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by alkonaut 1y ago
When would that be preferable to have nondeterministic random?
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by alkonaut 1y ago
I think it goes without saying. PBT shouldn't be random-random (e.g. use a timestamp or cryptographic seed), it should be deterministically pseudorandom if it uses random values. You shouldn't be able to run it 10 times and get 9
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Trying to crudely estimate the popularity i tried doing a regex search for C# statements ending with select ___; vs calls to Select(/Where(. It was (only) a factor 10x which was way less difference than I thought to be honest. I have
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by alkonaut 1y ago
It means that if you find a performance problem, and you could hand-code that performance problem away (e.g. use some for-loops and preallocated buffers etc instead of wrestling enumerables, adding to lists) then you may find it useful, bec
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by alkonaut 1y ago
> LINQ syntax is just sugar and probably a design mistake I find that the term "LINQ" these days tend to mean the extensions on IEnumerable/IQueryable, and not the special query syntax. Whatever the term meant when it was
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Isn't that what permit of residency and citizenship already is? Without legal residency or citizenship all those things become hard/impossible/illegal. It's not personhood, it's citizenship (or a permit of residenc
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by alkonaut 1y ago
The inverse follows from this and is even more scary. Soon there will be videos of something terrible happening, reported in the news, which is widely rejected as fake despite being real.
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by alkonaut 1y ago
No, there is a threshold for the amount of subscriptions/SaaS I tolerate, and it’s basically a tiny handful of them and they’re occupied by streaming services etc. So your feeling is right, when it comes to me at least. The App Store m
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by alkonaut 1y ago
That's horrible but why would it be worse together with an e-id system?
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Why is there no standardized e-ID in the US? How much money is wasted by different authorities and businesses having to reinvent the same wheel over and over? I have used the same auth for doing my taxes or checking my prescriptions or sign
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by alkonaut 1y ago
> You've got it totally backwards. Companies push features onto users who do not want them in order to make sales through forced upgrades because the old version is discontinued. I think this is more a consumer perspective than a B2
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by alkonaut 1y ago
"The world" runs on _features_ not elegant, fast, or bug free software. To the end user, there is no difference between a lack of a feature, and a bug. Nor is there any meaningful difference between software taking 5 minutes to co
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Wait, in my invitation it says the party already happened in 1901.
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by alkonaut 1y ago
The schema I meant was created in-house. I meant the tags and attribute names (schema) I can control. Just like the compiler controls what can go in a function name (but not in a string literal or comment).
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Again, I'm now talking about "known" text in the programming context. Text that is neither user-input, or presented to a user. (E.g. column names. builtin function names in my toy spreadsheet. Whatever). Obviously for text th
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by alkonaut 1y ago
I think the key to doing text sanely in programming is separating "text" from "international text" or "user text". "Text", can be e.g. the characters that make up my xml node names. Or all the names
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by alkonaut 1y ago
I have almost no hope that this is a matter that has a technical solution. The GDPR shows that law - even if not global, and even if not widely enforced - is pretty good at getting people to act. And most importantly, it will make the larg
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by alkonaut 1y ago
The canary should be when the administration starts suggesting any economic indicators for the rest of the year are really due to the last administration and have nothing to do with this administration.
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by alkonaut 1y ago
This space seems like one of those areas where it would be really hard to break in because their whole selling point is having had hundreds or thousands of people record and annotate an enormous amount of voice input, which I assume has to
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by alkonaut 1y ago
There are numerous examples of people who appear to be intelligent, witty. Maybe they hid their darker sides (be it some authoritarian, populist, racist or otherwise objectively bad tendency). But they did hide them. But then something seem
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by alkonaut 1y ago
The big difference for me is that what's actually fun (hard technical problems like e.g. writing an OS kernel, a db engine, a path tracer, an LLM from scratch...) is mentally challenging, and might progress your career, but it's n
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by alkonaut 1y ago
I still don't get it. What I want to do is make software as a hobby that can never be sold. If I start writing some boring SaaS software instead then I'm losing my opportunity to do what I like? I think it must basically be a fu
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Do many people hobby code with that entrepreneur mindset thing? Or sit down to play guitar thinking they want to make a hit and feeling bad if they just noodle some cover songs? What a miserable existence that must be. How do you get that w
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by alkonaut 2y ago
I have voted my entire adult life in a similar system but never knew how the sausage was made. I have complete confidence in it despite not knowing exactly how it works.
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by alkonaut 2y ago
I don’t really want to learn hundreds of different individual political platforms. It’s even a stretch to study 7-9 platforms. Instead I tick the party that is closest to my views but the individual that dissents on a specific issue, or who
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by alkonaut 2y ago
7. Uncertainty seems overlooked these days. The job of politicians is to make people and businesses dare. Making people dare getting an expensive education or starting a business or hiring your first employee or whatever it might be. What t
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by alkonaut 2y ago
This is hardly surprising given the attack on knowledge by populists in recent years. If you aren't subscribing to the populist views of science, knowledge and experts, you aren't going to trust the people you need to trust (exper
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Always quote all yaml strings. If you have a yaml file that has something that isn't a simple value (number, boolean) such as for example a date, time, ip-address, mac address, country code, phone number, server name, configuration nam
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Logging: no could also be log in norwegian. Or log only for the norwegian region. That's the thing with too many keywords and optional quoting, you can't know. And for this reason, "logging: false" would be clearer than
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Any proper experiment for UBI requires 1) to do it for a whole economy. You can't have 10 or 100 people on UBI where the job market, prices etc aren't affected by UBI. And 2) For life. The small effects on behavior if I'm giv

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