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by chrsig 3y ago
> You upset them so deeply that they respond by unleashing the incredibly vicious-yet-perceptive tirade that they’ve been stewing on since the incident, reducing you to tears. Congratulations on hiring someone in the bottom ~2% of profes
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by chrsig 3y ago
> Why did Ubuntu hit 18.04 and then decide to only make things worse in future? Oh, ubuntu beem making decisions that many users think make things worse since it was first released and yet it's still quite popular
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by chrsig 3y ago
i'm aware of erlang and elixer -- what other languages run on BEAM?
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by chrsig 4y ago
Does anyone know of a good hands on guide through learning how to use a model checker like alloy or tla+? I see lots of value in adopting them, but the dsl's that they use are inscrutable to me. I'm sure that after some hands-on
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by chrsig 4y ago
colorblind person here: if you want to design for colorblind people, don't use colors to distinguish things. do: - use a different shape, or font/font weight. - provide text labels that appear on hover
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by chrsig 4y ago
Thank you for articulating all of this, I don't think I'd have been able to put it this well.
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by chrsig 4y ago
> those lawsuits would seem to spell out that denial of life-affirming care that sufferers of ADHD, a federally recognized disability, have experienced could give them legal standing to sue doctors over. As a person with adhd, why would
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by chrsig 4y ago
> What we're talking about here is the completely gratuitous, "I'm so valuable here that I can get away with it" abusive behavior that has no correlation with performative ability. Can you give a concrete example of t
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by chrsig 4y ago
What is your criteria for 'good profiler writer'?
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by chrsig 4y ago
Having a link to a detailed explanation would be amazing. Trying to even find the error message in a sea of c++ template notes is challenging...Then trying to actually parse it while examining the types is...painful.
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by chrsig 4y ago
Sure, once we have a universal way to accomplish the task that's easier and safer.
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by chrsig 4y ago
> Eventually it will negate the need to click through to many reference, then it will be better able to curate a list of alternative sources for what you seek. Doesn't that just kind of describe google now though?
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by chrsig 4y ago
if starcraft/starcraft 2 is any indication of what might occur, they'll just be treated as two completely different games.
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by chrsig 4y ago
A few ideas I like: - Make police get individual insurance, similarly to doctors. Malpractice should have a monetary impact that doesn't hurt the taxpayer. - A mirror to the DA, exclusively for prosecuting crimes committed by police.
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by chrsig 4y ago
I really wish bash could evolve...in particular around control flow, variable assignment, string interpolation, and arithmetic. I love working with bash, but it has some footguns that really require an expert hand. I know bash as-is will al
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by chrsig 4y ago
Testing and scripting between requests and being able to share collections with colleagues.
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by chrsig 4y ago
Here's a succinct demonstration: https://go.dev/play/p/Li6_Rpe2R5L Basically: a slice is a triple of {ptr to allocation, number of elements used, size of allocation} the slices will share the same underlying
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by chrsig 4y ago
I've been having to put together a test suite at $work similar to what the product tries to offer. If there were a sufficiently advanced product to buy, I'd petition for it to be adopted at my org. > It is random sampling. I f
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by chrsig 4y ago
Good and bad are such boring descriptions for code. It tells me nothing about it. Readability is incredibly subjective and it needs a point of comparison. What properties of the code need improvement or demonstrate what other should aspire
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by chrsig 4y ago
There's a huge swath - probably an overwhelming majority of the time - of good faith situations where it works well. That is, the suggestion isn't intended to be adversarial, and is otherwise plausible. A major problem however is
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by chrsig 4y ago
oh my, thank you! This could definitely fill a very noticeable gap in my tools. I'm looking forward to playing with it this week
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by chrsig 4y ago
It's a disorder, not a disease.
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by chrsig 4y ago
Point of fact: It's not hallucinating. More appropriately, it experiences a delusion. Hallucinations pertain to deceptive senses, delusions pertain to holding beliefs that are provably false.
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by chrsig 4y ago
It really is https://xkcd.com/1416/
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by chrsig 4y ago
The example though uses a three dimensional vector and suggests turning that into an SoA form. My question is: In the case of component vectors like that, given that many operations wind up in operations like dot products, do the advantages
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by chrsig 4y ago
if it's gpl software, can they actually enforce that? if they're distributing under gpl, that means they 1) have to make the source available, 2) the user maintains the ability to redistribute. So provided that the user makes thei
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by chrsig 4y ago
not that i think it's necessarily applicable in this particular instance...but one political party is flirting with authoritarianism, denying election results, pushing bigoted policies, marching with tiki torches, taking away all socia
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by chrsig 4y ago
Too bad it's not the 737 MAX
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by chrsig 4y ago
> MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems by Robert Morris Just looking at the playlist, I'm surprised at how many lectures are focused around actual distributed databases versus purely on theory or algorithms
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by chrsig 4y ago
MIT 6.001, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs It really made...the interpretation of computer programs...click with me. And there's a meta-circular evaluator designed to fit on the number of blackboards they had availabl

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