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by davesque 6y ago
Honestly, it seems like there's no easy win here. I think people for and against this both have good arguments. For example, getting rid of dislikes could mitigate the effects of synthetic brigading campaigns. On the other hand, kee
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by davesque 6y ago
Not sure if the article mentions them, but a couple environments I regards as "cheating-enabled": * Almost any social media platform * Online product reviews
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by davesque 6y ago
Also, "ten times better than all previous versions ." So how good were the previous versions?
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by davesque 6y ago
I know who dang is and no one is infallible. I'll tell him he's wrong any day. And I imagine he might even appreciate it once in a while. If you were being sarcastic, then please ignore.
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by davesque 6y ago
Don't really agree, bud. The tone was a bit harsh, but it seems like a totally valid reaction to this kind of writing. Certainly not the most popular one in this forum but still valid. I don't share their viewpoint but it feels ap
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by davesque 6y ago
Maybe people just find it to be an interesting problem and are having fun thinking out loud about it.
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by davesque 6y ago
On the subject of "inverted" thinking like this, I recently added a test to a test suite that is intended to fail some day. The test will eventually fail when a bug (for which we developed a workaround and added the aforementione
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by davesque 6y ago
Rich people have always spent lots of money on bullshit. That's nothing new.
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by davesque 6y ago
Is this supposed to make blockchain look bad or something? Everyone knows John Cleese doesn't own the Brooklyn Bridge. He could have also started a title company on paper and sold the "rights" to the Brooklyn Bridge as a pr
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by davesque 6y ago
There's an interesting train of thought that could follow from this. I've been trying to figure out what could eventually enable people to realize that most of what they see on the internet is entirely made up (or could be). Per
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by davesque 6y ago
Python didn't add static typing. It added arbitrary annotations of arguments and variables (admittedly, with the use case of type checking in mind). Mypy uses that for type annotations and checking. Here are the two main reasons I t
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by davesque 6y ago
No idea, honestly. As I mentioned, I'm not an expert.
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by davesque 6y ago
Yeah, I'm not an expert but I've heard experts discuss it as though they're almost impossible to sterilize. As a layman, I imagine this has something to do with the fact that your task is essentially to break down a molecule
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by davesque 6y ago
This is the way corporations do business on many fronts. For example, I'm convinced that most of Oracle's business is accounted for by CTOs who threw millions of dollars at them without having any idea why. At least no idea beyond
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by davesque 6y ago
Honestly, I think this attitude makes much more sense in the present era than it did before about ten years ago. There was a time when IMHO you weren't just naive for believing that Google was sincere about its "don't be evi
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by davesque 6y ago
They might be under a lot of economic pressure to do this. After all, if one of the premier manufacturers of gaming GPUs can't get their product into the hands of gamers, the game industry as a whole will certainly suffer. Imagine th
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by davesque 6y ago
Honestly it didn't used to matter as much because the number of honest people leaving legit reviews outnumbered the influence of actors exploiting the system. But that was a while ago. But I swear at one point the fact that no one had
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by davesque 6y ago
Sargent also did amazing watercolors of landscapes and various non-portrait scenes. Some examples: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/sargent_watercolo... I think his skill really comes through in that work. I
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by davesque 6y ago
Oh look. Another techie trying to gain cred by hating on things.
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by davesque 6y ago
Uh...that's my point. Everyone new to Python has to eventually learn not to do that.
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by davesque 6y ago
Honestly I'm not sure what all the fuss is about. I just skimmed over PEP 634 and PEP 636 (the accompanying tutorial) and I'm actually kind of excited to use this. I've missed this feature after using langs like Rust, Haske
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by davesque 6y ago
1. Python doesn't have a JIT. This shouldn't be surprising or headline worthy. 2. Why benchmark an O(2^n) fibonacci? It's basically benchmarking call frame creation. 3. A single order of magnitude is honestly not that impre
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by davesque 6y ago
Have had a lot of really bad experiences with pipenv. Would recommend pip-tools instead.
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by davesque 6y ago
I think this is a really really bad idea. No more app stores. As a developer, app stores have always seem totally stupid to me. I remember when computers were actually things that you felt like you owned completely. Now, your computer is ow
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by davesque 6y ago
So he is, hah. Well there you go :).
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by davesque 6y ago
Not sure what that omitted portion would have clarified. Apache Arrow, at its core, is a memory model spec. Also, it appears that this project is using the official Rust library which is developed in the same repo as all the other languag
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by davesque 6y ago
I've heard people argue that e-ink displays would be in much wider use if the patent-holding company weren't so protective of the technology. So the news I'm waiting to hear is when E-Ink the company decides to loosen up its
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by davesque 6y ago
I wanted to emphasize to people that there's a date attached to this post. I don't think they're currently considering having a political detox week. It seems there are a lot of comments that assume they are.
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by davesque 6y ago
I see a lot of speculation here about something like an unknown toxin being the cause. Is it possible that societal and cultural trends are driving this change? In other words, the emotional quality of modern day life. Perhaps another ex
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by davesque 6y ago
The second cop's death was a seemingly unrelated suicide. Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2021/01/10/another...

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