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I would agree, but there are still some interactions that require doing the same thing repeatedly in order to make progress (eating rice balls, eavesdropping).

This is some drawback. "I have access to the same bad alternatives as everyone else."

I wonder if that was ever popular, considering the deoptimization effects of try/catch, and given that block scope can also be managed by renaming variables.

Social media has already homogenized our thoughts so much. So many facts and perspectives are presented that it's impossible to construct our own opinions on it all without taking inspiration from others, and the upvote button provides a convenient consensus.

In music, a refrain is a passage that we return to rather than continuing to progress the song. When we hear refrain as a verb, the metaphor tends to focus on the "abstaining from something else" aspect, but here she's focusing on the "repeated passage" aspect. It's not a common use but it basically works.

There are at least two reasonable readings of "anger is eliminated", with one being true if anger is reduced at all, and both being true if anger is reduced to zero.

I think mainstream views would deserve attention if they're directly answering these criticisms. If such point by point responses exist, and if they're compelling, then that's what we should be talking about right now.

Without getting into what it means to "trust" Woit or anyone else, whether we're talking about specialists or domain outsiders like myself: if experts disagree, it's up to them to explain why. I can't guess why their superior knowledge has led them to reject the line of argument unless they tell me.

I could point out several that are doing that very thing right now.

He's shown us his character as a leader so many times at this point. When he called Vern Unsworth "pedo guy", I didn't know how to square it with my image of him, so I mostly forgot about it. Took a while to realize it's who he is.

It's true, the article doesn't make that claim. We think of primes as being mysterious and out of reach, and we're conditioned to think "mathematical / computational breakthrough" when we read the words "prime number" in a headline, but this is only because we've found all of them that aren't huge enough to be mysterious. Computing prime numbers is trivial as long as you don't mind them being the same ones everybody else already found.

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A refinement would be that the company should focus on acquiring the developers who will provide the most marginal benefit. For an organization that values diversity but that currently has a non-diverse team, this could tip the scales toward a competent developer who exists outside that monoculture.

I could breed a human baby for meat, and it, too, would exist to fulfill its purpose by dying. There are two major differences:

1) You probably place value on the baby's life and its ability to suffer, whereas that seems not to be the case for farm animals.

2) The government also places value on the baby's life, and disagrees with my assessment that its purpose for existing is to feed me. This at least serves to prove that different observers can disagree about a being's purpose, and opens the door to the fact that the animals, at least, do not agree with you about what their purpose is. (They won't say so, but the government has nothing to declare about the baby's purpose either, only that I may not kill it.)

The argument is based on the idea that farm animals exist to be useful to us, and since that isn't objectively true, I don't see that the argument reveals any objective truth.

That's fair, but on the other hand, none of those other waves of automation have empowered machines to do knowledge work, the last refuge of human productivity. That's the barrel our generation is staring down.

And waste their youth in prison.

If we assume that governments and businesses start giving a shit then many forms of magic are possible.

As an implementation detail that's true out of necessity, but the simple English explanation of the mechanic would be "they are rewarding you for having an amiibo", not for having an NFC code. You wouldn't say "the passwords on Apple's databases are there to reward intruders who possess the correct password", right?

Whatever economic system may be in place, it will be possible to profit by making better decisions in that context, but that doesn't prove the superiority of that system, and it doesn't make it "terrifying" to wonder whether this or that emergent phenomenon is a feature or a bug.

Nobody is rebuilding anything on this planet, not considering how deep we need to drill/mine at this point to get anything good, and the example will not be useful to anyone who arrives here from elsewhere.

Many services have this issue, that perfection is the minimum requirement. I don't understand why, given this, we don't just go to a thumbs up / thumbs down rating system. We have one option that means "fine" and four (or nine) that mean "terrible, and a risk to your business".

I know I personally gave plenty of three star reviews on Lyft before I learned better, meaning them as "no complaints". Who knows what happened to those drivers as a result. Why even invite the misunderstanding?

Isn't it already in the browser's cache in that state anyway?

Like disk cache as in Cache-Control? In most cases you wouldn't cache the HTML itself, but in cases where you do then your use case should already work as stated, since for the browser to do otherwise would imply the cache is being intentionally ignored for the view-source request.

Possibly because they won't be doing it, or at least not going so far as to unconstitutionally refuse to hold hearings on Supreme Court replacements.

Bart becomes chief justice of the Supreme Court in the episode "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie".

The advantage OP was referring to was that you could force a type warning at all, as opposed to PHP, JS etc where typed arrays don't exist (notwithstanding Uint32Array and such).

As you indicated, almost none of what was once called ES7 made it into the final spec: http://www.2ality.com/2016/01/ecmascript-2016.html

At least exponentiation is slightly cool. Hasta la ES8 siempre I guess.

I would argue that automatically adding methods to a user-created object isn't optimal either.

I wonder which features are slow. I'm assuming generators and by extension the for-of syntax, which is otherwise a thing of beauty. I imagine proxies are somewhere between slow and horrifyingly slow.

I have noticed that none of the features I'd hoped would save cycles (const, generators, fat arrow functions) seem to be helping at all in the browsers of today.

Your codebase is very modular and wonderful but for other projects, large files (100kb+) are not uncommon. For those projects, "clean up your code before using my product" is not an acceptable answer.

Not the parent, but the JS regex engine is less powerful than what Sublime uses (PCRE?), lacking among other things atomic groups, possessive quantifiers and lookbehind.