combatentropy

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by combatentropy 6y ago
Did you mean where it says "did you mean . . . "?
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by combatentropy 6y ago
youmightneedtoreadtheintro
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by combatentropy 6y ago
Only the directory is pronounced etsy. The rest of the time we say et cetera. I don't even know how widespread etsy is for the directory. I hardly ever hear anyone pronounce anything, since most communication among programmers is writt
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by combatentropy 6y ago
It is for the same reason that anyone ever nudges anyone else about pronunciation, spelling, or grammar: speed of communication. If you pronounce "/etc" as "et cetera", then it will add a step in me parsing your spe
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by combatentropy 6y ago
I sit up in bed against a backrest pillow, with my laptop in my lap. I don't have a mouse. I program with vim and use keyboard shortcuts in other apps as much as possible. I have been doing this for years. I don't have problems wi
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by combatentropy 6y ago
Interesting. I've always liked "sign up", "sign in", and "sign out", because they were older and more widely used before computing. "Sign up" was used to refer to subscribing, for example, to a m
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by combatentropy 6y ago
No, I think you're the ideal audience member. To become so engrossed in the movie that you notice no artifact is the goal of most moviemakers. (I've studied filmmaking for 30 years.) The same director, Robert Zemeckis, made Cast A
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by combatentropy 6y ago
> this resulted in 51.0s being displayed as 1:51 What? > with rounding up it's even worse resulting in 1:01:51 Huh? If you are making some kind of timer, you first should convert the time to pure seconds, or in whatever the small
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by combatentropy 6y ago
Yes, it is.
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by combatentropy 6y ago
Sorry. First, I thought that you set out to contradict, rather than agree with, the person you replied to (since that is common). Then I was thrown off by your topic sentence, which seemed to lump together the two devices ("timers and
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by combatentropy 6y ago
I have seen a lot of comments on Hacker News that I thought were mean. This isn't one of them. Rounding is something I learned in elementary school. If someone in elementary school was unfamiliar with rounding, it would be mean to take
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by combatentropy 6y ago
But this highlights the difference between the two devices, stopwatches and timers. A stopwatch counts up. Therefore, it makes sense to use the floor (4.99 is still "4", not yet "5"). A timer counts down. Therefore, it m
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by combatentropy 6y ago
Kirby Ferguson said it first, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t87QKdOJNv8
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by combatentropy 6y ago
> it does not need to store any more public/private key pairs as the number of authenticating users increases That's a good point. Thank you
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by combatentropy 6y ago
> there has to be a single source of session truth across the system. This gets to be complex in distributed systems. This sounds like a database. Or if that's too slow for you, a Redis cache. I try not to make blanket statements ab
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by combatentropy 6y ago
Agreed. This tweak to their formula would improve it for me masssively: show the video on my Home page just once. If I click reload, show me an entirely new set. Someone may say, this would bother others, who saw something interesting but d
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by combatentropy 6y ago
Many agree. There was an article discussed in 2016, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11895440 , and again in 2018, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18353874 .
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by combatentropy 6y ago
It calls some of these stateless, but don't they all have to run a secondary look-up? For example, in Basic Authentication, you still have to check the username and password against a database, whether that be a file, a relational data
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by combatentropy 6y ago
NoSQL is very much like the databases that were around in the 1960s ("navigational" databases, nested sets of key-value pairs). E. F. Codd proposed a database of tables (which he, a mathematician, called "relations") to
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by combatentropy 6y ago
They mean JavaScript that you write.
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by combatentropy 6y ago
In a few tests I ran, I found rendering to be fast and lightweight. If you already have prepared the associative array of values, then the final stage of combining it with a template and producing HTML doesn't strain the server, and so
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by combatentropy 6y ago
I thought that entropy was increasing
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by combatentropy 6y ago
Maybe you are thinking of situations that I am not. I suppose like anything it can be badly implemented. But in the situations I'm thinking of, the Undo opportunity was unmissable. Besides, I already knew that I had clicked what I clic
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by combatentropy 6y ago
I have always loved the way GMail protected you from dangerous actions, like deleting an email. Usually software would protect you with a confirmation pop-up: "Are you sure you want to __________ ?" Instead, GMail just let you do
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by combatentropy 6y ago
The human brain has specialized hardware for encoding and decoding language. That is why even a child can pick it up. No grammar lessons required, just lots and lots of exposure. It is also why speaking and listening are as easy as falling
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by combatentropy 6y ago
It is the country's third largest city. So by volume it may well be the murder capital. But the murder rate places it like 10th, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
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by combatentropy 6y ago
Does anyone write their shell scripts in JavaScript, calling them with node?
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by combatentropy 6y ago
In your teens and 20s, you care what other people think about you. In your 30s and 40s, you stop caring what other people think about you. In your 50s and 60s, you realize that no one was really thinking about you after all.
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by combatentropy 6y ago
These are edge cases, abnormalities. Do you have this pet peeve with other topics? ("If you press the gas pedal, the car will accelerate --- unless you're out of gas, the fuel line is broken . . . ")
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by combatentropy 6y ago
Yes, that struck me as weird too, that someone would call it incorrect. I'm a native of the United States (the Midwest). I never gave the word a second thought. I was flummoxed by Strachey's remark and flummoxed again by this arti

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