Pyxl101

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by Pyxl101 11y ago
It takes a while to go to war or enter armed conflict at scale (on smaller scale, certain force units like Marine Expeditionary Units and certain commando teams can move pretty quickly). The President should have the authority the Constitut
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
It's hard to know what exact effect our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan has had on the world. I'm sure there are people at military academies and universities getting PhDs on it. Whatever the answer is, I don't think we shou
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Do we have better accounting and estimation methods now, to advise current commanders-in-chief? The next time a president wants to take the USA to war, or enter any armed conflict, I'd like to see that announcement be accompanied by (o
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
> I can infer the expected flow of the function Old C code declared variables at the beginning of a function because it made compilers easier to implement, in a single pass. If you interleave variables and statements, then calculating th
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
> Declaring variables at the top keeps variable declarations close to each other And that one is not very useful to a human. Declaring variables near their usage is useful to a human. Understanding the code requires less (human) working
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
> Are you able to consciously refocus your eye? Yes. Mentally, I move my point of focus from the monitor "backward" into space -- like an imaginary 3D cursor anchored on my screen, then moving away from me along the ray of my e
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Did you know that your eyes can adapt to being open in sea water? When you first open them underwater in the sea, they'll sting like crazy. If you persist - or at least this was the case for me, that effect will go away, and you can op
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
> The point is that without that sweatshops the people working there would be even worse off. Is that correct? Maybe, maybe not, but it's completely different from what you're arguing against. The people working there are free
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> You lose a whole lot of development history information What information do you lose, and why is that a problem? The feature commit tells you everything you need to know. Beneath those details tend to be irrelevant minutiae. Let's
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
It's rare to need to develop multiple features as concurrent branches, as long as you can release regularly. The practice that works really well is: just develop against master while running "git pull --rebase" regularly. Cod
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
The typical effective way to work with Git is to develop on master while running "git pull --rebase" regularly, and before you commit. Prefer to build up a feature as one commit, with "git commit --amend" or "git co
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Rebase also doesn't change when you did something either.
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
This is a poor and incorrect analogy for rebase. Someone using rebase is conducting the reconciliation and then rewriting their commit to account for it, while simplifying the commit history and hiding it. When a commit lands in master, it
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
To elaborate, the GP should have put quotes around command arguments that included variables. For example: cp $INSTALLDIR/app AppDir/bin Should be: cp "$INSTALLDIR/app" AppDir/bin
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
It's not pretty simple if travel is an insignificant part of your job that you only undertake once every year or few years. (You shouldn't casually suggest that someone quit their job over something that might be and probably is t
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
> trying to abuse the legal system against the "spirit" of the CA law How is using the legal system "abusing" the legal system? He makes his arguments for his position, and the court rules, one hopes, according to the
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
They probably could build a version of the OS that worked only for single devices. In the latest court case about San Bernadino, that's what the FBI is asking for. There's a unique device id, as I understand it, that the OS could
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
> Companies such as Verizon Communications Inc., Comcast Corp. and AT&T Inc. are among interested parties, as well as buyout firms including Bain Capital Partners, KKR & Co. and TPG, the people said, asking not to be identified a
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
This isn't something that a user should have to know. We're going down the wrong track by implying that they should. Instacart shouldn't be expected to share their compensation model for their employees or contractors publicl
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Would you mind changing the links to the HN threads rather than the original news articles? I think that will better illustrate your point. But, if those threads were all zero comments, then I'm not sure they count as memory lane. Neve
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
It seems like we could learn more about Clinton's emails by asking under FOIA for emails sent by a wide variety of other public officials to/from her? Do you know if this has or is already being done?
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
What regulation are Lyft and Uber allegedly skirting?
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
That seems to be a long article series. I've read most of the first article but haven't come across the data you referenced. Would you mind highlighting the article with peer-reviewed sources and law professors explaining that &qu
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
> all communication with public officials is archived and made public Is that all communication period, or only communication with them while they're acting in their capacity as a public official? How do public officials keep their
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
I would like to eventually see a "science results build system", where experimenters can register (preferably ahead of time) the analytical methods they will use to analyze their data, expressed as runnable code. Any data sets alr
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
It's always interesting to look at past ages through the lens of the modern age. I wonder if, decades or centuries from now, the misuse of statistics and inadequate up-front documentation of research methods in science will be seen as
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> She could have easily gone and become an actuary, an i-banker, or a management consultant, but she didn't, because she wanted to be a teacher. This decision costs us ~$100k a year as a household. Probably more like $400-450k per y
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
USPS now supports a feature called "street addressing". Basically, instead of writing "PO Box #" as the address, you may write the actual street address of the same facility followed by your box number, something like &q
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It seems logical and reasonable to me that humans will be affected by how much daylight there is and how bright it is. Imagine if the earth began to recede from the sun, such that every day gradually became shorter and dimmer. (Set aside cl
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You've understood the criterion incorrectly and it's not circular logic. The tests provided by the IRS determine whether the current business relationship between a person and a company is one of contracting or employment. To ev

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