Dennis Hackethal’s Blog
My blog about philosophy, coding, and anything else that interests me.
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An archive of my tweets and retweets through . They may be formatted slightly differently than on Twitter. API access has since gotten prohibitively expensive – I don't know whether or when I'll be able to update this archive.
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The kind of joy you feel at the end of such an experience makes it all worth it.
Programming is so amazingly Popperian at its core. You have to actively look for errors and criticize yourself and constantly realize how little you know and enjoy that process.
You can't keep doing this for years on end if you hate yourself for not figuring out programming issues within less than an hour. Sometimes it takes longer. 4+ hours isn't even that long, I've seen much worse (weeks+).
I just spent 4+ hours on what seemed like a bug – really I was just using something wrong and it could have easily been avoided had I read the documentation more closely.
IMO a lot of what makes or breaks upcoming programmers is whether they love or hate that kind of experience.
RT @dchackethal:
@elonmusk @TimRunsHisMouth
If it was a grave mistake, why did you make a poll to determine wether it'd be corrected?
@prof_freedom @NickHudsonCT @PanData19
Excited for him to be back.
when you ask it for a number, can it give you just a number instead of a full sentence?
1) easier and faster to read, 2) easier to parse (no need for regex)
RT @christiandean_:
Extensive and thorough defence of taking children seriously by Dennis in this hand-to-hand FAQ
@TCSparents
RT @dchackethal:
@EKStewartNH @fakeaarontweets @JoeReynolds2020 @FreeRangeKids
Do you know any toddlers?
yes
They are reflexively con…
RT @dchackethal:
@kahloun @EKStewartNH @fakeaarontweets @JoeReynolds2020 @FreeRangeKids
as a counterexample, i was persuaded as a child tha…
If it was a grave mistake, why did you make a poll to determine wether it'd be corrected?
RT @dchackethal:
@SenorMustachio @tripencrypt @fakeaarontweets @JoeReynolds2020 @FreeRangeKids
why didn't you answer? is it because the ans…
Are you seriously asking “What if the child doesn’t want to learn social skills?”
yes
RT @AlexEpstein:
"It is already too late to avoid mass starvation."
- First Earth Day organizer Denis Hayes, 1970
RT @paulg:
You might think it's impossible to know exactly what the world looked like before photography was invented, but with hyperrealis…
.@elonmusk Please consider removing your predecessors' political messaging from Twitter's developer documentation.
E.g. developer.twitter.com/en/blog/produc… contains messaging about black lives matter.
IMO including political messaging in developer documentation is unprofessional.
Using $' with ruby regexes CRASHES my computer.
lol I don't think I'm gonna debug this one.
children are not little totalitarians who need to be broken and civilized
you say "Of course not" but then seem to argue in favor of it anyway
throwing stuff to see if and how it flies…
RT @elonmusk:
@WSJmarkets
WSJ giving foot massages to a criminal
@SenorMustachio @tripencrypt @fakeaarontweets @JoeReynolds2020 @FreeRangeKids
why didn't you answer? is it because the answer is that you have a right to video games someone gifted to you, and that the same applies to children and gifts they receive, and you want to avoid that conclusion?
@ENERGIZEAIR_DE @FrankJasensky @marvin_wank
Und was soll deiner Meinung nach mit Kindern geschehen, die sich nicht dieser "Bildungspflicht" fuegen?
@FrankJasensky @marvin_wank @ENERGIZEAIR_DE
Aber du meinst doch anscheinend, dass diese Erziehung mit Zwang einhergeht. Also ist sie keine Alternative zum Zwang, nach der ich gefragt habe.
@FrankJasensky @marvin_wank @ENERGIZEAIR_DE
Ja, das tue ich. Kann der Dreijährige denn nicht auch ohne Zwang über die Folgen seiner Handlungen in Kenntnis gesetzt werden? Fällt dir da eine Alternative ein?
@FrankJasensky @marvin_wank @ENERGIZEAIR_DE
Ich sagte doch bereits dass es auch ohne Staat Regeln und entsprechende Durchsetzung geben kann.
Bzgl Kindern soll der Wille der Kinder zählen, nicht der der Eltern. Ich will einfach nicht, dass Kinder zu Dingen gezwungen werden.
@FrankJasensky @marvin_wank @ENERGIZEAIR_DE
Schule erreicht keine Chancengleichheit sondern Gleichschaltung. Private Sicherheitskräfte, Schlichter, Verbraucherschutzbünde usw.
@FrankJasensky @marvin_wank @ENERGIZEAIR_DE
Schulzwang ist unmoralisch und ekelhaft (und unnoetig); die beiden anderen Dinge braucht man zwar, aber man benoetigt fuer ihre Durchsetzung keinen Staat.
I didn’t need a visa to go to Japan in 2018. You sure that’s changed?
RT @muskQu0tes:
“Just looking for problem-solvers who get things done with a high sense of urgency. Don’t care if or where they went to sch…
@FrankJasensky @marvin_wank @ENERGIZEAIR_DE
Erstaunlich, was manche glauben, wozu man den Staat alles braucht.
The more I learn, the worse it gets. The world should know the truth of what has been happening at Twitter.
Transp…
RT @libertyrecap:
"Poverty can be brought about by law; it cannot be forbidden by law." - Isabel Paterson
RT @Project_Veritas:
Results are in.
11.29.22 pic.twitter.com/6LBptCUcab
RT @pickover:
Physics, unpredictability, attraction, mathematics.
This shows a kind of magnetic chain reaction or self-assembly.
By Magi…
I've found evidence that payment processor @Square systematically lies about how long they hold their users’ money:
I've considered replacing EOL with something but, since I have user input (not my own commits), it then becomes a guessing game about which characters users would be sufficiently unlikely to ever type in... not a fan. But it might be an acceptable temporary workaround.
RT @mazemoore:
Elon Musk and AOC finally worked out their differences.
The chemistry these two have is crazy. pic.twitter.com/4dYzYAinqa
RT @emollick:
High prestige journals were worse:
44% of genetics articles in Nature with Excel supplemental files have errors
53% of articl…
RT @lulumeservey:
1) Last week SBF gave an all-time accidental interview to Vox, when he thought he was off the record.
This actually happ…
RT @TheJackForge:
The first thing you should learn as a programmer, is that there are teenagers that are better programmers than you will e…
RT @HumanProgress:
In the 1960s, smallpox killed more than two million people per year. There was no cure, but there was a vaccine. The pro…
RT @ArmandDoma:
The City of San Francisco fired its Elections Department Chief, whose performance they admitted they had zero issue with, e…
Awarding a 100-point bounty to anyone who can solve this problem: stackoverflow.com/questions/7449…
RT @wesbos:
Stop tweeting 0.1 + 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004
window.location = https://${0.1 + 0.2}.com pic.twitter.com/EoTkWnV9zb
Literaturkritiker Michael Maar sagt, er lese Der Anfang der Unendlichkeit von David Deutsch "[z]aghaft-neugierig". Was er damit wohl meint? 🤔
nvm you clarified here twitter.com/Mathwalkr/stat…
So, it is not true that Pax Americana is "literally the same thing as a single world government since Pax Americana was a US foreign policy for global hegemony". And so I think my original point, that Macron could mean a single global order that isn't a global government, stands.
RT @JonErlichman:
Starbucks’s revenue:
1980: $4 million per year
2022: $4 million per hour pic.twitter.com/DdQeNZhC1t
I’m not arguing that things would be better or that such a state of affairs would be desirable. I’m merely showing that global hegemony does not imply global government.
Imagine a world where the US is the only country with nuclear arms. I.e. it totally dominates any other military in the world. Yet it also leaves all other countries alone and only trades with them peacefully. To me, that would be world hegemony but not world government. No?
Yea nvm that’s clear. I think you misunderstand my disagreement as me being obtuse or something.
One possibility is that you haven’t made yourself very clear. Another is that I’m lacking background knowledge.
Btw I think global hegemony is quite different from/still a lot less than an actual world government.
Yes. So you agree that your historical claim was false?
You also claimed that “global hegemony by one country [...] is impossible”. That’s a contradiction.
You made a historical claim that the US’s was “literally […] a single world government”.
I didn't say that you brought up pax americana, I know I did.
I merely explained [...] he'd be calling for a global hegemony by one country [...] which is impossible.
Yet you seem to say that that's already happened in history: twitter.com/Mathwalkr/stat…
No I meant ‘single global order’ as something distinct from a single global government. I’m just saying they’re not necessarily the same.
RT @marvin_wank:
Wer körperlich Schwachen das Tragen von Schusswaffen verwehrt, liefert sie dem metaphorischen und buchstäblichen Messer de…
The ratio on this tweet gives me hope. twitter.com/OfficialSPGB/s…
I don’t know. Btw I don’t think what you name is the only thing preventing global US hegemony. But since you now agree that there is not even such a hegemony, and therefore def no single global government, I think we can conclude this discussion.
It’s possible I don’t understand what it means (though I think I do) but my point stands that the US isn’t a global government. It doesn’t have jurisdiction over global territory. If there’s even a single sovereign country apart from the US, the US is not a world govt.
The fact that it was a foreign policy means there was no world government.
No doubt the US has been very influential on the world stage but that doesn’t make it a world government. There are sovereign states besides the US.
I don’t know. And the point is that America isn’t a world government. I was giving an example of an interpretation of a “single global order” that isn’t a single world government.
Maybe he means a single global order like the Pax Americana
RT @realchrisrufo:
BREAKING: Disney has fired CEO Bob Chapek, who pushed critical race theory and gender ideology in the company's programm…
he says "single global order" not 'single global government'
who knows what he means by that
RT @TCSparents:
“If a baby takes his first steps and his mother responds, “How exciting! You’re walking!” that is an authentic expression o…
not all questions in the link are unanswered but some are (the link is just a relatively easy way of finding them)
but to be clear i'm not currently requesting anymore that you answer those questions, except for the meta one
no there are more twitter.com/search?q=(from…
i don't think you've understood the article i sent you because you're still ignoring my question why i should answer your questions when you ignore mine
my question is not rhetorical and the discussion is rather one-sided
Why Doesn’t Angier Use the Machine Only Once? blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/why-does…
RT @AJamesMcCarthy:
I spent 12 hours with my telescope pointed at the center of a nebula in our galaxy to reveal this: a star forming regio…
RT @unusual_whales:
The IRS says the new 87,000 agents could help rase as much as $1 trillion, per Bloomberg.
thanks to everyone confirming that the vox-populi concept of democracy is incompatible with free speech
(and to be clear, it's the vox-populi democracy that's bad, not free speech)
twitter.com/hypocrates6942…
twitter.com/dubgang4/statu…
twitter.com/PrinceErebus/s…
No because it was based on a poll. Freedom of speech if it’s what others approve of is not freedom of speech…
No because it was based on a poll. Freedom of speech if it’s what others approve of is not freedom of speech at all. twitter.com/AlexEpstein/st…
Fair point. My guess is that Elon wanted to be able to point blame to the poll since whichever way he was gonna decide was going to make a lot of ppl angry.
Stronger move would have been to take a principled stance and follow it through regardless of popularity. twitter.com/AlexEpstein/st…
there are many, but a recent one is why i should answer your questions when you refuse to answer mine
RT @antoniogm:
Funny how fast we went from 'tech bros' to oppressed 'workers'.
bug on @realDonaldTrump’s page. When I refresh the page on iOS by dragging down his follower count increases AND sometimes also decreases.
@Lydia_Beeyoobee @fakeaarontweets @JoeReynolds2020 @FreeRangeKids
First it says the mom made the kid walk home, then it says she asked him and he agreed. Very different scenarios and moral implications.
@Lydia_Beeyoobee @fakeaarontweets @JoeReynolds2020 @FreeRangeKids
I disagree with your assumption that the kid is an ingrate but I just read the piece and find it self-contradictory.
RT @JonErlichman:
Steve Jobs at home in 1982: pic.twitter.com/oSWQvQ5Rjh
@hans_denkt @MinistryofTru16 @KMoritz01
Selbst das kann ich noch logisch nachvollziehen. Aber ‚viertel ab‘ geht wirklich gar nicht.
„auch weil es für sie nicht genug gut aussehende Männer gibt“ natürlich sind die Männer dran schuld 😂