Retra

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601.
by Retra 8y ago
Until they run out of fuel. Then you have them pay more for that as well.
602.
by Retra 8y ago
"shift of the earth's crust with respect to the [...] magnetic poles" This is not incorrect, even if it is a little garden-pathy.
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by Retra 8y ago
Checked exceptions have often been presented as a mistake on the basis of the ergonomics and workflow problems they cause, not because they are unhelpful when implemented. The problem is that people don't want to break their flow to de
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by Retra 8y ago
What he accomplished was to spark a dialog. That was basically what he set out to do, and his fame is evidence of it, because it can be used to track that dialog. Your argument is predicated on a category error.
605.
by Retra 8y ago
Why would an agent of that concerted effort admit that it was ongoing or impactful?
606.
by Retra 8y ago
I don't disagree with any of that. Will you argue any of that is going to change if we continue to prefer the safety of strong words over decisive action and sacrifice?
607.
by Retra 8y ago
Playing Jeopardy: "What would a paid Russian troll say?"
608.
by Retra 8y ago
Strikes are far more effective than waving a sign on the street corner.
609.
by Retra 8y ago
Not saying you are wrong, but it's pretty easy to not give something the optimal name. Sometimes your work is just more useful for some purpose other than the one you intended.
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by Retra 8y ago
You're a fool for not thinking of the response yourself. Fault, as a concept, is a measure of means . The poor don't have the means , so they are not at fault. It's a damned tautology.
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by Retra 8y ago
>There is no apparent “fundamental theorem” of AI, (except maybe Marvin Minsky’s ”The most efficient way to solve a problem is to already know how to solve it.” Personally, I consider Richard Feynman's method (1. Write down the prob
612.
by Retra 8y ago
That maxim seems to ignore the possibility that those 100 free guilty people could do more damage to that one innocent person than a prison sentence can.
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by Retra 8y ago
The trend has always been in the other direction. It's easy to reason from first principles when the principles are simple. As more people become experts on our problems, the correct solutions become much more diverse and specialized,
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by Retra 8y ago
Only if the people in this thread are designing aircraft. Presumably the actual aircraft designers have more experience reasoning through these kinds of problems.
615.
by Retra 8y ago
Syntax coloring for regex adds noise. When you're reading the non-regex code, having rainbow strings interspersed is not helpful. The best way to approach this problem is to build your regexes in a dedicated regex building environment
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by Retra 8y ago
Society is ultimately responsible for protecting itself, not individuals. You can't blame individuals for their compartmentalization, irreverence, and sociopathy when we reward people for these things. The post-doc only produces work t
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by Retra 8y ago
I put a lot of comments in my code, but not to explain what the code does , moreso to explain why it is doing what it is doing, what it used to do and why it changed, and what else I think it could do instead of what it is.
618.
by Retra 8y ago
I'm not more experienced than my peers, but perhaps looking at the other side of the issue would help: I lose my patience when the documentation is awful. I lose my patience when searching gives hundreds of irrelevant results. (I liter
619.
by Retra 8y ago
Not the one which includes the text you highlighted.
620.
by Retra 8y ago
WTF are you reading? I said that the fact that Snowden can be used as an example is evidence of him accomplishing something. Explicitely to argue against the position that he hasn't accomplished anything. I am in no way arguing tha
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by Retra 8y ago
The ones I know who are both capable of and interested in it do not usually have the time to do so, and if they do, it is because they became teachers who sell their output to students.
622.
by Retra 8y ago
It's called "writing", and mathematical notation is just a subset of that.
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by Retra 8y ago
Look, I said it was arguably not RAII, so I can see how one could make the point that it still works if you do it that way. But you saying "I'm just plain wrong" to say that RAII actually means resources must be allocated o
624.
by Retra 8y ago
This is the first paragraph on wikipedia: >In RAII, holding a resource is a class invariant, and is tied to object lifetime: resource allocation (or acquisition) is done during object creation (specifically initialization), by the constr
625.
by Retra 8y ago
If you're doing that, you will often end up needing an init() method, and you arguably don't get RAII if you're not doing initialization during construction. I mean, you can write safe code this way, but if C++ hadn't ba
626.
by Retra 8y ago
Going from memory here, since I can't find any references. I believe there are problems in the handling of exceptions in constructors and destructors, which permeates into other parts of the language such as how arrays are constructed,
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by Retra 8y ago
You're not the only one talking about him, and that very much contradicts 'not achieving anything'. In any case, your individual perspective being contrary to my claim isn't anything meaningful here, because there isn&#x
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by Retra 8y ago
>You seem to value having your name remembered; i.e., you value fame, and you're projecting that onto Snowden. Total bullshit. Nothing I said implies any of this. What I value is that we can have a discussion premised on facts. Snow
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by Retra 8y ago
I'd easily spend 30 years in prison for 100M. Spending 60 years in a career isn't likely to pay off nearly that well.
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by Retra 8y ago
>look at Snowden. The guy ruined his own life and nobody still gives a damn. Was it worth it? i dont think so. If it wasn't worth it, you wouldn't know his name, and you wouldn't be talking about it today. Does that count

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