Kamq

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by Kamq 2y ago
> Browsers shouldn't set a preferred colour scheme by default. I mean, they really don't (the defaults are exactly what they have been since Mosaic left the scene). Unless the user tells them to do something else. And at that p
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by Kamq 2y ago
We only regulated broadcast using the public airwaves. That's why cable TV is generally exempt.
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by Kamq 2y ago
> the Constitution doesn't apply to foreign entities Sort of true. Sometimes the constitution just says "persons", which has generally been interpreted to anyone. But it's not material, because the 1st amendment is a
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by Kamq 2y ago
> there is no First Amendment right for RT to be carried on US cable networks. There might be, but it would be the cable network's first amendment right to carry them, not RT's right to be carried. The argument in court was kin
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by Kamq 2y ago
What do you think the percentage of computation is with respect to hand-written vs compiler generated? If small hot loops tend to be disproportionately hand written, and certain programs spend the majority of time in their hot loops, that c
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by Kamq 2y ago
> Hard to say about hollywood I guess bc its feels very subjective It definitely is. But so was my iteration. A good chunk of the previous iterations of the culture war have been as well. A lot of my generation really didn't like ho
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by Kamq 2y ago
> When will you feel like you all have won the war here? What is it that you need to happen? I was involved in a previous iteration of the culture war (religion vs atheism) pretty heavily. If this is anything like that, it'll start
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by Kamq 2y ago
You can lose the respect of your subordinates, but that's different than losing face. Although one may lead to the other, they are different things.
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by Kamq 2y ago
> Only in the same sense that bottom-level employees are the CEO's superior. Which is to say, they aren't. There's an important difference. Bottom-level employees don't get to choose the CEO at most companies.
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by Kamq 2y ago
The president is not above the people. In fact, given the context we're talking about (having to go debate to try to get their votes), he's below them in the hierarchy in this particular social context. The president may be more p
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by Kamq 2y ago
> People higher up the chain are insecure because any loss of face is debilitating. You don't do it in public. There's no face to lose in private (you're a subordinate, face is only lost among peers and superiors). It is,
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by Kamq 2y ago
Sure, but putting it in a code sample is similar to putting opening/closing quotes in a code sample instead of " It makes it harder for people to copy and paste and play with.
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by Kamq 2y ago
> Given that they used to be meaningful That's the thing. They weren't for most professions. Even for the professions that do require abstract theoretical knowledge, it's debatable how much of the degree itself was actuall
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by Kamq 2y ago
> one library unilaterally changing it denies the authors their say on the change I mean, sure, but ~270 congressmen declaring it would also change it, and it would be viewed as legitimate. Quite probably against the same level of protes
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by Kamq 2y ago
Give them pencil mustaches and a cigarette.
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by Kamq 2y ago
Give the seal wings then
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by Kamq 2y ago
Given the name, it probably has to be a chibi seal.
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by Kamq 2y ago
> You’re looking at two extremes: the codebase that is spread out too much with too much abstraction, and the codebase with zero abstraction that is basically a means to an end. In both cases they are difficult to work with. Yeah, neithe
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by Kamq 2y ago
The only time I've seen it work with channels in the API is when it's something you'd realistically want to be async (say, some sort of heavy computation, network request, etc). The kind of thing that would probably already b
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by Kamq 2y ago
In a lot of places? Yeah. Like super illegal (felony level)
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by Kamq 2y ago
I mean... Brazil's a sovereign country, so whatever crime Brazil decides they did? The law's about power, not rationality.
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by Kamq 2y ago
In the US, the insurance is probably through (and mostly paid for by) the employer. As long as the employer hires a replacement, they're back to where they were. As depressing as it is, I bet there's a table out there that covers
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by Kamq 2y ago
Huh, we have really different experiences. I often describe things the other way. My email is full of automated messages, things that get blasted out to the entire organization, status updates that got sent to an entire mailing list and I d
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by Kamq 2y ago
> Dick move by author to reveal his level of ignorance of USN operation tempo around McCain collision until the last few paragraphs. There were lol 4 fucking surface ship collisions and a grounding in westpac in 2017 because sailors were
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by Kamq 2y ago
> Based on what? My experience using all three. > no random swallowing We have not been in the same codebases, apparently. The number of times I've come across (I'm paraphrasing): try { // some stuf
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by Kamq 2y ago
> I just wanted to point out that there is a fundamental reason that for loops are inferior to map/reduce when working with data. > For loops is "how" where map/reduce is "what" and that puts the burden o
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by Kamq 2y ago
I mean, you're not wrong, It's just strings (usually) instead of ints. It's pretty bad, but it turns out that exceptions and inverting my entire program to pass into a Result's flatmap chain are even worse. When they com
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by Kamq 2y ago
> What are Go programmers doing that they don’t feel the need for map/filter/etc? As a refugee from a scala project that went badly (we eventually ported the entire thing to go), it's not so bad when you're just using
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by Kamq 2y ago
Let's narrow this down even more. Someone has made an implicit constructor that makes a network call because... people are dumb. This implicit constructor takes an integer. Does the following code make a network call? vec.push_ba
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by Kamq 2y ago
So, context.Cancel?

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