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by 3pt14159 4y ago
This is one of those arguments I can see both ways, but I ultimately side on the early return side of things over the else branch side of things. In my opinion, if the function is done its job, it should return. That's what return is f
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
Right on the money. What I want is a copilot that finds errors ala spellcheck-esque. Did I miss an early return? For example in the code below def some_worker if disabled_via_feature_flag logger.info("skippin
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
A lot of conversations around the term consciousness mix up a couple of things. First, there is the term consciousness which is a word given to something that humans observe. It encapsulates an idea, and we know[0] that it's a shared e
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
In my opinion, and with acknowledging the downsides, the parts of modern IT that are capable of transmission for the purposes of duplication should have some degree of automated surveillance for safeguarding our populations from harm. Not
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Or we could, you know, intelligently tax property nationally and tie it to a national dividend that directly goes to landed immigrants and citizens in the form of a basic income. It will make sure that the poor and lower middle class don&#x
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Canada and most of Nato wasn't in Iraq. I agree that the Iraqi war was based on lies and was a disaster for a multitude of reasons. That said, some things are good and evil. And Putin's invasion of Ukraine is evil. Ukraine was a d
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Overall, I've been pleased with the coverage in The Economist, but the occasional article, like this one, lacks an authentic through line even if it has a litany of facts. China was never, ever going to go against Russia in this war. I
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Lots of possible explanations. My mind initially went to small sample size, etc, but it looks like even assuming a 50% sex ratio (which, isn't quite right for bison, there are slightly fewer males than females) the probability of this
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
I just wish we would implement a system where users vouch for each other in order to use the platform. A sort of web-of-trust to stamp out (or at least temporarily punish) whole areas of the social graph that are being used for manipulation
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
They're in Canada too. Mostly children use them. Sometimes hackers will install linux on them and use them as a super cheap (~$300) one-time-use laptop.
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Unless the field is small with very inelastic supply demand curves it won't change much for a small percentage of workers to leave. The forces that got those that would leave the position in the first place often still exist. People wi
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
My advice is to find someone that's done this before and have a good long chat with them. The advice from random hackers in their thirties isn't going to be all that useful. That said, here is my take: I know that if I were hiring
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
I also hung out in Vietnam, but only for a month. I found the custom clothing that was not brand name to be an absolute steal. Just great custom tailoring and fabrics for basically nothing and ready the next day. That said, the real brand
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
If we're slinging anecdata around I may as well offer mine up as a long-underperforming student that also somehow took night classes at college for software when I was 11 years old. The teachers may force the kids to memorize, but that
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
> n'th degree of performance and memory control, don't pick Python, for instance. Or be comfortable rolling the critical parts in another language like cython, which I've done and got a 10000x performance speedup because t
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Not really. It explains only the optimal play of intelligent, clear headed, self-interested actors. It does not explain why someone would jump into a river to save a drowning child that they do not know even at the cost of their own life. T
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
To start, I think credibility on this question is important. I've been on the arms control beat since around 2017 when I first started to really worry about the strategic concerns of mass cyberattack. I befriended Dr. Jeffrey Lewis and
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Don't forget the decisions of individual soldiers here. If I were forced to drive a tank in a war I did not believe in and a babushka threw a pointless cocktail at me I would not retaliate. These individual actions in war add up.
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
https://www.vox.com/22266219/biden-eduation-school-funding-s... . Compare the homepages of the two. I know which one I trust more. http://thinkaboutnow.com/ https://www.vox.com/
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
The injustices of the present need to be solved still. In America the way schools are funded in many states is such an obvious shorthand for racist school funding there isn't a level playing field.
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Sorry, I was a toddler at the time. This is what my parents told me when I was older, but I don't know if they actually asked their neighbours. Edit: And back then there was a lot more open racism in Winnipeg than there is today, so
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Yeah. It seems like something you could get insurance for, though. About 30 or 35 years ago my parents were asked by The University of Manitoba for permission to dig a 1 foot trench near the river which bounded one side of their property to
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Meet people in person that are actually working on these issues. I met Jeffery Lewis and Scott LaFoy in DC and talked with both of them about arms control and got their read on Russia and who in the west is nuanced and trustworthy. I also p
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Other than research, what is going to be possible on Mars that isn't possible underground for cheaper? > with concern that the window we have now may not be around forever Right, but there is the opposite concern as well. By trying
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Right, but I don't even notice the notch is so small. In most cases it feels like a 16:10.5 and I'm loving it.
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I have a MacBook Pro with 3456 × 2234 (around 16:10.5) resolution and it is perfect . I don't know why people would want laptops at 16:9 at all. I can play videos just fine on this thing and the other 95% of the time it's a bette
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
I've been thinking about how to phrase how I feel about this topic for a while and it's hard because there are so many nuances and facets to it. Ultimately I think it is absolutely crazy to think that making earth's life mult
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Last comment because, well, I've learned to limit how much I go back and forth on these types of things. First, even the article you liked didn't offer to turn over Bin Laden. It offered a discussion, asked for proof, etc. This is
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Al-Qaeda are foreigners, yes, but that was because of their very founding as a force of volunteers to help the Afghans during their war with the Soviets. They were trained by the Americans as part of the cold war, but their real friends wer
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Jess you can disagree, but at the time of this writing this is what one of the introductory paragraphs of the war's Wikipedia states: > Following the September 11 attacks in 2001, then-US President George W. Bush demanded that the T

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