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by a-priori 5y ago
True, this probably didn't actually change the results, but it likely narrowed the margin in an already narrow vote.
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by a-priori 5y ago
This reminds me of the 2019 Canadian federal election. There was a new party in that election led by a man named Maxime Bernier called the People's Party. They're a far-right populist party and generally awful. Bernier himself was
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by a-priori 5y ago
I once had a company ask everyone to sign updated employment contracts that changed the vacation policy to "unlimited PTO". So I opened up my original contract and compared them... and wouldn't you believe it? There were othe
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by a-priori 5y ago
Again, I don't see anything shady there. There's two things I see in the settlement about that: 1. They proactively retrieved transaction data when you connect an account. This sounds like an assumption that almost always people a
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by a-priori 5y ago
I just read the settlement document, and it looks like this is being reported incorrectly or at least ambiguously. The allegation is NOT that they shared/sold data to any third parties but that their Plaid Link user interface, where pe
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by a-priori 5y ago
I'm totally on board with applying the principles of judo, such as Seiryoku-Zenyo (the efficiency principle you mentioned), more widely than throwing people into a mat while wearing a particularly sturdy bathrobe. But I'm not goin
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by a-priori 5y ago
As someone who practices Judo (the martial art) this made me very confused.
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by a-priori 5y ago
Most decimal numbers cannot be represented exactly by floating point, so there is error in decimal to floating point conversion. You can see how this conversion works using this calculator: https://www.h-schmidt.net/FloatCon
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by a-priori 5y ago
The best online merchants these days are about successfully mixing online and offline experiences. The term of art here, if you want to Google it, is 'omnichannel': the idea that their experience with the merchant should seamlessl
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by a-priori 6y ago
As I posted last time this came up here: This is a billing question, not a technical question, and looked at through that lens it's easy to put a hard limit on a monthly bill: just don't ever issue bills greater than that amount.
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by a-priori 6y ago
Honestly, I'd suggest reading the specifications directly. They're quite well written and have lots of examples. https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/ That said, I'm not sure how much much of ActivityP
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by a-priori 6y ago
In practice, I find REST APIs also have N+1 problems the same way GraphQL does. They just get spread across multiple requests.
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by a-priori 6y ago
This is a billing question, not a technical question, and looked at through that lens it's easy to put a hard limit on a monthly bill: just don't ever issue bills greater than that amount. If I say I only want to pay a maximum of
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by a-priori 6y ago
Why not? The front end is closer to your users. Shouldn't that be the focus?
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by a-priori 6y ago
In fact I didn't realize until recently that this was a Canadian thing and that Americans don't wear a poppy.
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by a-priori 6y ago
I'm Canadian and we get -35 temperatures for at least a few days every winter. This doesn't make sense to me. Of course you should put a scarf over your nose. At those temperatures , exposed skin freezes very quickly so you need t
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by a-priori 6y ago
It's tricky to be both reasonably biologically accurate, and yet computationally efficient. Some models do exist to fit this niche. One I'm familiar with is Izhikevich (2003), a model with four morphology parameters and two state
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by a-priori 6y ago
The constraints and expectations of the medium strongly influence the content. If I had an idea and wanted to communicate it, then I did so by recorded video, by live video, by blog post, by Twitter thread, and by HN comment, the same idea
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by a-priori 6y ago
I don't know what company they're referring to but at Amazon, the criteria for hiring someone is that interviewee would be better than 50% of the people currently doing that role at the company. They should 'raise the bar&#x2
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Dev Degree: Behind the Scenes(engineering.shopify.com)
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by a-priori 6y ago
Of course. This kind of converging brain activity is an important part of how empathy works: by inferring what another person's brain is doing and replicating that in our own brain, we feel what they feel, and this 'synchrony&#x27
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by a-priori 6y ago
Also when I was in high school in Canada in about 2001-2003, I ended up taking over the class and teaching C++ because I’d already learned enough of it in my spare time that knew it better than the teacher (he liked Pascal better).
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by a-priori 6y ago
If you're going to use a "if React isn't going to handle X for me, why am I wasting 100KB on it?" argument, then it wouldn't be 100KB for very long, now would it?
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by a-priori 6y ago
That’s because React isn’t a form library, it’s a rendering library. People have built form libraries on top of it. Here’s one I’ve used and contributed to that builds two-way binding for form state in React: https://github.com&#
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by a-priori 6y ago
> The tests in riscv-tests are not complete enough to indicate strong compliance. I have found several bugs in my implementation that were not caught by them. I've noticed that, yes. They got me pretty far, but there's somethin
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by a-priori 6y ago
It looks like it's the season for hobby RISC-V emulators, because I've also been working on one. https://github.com/michaelmelanson/riscy The tricky part here comes when you have to run non-trivial programs.
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by a-priori 6y ago
I've been using hooks full-time for the last year or so in a _very large_ React code base (one of the largest in the world). None of these so-called problems are real in my experience. The first point is just whining about not wanting
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by a-priori 7y ago
" because the parents want it. I'm not joking, that's the actual reason. " https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1216800493684580356
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by a-priori 7y ago
Would you expect a human to say that 'without any prior input'?
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by a-priori 7y ago
Oh don't get me wrong, I glossed over a lot of nonsense, especially in the first part. I didn't mention in the first sentence that finding the knight's son involved starting at a cave, having a random knight (Sir Ivan) approa

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