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RHSeeger
2y ago
> Good one, chap! How about you argue with substance instead ... Considering they were replying to a post that was, effectively, arguing "nuh uh!", their response seems reasonable. > Explain, what makes the ball suddenly sta
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2y ago
> This is high-school grade physics, come on. And yet, the video in question seems to make it _very_ clear that this has been debated over and over, across various papers and people, and _nobody_ has been able to provide proof as to why
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2y ago
I think a lot of people have always thought of it as a tool that can help. I don't want an LLM to generate "the answer" for me in a lot of places, but I do think it's amazing for helping me gather information (and cite w
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2y ago
Doing it in your native language can add an extra dimension to it, though. In a way, I would consider it like double checking your work on something like a math problem by solving it a different way. By having to express the problem and sol
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2y ago
You can do that without pair programming, though. Both through actual discussions and through rubber ducking.
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2y ago
I think it depends heavily on the people. I've done pair programming at a previous job and I hated it. It wound up being a lot slower overall. For me, there's - Time when I want to discuss the approach and/or code to somethin
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2y ago
I took it more as a don't throw the baby out with the bath water type comment. Regulations _do_ need to be looked at and decided if they should be kept. Not every regulation was written in blood, and not every regulation is going to ge
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2y ago
There are different kinds of tournaments. Some of them are setup so the really rare cards aren't even allowed, some put a limit to one (for, like, a black lotus), some disallow them, some are only the current cards, and some you get a
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2y ago
Because part of playing the game for "bring your own deck" competitions is the time/effort/money that went into acquiring the cards. It's as much about "making the best deck you can with the cards you can get y
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2y ago
> Why don’t you identify all these easily found regulations then? That was rude, and didn't at all speak to OP's point. They indicated that not all regulations are equal. Some are important and put into place because people die
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2y ago
Somewhat unrelated, I guess, but we used to use a split line shebang for tcl like the following #!/bin/sh # A Tcl comment, whose contents don't matter \ exec tclsh "$0" "$@" - The first li
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2y ago
> Uber is better than taxi medallion cartels Uber is _different_ than the taxi system. Not all taxi systems are "taxi medallion cartels", even in cities with taxi medallions. And, when it started, Uber was worse than the taxis
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2y ago
> But "have fewer drivers" is those people losing their jobs, which isn't really helping them out. Laws that regulate how people can be treated by employers have always been a balance between _some_ people having it worse
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2y ago
> Minimum wage laws in general have never protected anyone. If there is another job available to you that pays more than minimum wage and is otherwise on equally favorable terms, you would have taken that one regardless of whether a lowe
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2y ago
But are they allowed to not hire someone if doing so would draw public outrage (and financial harm) against the company? What about if the person was arrested for something that would cause that, but never actually charged? In the US at lea
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2y ago
I've written some super long emails; but I also include a TL;DR summary at the top when I do. Sometimes, the "how to get to the summary from the current, commonly known info" (long) part is useful; but not for everyone. And c
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2y ago
> How is this any different than minimum wage laws which are ostensibly enacted to increase worker's salaries, but businesses respond by hiring people for fewer hours? Nobody is hiring more people to counter the laws "to increa
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2y ago
Option 3 - You hire enough people to cover general demand, have surge prices to lower demand when there's not enough drivers, and charge prices for normal/lower demand that allows you to make sure everyone you have on duty makes a
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2y ago
> I don't doubt uber could have done better here, but characterizing poor UI as "circumvent the NYC law to try and ensure Uber drivers get a fair minimum wage" is a stretch. Honestly, that's _exactly_ what it looks li
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2y ago
> I think a lot of people aren't privy to the difference the color temperature of "white" light can make Go out and buy cheap Christmas lights and expensive ones, and put them up next to each there, and show them that. The
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2y ago
> That is fine as long as the input / output is always in UTC But the title specifically say "from a UTC string", so it _is_ a UTC string, always. > ascii string you are showing us to actually make sense in our specific
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> they claim they catch 99% of cheaters But that's easy. The tricky part is catching the cheaters _without_ also catching non-cheaters.
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2y ago
You start off sounding like you're arguing against the idea that the EU exerts more control over media than the US, but then most of what you said seems to support the fact that they do so. Am I misreading what your intent?
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2y ago
UTC is a timezone, though. Or am I misunderstanding what you're saying?
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- Ozone - Efficient Lighting (LEDs now, but others before) - Santa Claus There are certainly examples of a large portion of the population of the planet working together towards common goals. A lot of people putting in a little bit of effor
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2y ago
They just recently snuck bombs into a supply chain and then remotely detonated them in positions where the caused civilian injuries. I would assume the comment has nothing to do with religion/race, and everything to do with the actions
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2y ago
> This warps men's perception of women in both selecting a wife; and in assessing the beauty of their wife in the long run especially after children. Which is a bit ironic given that the charts seem to show that men are assessing wo
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2y ago
Actually, it specifically calls out > The OkCupid results are far from unique. But the graphs are stark enough to inspire mutual anger. Presumably they're using the OKCupid graphs because the very illustrative of topic being discuss
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2y ago
> What I'm getting at with my post is the dev teams support has to talk to, which they just forward along their responses verbatim. But the "support" that the end user sees is that combination, not two different teams (eve
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2y ago
1. I expect that a HD that is actually doing things 100% of the time is going to have it's lifespan significantly reduce, and 2. If it isn't doing anything and it just lying to you... when there IS a problem, your tools to diagnos
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