Merovius

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by Merovius 10y ago
Press code: Don't widely report details of suicides, it creates a measurable uptick in simulative acts. Internet: Let's get this thing to the Hackernews frontpage!
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by Merovius 10y ago
> Please, feel free to correct the record, then, with the correct screening questions. No can do. I actually like my job. And I also like my coworkers and don't want to make their life any harder. > No, it won't. Because i
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by Merovius 10y ago
> What's standard is what happens in reality. Infering what is "reality" from a sample size of ~0.0001% is clearly ridiculous. By that logic, it would be "standard" to be born a conjoined twin. Actually, it would
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by Merovius 10y ago
FWIW, I got told what I was going to work on on my first day, by my new manager, when they picked me up for lunch. Before that, I didn't even know the PA. From what I can tell, that is standard practice for SREs, as SRE is very underst
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by Merovius 10y ago
> "Standard process" is what actually happens in the real world. Alas, standard process is to not tell him. Inferring what's standard from a sample size of 1 (which is ~0.0001%) is very questionable. > Still, you spen
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by Merovius 10y ago
So, as someone who went through the process and got through it (so is less inclined to hold a grudge): > Then why ask about the nitty gritty details required by maintenance personnel as part of the screening process - things I would rath
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by Merovius 10y ago
So… someone care to explain to me where I'm going egregiously wrong, apparently? Because, at least on my machine with the code I spewed out quickly, the Kerningham way of counting bits is ~6x slower than a lookup table (including gener
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by Merovius 10y ago
> No, it's closer to template expansion, "when" is "executed" (for lack of a better word) during compilation. Inactive "when" branches are ignored by the code generator (and type checker, thus they can
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by Merovius 10y ago
So, let me phrase my criticism as questions :) How do you declare methods on non-struct types? Or are you disallowing defining your own non-struct types? It seems to me that the method-syntax you introduced will either be a step back, becau
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by Merovius 10y ago
On it's own? Yes, definitely.
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by Merovius 10y ago
I quote: > We cannot prevent from being "Flagged" and unable to reveal the reason of flagging. What do you expect from them? They openly said they can not divulge more information about this. There is no "response on what
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by Merovius 10y ago
http://davidvgalbraith.com/how-i-fixed-atom/ http://stackstatus.net/post/147710624694/outage-postmortem-j... https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp3.html The differen
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by Merovius 10y ago
You are oversimplifying. There were multiple stages of things going wrong and there is no system where things can't get wrong to the point where "you're just f cked". What do you think how many innocent people got put
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by Merovius 10y ago
Why do you assume that this is not the case? Humans have a failure rate for repetitive tasks between 1 and 10% (depending on who you ask). So even (unrealistically) conservatively and including having two steps of appeal, you would need to
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by Merovius 10y ago
Note that the version of AlphaGo that beat Fan Hui and was presented in Nature is significantly different from the Version that played Lee Sedol. Unless you believe that they didn't work on it for half a year.
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by Merovius 11y ago
> If you don't notice that criticism of Go is immediately and vigorously argued against... Well, you can't be following the comments very closely. Huh? Have you ever argued against anything on the internet and not been counte
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by Merovius 11y ago
> My impression of the Go community (both within Google and outside of it) is that there is a very ... moralistic? .... sense of "You don't really need that, we know best" going on. Then you weren't really listening,
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by Merovius 11y ago
TIL that go is not good, because it's not rust. Also, yes, go has the ability for isolated unsafe code. Namely importing the unsafe package and using that.
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by Merovius 11y ago
The article has the basic underlying (though not explicitly written down) assumption, that an AP IRC network (like the classical IRC) is strictly superior to a CP IRC network (like RobustIRC). But that's not a universal fact, but merel
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by Merovius 11y ago
> This seems like a nonsensical statement in 2015. What basis do you have for it? Most people hand over control of their data without a care in the world. Have you watched the news lately? At least in Europe that is most definitely wha
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by Merovius 11y ago
> The other comments do a great job of that. No, they simply don't. At best you are using circular logic. At worst you don't explain anything . Again: Forcing content creators into this, is the only sensible option . It'
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by Merovius 11y ago
But nothing even remotely requiring as much traffic and storage.
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by Merovius 11y ago
> And I couldn't care less how they ask me, I care about how it affects the users. And frankly, your thinly veiled attempt to defend them asking me if I'm unhappy that they "didn't wine & dine" with me is utt
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by Merovius 11y ago
> I guess I always knew this data was being recorded, but honestly I would rather that Google not have released it via this interface. My Google account is not as well-secured as Google's backend, and if someone compromises my accou
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by Merovius 11y ago
There are laws against retaining user-data that the user has explicitly requested to be deleted and Google spends a lot of engineering time making sure, that is really the case (which is non-trivial e.g. with failing drives that you can&#x2
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by Merovius 11y ago
It's not only about non-prime-customers either. I am a prime customer, but I don't use the video streaming, because amazon is a retailer for me. I go there to buy stuff and I use prime to buy stuff cheaper (and more). It's ba
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by Merovius 11y ago
It is supported. So you can both compile your go packages as a shared object file and link against it and you can compile it into a shared library and load it from C. I have no idea about windows support.
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by Merovius 11y ago
> So even if people do not insanely accumulate wealth it does leave their pockets faster essentially causing a decrease in total savings. That argument doesn't sound right to me. From an a priori standpoint (and I am happy to accept
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by Merovius 11y ago
I think what they meant was "This job is important. So we should pay it accordingly. It is kind of hollow claiming that a job is important, but at the same time not paying it".
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by Merovius 11y ago
> In other words, if they are right we are living with the consequences of advertising for a mere $13/month, $13 dollar they still get from us anyway because it's baked into the prices of the advertised products. I am sorry, bu

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