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by chc 8y ago
I don't see how that's the point at all. There are many, many awful things that have happened in the past. It's still completely fair to blame people who are doing awful things now. I'm not trying to accuse you of bad fa
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by chc 8y ago
You seem to be conflating an act and a photo. There are first-hand reports from members of Congress who have verified that what the poster above described is taking place.
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by chc 8y ago
You seem to be conflating online vs. physical with large vs. small. There are small online merchants and large physical retailers — for example, Walmart is significantly bigger than, say, the online bakery Vegaron.
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by chc 8y ago
It's true that you need to remove cycles before you can create a tree, but acyclic graphs are still graphs (and most relevantly they're probably the kind of graph you want your config to be). And YAML actually can contain cycles,
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by chc 8y ago
YAML and JSON already represent object graphs. This appears to be essentially a config file editor, not a superior configuration format. It has a GUI for creating or editing a config, and then it outputs YAML or JSON or XML.
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by chc 8y ago
Slim seemed extremely similar to Haml to me — the primary difference IIRC is that Haml uses more sigils (probably due to influence from Ruby). They both have that quality of basically reducing your document to a minimal syntax tree.
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by chc 8y ago
In case anyone is confused (since I know a lot of people see weird numbers and are just like, "Ugh, math hates me"), there's missing formatting in the above comment. It's supposed to read 2^31 and 2^21, not 231 and 221.
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by chc 8y ago
To my understanding, ASCII basically only covers English and Italian well, whereas Latin-1 covers most Western European languages — which includes the main languages of the Americas (Spanish, English, French, Portuguese).
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by chc 8y ago
Aren't those places already some of the best-served in the country? I don't live there, but it was my impression that the biggest cities already had good options, and it was smaller cities and towns that had more trouble with priv
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by chc 8y ago
I don't think we can read that much into it. The tweet says the project is nearly finished, and this doesn't sound like a small effort — so it would have started either before WASM was really a thing or when WASM was still a very
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by chc 8y ago
It's not like this is some ancient tradition you'd expect them to share. The fan death urban legend first arose in the last century, just shortly before the countries were divided. They've been separate (and relatively isolat
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by chc 8y ago
If I put a gun to your head and say "Your wallet or your life," are you free? If I lay a trap, and you fall into it, and I offer to release you if you give me your bank details, are you free? If it's a disaster and I charge $
643.
by chc 8y ago
It really isn't all that awesome, because that isn't very much net worth at all. At a minimum, you'd want everyone's net worth to be at least the average value of a car, I'd think.
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by chc 8y ago
The assumption is that there is no real benefit to the energy expenditure Bitcoin demands. This isn't true for video games (entertainment is generally considered to be worth a decent amount of resources for the psychological benefits i
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by chc 8y ago
That doesn't really make any difference. Literal indentured servants got paid for their work.
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by chc 8y ago
I don't see how you take the writer saying "These people are reporting outright falsehoods and their falsehoods appear to closely match the talking points of a PR campaign" as an indication that they're committed to defe
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by chc 8y ago
Apple did start spiraling after they fired Jobs. By the mid-'90s, Michael Dell famously said Apple should just shut down and give the shareholders their money back. What finally turned Apple around was Jobs coming back, and they wouldn
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by chc 8y ago
To my understanding, the consensus is that it's, y'know, fine, but nothing particular to recommend it over Vulkan. The main problem people seem to have with it is that it feels unnecessary, like Apple being incompatible for the sa
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by chc 8y ago
I think you're falling into the perfect market fallacy. Quality AI work is not a commodity. It's entirely possible they either won't be able to find any credible bids or they'll find a bid from a less competent party and
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by chc 8y ago
I don't know, lots of things that shouldn't be patentable seem to somehow become patentable when you say the magic words "using a computer." Maybe de Beers' legal team will come up with some gemstone equivalent.
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by chc 8y ago
People who drive normal cars are on their phones while driving all the time . There's no "probably" about it — I know lots of people who have had their cars hit by inattentive drivers. I myself got rear-ended by a guy who wa
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by chc 8y ago
Now let's add a fourth car, a Toyota without TACC, whose driver is also browsing Facebook on his phone. This driver also does not recognize the situation and will collide into the first car at a high speed. Is this worse than the third
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by chc 8y ago
Are there actually people on the other side of this argument? Like, is there someone who is saying "Immediately do a root cause analysis — just that, and nothing else — no matter what the situation is"? This seems obvious on the s
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by chc 8y ago
Obviously you can't fix incompetent creators with options given to you by the creators, but I don't think that's the only possibility here. Ithink the most useful possibility for a technique like that would be a "custom
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by chc 8y ago
AFAIK async functions aren't part of ES2015 either.
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by chc 8y ago
All speculation isn't equal. There's a difference between informed speculation ("Based on my expertise, I think it's likely X will happen"), philosophical speculation ("What if X happened? Well, here are some o
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by chc 8y ago
Are you saying you don't see any connection between decades of leaders who believe the government should have its funding cut and be less involved in business, and the fact that the government is so starved for resources that it can sc
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by chc 8y ago
The idea that some people support policies they openly claim to support falls pretty far short of a conspiracy theory.
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by chc 8y ago
I agree that Aslan is obviously an allegory for Jesus, but I don't think that's true in the same way for the parallels in Tolkien's stories. The key feature that distinguishes allegory from other sorts of parallels is that al
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by chc 8y ago
I don't think living in an area that's hilly or where it gets uncomfortably hot or cold or has lots of traffic is all that much of an edge case. Those are all pretty common things.

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