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New comment by g15jv2dp in "Caltech, long a bastion of male students, enrolls first class of majority women"

g15jv2dp — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 17:12:06 +0000

> At Caltech, there has been an average gap of 10 percentage points between the acceptance rate for male and female applicants since 2003-04. Women were accepted at more than double the rate for men for the 2022-23 school year.

This is about acceptance rate. We were talking about number of applicants. Where are the numbers for applications?

> In my personal experience, it was actually the opposite. I self censored my application to MIT because I noticed that they rejected all the men from my high school and accepted all the women who applied, despite the men being equally or more qualified.

Your anecdote is supposed to beat data...?

New comment by g15jv2dp in "Caltech, long a bastion of male students, enrolls first class of majority women"

g15jv2dp — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 16:36:58 +0000

> They also didn't say men would even ask anyone out, are you being sexist, and assuming men always ask, and women do not?

Not remotely related to what I said.

> Or are you suggesting women don't have a sex drive, and should be chaste?

Not remotely related to what I said.

Why do you feel the need to make stuff up?

New comment by g15jv2dp in "Caltech, long a bastion of male students, enrolls first class of majority women"

g15jv2dp — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 16:34:30 +0000

> I can guarantee you that way more men applied to Caltech than women did.

You cannot guarantee that. Show some data or don't say anything.

> That means the most talented and impressive young man who applied and didn’t get in is objectively more talented and impressive than the least talented and impressive (though still extremely talented and impressive) woman who applied and got in.

This doesn't follow. If women self-censor (not sure how to say it in English correctly) their applications in such a way that only top women dare applying, while men don't, then no, it's not true that the men who didn't get in are more talented than the women who didn't get in. I'm not speaking in hypothetical, this is what actually happens - see e.g., Bosquet C., Combes P-P., García‐Peñalosa C., 2019, « Gender and Promotions: Evidence from Academic Economists in France », Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 121 (3), 1020-1053 or https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/nos-blogs/dialogues-economiques/pl...

The rest of your comment is based on faulty premises so I won't bother replying point by point.

New comment by g15jv2dp in "Caltech, long a bastion of male students, enrolls first class of majority women"

g15jv2dp — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 16:28:43 +0000

Women don't go to university to enter your personal dating pool.

New comment by g15jv2dp in "Clay (short for C Layout) is a high performance 2D UI layout library"

g15jv2dp — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 16:27:31 +0000

Which is bad.

New comment by g15jv2dp in "Snowden: The arrest of Durov is an assault on the basic human rights"

g15jv2dp — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 19:59:59 +0000

Durov chose to become a French citizen. What do you make of that?

New comment by g15jv2dp in "Why Does Elisp Suck"

g15jv2dp — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 05:45:53 +0000

> This seems to be missing the elephant in the room - elisp doesn't suck, it is just a lisp.

The article lists a few defaults of elisp that aren't shared by all lisps. What do you mean by this sentence?

Pierre Cartier Passed Away

g15jv2dp — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 17:20:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2024/08/19/pierre-cartier-mathematicien-francais-est-mort_6286756_3382.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41292834

Points: 3

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New comment by g15jv2dp in "RP2350 PicoDVI Preview"

g15jv2dp — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 09:06:01 +0000

This already exists, right now...? I've seen tons of USB hubs with an hdmi output and several USB ports that can be used concurrently. Hell I'm using one right now. Are you asking about something else?

New comment by g15jv2dp in "US judge has girl handcuffed for sleeping during court field trip"

g15jv2dp — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 16:38:27 +0000

> One thing you'll learn about my courtroom is that I'm not a toy. I am not to be played with.

What a narcissistic piece of shit. Not everything is about you...

New comment by g15jv2dp in "Markdown is meant to be shown (2021)"

g15jv2dp — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 16:17:12 +0000

Ctrl+Z

New comment by g15jv2dp in "Markdown is meant to be shown (2021)"

g15jv2dp — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 16:16:36 +0000

> I think in practice, people write "Emphasize words like this.", then , then . At least I myself usually add markup immediately after writing the words to be marked up.

Is this very different from " "?

New comment by g15jv2dp in "Show HN: High-precision date/time in SQLite"

g15jv2dp — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 14:28:58 +0000

WTF. I'm interested in what you've created and want to understand the reason for your design decisions, and this is how you reply?

edit: Well, it seems that the parent comment has been edited. But honestly, after reading the initial comment, I'm not interested in engaging in any way whatsoever with this person.

New comment by g15jv2dp in "Show HN: High-precision date/time in SQLite"

g15jv2dp — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 14:11:27 +0000

There's no reason it wouldn't "work", the question is "why". Having such precise dates obviously comes with some compromises (e.g., the representation is larger, or it's variable depending on the value which comes with additional complexity, etc.). So surely there must be some pros to counterbalance the cons. "Because it's what Go does" is an answer, but I don't know if it's a convincing one.

New comment by g15jv2dp in "Why we picked AGPL"

g15jv2dp — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 18:33:43 +0000

The people who did the work obviously think it's fine, otherwise they wouldn't have licensed it under such a permissive licence.

New comment by g15jv2dp in "Why we picked AGPL"

g15jv2dp — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 15:15:09 +0000

Sorry but what does "arms length" mean? My software doesn't have arms. Using metaphors full of imagery is cute but essentially meaningless.

> Two programs communicating over a socket aren't incorporated. They're two programs.

Aren't they? So, if I want to use a GPL library, all I need to do is write a little wrapper program that does RPC over a socket, and boom, I can use a GPL library in my closed source program? Obviously not.

New comment by g15jv2dp in "All of Earth's water in a single sphere (2019)"

g15jv2dp — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 19:11:40 +0000

It's a sphere, the height is equal to the diameter that you plainly see on the picture.

New comment by g15jv2dp in "0xCAFEBABE & 0xFEEDFACE (2003)"

g15jv2dp — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 17:00:56 +0000

There's a difference between "talking about it" and "the word is uttered somehow at some point".

New comment by g15jv2dp in "Tensors, the geometric tool that solved Einstein's relativity problem"

g15jv2dp — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 16:09:59 +0000

I responded to a sibling comment with an explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41234913 But good on you for the condescension even though you didn't understand my point ;)

New comment by g15jv2dp in "0xCAFEBABE & 0xFEEDFACE (2003)"

g15jv2dp — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 16:08:55 +0000

The mere mention of the word "testicle" makes you think that your coworkers want to have sex with you? Wow.