--but they don't connect to anything else. They're just a free-standing, self-consistent logical structure that can't be justified in any way except by claiming that it justifies itself. It's not that Aquinas didn't use reasoning; as noted above, he did--lots of it.
> Few people understand that most religions e.g. Judaism and Christianity have an apologetic discipline – a deliberate arm open to debate.

The range of permissible debate is quite narrow in reality, and usually start from an assumption that the core tenets are more or less true.

> If you believe you are not religious, it just means that you don’t have the cognitive tools to recognize the secular ideology that you have adopted.

You're basically defining all belief as religious belief. You're welcome to it, but it's not particularly useful or constructive. And suggesting those that don't have the belief haven't actually thought about it, or lack the tools to do so, is a bit antagonistic, really.
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It should be the same as the C code compiled with clang. Apart from edge cases, it's a straightforward 1:1 translation. It all ends up in the LLVM optimizer either way.

c2rust doesn't change semantics of the C code, so there's no added safety, no extra abstraction, no checks. The converted code can be the first step in refactoring towards safe Rust, but that's a manual job.
Hitting Reader quickly on load in Firefox also gets you the text.
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That would be cool and useful, it wouldn't be as cheap or easy as done with EL wire like I was thinking
Probably obvious, but apothecary also comes from apotheke, so it’s related to bodega.
Somewhat similar but much more focused on payments specifically.
There aren't all that many immigrant nations like the US though. Canada, Australia, New Zealand, that's pretty much it? Maybe Singapore or the UK at a stretch.
I honestly don't know how many times my data has been stolen from various entities. The biggest/most important was the OPM breach, but there have been so many more that I legit don't know the number of times and would have to paw through a bunch of records to find out.
People get too caught up on "ownership"

There are lots of orphaned entities on this planet which collect capital and grow capital and pay out to different parties who are not shareholders, who are not directors, or to no one. This is not a complicated concept.

Well, it is to certain people, the ones who will squabble over a debate about it for 100 years while nothing meaningful changes.

In the sake of this article, just make a flow chart instead of dancing around the concept of ownership like its a mysterious controversy for 10 paragraphs.
The problem is that I don't want that information to be public.
I agree with this. It seems like OP taking the position that everyone is in fact religious, even when they say they are not. This is a position I see many religious people take, and I completely disagree with the premise.

I also don't really consider myself an atheist, either. Ignostic is accurate. Maybe that's worse ;-)
> I had reason to use Latex a few years later, and decided I really dislike the sheer complexity of it all

I'm not sure I understand what 'it' refers to in this sentence--is it LaTeX or LatexMk?

Also thanks a lot for LatexMk. When I was a course assistant in undergrad I used to live-TeX lecture notes and I couldn't have done it without LatexMk. Students loved the notes and I made sure to let them know about the Perl script that made them possible :)
The term measurable is referring to "measurable functions" in measure theory, which correspond to functions verifying that the pre-image of any measurable set belonging to the sigma-algebra of the codomain belongs to the sigma-algebra of the domain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measurable_function). I do not know how to state it in simpler terms, sorry. When the measure of the domain is 1 (as in a probability space), we call measurable functions random variables, hence their relevance to this topic.

Now, tempered distributions are functions that assign a complex number to a very rapidly decaying function (a Schwarz space function), and it satisfies linearity properties. So this is a function that takes functions and maps them to complex numbers. https://secure.math.ubc.ca/~feldman/m321/distributions.pdf
That's amazing. I'll be trying that trick next time I have some time to kill in a building!

We also play the game sometimes of getting places we're not supposed to (as consultants). Walk around like you're from IT and are supposed to be there (technically both true), perhaps with a laptop under your arm, nobody will care what you do to any of the computers there. In schools and hospitals, and probably other places, try (variants of) the city you're in as password, perhaps combined with the postal code, and you usually get access to everything because of course the staff needs to actually help you. The username is pre-filled, don't worry about that (most of the time that's the field with more entropy).

It's honestly terrifying and short of locking rooms (because some of the personnel needs fast access to computers, preferably faster than plugging in and out smartcards all day long) there just isn't really a solution. I'm pretty sure we could have walked into a surgery room, we steered clear of any place that looked like it might head us into places with patients under actual operation. Why those aren't locked I don't know, probably there is a good reason so probably they can't change that...
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>First, people don't acquire the beliefs by considering and weighing evidence; they acquire them by being told them, usually at a young age, by people they trust, and making them part of their identity. That's why people are so resistant to changing such beliefs.

Second, the set of beliefs acquired in this way is not just a few isolated ones, but a whole network of beliefs that cover every aspect of life and are all asserted as justification for each other in what amounts to a logical circle.

Those two hold for, say roughly, 90% of what most people believe, secular or not.

Even most scientific theories people believe, they haven't examined and are incapable of following their theories and experiements personally - they were just being told they are truth and they trust it to be so.

(Heck, most people are even incapable of deriving the math answers somebody like Archimedes or Pythagoras arrived at 2.5 milenia ago, and all they know of a work as basic as Newton's is that there was some falling apple involved, or, if they really paid attention at school, that f=ma).
…like cleaning one’s home and eating food?

Without context, your statement is true; as a response, it seems a bit of a stretch.
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It was always speculative that it would be the "next big thing". The basic claim of this tech is that a higher bandwidth screen experience is a better experience - and that's always had practical constraints, like, I'm not replying with a 4k video message here, because it's not the medium for that.

Between AR and VR, AR is the harder to address comprehensively - we knew going in that we can make pretty pictures in VR by leveraging existing CG pipelines, and there's definitely some market for aesthetic immersion in VR. But VR has also mostly hit a wall outside of that realm since it gives up a lot to achieve this goal - cost and accessibility are both much weaker relative to 2D screen experiences. It's badly positioned for consumer use despite intensive marketing in that direction. AR adds the extra claim of making use of more of the real world, and this is still a thing with potential, but again has trouble in many cases justifying itself relative to the headaches - for a lot of applications the quality and kinds of sensor data needs to be higher for it to really give results.

Net result: a bunch of startups got funding to chase after the buzzword, the survivors mostly pivoted into more traditional businesses.
I agree there aren't many. It still is myopic to view this as something specific to America, as opposed to a generic quality possessed by all immigrant-dominated societies, and the fact that there are only a few such societies doesn't change that. Many (obviously not all) American authors do tend to view it in that myopic US-centric way. America is never as exceptional as some Americans think.
> I don't understand the question. Truth is the correspondence of the mind with the real.

That is only the correspondence theory of truth.

There are many other truth-theories.

There is the coherence theory, pragmatic theory, constructivist theory, consensus theory. Why have you chosen that particular truth-theory?

I use utility in the same sense of “teleos” - end purpose.

What is the purpose of truth?
What is the purpose of having a mind correspond with the real?

For your particular conception - it is impossible for any mind to correspond to the real because any given mind is only a subset of the real.
“Cutting down the tall poppy”
Oh, wow. Very difficult.
> had I admitted not pouring maple syrup on my morning eggs and bacon.

That sounds tasty. Can I be an honorary Canadian?
I am curious how being "individualists" had them end up with something like Homeowners Associations. I am an individualist myself to a relatively high degree and I do not understand how something like that can be tolerated at all.
The Crown Estate is in no meaningful way owned by Queen Elizabeth. It’s dishy to talk about it but functionally it’s just a UK government asset.
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So, it puts me at risk to participate like that even under a pseudonym. But, if you really think people like me are why HN isn't what it used to be then I'll step aside. I wish this place had the community it used to have, too.
Also https://pythonspeed.com/articles/faster-python/

And having just read that yesterday, I was very confused to open this post and immediately see complaints about the author's tone.
Atheism is actually polytheistic.

The Gods can be identified by answering these questions: “why am I here?”, “who am i?”, “what should I do?”, “what is true?”, “why should I suffer & die?”, “what will happen tomorrow?”, “who matters more: myself or others?”.

The deities of the secular religion would be “the self”, your parents, “the government/state and its figureheads“ , money (and the institutions controlling it), the earth / ecology/ the environment , “science”

These are deities because they are the object of irrational fear, worship, rituals & sacrifice.

To be clear, these gods are also worshiped by formally religious people (christians, muslims etc).
I've built stuff to help friends in the past solve issues.

One tip, design 1 functionality on the API, build the UI on it, have your girlfriend try it out and give you feedback.

She'll slowly give you feedback to improve and also ask what other things she might want.

The things we end up thinking are priority (or the fun ones we want to tackle) might not really be priorities for them.
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The meaning of Sakuga and how it pertains to animation quality
The automaker does not believe sensitive information is involved in Canada.

I guess it's just coincidence within an hour of reading about this I got a phone call claiming to be from my Canadian VW dealer looking to refund an amount they overcharged on labor the last time I had my car in. It was the most convincing scam attempt I've ever encountered.

Caller ID matched the correct, local number for the dealer. The guy sounded enough like the service rep I dealt with the last few times to fool me, and knew to go by his nickname instead of the full name found on the invoice and email signatures. He sounded authentically embarrassed, and spoke with the right amount of "um's" and "ah's" you'd expect from a service guy.

They knew exactly when I had my car in. The work had been complex and there were a number of billing adjustments made at the time, so I wasn't too surprised. I even thanked him for his honesty for correcting it. Saying they didn't have my credit card on file, he offered to either leave the amount on file as a credit or take my card number to refund it immediately. He wasn't very pushy about which to choose, and to be honest it wasn't until he asked for my expiry date that I got more suspicious.

Funny part is at one point I asked if he'd heard about the hack. It clearly caught him off guard, and after a long pause he was like "No... there's been no official word on that yet".

I called the dealership right afterward, and the receptionist said she hadn't heard about it either and acted as if it would be totally normal for him to collect my credit card information (oops). Still wary, I reached out to him by email - and got confirmation it wasn't him, and that they're working with law enforcement.

Obviously I canceled my card. I can't help but wonder if the hackers might have gotten away with it had they gained control of their email as well. I can't imagine how many people are falling victim to this scam as you read this, and wonder if other dealerships are being similarly targeted. VW really has to step up their messaging.
To quote rob pike, patron saint of unix and go:

"Syntax highlighting is juvenile. When I was a child, I was taught arithmetic using colored rods. I grew up and today I use monochromatic numerals." - https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/hJHCAaiL0so/m/kG3B...

Syntax highlighting is clearly not a universally agreed upon need, nor universally agreed upon as good (see also http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/syntaxhighlighting/i...)
That test is basically just memorising a leaflet of facts and figures. It’s not to be taken seriously one way or the other.
Why would one of baby’s first/simplest words be something so abstract as “person” (=man) instead of “food” or “milk”?
I think there's a big difference between belief and dogma. While I agree there is lots of secular dogma, not all secular belief systems are dogmatic. If your belief system is constructed in a fundamentally evidence-based and emotionally-detached manner, then even your core beliefs should be open to challenge and question. I don't think most members of large institutionalized religions are willing to seriously entertain that their core tenets are wildly mistaken, otherwise they are in serious danger of becoming atheists.
I can see how during the last 30 years opportunities become fewer and fewer in Canada. I assume it is probably the same in the US. Well we have to feed ever increasing appetites of 3-percenters or whatever the number is. On top of that there are generally more and more people and less resources.
I don't think religion is declining at all.
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I don't go so far as denouncing morals, I'm glad they exist, but I'm very skeptical of them.

Morality works well for its evolved purpose, which is to bind together small tribes and push someone into action in response to visual and audio cues that someone is suffering.

Beyond that, it's highly flawed.

It doesn't get switched on for out-groups. Arguably it contributes to tribal conflict.

It can be co-opted so easily by nefarious charismatic leaders, motivating morally outraged people towards atrocity.

It can be co-opted easily by a victim-playing psychopath in an interpersonal setting for personal gain.

It's used as a mask for policies and ideologies that are really a byproduct of jealousy, envy, self-interest, among other motivations.

It's not rational, we become less altruistic as the scale of the problem grows, and we respond more to emotional stimuli than actual information about what's going on.
Any private foundation or trust can function this way. These kinds of organizations have no owners only contracts that specify conditional outcomes.

Anybody can make these. Anybody can capitalize them. They can own the titles to anything. The trustees can be natural persons and other entities and other trusts, and governments. The trustees can be swapped out with no public record of it ever changing. The directors and administrators can change as well.

There is an infinite number of them in existence.

It isn't more or less complicated that the Queen of England is intrinsically tied to one. The article does a disservice by leading with that.

The primary confusion is just in the name of the entity "The Crown Estate" as both a concept and a registered entity, the concept of the Crown/Monarchy, and the personal private holdings of the Queen. But these can easily be abstracted away by simply re-labeling them in a chart and not acting like its that confusing.
>There’s nothing wrong with this post factually, but the tone sucks. It has an immensely combative energy for what is not really a charged subject matter.

Perhaps because the subject matter doesn't matter.

The really important takeaway message is more about the industry/community not paying attention to shitty defaults and winging it for decades, than about the potential speedup and/or this particular mechanism.
One example I've noticed of a non-religious group acting similarly to a religious group is certain very online feminist communities.

Instead of original sin, they believe that society hates women, and this is the root of all society's problems.

Instead of regular repentance, they advise regularly checking your privilege / fighting your internalized misogyny.

Anyone who questions their beliefs must be a heretic who hates women and must be cancelled. Etc.
Just googled Kristina Keneally. You're living out very relevant info.

Born to and raised by Australian mother.
Then married Australian man before moving to Australia.

I think the blood and subsequent marriage connection helped immensely in how she is viewed. I think that would be the same for most other Euro nations. At least one parent of the land along with partner from the land and residing in the land for 30+ years.
>This is recalling the old Linus debates, but the aggressiveness _doesn't improve the clarity_, and is basically upping the word count.

It drives the point home though, and keeps the energy levels higher.
Ruby is a much better designed language than Python but the community unfortunately made the mistake of focusing too much on Rails and web development at the expense of diversification. Python is the Skoda of scripting languages.
An atheist denigrating the intellect of a religious person?! I'm shocked.

It is a tautological argument in that it is true absolutely. Thats not a bad thing. Any system of belief is fundamentally predicated on faith based axioms. E.g. basically everything one thinks is "religious" to some degree.
> it started going downhill for us developers on the macOS and ios platform;

You didn’t answer the question. Was there a time you could develop and distribute on iOS without paying the license fee?

> If you are fine with a corporate abusing their control over their platform to exploit money from you, both as a developer and a consumer, then we don't really have anything else to discuss because of our differing economic / political belief on this subject.

This is a logical fallacy — begging the question — when you state a position as an absolute truth.

No one is “fine” with a corporation “abusing their control”. But your argument is based on the premise that charging for an SDK or charging a license fee to build and distribute on iOS or Mac is itself an abusive practice.

The counter argument is that it isn’t. Because anyone could develop and distribute software for Windows or Unix doesn’t mean that that is the only model and anything else is abuse, which you’re claiming as an absolute truth.
I'm sure for surgery rooms (at least), needing someone to rush in to help and having them fumble with ID cards outweighs a bad party trying to, I guess, muck up a surgery or something.
Pretty sure Covid got everyone that didn't agree it was good. Statistically.
> Few people understand that most religions e.g. Judaism and Christianity have an apologetic discipline – a deliberate arm open to debate.

That's just a trick religious evangelizers use as bait to unleash their barrel of canned answers.

And boy, you really have a lot of ammunition to use.

But, and this is an important but: In the end, it is all just rhetoric to justify what you already believe and are unwilling to change.
Skipping through several stages of English and French, the derivation is:
male < Latin masculus < mas “male (animal)”
female < Latina femella < femina “woman”

masculus and femella are diminutives of mas and femina respectively.
Secular beliefs are invariably religious positions.

It comes down to what you believe is axiomatic about the world.

For example, asserting that life is soulless and meaningless is to take a stand on something that you cannot know. It's a religious position.

All secular beliefs stem from similarly foundationless religious positions.

Or maybe not foundationless, but without acknowledgement of the religious roots (that is, positions that require faith), which is probably worse than acknowledging that the beliefs you hold cannot be proven.

It's worse because it leads people to believe they have a leg up on those religious clods with their backwards ways. When you don't recognize the things you assume about the world require faith, there is no corrective mechanism capable of opening your mind to other possibilities. Secular people and secular beliefs are ironically very close minded.

Take all the things that you believe to be true and work backwards to first principles. What are the assumptions that those principles require to be true?
I think "retirement = doing nothing" is an incredibly strange assumption to make.
>Someone wrote that inanimate object. Someone likes that inanimate object.

You'll find somebody liking everything you can name. Even every attrocity has been done by somebody.

Not attacking the person is of course the correct thing.

But if you can't even attack the attrocity or bad choice, we've gone too far with this sensitivity thing.
To be fair, in my case that’s because I play computer games until 2am, nothing to do with my job that ends at 6pm.
Thanks for your reply to my original comment. I hadn’t considered Ecto, but I guess it does make sense to think of the ChangeSet abstraction irrespective of whether or not you are persisting the data in question. Appreciate it. Do you have an email or something so we could chat further?
However, to the post’s point, the glue (the arguments to tr, sed, etc) becomes explicit and easy to identify.
In my experience, while American conservatives have become more moderate over years, socialists have gotten worse and more extreme in every which way.
They're all jokes:

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Well the scientific method is fundamentally faith based in that we assume that there are immutable properties of thebuniverse that can be discovered and that our perception allows us to interrogate these properties.

Yes this is a very well corroborated claim, but fundamentally faith based nonetheless.
He's also got some other great videos on software design.
My observation shows it has less to do with religion and more with the large influence of the media (not just the news)

TV, radio, news, internet, personal voice - comments posts such as hacker news.

People would have never connected before social media, tv, radio to align in mass.

Religion has been more about social that faith for decades. Now people have another option - internet and social media.