KarlKemp

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by KarlKemp 5y ago
I was about to mention how well-written Norwegian legal texts are until I noticed the “edit” links. So, instead, I’ll say this is a well-written wiki article.
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
What absurd idea is it that makes you believe people are more likely to click on “plot” than “chart”? Nobody is reading that word an thinking “Gunpowder, Treason…”
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Today’s economics has very little to do with anti-redistributive policies today. Your point about ideal allocation is among the core tenets of economics as the diminishing marginal value of money. The mechanism of incentive that allowing fo
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Are Americans less likely to reply to emails from Black people?(pnas.org)
2 points by KarlKemp 5y ago|1 comments
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
A completely useless busywork to generate a chart that will eventually get upper management to devour each other? Boy, that sounds like a job for ISO 9001: http://9001quality.com/iso-9001-organizational-structure-job...
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Somebody got annoyed by the 253rd incantation, delivered yet again with the certainty and self-importance that only a thorough youtube education can instill, that it's not intelligent, it's just basic statistics .
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Do they publish source code or binary drivers? If it's the latter, the article points at why they might not want their competitors to read their source code: the drivers matter a lot, and starting from theirs might well cut the develop
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Cloudflare used to have a service that would allow you to connect any local port to your cloudflare-managed domain. But I can’t find it just now.
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Every real-world situation is slightly different than the law. Applying the ideas codified in law to the chaos that is the real world is, essentially, half of what makes up jurisprudence. The other half is then reasoning within the framewor
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
I wish people wouldn't indulge in these luddite fantasies of some ancient caste of ninja programmers. It's blatantly wrong to the point where I'm not sure if the above is not meant as a joke. It's also insincere: do you
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
The only documentation that’s more frustrating than Apple’s “‘doYouReallyWantThat’ is an attribute. It returns ‘true’ if you really want that. We can’t tell you what’that’ means. Code samples are for lesser people” is Python, where I someho
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
The problem here is that a website is built in such a way that implementing the (admittedly annoying) cookie consent mechanisms goes through three different subcontractors/API providers. The needless dispersion of your users’ browsing
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
That ‘just’ is doing a lot of work in the sentence, considering protein structure was/is often named as the “holy grail” of computational biology, and homology was always the method to get there. I’m equally skeptical of the claim that
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Responsibility should always rest with the responsible party, I. e. the one in the best position to have avoided this. It’s isn’t about guilt, but simply the redistribution of a harm that has already happened. Unless the device was mishandl
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Safari still defaults to something other than utf8.
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Liability seeks to align interests with power: they who might be tempted to sell something they know to have some serious flaw should also have to pay for any damages. But the risks of these vaccines are somewhat different than usual. It’s
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Pegasus vs. Predator(citizenlab.ca)
112 points by KarlKemp 5y ago|18 comments
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
It really doesn’t matter what it ‘is’ or if it makes sense to speak of things in moral categories. There are plenty of ‘tools’ that are/should be restricted, from guns to Tucker Carlson. It can obviously have some effect on the so-ca
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
They kinda need to. It'd be too embarrassing to have an outage that nobody notices.
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Just set up two identical projects, one with the last version and one with the current, then run diff? That being said, rails does have an upgrade task now. I have a lot of faith in it, but absolutely zero trust.
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
I use Rails as a portable, light, zero-conf frontend for data exploration. Just create the minimum viable rails app (--api), fill in the database connection, and you get a powerful REPL for exploring + rake to run transformations.
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
They weren’t always opt-in for the authors, however. The self-declared “brave” idea seems to be finding the most obnoxious answer to the wuestion, “why isn’t there another middleman between creators and consumers, skimming 30% of the revenu
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Wow.. This reads like a list of my top-5 pet peeves/recurring frustrations with prevailing opinions. Maybe throw something in there about the value of journalism and how the guy ranting straight-to-webcam on twitch isn’t going to be a
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
This notion about cut-off y-axes is the data visualization equivalent of “correlation is not causation”: it’s a valid point that’s easily understood, so everyone latches on to it and then uses it to proof their smartitude, usually with the
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
No, the media just happens to sometimes share OP’s intend: to show a (small) absolute change. That change may or may not be as dramatic as the graph suggests in both visualizations: measured in Kelvin, your body temperature increasing by 8
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
At least the previous iteration so much about “completing” anything. It didn’t use the gamification-like mechanisms (“challenges”). And it was not “not real” programming. It left out a lot of the complexity of a project and focused on writi
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How Do You Tell the World That Doomsday Has Arrived?(nytimes.com)
2 points by KarlKemp 5y ago|0 comments
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Good artists copy, great artists may steal; but they also happen to have excellent judgement in what to steal.
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
It's signaling something , but not virtue: criticism implies expertise. People observe the respect experts get and start imitating the behavior. Since they don't have anything actually insightful to add, they fall back on gener
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
I think we need fewer people that somehow manage to mangle logic to such a degree that they blame security vulnerabilities on the willingness of some project to state that it's generally preferred to treat each other with some respect.

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