BlackFly

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by BlackFly 8y ago
These sorts of prescriptions always strike me as the sort of fastidiousness that some software developer types are stereotyped with. Just once I would like to read someone that takes a descriptivist approach to commit messages instead of a
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by BlackFly 8y ago
I can assure you that the number 0 in 0℃ is a number and not the absence of temperature. But other than that, excellent point about the wonkiness of special values.
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by BlackFly 8y ago
You should have replied to my upper level comment, where I was pointing out this phenomenon. At the level you commented, I was agreeing with the other person that this phenomenon, while lamentable, is not the norm. While I have no data to b
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by BlackFly 8y ago
> the cost of the hardware and compute time needed to process the data is available to a tiny number of research groups You'd think this would make them more interested in replication, since otherwise the likelihood that they are ac
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by BlackFly 8y ago
Yes, and take a look at the norm: link to external content. Debate about that content. Reddit's whole business model requires that other people create and host the content. There's nothing wrong with that. Bars hire bands to come
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by BlackFly 8y ago
How does the police go about proving that it was not self defense? The police have an even higher burden, needing to meet a standard of no reasonable doubt. Instead civil cases require a balance of probabilities. So, no the difficulty in pr
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by BlackFly 8y ago
> Reddit ... the websites where the content is made by users. Except for /r/WorldNews or /r/news or /r/programming or ... The phenomenon certainly exists where hundreds of people will debate an article witho
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by BlackFly 8y ago
I've always found the fact that independent discovery wasn't a defense to patent infringement to be an obvious indication that patents are more about setting up a protectionist market than about protecting inventors.
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by BlackFly 8y ago
This was not my experience at all when trying to build Fortran code. Which version of FFTW were they using? Undocumented. Hard binding to MKL as opposed to generic LAPACK usage? Ok, Intel fortran only then... Still missing some symbols? Oh,
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by BlackFly 8y ago
I think GDPR receives an undue amount of emphasis here. The history of Europe, the European union and the evolution of its laws make it clear that European culture values privacy and sees threats to privacy as a particular problem worthy of
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by BlackFly 8y ago
Nobody is asking for science to be done for free, most motivations for open access come from people that realize that the biggest stakeholder in all of this is the public. Grant agencies receive money from taxes and those funds are devoted
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by BlackFly 8y ago
You've misunderstood the person you are replying to. The insinuation was not that the labor is unpaid, the insinuation is that the labor is paid for by someone other than the publisher. The ultimate point being that the group that pays
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by BlackFly 8y ago
> But what value is there in constant boxes that users become accustomed to clicking through like trained monkeys? The truth is that on the privacy advocacy side of this issue there is an understanding that those boxes are not meaningful
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by BlackFly 8y ago
The fire brigade. If you call the team that then you will find that where they meet doesn't require a name, since it is just an abstract representation of the burning building.
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by BlackFly 8y ago
There isn't really any claim in the article as far as I can tell. There is just a whole lot of smoke and mirrors in the form of definitions, charts and bait and switch. Near the end of the article the author poses the question > Doe
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by BlackFly 8y ago
This interpretation of the right to remain silent frightens me. The example I was always given to point out the need of such a right is the police saying, "Alright, show us where you buried the body." And if they can "prove&q
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by BlackFly 8y ago
As a top level comment, it is valuable to point out that many executions of SPAs are lack lustre and will not deliver a superior user experience. If it was a top level comment and didn't lead with contradiction of the prior comment, I
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by BlackFly 8y ago
It is not at all obvious to me that a single page application requires more state than a multiple page application. Consider a choose your own adventure book. Both a single page application and a multiple page application can implement this
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by BlackFly 8y ago
I can believe that in your user testing people would score a non-spa higher, but that isn't relevant to the question of whether an spa had more complex state management hidden from the user than a mpa. What I imagine happened in your t
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by BlackFly 8y ago
Not really a website, but I believe you can find ebooks online... I highly recommend Numerical Linear Algebra by Trefethen. It gives very detailed descriptions of particular interpretations of the singular value decomposition and eigenvalue
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by BlackFly 8y ago
Yes, this is my thought as well. It simply does not follow that the two alternatives are a probabilistic stress energy tensor or a violation of the uncertainty principle. Since quantum mechanics describes electrons as a field and not as a p
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by BlackFly 8y ago
There is this thing called General Data Protection Regulations for European companies. You can just ask for the information stored regarding you. People have. That's how it is known they aren't tracking.
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by BlackFly 8y ago
Yeah, if you put it right there from the start you can avoid the political polarisation event at its introduction. I feel like in the early days of the internet people acted like the interactions with other people weren't "real&qu
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by BlackFly 8y ago
I'm a bit confused on which of two points you are trying to make. I too was bullied at school. There was no code of conduct at my school. I too was told that I had to ignore bullies. But I cannot for the life of me believe that making
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by BlackFly 8y ago
I think they are harmful in the same way that sexual harassment training is harmful: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/11/upshot/sexual-harassment-... . It doesn't work at best and it definitely strong
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by BlackFly 8y ago
They can interpret anything sufficiently vague as they see fit. For example Article 10 of Directive 2004/38/EC states that a government shall only require "a document attesting to the existence of a family relationship",
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by BlackFly 8y ago
> Why hasn't the market solved this problem? Well my elementary knowledge of economics suggests that the market equilibrium price is the intersection of the supply and demand curves. There is additional demand but at a price lower t
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by BlackFly 8y ago
Except that we know from history that people invent superstitions and act upon those superstitions. Look at all the effort that was wasted telling people to turn off cell phones in flights. Once electronic devices became ubiquitous and ther
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by BlackFly 8y ago
> I've often wondered if this contributes to bad driving around cyclists, e.g., "punishment passes". Of course it does, just like the few drivers who cavalierly pass a cyclist then make a right hand turn in front of them c
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by BlackFly 8y ago
> The Dutch seem so carefree. I think the helmets are a big part of this. If you go around telling people, "Body armor required," then they are not going to feel laissez-faire. The other side is the presumed liability on the pa

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