brianpan

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by brianpan 5y ago
It's very easy, except when it's hard. Also, it's never easy. Joking, but only somewhat. That's because the easy cases are handled by automation, etc. If you knew it could happen, you probably planned for it. Figuring ou
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Caught by pair a eagle eyes, eh?
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I don't understand what this argument means. Aren't all rules enforced by whatever incentive or deterrent attached to the rule? Is "No parking from 9pm to 6am" enforced at the barrel of a gun?
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Did you override the hotkey to go to the end of a line for an emoticon? Or are those 3 different examples?
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I had a similar experience early in the pandemic. I had to ask for the candidate to keep his video on. The voice was much more enthusiastic than the person's demeanor and eventually it became obvious that he was trying to randomly mout
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Yeah, that's on the interviewer for not asking follow up questions. I've had plenty of intelligent answers that seemed weird to me before I followed up. Or "wrong" answers because I didn't explain the question well
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by brianpan 5y ago
A few days ago I got 4 of 5 letters then lost with 3 wrong guesses at the last letter. I should have spent one turn getting 5 guesses at the last letter instead of spending 3 turns guessing 3 letters. It's not cheating, it's the b
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It's not absurd, it's statistics. If you're trying to detect something that's fairly rare, it's very easy to have a test produce more false positives than real positives. That means if you randomly take a test and i
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The fact that many people here (which I consider smarter and more informed than the average population) misunderstand this, I think proves my point. Mammograms under 50 give MORE false positives that real positives. That means it's not
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by brianpan 5y ago
I think the point is, like the gift analogy in the post, that once you're doing it for money it's no longer free. Not free as in beer or free as in speech, but free as in choice (or free as in time). :D
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by brianpan 5y ago
Devil's advocate- Mammograms are a very useful diagnostic tool, but only when applied in the right circumstances because of the rate of false positives. It's recommended for 50+, but when given to a 30-year old, the results are me
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by brianpan 5y ago
You can always do better because failures can always be bigger/wider. multi-instance < multi-AZ < multi-region < multiple vendors
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> I think there are better guides than this Care to share?
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It's not a problem that there's a different technical solution to high-profile users. There's no problem with FB hiring more (or more skilled) moderators for higher-profile users. The problem is when the rules are not applied
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Theater, like security theater, is implementing something that doesn't work but doing it anyway for appearances. Masks work as you say. The fact that people don't want to wear them not is not hygiene theater, it's non-complia
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by brianpan 5y ago
Even if my cert is about to expire, I might already know and have a plan to renew and rotate. In fact, I would think MOST large sites have a plan for this and aren't relying on a person from the internet to notice and email them. Plus,
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An integral can be used to find the area under a curve by summing infinitesimally small areas. The point isn't to walk to the end of the infinity. It's to use it as a tool to calculate something in a different or previously imposs
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by brianpan 5y ago
Yes, they could be linked to other causes. In fact, those things ARE linked to other causes. But it seems like they are ALSO related to long covid. That's what the research is trying to prove or disprove. It does this by looking at dat
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How do we know? That's literally what research is for. Researchers compare symptoms of people who do vs people who don't have covid. Math tells us if the results are statistically significant. Biology helps explain the mechanisms
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Let me make this quick tool for the development environment. I'm not sure what else we'll need, let me add some pre/post flexibility. We have this useful tool let's use it for more things. Let's standardize on this.
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by brianpan 5y ago
That's the point of this thread. YOU only need a new version every 3-4 years so you don't think there's any work any other time. But you take all those platforms and all those extensions and the result is maintenance by itsel
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by brianpan 5y ago
> What ongoing development does a password manager have? I shutter to think about just trying to keep the status quo across all those platforms, devices, browser extensions. How often do we have new versions of iOS or macOS? What about W
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The article is about naming the method. The fact that dates are messy means a clean API is difficult/impossible. I think plus() is a name that is good enough. I can't think of a better name that will help the user understand what
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by brianpan 5y ago
It's much worse than you think. In physics there is 1) we know this is definitely wrong but it's useful and 2) this is very right so far and it's probably going to be wrong. I'm only a little bit joking. Now, I am not a
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"We now think that" is the qualifier on the entirety of physics. It's redundant.
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I have been really interested in general relativity and watching youtube videos for the past few months. I understood all the words (I would not have a year ago.) I think it does have enough detail to understand what they're saying. Th
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> intent only Communication is a multiple party activity. It's not just a speaker and a speaker's intent. The recipient and how it's received absolutely matter (and should). I've said plenty of things I didn't in
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My guesstimation is that we're just trading modes of failure and it'll roughly be a wash in the end. Gas cars have leaky oil and combustion happening (my old high school car caught on fire under the hood). Users are regularly hand
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Sweat profusely with a warm breeze. I grew up in the midwest where it's not as hot but just as humid and A/C was a luxury. I never slept with any covers as a kid and a fan in the room sure felt like it was doing nothing.
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Scientific experiments also try to prove surprising results. "We believed this surprising thing might be true. To our surprise, nothing unusual happened." What's generally surprising is not the same as what is surprising give

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