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by ci5er 10y ago
Is it? Why isn't it as simple as a rule stating that a warning is generated whenever, in the AST, a variable is used on the RHS before it's ever used on the LHS of an expression? (Probably something to do with globals/scope,
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by ci5er 10y ago
I come here for the comments. The "news" I can/do get elsewhere. I tend to read the first two comments and their children and then pop to the bottom and scroll up. Not every discussion contained under a posting is gold, but t
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by ci5er 10y ago
> The Swiss model does seem to scale. The population has scaled from 6.2 million in 1970 to about 8.2 million today. GDP per capita also went up significantly during this time, and outpaced GDP per capita growth in the USA. While that is
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by ci5er 10y ago
Oh, great! 200 nearly naked people, each with stern looks of disapproval!
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by ci5er 10y ago
For a time, I worked about 10 hours/day in a coffee shop[0]. It worked for me, but you say upthread that you have a difficult time tuning out irrelevant buzziness - so it may not work for you. [0] Actually, there were several coffee-sh
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by ci5er 10y ago
I'm not OP, but (digital) hardware is probably worse, because all of the parts in the BOM have a pretty short half-life. The bar of what's possible in short runs, at a given price, keeps changing, so design, layout and assembly ru
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by ci5er 10y ago
> I've never seen anything like this, and it's just the beginning. Beginning of what? What do they want? I couldn't really distill a pattern in my mind from the signs I saw in Austin. There were marches world-wide, so I&#x
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by ci5er 10y ago
Maybe so. Probably so. Most people. But I'm having a difficult reaching the bottom of the binary declarations up-stream. Commenter #1 said, essentially, "Loving work the most is key". Commenter #2 responded (I summarize): &qu
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by ci5er 10y ago
I don't know many lazy successful people (there are a few, though!) Maybe not 'the', but 'a'? What do you think "the hallmark" is?
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by ci5er 10y ago
Buffet and Carlos Slim did, did they not? After starting out in trading (for ~30 years, no?), Carlos Slim got bigger with Telmex (while I don't know how much collusion was involved with that; I assume it couldn't have been none, w
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by ci5er 10y ago
A couple of 'em!
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by ci5er 10y ago
My brain parses both of your expressions (and both of your comments) the same way. Like, it's tautological: 'de-referencing an int pointer will give you an int' Brains are weird.
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by ci5er 10y ago
Hmmm. Weird. That sounds like people trying to engage in "growth hacking". I wonder if someone's bonus was tied to it. If they were really serious about "velocity" (for whatever reason; some are legit), they'd
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by ci5er 10y ago
> Elected == accountable...generally speaking. How so? It's clear that voters don't know how (in aggregate) to make rational choices. Given the (for a single example) well-known strong-arm get-out-the-vote collusion between Chi
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by ci5er 10y ago
Who's to stop them? People seem to revel in rushing to judgement.
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by ci5er 10y ago
Assuming you aren't joking, why would you trust the members of the tribunal? I have yet to see any evidence that humans have found a way to overcome the principal-agent problem in governing bodies.
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by ci5er 10y ago
> Why isn't that enough? Who is to judge how much is and is not enough? Do you want an international tribunal allocating a "fair and equitable" amount of square meterage of various quality levels of real estate to individu
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by ci5er 10y ago
What was the idea behind this? Spending some dedicated time knocking through some accumulated crud? (I think people call it 'technical debt' these days). Is that a bad thing?
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by ci5er 10y ago
Is that a Ghost issue or a nodejs issue? I understand that it can be made to work on FreeBSD. What's the problem that prevents it from working on OpenBSD?
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by ci5er 10y ago
That's an example of the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon[0]. The other uncovered-by-the-article-at-the-link reason appears to have something to do with priming, which means that your neurons are freshly acutely aware of that stimulus. [0] h
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by ci5er 10y ago
Many journals (IEEE comes to mind, but surely they are not alone) used to prohibit the author from independently publishing substantially similar papers on their own (or the institution's) websites or ArXiv. I suspect they still do.
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by ci5er 10y ago
Yeah -- I figured that out after I caught a little shut-eye. If my brain had been operating at all, I would have seen that and not even asked. Sorry.
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by ci5er 10y ago
Joiners seem to intuitively believe that fostering joining by compelling joining is an unalloyed universal good. (Yes, I'm looking at you paired-programming advocates!) It takes some observational skill -- and empathy! -- on their part
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by ci5er 10y ago
Also, we have a pretty good idea how far we can practically, economically, push things like solar/wind, IF storage is worked out. The processes of converting photons and wind into electron potential are well understood - it's just
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by ci5er 10y ago
I'm getting bleary eyed from a day that has gone on too long, but how does something approximately 33x33x42 feet equal 140k ft^3? Same question with the first one too. The cubic-feet measurement is including something else, right? What
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by ci5er 10y ago
"consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds", said a well known and frequently quoted man[0]. I can't speak to the pros and cons of ℵ-vs-א, but in other geographies I have found mixing RTL and LTR to be a real PITA. Especia
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by ci5er 10y ago
Not if you have a Thaana keyboard!
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by ci5er 10y ago
I think "Team" membership is key -- it tells which opinions they are likely to listen to. Any team can rustle up a credentialed opinionator that didn't do the math themselves (or will say anything, just, because) to round arm
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by ci5er 10y ago
Disagreements about gender and ethnicity/culture? I don't get it. Do people debate about those?
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by ci5er 10y ago
> "... at the end of the day people will believe whatever they damn well want to." I finally learned this and, after long denial about it, now "know" this as a fact about the universe. Or at least humans. That humans

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