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It would seem that Walter is not so Bright.

The quote suggests that Silicon Valley CEOs spend a significant amount of time thinking about politics, and their engineers do not.

Besides administrators and sports programs, glamorous campus amenities and affirmative action admittees.

The US government gets to define racism, if legal requirements to employ a precisely calibrated ratio of whites, women, blacks, and latinos are any guide. This is America, after all, and that’s what freedom means.

People are fired for racism all the time. You don’t disagree with that, do you?

The fact of the matter is that, broadly speaking, basic programming is a suite of cognitive processes that pretty much all come online at the same, reasonably above-average IQ, and they are irreducibly complex; they cannot be further simplified except by rote execution of formal process, at which point you should just let the computer handle it.

Have you encountered Julia, and if so, what did you think of it?

NYT is just giving MSFT its pat on the head for being "with it".

In a more humane age, they were housed in asylums.

Then Reagan happened.

I'm sometimes amazed at how afraid otherwise competent software dudes are of a bit of sysadministration.

To be fair, the sort of people who used to live there then are not of a kind with the variety that live there now. Most of those who could leave — undoubtedly like yourself — did.

Long live the Gates?

Do you not self-host?

Why not just scrape the site? I don’t see what the problem is.

When you say "pre-Trump-era industrial region", do you mean that there is now more industry there, or less?