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by blep_ 4y ago
I haven't noticed any particular bias on Wikipedia, but I acknowledge that could be because it aligns with my own biases. Can you point out an example or two?
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by blep_ 4y ago
I am now fairly sure we agree and I just didn't like your example.
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by blep_ 4y ago
It's worse. Most academics don't even make their citations links , even though this is probably the most obvious use case ever for links. Instead, we get PDFs that really want to pretend they're paper journals, and citation
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by blep_ 4y ago
I do agree with that, and with the implication that one shouldn't add generics (or other abstraction) where they don't provide enough value for their costs. But I'm confused because your example (adding a generic parameter to
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by blep_ 4y ago
> In the worst case, adding a nongeneric parameter to a function could have the same impact. I've never heard of that happening though. Can you clarify this? I'm reading it as "I've never heard of anyone adding a para
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by blep_ 4y ago
In Helix: - space, k for documentation on the thing under the cursor - space, [yp] for copying/pasting to the system clipboard - m, [ai], [acfo] for selecting around/in language structures This is easy because Helix has a very fas
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by blep_ 4y ago
> you add an argument to a method, you need to update usage of that method. You add a generic to a class, you need to update everywhere that class is used. You're talking about two different things here, though. What if you add a ge
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by blep_ 4y ago
All of the things you said apply equally well to function parameters.
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by blep_ 4y ago
I just run bare Linux on mine. Sometimes containers on top of that, but only for specific things, not for general use. I was going to do the Windows VM thing but then the gaming laptop I sold when I did this got returned so I just use that
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by blep_ 4y ago
Oh, you mean the scam "warranty" industry and not the real warranty industry. My mistake.
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by blep_ 4y ago
Do any of them actually sell extended warranties? I assumed they were scammers. (Also, I wish Nationwide would stop trying to sell to me over the phone. They're amazingly persistent.)
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by blep_ 4y ago
> You cannot have non-Chinese DNS servers pointing to IPs in China. Does this mean one can harass companies one doesn't like by pointing DNS entries at them?
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by blep_ 4y ago
(2) was intended to proactively dismiss one specific attempted "gotcha" that I hear often in response to this view: people think I'm saying that it's okay for minority cultures specifically to die out, and that I would
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by blep_ 4y ago
If I may suggest an entirely different direction (that also requires either schema knowledge or adherence to a convention), I've always been mildly annoyed that foreign keys are kind of like pointers that don't behave like pointer
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by blep_ 4y ago
> Any less than 2.1 and you have to have an uncomfortable conversation about which nation is going to be the sacrifice. Only if you're the sort of person who cares about such things. I don't see any moral imperative to make sur
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by blep_ 4y ago
Are you suggesting that suicidal humans and humans without children are non-sentient?
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by blep_ 4y ago
> That understanding lets me generalise to, for example, backing up a branch (with git branch/tag) before doing a tricky rebase so I can restore it (with git reset --hard) if I need to undo. You can also do `git reflog` on branches
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by blep_ 4y ago
This is why times should have a separator between the hour and minute.
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by blep_ 4y ago
> The alias itself looks a bit weird in that to pass arguments to an aliased command you need to use a function (in Bash at least AFACIT) but it all works fine. No you don't: $ alias say=echo $ say beep beep You do
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by blep_ 4y ago
Most definitions of memory safety include not crashing .
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by blep_ 4y ago
I was 17% faster with Literata. I can't tell whether I was intentionally going faster because I had preconceived negative opinions about BR. It's a possibility.
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by blep_ 4y ago
Unions are adversarial organizations designed to balance an existing structure that can't be easily removed, but this is about "if you were inventing a new kind of organization that didn't need an adversarial structure, what&
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by blep_ 4y ago
Illiterate people can listen to radio (or now, videos) just fine, though. Text isn't special, the content is.
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by blep_ 4y ago
A large part of this is that many people feel that a two-person household must inevitably grow to more than two people. If children aren't a life goal for you, it gets a lot easier.
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by blep_ 4y ago
("dawned") ... but yeah. It's depressing. Countries with already bad economic conditions (like "we literally don't have functioning currency" level, not the things US residents complain about) seem particularly
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by blep_ 4y ago
It seems like the easiest way to get there is to just sell the smartphone and use the money to buy a (possibly used) dumbphone.
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by blep_ 4y ago
If you type the secrets really fast on a weird enough keyboard nobody will be able to see what you're typing. Security!
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by blep_ 4y ago
Non-concurrent indexing locks the table until it's done creating the index. If it's a large table, it locks it for a long time. This makes things trying to use that table time out. This is a non-issue on things that don't hav
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by blep_ 4y ago
In the interest of determining the correct level of sus, here's her response: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ByPcspwQv4StD-VW-E6HDRj6...
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by blep_ 4y ago
You can encode the inner one into a QR code and use that as album art. The rest is just optimization.

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