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by chowells 4y ago
I don't think you understand the position Microsoft is in. First, Candy Crush was never preinstalled. A link to purchase it in the Microsoft store was preinstalled, and it took all of two clicks to get rid of it if you wanted to. Secon
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by chowells 4y ago
You apparently have never read or listened to more than the "I have a dream" speech. King was very much about anti-racism, which is best termed "anti-racism". It's not sufficient to not add racism to the world, you
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by chowells 4y ago
Why do you think it's supposed to be fiber? I've never once seen comcast or any other cable internet provider claim they're fiber.
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by chowells 4y ago
No one reasonable wants blind equality of outcome. They want an to understand the cause of the differences, and they want that cause to be moral. That's far different from proclaiming either that there is no problem or that outcomes ar
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by chowells 4y ago
Eh. Spelling is hard, especially when you don't know the country of origin for proper names. What're you gonna do?
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by chowells 4y ago
Why would they need to have done so? The blog post argues there's no evidence this is any faster than classical Schnorr's algorithm, and classical Schnorr's algorithm can easily factor a 48-bit number. And as the post also ma
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by chowells 4y ago
"Toxic Masculinity" is an idea created by men's groups [1] to describe the stresses on them that make them unhealthy and come from some cultural ideal of manhood. It was literally created by men as language to separate discus
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by chowells 4y ago
You must have used a different Haskell in production than I have.
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by chowells 4y ago
I really like what this library does, but I'm troubled by the author's blatantly incorrect use of unsafePerformIO. Correct functionality depends on specific use patterns, rather than allowing the type system to guarantee it. When
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by chowells 4y ago
He-Man was the scam. The entire show was created specifically to sell toys to children. Before Reagan's deregulation crusade in the early 80s, that was illegal.
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by chowells 4y ago
> You could make a battle royal game well where people start taking damage when they are 100 units away from the center of the map. So... You have some meaning there, don't you? Something beyond the values true or false? Does true
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by chowells 4y ago
Why do you care if a number is greater than 100? That has to actually mean something to you. What does it actually mean? Is it a validation error? Is it a warning trigger? Why not have a data type that actually expresses that meaning? Wai
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by chowells 4y ago
Boolean values are inherently a sign of an insufficient data model. Booleans carry no inherent meaning. They don't tell you where they came from or provide any context about what operations or data they are guarding. If your language l
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by chowells 4y ago
Shift... to cartoon fantasy art style? You mean the style of The Lost Vikings, Rock'n'Roll Racing, Warcraft (all of them), and so on? Any games not in that style are outliers.
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by chowells 4y ago
> Category theory is really the mathematics of abstraction Mathematics is the mathematics of abstraction. That's all you're doing in math, from the beginning to the end. What's the same between "I have two sheep in th
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by chowells 4y ago
In Haskell, type information is used to generate code . And not just in fancy metaprogramming libraries like Servant - any use of chained type class resolution is generating code for you based on static type information. How does that powe
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by chowells 4y ago
Yeah, I should say where developers don't think they need to use reflection. Like, the log4j thing came from (among other design errors) choosing to use reflection to look up filters for processing data during logging. Why would log4
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by chowells 4y ago
Sandboxing is mostly irrelevant to the log4j error. You'd have to tell the sandbox to turn off reflection, which isn't really feasible in Java. And that's because Java is so poorly designed that big libraries are all designed
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by chowells 4y ago
Sure, that's still a BSP tree. It's just represented as code instead of data. The duality of data and code is a long-established optimization path for static information.
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by chowells 4y ago
There are no alternatives to parsers. There are alternatives to "in C".
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by chowells 4y ago
We're not talking about biology, we're talking about gender.
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by chowells 4y ago
Rechargeable batteries are not 100% efficient. I'd put good odds on this system being cheaper.
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by chowells 4y ago
Lawsuits take more than 1 week. They are coming, in time. Unfortunately, their only penalty is monetary. So the answer to your latter question is "he can pay the fine."
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by chowells 4y ago
Unless you're binary searching something other than a data structure. Fascinatingly, binary search works just fine in optimization problems where the function to optimize is monotonic.
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by chowells 4y ago
No, because they would present massive gains to every industry that loses employees to cancer. That's all of them, by the way. There would be no net loss, and innovation would continue to be rewarded. What would no longer be rewarded
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by chowells 4y ago
I don't think it does stand on its own, because it doesn't actually engage with the point. We know exactly why this happened. It's not because "crazy people" (whatever those are) exist. It's because there is a
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by chowells 4y ago
No, people do not "virtue signal" about things they care about. Perhaps they used to in the past, but language has moved on. The phrase is now understood to carry with it an accusation of insincerity. Therefore virtue signaling an
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by chowells 4y ago
You don't need to write your own or import a library for that in Haskell. It's in the Prelude.
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by chowells 4y ago
Perhaps it isn't virtue signaling? What if... they actually care , like a human being would?
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by chowells 4y ago
No, the problem is clearly that the attacker believed they were saving America - and they believed this because they were told that politician was the problem.

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