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by amalcon 4y ago
I don't think I've ever heard of training wheels at literal ground level when the bike is upright -- what would even be the point? It's basically a tricycle, like you say. When I've seen them, they've been at least
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by amalcon 4y ago
Excel macros were/are bad as a programming environment, for the reasons Joel says. The thing is, that's because it grew out of the deficiencies of formulae. If you can't do a thing with formulae, the next logical step was
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by amalcon 4y ago
It's been a while since I've seen the name NetBeans! It was basically the Java IDE for a little while there, until Eclipse took over. Eclipse basically won because NetBeans used Swing for UI, and Swing was hot garbage back the
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by amalcon 4y ago
> There's no way to deposit money *into* bitcoin. I have not deposited money into my bank account in many years. I have, instead, had money transferred to my account from other accounts. This is not only possible in Bitcoin; wit
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by amalcon 4y ago
> still waiting. My answer is still "no (but many banks don't either)", as I said in my previous reply. Unless you mean digitally, but that's just "having accounts". If you mean digitally, then my answer
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by amalcon 4y ago
> Banks store money, right? Does bitcoin store money? You mean physically? Plenty of banks (especially online banks and investment banks) don't physically store any more cash than something like a jewelry store. Physical storage
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by amalcon 4y ago
Interesting how you think I don't know what a bank is, or what Bitcoin is. I know what Bitcoin is; I have read both the whitepaper and (more importantly) most of the code (at the time). I do concede that I have an incomplete understa
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by amalcon 4y ago
Wait, what? The inventor of Bitcoin said that it was cash? Well, that settles it then: nobody is allowed to disagree with an inventor about what their invention is or does. Sarcasm aside, I think Bitcoin functionally bears much more re
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by amalcon 4y ago
Let's suppose you have Bob's Traditional Bank. They keep meticulous records, and comply with US government requests for them (regardless of what you think of such practices, let's just say that this particular bank happens t
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by amalcon 4y ago
AFAIK the only solution in water that actively dehydrates you is a strong salt water (roughly, sea water). Others (e.g. coffee) are just not as efficient at hydrating you due to diuretic effects or whatever.
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by amalcon 4y ago
If you say "This pace isn't working for me, do you mind if I just go on ahead?", I've met very few hikers who would say no -- except of course cases where that would be dangerous. If you just blitz ahead without sayin
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by amalcon 4y ago
Quite so. Imagine agreeing to do any other activity together with someone else, and then immediately separating yourself from them because you decide that is more efficient. Agree to, say, cook a meal with someone -- but you decide to j
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by amalcon 4y ago
Klingons (which in TOS were obviously supposed to be Soviets) might be an even better comparison: not only did TNG introduce a black Klingon (Worf), but they completely changed how Klingons looked. As far as I can tell, nobody cared -- pr
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by amalcon 4y ago
I mean... it does exist now, and I don't advocate taking it out since people have probably come to rely on it for some reason. Defaults matter, though, and I suspect[0] that a minority want this default. [0]- With only anecdotes suppo
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by amalcon 4y ago
My answer to this is that the calendar just does not need to be a web app. Weakening a primary advantage of everything else on the web just so that my calendar can be a web app seems like a poor trade-off. Re: sound, "Triggered as the
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by amalcon 4y ago
I recognize that this kind of thing is useful to the developer, of course, and we've gotten a lot of neat things this way. My worry is basically that the absent functionality is the best thing about the web as a user. Take the notific
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by amalcon 4y ago
I'm definitely guilty of that one. Though it's usually because if e.g. the question is "Will X software do Y", the answer is often "Usually, but watch out for somewhat complicated Z".
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by amalcon 4y ago
The point has more teeth since it is the same website. The point is that no individual or organization is perfectly good or perfectly bad, and we need to be able to recognize the good without it being treated as an endorsement of the bad
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by amalcon 4y ago
They're probably referring to the Crossfire interview (which is widely credited with getting the latter show cancelled). He basically complained about the lack of depth on Crossfire, and when questioned about his own show's lack
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by amalcon 4y ago
No, offset means "measuring from a defined location". In a computer, the choice of location is more or less arbitrary[0]. If you pick the first element, you get zero indexing. If you pick a space before the first element, you g
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by amalcon 4y ago
Another comment mentioned this CVE: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-3289...
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by amalcon 4y ago
I'm pretty pro nuclear energy, but it's pretty obvious why. Fukushima is still in recent memory. Proliferation concerns are pretty close to the forefront vis-a-vis Iran and North Korea. Solar and wind are quickly getting le
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by amalcon 4y ago
It's an RCE (out of sandbox) exploited when you load a web page in Safari. Everyone is equally vulnerable to this, and you should be frantically upgrading. People panicked about Heartbleed, and rightly so, but this is arguably much
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by amalcon 4y ago
"Offset-based" is bringing in pointers; that's the thing it's an offset "from". "The beginning of the array" is just a pointer. I suppose saying that does have an advantage over explicitly talking ab
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by amalcon 4y ago
I'm not going to argue with that (not because I agree, but because it's not a discussion I feel like having). My issue is that it seems to have nothing to do with what I said. I was posing a hypothetical in which Infowars had in
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by amalcon 4y ago
I can ask GPT-3 to generate headlines. Most or all of these will be either incoherent or incorrect to at least this degree. It won't start any wars, because GPT-3 just isn't that influential. You're not necessarily wrong --
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by amalcon 4y ago
Neither the article nor grandparent said they think the solution to misinformation is censorship.
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by amalcon 4y ago
The other major use-case is where other code constrains you, e.g. it's being passed as a callback to a C library. There are also a number of cases where passing a pointer into a template function can be more concise. E.g. since pointe
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by amalcon 4y ago
The style where it prints out a ballot which you feed into the scanner is actually not-insane. It's good for accessibility (e.g. lets visually impaired people vote without assistance) but still leaves a paper trail for recounts and th
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by amalcon 4y ago
I'm also surprised to see "electronic voting machines" referred to as something everyone ought to be familiar with. I've never seen one of this type. I last voted a year ago (it was a local election); the last national

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