chowells

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by chowells 2y ago
Some people are comfortable offloading mental effort to a compiler. Others suffer from anxiety at the suggestion.
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by chowells 2y ago
So that people in the area recognize what they sound like, regardless of how long ago they moved in.
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by chowells 2y ago
Hell. Replay review in American Football and other sports is a form of rewinding and fixing bugs in officiating. So it's certainly done in real life when money's on the line.
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by chowells 2y ago
It's only taken by force from misanthropes. The average person understands that collective action is a positive, and participates without the threat of force.
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by chowells 2y ago
Because we're reasonable humans and capable of saying "if that's the worst, we're fine"?
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by chowells 2y ago
If you'd really lost a significant amount of weight before, you'd know that exercise does not lead to weight loss. You wouldn't suggest it as a solution to anything. Exercise is an important adjunct to weight loss. Just for t
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by chowells 2y ago
"AI" is different because it's low-effort and easily automated, making it easy to absolutely flood public spaces. Quantity has a quality all its own.
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by chowells 2y ago
Written like someone who's never lost weight in their life. You don't lose weight by working out, unless you're at like 4+ hours per day. It only takes a couple minutes to eat more calories than a typical workout session burn
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by chowells 2y ago
You're looking at this from the point of view that bias is inherently bad. It's not. Biases do not need to be "lesser in degree" to allow adding something new to a conversation. They only need to be different from exis
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by chowells 2y ago
I think you misunderstand the complaint. What you perceive as "smooth", they perceive as "obnoxiously slow". They don't want smooth, they want the animation to be over so they can get on with life without waiting fo
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by chowells 2y ago
"which you can not do" is an interesting assertion. In some sense it's trivially true, of course. Generating infinite random numbers would take infinite time. In fact, I'm quite happy to say that approximately 0% of real
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by chowells 2y ago
So if I randomly type letters from the top row of my keyboard forever, I'll eventually type the entire works of Shakespeare? Of course not. There are lots of ways you can bias random that remain random, but prevent every possible outpu
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by chowells 2y ago
Generate a random Cauchy sequence. One trivial way to do this is to output a random string of digits. It's not perfect, but it works. Approximately 0% of random Cauchy sequences will be computable, so long as your random number generat
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by chowells 2y ago
Sometimes I think I want local types in Haskell. I'm creating some new type and some instances for it solely for this function, why does it need global scope? Then I get around to remembering module scope is the actual important thing
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by chowells 2y ago
This is about McMurdo. I'd be surprised if they ever had multiple flights landing at once.
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by chowells 2y ago
You don't use the object hash as the key directly. You combine it with a value chosen randomly per-map using a function that works hard to erase correlations between the input object hash and the output table location.
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by chowells 2y ago
> I think the misinformation that the article is complaining about is something like (my paraphrase): > > "Turing completeness" means "can do computation" while "non-Turing complete" means both "c
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by chowells 2y ago
Nope. Don't care. I care about what effects the policies are having, not how much I pay in taxes. The impact of the policies is what actually matters. The tax rate is one tiny detail. I'm not wired to automatically assume collecti
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by chowells 2y ago
What's funny is that I learned to debug with breakpoints, stepping, and inspectors. I use printf debugging now because the more experience you get, the easier and faster it becomes. There's a point where it's just a faster to
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by chowells 2y ago
I'm American, actually. I've just managed not to have my brain poisoned by Libertarianism. (The capital L sort.)
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by chowells 2y ago
That's irrelevant. Give me the total price, so I know how much something will cost. I don't care what percentage of it goes where. I only care about easily evaluating whether something is worth the price. Seriously. I don't
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by chowells 2y ago
That stopped being a solution when winning online started mattering. There are real money prizes for online game tournaments. Weekly events can have hundreds of dollars in their prize pools. Big events can have thousands. Suddenly vote kick
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by chowells 2y ago
It's not ok for people playing those games. They'll quit playing that game and go to one with invasive client-side anti-cheat instead. The incentives and priorities are very different for people who want to play fair games than
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by chowells 2y ago
It's not abstraction because it's not presenting a simpler mental model. It's just shoving some code located somewhere else into scope. It's mere indirection.
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by chowells 2y ago
Yeah, this was my reaction. "A month? Do you even know what a friend is?" Maybe a year, if you are spending a lot of time together.
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by chowells 2y ago
All art is political. Good reviews won't ignore that. Being aware of politics is a side effect of paying attention. Nothing you can do about it.
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by chowells 2y ago
Custom logic to serialize a number as a set of symbols hardly comes near the threshold of "rolling your own crypto". So long as they follow a standard to generate the number, the serialization is basically irrelevant as long as it
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by chowells 2y ago
Whoops. Need to replace that abs with a max 1. Otherwise it doesn't Always terminate. Remember to check your boundary conditions!
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by chowells 2y ago
Cannot be optimized away? No. Will not be optimized away? Sure. Given: verySilly :: Int -> (a -> a) verySilly = go . abs . toInteger where go n | n == 1 = id | even n = go (n `div` 2)
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by chowells 2y ago
> If you say a function has type a->a (for all a), it only admits one possible implementation... except for bad ones, like 'undefined' or an infinite recursion - both of which termination would catch for you. To be super-pe

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