SeanLuke

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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Sure. But the study is quite specific: > The study aims to understand how websites would respond to real users, while accommodating websites that may have less capacity to respond. That is, they're not interested in what the websit
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Scientific history is filled with awful experiments involving human subjects, and ones with terrible and long-reaching impacts: consider the effect of the Tuskegee experiments on Black reticence in taking the covid vaccine. Not to mention
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Yes, there are no homeless children in Europe. If only there were some way to google this to verify it.... https://www.google.com/search?q=child+homelessness+in+europe
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England came up with that idea, not the US. Specifically, John Locke.
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These statements are true. But the problem with many of them is that the US is very diverse and very large compared to the countries against which it is competing. Compare the US against the Netherlands and it doesn't do so well. Co
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Well, let's look at that. The very last version of NeXTSTEP was 4.x, and was released in 1996 near the end of NeXT's life. It was basically identical in looks to 3.x. Here are some screenshots of 3.x: https://winworld
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
> Looks really dated (and I can remember thinking that when it was out!). NeXTSTEP (v0.8) was "out" in 1989. It looked like this: http://toastytech.com/guis/ns08.html Whereas Windows in 1989 looked like t
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
If we're gonna be anal about it, it's NeXTStep -> NeXTSTEP -> NeXTstep -> NEXTSTEP. Likewise OpenStep -> OPENSTEP. But yes, by MacOS I had meant the original.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
You do know that MacOS predates NeXTSTEP, right?
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> CDE et Al., which predates Windows a fair amount Windows came out in 1985. CDE came out in 1993. > Also Qt is fairly independent of X11. You seem to be missing my complaint. By supporting multiple platforms, Qt is forced to support
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
IMHO QT, GTK and wxWidgets are, put simply, awful. They are good examples of limited toolkits designed in part with cross-platform development in mind, rather than libraries designed with novel or even good interface design. They prolifer
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
NeXT took a different tack. Rather than enforce a set of requirements and guidelines, NeXT produced a library and set of tools so compelling that only an idiot wouldn't use them -- and these tools (such as Interface Builder) strongly
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
NeXTSTEP was beautiful, clean, and elegant. How is it that the Gnustep pseudo-copies, such as Etoile, can be so ugly and inconsistent? Everything from nasty font choices to the inconsistent and weird spacing between widgets to the weird m
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
The US is not an appropriate comparison in terms of geographical diversity. The US + Canada is unusually homogenous because of its unique and very modern history. Instead, compare China to Europe, which is far more rich and complex. Heck,
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I don't think he's saying that Mao invented Chinese herbology. I mean, who would seriously say that? I think he's saying that Mao pushed for the treatment of Traditional Chinese medicine as a unified discipline distinct fro
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Anne Scoolas had diplomatic immunity, right? That's an entirely different ball of wax. Perhaps Scoolas isn't a good example for your case.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
That seems to let one off the hook. Suppose that if person X dies you inherit his million-dollar wealth. We're out camping and you have the opportunity to do him in. So YOU'RE not evil in taking that opportunity: but rather, wh
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Wait, what does reason mean precisely then? This sounds half-baked. Let's say I have the preverbial lever which kills someone but gives me a million dollars. Is it reasonable for me to increase my own utility by pressing the lever?
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
And yet you just decided to compare it to a host of EU countries whose demographics are radically different from Sweden. Rather surprised you don't think Norway and Denmark are appropriate peers against which to compare Sweden. So ple
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
CR has two completely separate and independent scores for cars: the product rating and the reliability score. The product rating is a measure of the quality of the product as purchased and is done by CR itself. The reliability score IIR
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
He's complaining that Amazon is charging him, not that it's canceling orders.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Who gets the newly available address space?
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
100% correct. Many audio and synthesis algorithms, including mine, perform LOTS of iterated exponential or high-polynomial decays on variables, such as x <- x * 0.1, or x <- x * x or whatnot. These decays rapidly pull values to the
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Perhaps true. But the point is: you're calling denormal failures "edge cases", yet my primary experience with denormals is exactly this.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
> When we were debating whether WebAssembly should support subnormal numbers (i.e. be IEEE compliant), some people often cited these mythical subnormal slowdowns. So Dan Gohman ran some benchmarks and the scary-sounding slowdowns amount
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
The other examples he gave trade off significant math deficiencies for small speed gains. But flushing subnormals to zero can produce a MASSIVE speed gain. Like 1000x. And including subnormals isn't necessarily good floating point p
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Ugh, Pinterest is the experts-exchange of images. But there's a very straightforward way for Google to deal with Pinterext, and Medium, and Quora, and sign-up-only newspapers and magazines. Google just needs a preferences checkbox th
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
What? NeXT open-sourced their Objective-C gcc extensions in 1992 , a half-decade before Apple bought them.
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I worked in Hong Kong as a missionary from 1988 to 1990, and part of that time was spent in Kowloon City (a region of Hong Kong which contained the Kowloon Walled City). The Kowloon Walled City largely consisted of a large block of walk-up
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Fun fact. I used to work in the Kowloon Walled City. It's really not anything like it.

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