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by chowells 4y ago
The thing is that "warrant served without gunfire" doesn't get clicks, so it doesn't get reported. Looking at news sites tells you nothing at all about the relative prevalence of those two cases.
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by chowells 4y ago
It's not about how much money you have , it's about what you do with it. Do you match your standard of living to those around you, or do you distort the environment to provide you with what you desire regardless of what those aro
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by chowells 4y ago
I don't have time to listen to 1000 dumb ideas per day. I have a life to live. Also, I don't want my brain to get infected with whatever got Joe Rogan. I'm fine only caring about news after it's mainstream knowledge. O
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by chowells 4y ago
If you don't have 60 seats in the Senate, you don't control it under current rules. 41 Senators is all it takes to declare a bill filibustered and dead. These rules are a severe perversion of the intention of a filibuster. They ab
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by chowells 4y ago
Are you aware that it's impossible to do any kind of parsing without validating the data? Saying "you have a validation function" is not some sort of disproof of parsing. Parsing is an additional job on top of validation - pr
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by chowells 4y ago
Nope. If it was validation, it would return a boolean indicating if the value was... Valid. Instead it's parsing. It takes in a value of one type and returns a value of a different type that is known good. Or it fails. But what it neve
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by chowells 4y ago
Opaque types absolutely provide something of value. They're different types . You can't pass an Integer to a function that requires a PrimeNumber. It's a compile error.
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by chowells 4y ago
If you can't create a value of type PrimeNumber that doesn't contain a prime number, there's a bit more to it than naming. Not all type-level guarantees need to come from structural properties of the type. They can also come
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by chowells 4y ago
"But it's true" isn't a good rebuttal to a stereotype that's based on social factors. For instance, "Jewish people are good with money" is a social construct, caused by the Catholics banning their adherant
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by chowells 4y ago
Yeah, all of "learning styles" fits into that bucket. It may be what you like, but it isn't what has been shown to be the most effective.
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by chowells 4y ago
Wait, what's wrong with making sure indentation and code structure are always the same? Lying indentation structure is always wrong.
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by chowells 4y ago
... To be super ridiculously over-the-top pedantic... That Applicative instance is on ((->) r). If you could actually do type-level sections, that'd be (r ->). But type-level sections are the same as type-level lambdas, and they
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by chowells 4y ago
Marketing working is exactly what makes it unethical.
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by chowells 4y ago
So when injustice is banal, we should just ignore it?
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by chowells 4y ago
This is true, but not related to my point. Dragon's Lair was in arcades in 1983. It looked like nothing else when it landed, and very little else for a long time. That's why it stands out in the history of games.
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by chowells 4y ago
According to a random Wikipedia article I found, in 1983 the three top-grossing arcade games were Ms. Pac-Man, Pole Position, and Dragon's Lair. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_in_video_games Compare the grap
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by chowells 4y ago
Yes, there are absolutely dangers. It shouldn't be possible for a depressed person to convince a chatbot to tell them to commit suicide. There are some people who only need the tiniest push on a bad day.
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by chowells 4y ago
As a very quick overview, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect No, it's not harmless to repeatedly claim things without evidence. No, people do not make their own judgments. When reality and your ex
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by chowells 4y ago
I like rational numbers in general, but they do have some huge practical issues in numerical algorithms. In particular, there's no upper bound on the memory use of a rational based on its magnitude. Following from that, there's no
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by chowells 4y ago
This isn't a turn for Jordan Peterson. It's who he's always been, and a lot of people tried to warn you about it 5+ years ago. The only new thing is that he's not trying to dress it up in fake objectivity anymore. Have y
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by chowells 4y ago
That doesn't really seem like a good summary of functional programming. It has state all over the place. But it's true that functional programming is about state management. I'd argue that the functional approach to state man
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by chowells 4y ago
In the US, there is no distinction between "college" and "university" like some places have. Here the difference is solely that a university is collection of colleges that share admittance and funding to some extent. I a
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by chowells 4y ago
It happens all the time in bottom-up disaster relief. Don't assume something doesn't exist just because you don't participate in areas where it's common.
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by chowells 4y ago
You can't detect all possible cycles statically, but you can definitely detect them when they happen at runtime. When calculating a value, track its dynamic dependencies. If it ends up depending on itself, you have a cycle.
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by chowells 4y ago
Organization from the bottom up works fine. The problem comes with hierarchies that exist to reinforce power. If you naturally construct a hierarchy to coordinate, great. Let the hierarchy die when the need to coordinate is over. When someo
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by chowells 4y ago
The argument is about harm reduction. You need to separate the ideal from stuff that improves the current situation. The ideal all consumers should be pursuing for all forms of financial transaction is that all advertised prices are the out
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by chowells 4y ago
Whether you know it's called an extension or not, you know it's the part of the filename after the dot. That knowledge isn't missing. The perspective to understand it's what you should be asking for is.
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by chowells 4y ago
That's not what the XY problem is. The XY problem is asking for Y because you think it's the only way to solve your actual problem X. It's more of a lack of perspective than a lack of education. You tunnel-vision on what you
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by chowells 4y ago
Fwiw, hmatrix-gsl works trivially and painlessly. Why does a working library need changes?
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by chowells 4y ago
Maybe you would rather do that with reflection, but I'd rather do something that isn't fundamentally the same tools that create security vulnerabilities. Every time you can not-use reflection is a win.

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