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by chowells 4y ago
This is missing the point so badly it seems almost intentional. Public outcry at the actions of the government is entirely different from incited bullying of individuals with no public presence.
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by chowells 4y ago
A marketplace of ideas only works if every single idea every person has is actively chosen based on analysis of alternatives. Given that applies to about 0% of beliefs for most people, I'd say the idea has some flaws. If you immediatel
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by chowells 5y ago
Correct. And this is good. It's what makes Haskell so powerful. You can look at a type and immediately know a huge number of rules its implementation must follow. And even better, the type is machine checked. So unlike prose documentat
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by chowells 5y ago
There have been big improvements in the exhaustiveness checker. I know that it's not fully decideable with GADTs, so it will always have some holes, but it can handle this case now.
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by chowells 5y ago
You can do this in Haskell with GADTs. data Up data Down data Foo tag a where Up :: a -> Foo Up a Down :: String -> Int -> Foo Down a When you enable all the necessary extensions for this to compil
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by chowells 5y ago
Morally: Because he's a human being. Financially: It's a lot more efficient for society to cover all health care that's proven to be cost-effective regardless of who needs it or why. Putting gates on who is allowed to receive
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by chowells 5y ago
Most of what made Theranos a scam wasn't that their tech was impossible. It was that they were committing mass fraud by making a lot of claims about what they were doing that were false. It seems like if your underlying technology actu
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by chowells 5y ago
It passes state backwards, so that changes are visible to previous reads. If this sounds like it has problems with causality - it can. You can end up in an infinite loop when a calculation ends up depending on its own result. But sometimes
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by chowells 5y ago
Turing completeness is not a requirement for any computational task that is guaranteed to complete, either. You only need it to add infinite loop bugs. Just to be clear - the things you actually care about expressing in a program don't
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by chowells 5y ago
What's neutral about early dopters having paid far less for their cryptocurrency? That seems highly biased.
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by chowells 5y ago
My criteria for acceptable product testimonials: 1. It's truthful. 2. It's about the product itself, not about how it could change your life. 3. There's no monetary consideration for it - not even the product being provided a
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by chowells 5y ago
You don't need advertising if you have a useful product. You only need discoverability. Advertising is an industry of mental pollution. It exists explicitly to convincing people they need to buy a product. If they don't know they
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by chowells 5y ago
Why do you think your new product deserves customer awareness? Why is it so important to impose yourself upon the awareness of others? How is doing that with a goal of acquiring money even slightly morally acceptable?
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by chowells 5y ago
All of his videos that I've seen have a weird thing where he challenges people to explain something, and then he reveals he was talking about something else and their explanation isn't relevant. This is just https://xkc
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by chowells 5y ago
I haven't payed attention to the speed-running scene for this game, so I was caught utterly by surprise by the section on glitches in the game. How does something whose out-of-combat state should be easily modeled with a trivial state
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by chowells 5y ago
Carrying cash is exactly how you lose it all to police corruption, sometimes called civil asset forfeiture. Cash is no answer without sufficient legal protections. And if you have sufficient legal protections, cash mostly just buys you inco
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by chowells 5y ago
What is analog gaming? (The output lag in LCD displays is really significant. Switching between LCD and CRT feels remarkably different in games where reaction speed matters.)
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by chowells 5y ago
I've skimmed the guides. They never contain anything useful. They're just a bunch of recipes. They don't actually document a darned thing. Programming is not regurgitating recipes without understanding. Copilot can do that. P
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by chowells 5y ago
Every single person who claims Twitter should not be allowed to ban their favorite person is suggesting compelled publication. Every single person who says YouTube isn't allowed to remove videos is advocating compelled publication. Eve
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by chowells 5y ago
The problem is that most people claiming they're free speech advocates are nothing of the sort. Their goal is compelled publication of their opinions, not free speech. They've just made the observation that they can work up a good
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by chowells 5y ago
You can hear 48kHz tones? Wow.
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by chowells 5y ago
I think Dan Olson (Foldable Human) nailed the real problem. > Flat Earthers are not otherwise-empty vessels who believe one kooky thing. They believe that thing because it suits their purposes. [...] it says something they already belie
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by chowells 5y ago
The thing is, the training data is "everything on GitHub". That contains a quite large amount of student assignments that are poorly and incompletely done. I don't know why anyone would trust copilot for anything that isn&#x2
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by chowells 5y ago
Yeah, I can't really justify using this in browsers because their capabilities vary so widely. Logging in shouldn't take 10 minutes on a 5-year-old feature phone. But I can see using a split KDF for some high-security system where
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by chowells 5y ago
Your analysis seems to overlook an important detail in that first bullet point - dictionary attacks are only feasible when the KDF is fast. Authentication servers tend to require the KDF to be fast so they aren't constantly performing
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by chowells 5y ago
Most replies to this are making a category error. Parser combinators aren't a parsing technology, they're a library interface. You can use any parsing technology as a backend to an interface that is built in terms of combinators.
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by chowells 5y ago
Ubisoft's NFT plans make perfect sense to Ubisoft. All of these NFT schemes companies keep announcing are just blatant cash grabs. There are people who have a small amount of money and desire to part with it in exchange for nothing mor
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by chowells 5y ago
Roughly 6 months after launch for all systems to cool to operational temperature.
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by chowells 5y ago
That doesn't prove or disprove anything. What we experience as time would be part of the simulation, were such a hypothesis true. As such, the way in which we experience it is fully independent from whatever costs it might have to comp
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by chowells 5y ago
> Blocks are syntactical structures. Your statement is like saying that the parens and commas that are part of the argument list should be "regular values". Well, no. Know what else is a syntactic structure? Numeric and string

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