JohnHaugeland

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by JohnHaugeland 1y ago
these aren’t anti patterns. these are just things you shouldn’t do
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by JohnHaugeland 1y ago
that sentence starts “in the popular imagination”
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by JohnHaugeland 1y ago
> but in theory Markov chains have enormous expressive power. as long as you don't care about the quality of what they're expressing. there's a reason they never did anything better than the postmodernism generator. putti
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by JohnHaugeland 1y ago
> Presuming this is just incompetence instead of malice why would you make this presumption?
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by JohnHaugeland 1y ago
november 5 2024
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by JohnHaugeland 1y ago
having been there does. there is no shortage of old wood and pottery believe fewer unevidenced claims
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by JohnHaugeland 1y ago
ironsource was the owner and runner of the largest sleazy game ad network, which was unity specific unity was dying for lack of revenue
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by JohnHaugeland 1y ago
Subtext: the unauthorized modification was resistance from someone who didn't want the subtle version going unnoticed
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by JohnHaugeland 1y ago
Most container ships aren’t enormous behemoths The more reasonable sized ones and the specialized ones (especially the car ones) often service a single buyer at a time
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by JohnHaugeland 2y ago
that exists https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...
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by JohnHaugeland 2y ago
ah, that mozilla commitment to unnecessary changes and backwards breakage
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by JohnHaugeland 2y ago
> What still baffles me is how people act like this was some kind of thoughtful decision. It is. This is being done as part of a plan, with full intent.
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by JohnHaugeland 2y ago
It’s just a turn of the phrase. When someone says that the sky is falling, that also doesn’t need to be explained
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by JohnHaugeland 2y ago
Trump tried to make DOGE, and was slapped down by congress, so he took an existing department, removed all the people, switched it to do a different job, moved it to a different state, and replaced its name. It's not just a co-opt; it&
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by JohnHaugeland 2y ago
Efficiency efforts are common. It's just that the abusers are the only ones who make an effort to talk about it, because talking about it provides them cover. Otherwise it's a regular part of the daily job.
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by JohnHaugeland 2y ago
Unreleased models should not be treated as interesting
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by JohnHaugeland 2y ago
I understood the writer's flourish. If you want to understand my reaction, take two steps: 1. Note which companies do in fact have mindshare 2. Check which of those are owned by Microsoft
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by JohnHaugeland 2y ago
> Stealing is not the right word perhaps, but it is bad, and this should be obvious. Many people say things that they don't like "should be obvious"ly bad. If you can't say why, that's almost always because it a
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by JohnHaugeland 2y ago
the problem with how circular the argument is is that the essence of there being an actual problem is being taken for granted it's not clear that detriments actually exist, and the benefits are clear
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by JohnHaugeland 2y ago
The PC’s share of gaming, according to EA, by dollars spent, is 23%, the second largest slice behind iOS, larger than any of the consoles Guesswork is rarely helpful
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by JohnHaugeland 2y ago
I said presence share, not market share Three total customers exist worldwide. All three have red square, two have yellow square, and one has blue square Blue square sold one in six items, so it has one sixth market share. Blue square is
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by JohnHaugeland 2y ago
I’ve been hearing people say this since this incorrect essay was written almost 20 years ago Microsoft had 74% of the desktop then and has 72% today Microsoft had 0% of hosting then and has the world’s second largest share, 23%, today Micro
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by JohnHaugeland 2y ago
USAid wasn’t even in existence for six months after the program you’re talking about. That had nothing to do with us.
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by JohnHaugeland 2y ago
The things being done make the deficit worse, not better
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by JohnHaugeland 2y ago
Servpro charged me $35,000 for work they never completed, then did $30,000 of damage to my house, then threatened to sue me Never, ever under any circumstances
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by JohnHaugeland 2y ago
For the record, almost no bees die when they sting you. This is just a weird myth that people repeat nonstop. This only happens to honeybees, and only when they're stinging humans. Most skin is much thicker than ours, more simila
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by JohnHaugeland 2y ago
> As an example i once lost a mark on a math test because when rounding to the nearest whole number, i put 3.0 as the answer. Wrong. 3 is a whole number, 3.0 is not i was told, and threatened with suspension on protest. That kind of thin
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by JohnHaugeland 2y ago
The class is mathematics. In mathematics, numbers do not have types. You also shouldn't try to mention INT_MAX, negative zero, rounding error, or other computer science topics which do not exist in mathematics.
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by JohnHaugeland 2y ago
"Whole number" means that the mantissa is 0, and is not related to what some random programming language asserts in its representational type system. Math terms like "whole number" are not defined in terms of the behavio
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by JohnHaugeland 2y ago
> 10 / 3 can = 3, depending on the expected levels of precision. > > 10 / 3 will never = 3.0. You should read what they wrote again. They wrote with `≈`, which is a different operator than `=`. What they wrote is correct

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