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by Retra 7y ago
One example: https://implementsblog.com/2015/04/07/better-checked-excepti...
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by Retra 7y ago
>font that looks like it's been printed on paper with poor ink Actually, I think it is intended to look like mechanical typewriter output.
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by Retra 7y ago
One would think one potential solution is to start working on problems we don't actually understand. General AI, algebraic frameworks, high efficiency cross-cutting models, etc. Pie in the sky stuff.
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by Retra 7y ago
Very little of your DNA is exclusively your own. Most of it was passed into you from other people, and by correlating what you have against what other people have, it is not too hard to trace out where you came from and who you are.
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by Retra 7y ago
But what if you want your heater to send an email...
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by Retra 7y ago
I'm pretty sure E3 started being rote 2 decades ago.
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by Retra 7y ago
Finally someone with the sense to realize what difference an order of magnitude can make to a decision. Now lets compute how likely we are to die by an asteroid vs how likely we are to die being stranded on a barren, frozen rock 60M Km away
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by Retra 7y ago
Their interests can surely be aligned with a minor amount of high-level bargaining.
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by Retra 7y ago
Those islands are wasteful, expensive, frivolous, and ecologically disastrous. They are not something to take pride in or repeat.
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by Retra 7y ago
There is a name for that. It is "damning with faint praise."
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by Retra 7y ago
>Some things are common enough knowledge that asking for a source is disingenuous. Yes. But then we invented science and "common knowledge" was proven ignorant time and time again. >It's like asking for a source to prov
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by Retra 7y ago
If it rains less, you dig more wells. Why do you think drought and pumping are independent?
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by Retra 7y ago
Is "taught in grade school" your standard of proof?
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by Retra 7y ago
You could get their corpses there, sure.
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by Retra 7y ago
Selective breeding is still evolution.
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by Retra 7y ago
But if you do mention it and make any kind of error, that seems likely to be used against you as well.
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by Retra 7y ago
The barycenter is a balancing point. If you were trying to balance two objects on the ends of a see-saw, if you move one object farther away, the balance point has to move toward it (you're actually balancing moments of inertia, which
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by Retra 7y ago
Irony stops being ironic and starts being an honest picture of what you are the moment you start doing it out of habit.
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by Retra 7y ago
We're very highly tuned for amplifying differences in humans. You get to know some people, and you see them as completely different. People also judge children as different from adults, when from a more objective perspective, the diffe
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by Retra 7y ago
Nobody yearns to live in those imaginary places, they yearn to talk about them and think about them. The real world is far more dangerous and scary than the most treacherous fiction.
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by Retra 7y ago
I don't know... I look at this and I just see an alternative front-end for a spreadsheet program.
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by Retra 7y ago
Violence is usually too far removed from the relevant abstractions. It's not difficult to see violence behind everything, because rules don't mean much if they aren't enforced, and it's all too easy to conflate violence
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by Retra 7y ago
Then don't make the place inaccessible. If you're warning people about a threat, you need to show them where the threat is, not hide it.
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by Retra 7y ago
But is that better than leaving things lying around in unmarked caves? People's curiosity might kill them, but the best you can do is warn them.
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by Retra 7y ago
But until that point, you might have a good enough product: One that has momentum and requires effort to corrupt, that users are aware of and have expectations about, and that presents value that people otherwise might not have known is pos
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by Retra 7y ago
Including all-public interfaces.
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by Retra 7y ago
"c++ m_ prefix" turns up several hits for me.
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by Retra 7y ago
Some of those checks and balances never get used.
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by Retra 7y ago
Convention and precedent (and tradition) are also forms of hierarchical power. Those who assert them in the course of making a decision exercise power over those who intend to deny them.
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by Retra 7y ago
I have photos on my computer, even though I don't use a photo management application. I have compressed files. I have files taken from other machines. I remove applications. I create my own file formats. Applications themselves are fil

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