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by Retra 7y ago
Yet you still believe they should be willing to walk away from their job.
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by Retra 7y ago
Livestock eat to extract nutrients. Their waste is not more nutrient rich than the stuff they eat. That would be impossible.
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by Retra 7y ago
You're counting the wrong thing. They're not talking about the number of kart racers out there, they are talking about the number of people who play better kart racers. Like the reason "the year of the Linux Desktop" has
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by Retra 7y ago
And you think every person should be willing to walk away for some other job? How will that play out?
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by Retra 7y ago
Commit messages are great for explaining the order in which things happened and talking about changes that apply to disparate pieces of code. I would still argue that comments should explain why code has changed over time -- comments should
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by Retra 7y ago
A comment in the code can do both, and it should. You should explain why your code is the way it is, not just what it does. Anybody can see what code does by just reading the code.
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by Retra 7y ago
Who lives in their home for free? I didn't know that was possible. Children maybe.
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by Retra 7y ago
Most engineering is based on mathematics because proofs are a powerful support for any idea you plan to implement. It's one thing to throw something together and have it work, and a totally different thing to prove it is optimal in som
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by Retra 7y ago
There's also the fact that there's no known upper limit on the complexity/time needed to solve an arbitrary problem. Just because you can create an AGI doesn't mean nearly impossible problems suddenly become tractable. H
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by Retra 7y ago
They are not the same thing at all. One can outlive you and the other cannot.
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by Retra 7y ago
Everything can be "very different" when you ignore all the things that are the same.
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by Retra 7y ago
I don't think people would be complaining nearly as much if they simply added the touchbar above the existing keys rather than replacing them. Or left the esc and power keys while putting the touchbar in between them. Lots of things th
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by Retra 7y ago
Keyword arguments also encourage overly general functions that try to do everything, and there's a performance cost to that (such functions tend to include a mini arg parser and dispatch mechanism), and it's a wash on documentatio
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by Retra 8y ago
Undefined behavior allows a compiler to make assumptions that some things never happen, which can allow them to generate more efficient code by not having to generate code that checks if those assumptions are correct. If you're going
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by Retra 8y ago
The driveway problem isn't a major problem in my life. It's practically already solved. I cannot go around turning every minor problem into a mountain of effort, and it'd be stupid to think that everybody doing this is going
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by Retra 8y ago
Isn't that hypocritical though? You want to assign blame to me for not bringing cloth bags, yet you want to coddle me for making that mistake by offering me free plastic bags when I forget? Perhaps I would be more incentivized to bring
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by Retra 8y ago
The reason I am willing to attribute it directly to religion is because there's a kind of 'natural selection' that goes on with regards to people's religious attention such that those who practice their religion exclusiv
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by Retra 8y ago
It's not altogether unsurprising though. Most religions tend to align themselves with the notion that "being a good person" is the same as "developing your public status as a good person", (in that the mechanisms
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by Retra 8y ago
Most of these things are very hard to analyze. Let me give you a real-life example. This winter, my driveway developed some major cracks from the snow melt. How can I solve this problem responsibly? Not fix it? Then I have to park on the st
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by Retra 8y ago
If they are the same thing, why prefer Einstein to Chopra? Why quote Einstein's fluff, rather than his science? Why shouldn't we give samstave a Nobel Prize for his poem?
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by Retra 8y ago
Most people don't have reasonable alternatives or any way to override the instinctual social mechanisms that drive their behavior.
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by Retra 8y ago
Maybe our own emotions aren't the subject of importance here?
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by Retra 8y ago
I've seen it a couple different ways. When a supervisor asks a subordinate to produce a powerpoint that the supervisor will edit/present to higher-ups, it generally looks as you describe. When a team leader produces a set of slide
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by Retra 8y ago
I don't think there's a definitive answer there, nor any reason to believe Hawking radiation is produced inside an event horizon, rather than just outside it. The event horizon is pretty much defined by the boundary that radiation
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by Retra 8y ago
There is only one direction through the event horizon of a black hole.
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by Retra 8y ago
Firstly, I never said having secrets prevents all manipulation and exploitation. But if someone is going to war with your country, the last thing you want is for all your infrastructure, movements, and communications to become public knowle
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by Retra 8y ago
The return type has to be dependent on the value of the input, not its type . Like it'll return an int[3] if you provide 3 as in input and int[4] if you provide 4. Note that both 3 and 4 should have the same type, but int[3] and int
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by Retra 8y ago
Has any government that adopted that policy survived the inevitable manipulation and exploitation by foreign powers?
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by Retra 8y ago
I understand the topological point of view (which also generally considers spheres to be 2-dimensional surfaces.) I'm pointing out that common language does not match the topological point of view. Topology also has 'open' a
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by Retra 8y ago
Or take a sphere and poke a hole in it. Topologist says there are no holes, because now it is a disk. But wow else would you describe poking a hole in a sphere?

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