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New comment by jounker in "Why isn't mutable a subtype of immutable, or vice versa?"

jounker — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 08:32:29 +0000

Doesn’t this break down with dependent type systems?

New comment by jounker in "More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding"

jounker — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:51:21 +0000

I‘ve seen lots of people go the other way, moving towards a more self centered view of the world as they age.

New comment by jounker in "More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding"

jounker — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:43:41 +0000

In college, studying mathematics, probability was the course in did best in. The funny part is that I have a form of ilnumeria. Effectively I can’t count. As a result I have no desire to try to actually count things, and the easiest way for me to cope is by understanding the theory behind counting.

New comment by jounker in "International investment and local rules push prices up faster than supply"

jounker — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 09:32:54 +0000

This.

New comment by jounker in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"

jounker — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:21:16 +0000

My minivan seats seven. It has the footprint as a toyota camry. It’s only marginally heavier than a camry.

Can you please explain to me again why you need a lincoln navigator or the like?

New comment by jounker in "Shepherd's Dog: A Game by Fable"

jounker — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:42:40 +0000

Sarcasm aside, most shoes are pretty bad for your feet.

New comment by jounker in "Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter"

jounker — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:06:12 +0000

Apple has a runtime system that looks a lot like smalltalk. Everything at that layer is dynamic. They needed a language that could seamlessly interact with that system.

New comment by jounker in "Human Bottlenecks"

jounker — Wed, 27 May 2026 23:25:31 +0000

Im not sure if I feel seen or accused. :)

New comment by jounker in "Germany Overtakes US in Ammunition Production Capacity"

jounker — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:34:49 +0000

There are wonderful parallels with Wilhelm II of Germany. It just takes one idiot at the top with no understanding of his own failings to undermine decades of careful diplomacy and policy.

New comment by jounker in "Is my blue your blue? (2024)"

jounker — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:20:03 +0000

The person you were responding to said that cyan feels like a completely different color to them, neither green nor blue. I had the same reaction when it gave me a color that I immediately identified as teal, and I learned my colors as a monolingual english speaker in Ohio. Therefore the supposition that all English speakers see only blue or green is an oversimplification.

New comment by jounker in "Humpback whales are forming super-groups"

jounker — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 11:30:10 +0000

In recent years we’ve learned that humpbacks are generalist feeders with a wide variety of feeding strategies adapted to different kinds of prey.

New comment by jounker in "The seven programming ur-languages (2022)"

jounker — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:28:09 +0000

I think damalig falls cleanly into the prolog family.

New comment by jounker in "The seven programming ur-languages (2022)"

jounker — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:22:35 +0000

So they reinvented speadsheets?

New comment by jounker in "EFF is leaving X"

jounker — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:59:24 +0000

And yet people struggle to get Elon Musk out of their feeds on Twitter.

New comment by jounker in "EFF is leaving X"

jounker — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:57:10 +0000

Im not sure where your sense of history is coming from. One of the US‘s founding events was a boycott of British goods for political reasons.

New comment by jounker in "They're made out of meat (1991)"

jounker — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:35:32 +0000

You seem to be lacking in imagination.

New comment by jounker in "They're made out of meat (1991)"

jounker — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:32:46 +0000

I think the point is that the story’s universe is populated by intelligent life forms that did not evolve from any lineage of meat. Hence the reference at the end to the hydrogen cluster.

New comment by jounker in "Missile defense is NP-complete"

jounker — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:02:29 +0000

A v1 was 30 feet long with a 20 foot wing span, and had no evasive capabilities.

New comment by jounker in "Study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD"

jounker — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 10:58:19 +0000

As far as I know just the USA, and yes, even black doctors.

New comment by jounker in "Study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD"

jounker — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 02:40:00 +0000

As an aside, it is a well established fact that doctors, as a whole, take the the pain of black people much less seriously than the pain of non-black people.