SeanLuke

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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Fayetteville is less than 100K people, and the entire metro area (the so-called "Northwest Arkansas" region) is about 500K people. It seems small, self-contained, and isolated. I live in Alexandria, a famous historical neighborhoo
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
It's the 7 that's the giveaway.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
So... why does it look like a snail?
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
In my opinion, JavaFX is the Duke Nukem Forever of UI toolkits. It was supposed to be a "modern" replacement for Swing, ultimately blooming into a full-featured, rich GUI library. But it's now almost 15 years since JavaFX w
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
How is it that 700 people were accused, but only 70 have had their names cleared so far?
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
All this may be true: but it's a drop in the bucket compared to Russia's likely mendacity. There's something wrong with their model or data.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Wait, this suggests that Canada and Australia are highly misreporting, but Russia isn't ? I thought it was well established that Russia's count was very, very off. This would imply that this model doesn't work very well.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Popperism is not, and has never been, the definition of science. Science is straightforwardly defined: it is a pursuit of research whose primary mechanism for gathering knowledge about the world is the scientific method. Difficulties in m
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Social science is a science. That's the S in STEM.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Isn't psychology part of STEM?
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Ah, the Urban Dictionary. Where non-words go to die.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
I dunno. It sounds wrong to say "where are Safeway warehouses?" -- it sounds more appropriate to have instead said "where are the Safeway warehouses?"
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
A reasonable parsing at the time of the article I suppose (2016), but not today: Trader Joe (Joe Coulombe) cannot possibly own warehouses, as he died in 2020.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Yes, but that would change the intended meaning of the headline.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Trader Joe's presents an interesting punctuation problem. The most common rule, I think, for forming possessives is rule #1 of Strunk and White: "Form the possessive singular of nouns with 's. Follow this rule whatever the f
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Wait, how is this remotely the same?
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
No. Encryption was considered to be a munition . Wikipedia is being loose in its terminology and could benefit from some revision here.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
> Not being able to use arms absolutely is an infringement of the right to bear them. I mean, how would it be different if we claimed that you can own a gun but not shoot it? Do you have the right to shoot at someone's house? Do y
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Yes, but this was a far cry from ProjectBuilder in NeXTSTEP. See for example https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/mac-os-x/0596003706/ch1... I imagine what happened was: when Apple acquired NeXT, Apple&
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Actually, Interface Builder predates NeXTSTEP. Like all revolutionary tools, IB was originally in Lisp. It ran on the Mac.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
This article makes a number of odd claims about Project Builder. I'm not sure what passes for an "IDE" nowadays, but Project Builder did not have an editor at all: I'd think that'd be a defining feature of an IDE.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
It is for all intents and purposes a copy of the Mac layout. Which shouldn't be surprising given who founded NeXT.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
I'm sorry, but information means something, and it does not equate to number of strokes. A character can have millions of strokes and still convey the same information as a character with a single stroke. There are other measures of &
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
> This was a surprising one to me. Simplified Chinese was expectedly more efficient than Traditional Chinese, but both were beaten out by Cantonese (which also uses traditional characters). Let's put aside the fact that this guy jus
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
All right. How about "MicroSoft".
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
It's worth mentioning that MicroSHIFT is a large Taiwanese bicycle components manufacturer. It's unlikely there's a trademark infringement issue as they're in different markets, but this is kind of like a bike company n
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
That's my posting that was linked to. Of course, Java doesn't have dispatch. And it's also true that Gosling's team originally considered, then rejected, C++ in favor of building Oak. But Oak borrowed an awful lot dire
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
They exist in the US too. There ain't nothin' wrong with an EngD, it's a great terminal degree. But the Doctor of Engineering is not a doctor in the sense being discussed here. Why? Because the definition of a doctor is
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
> TVs and furbies with electronics in them could give you an electric shock or start a fire In no universe will a small low-voltage chip cause a fire except in exceptional circumstances. This is a non-dangerous product. But you can only
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
> Is a Doctor of Philosophy a real doctor? Actually, a Doctor of Philosophy is the only real doctor.

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