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by djur 4y ago
There's actually some good ideas in here. I wish it wasn't written in such a buzzword-heavy, consultant-y style. When advice includes so many Novel Proper Nouns I find myself checking my wallet. My main quibbles are that these &qu
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by djur 4y ago
You didn't include MacOS in your original comment and I wasn't referring to it. The fact that some parts of modern BSD systems are derived from the original Unix is interesting in a Ship of Theseus sense but it tells us nothing us
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by djur 4y ago
Spacing between windows is an "extremely complicated contraption"?
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What's left of BSD at that point? The kernel? Unified development of the userland and kernel has always been the big selling point of the BSDs versus Linux.
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by djur 4y ago
UNIX is a brand. You get to use it if you get certified as compliant with the Single UNIX Specification. Linux isn't, but neither are any of the BSDs.
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by djur 4y ago
In Ruby, the function call operator, `.()`, can be used on both Method and Proc objects. This being different from the syntax used for method invocation does not have anything whatsoever to do with whether functions are first class. You are
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by djur 4y ago
Pathfinder 2e seems to me like it was designed to only retain superficial elements from the D&D SRD. I wouldn't be surprised if Paizo had a plan for how to jettison the remaining content right from the start. So if this is meant to
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by djur 4y ago
It certainly feels like that should be practically the case, and if it ever goes to court I hope that's how it turns out! Copyright law wasn't written with software in mind and, strange as it seems, there's still a ton of unr
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by djur 4y ago
He is the owner of his contributions, which is why I said "for his contributions" immediately after the part you quote.
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by djur 4y ago
The FSF can't revoke the GPLv2, but Linus Torvalds could (for his contributions to Linux). The GPLv3 has explicit language granting irrevocable rights. ETA: The position of the FSF/SFC is that the GPLv2 is also irrevocable: https
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by djur 4y ago
Unbelievable that Hasbro is doing this again after how badly screwing over third parties went the last time. D&D 4th Edition had much more restrictive terms than 3.5e; one of the big selling points of 5e was the return to the OGL. I gue
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by djur 4y ago
I'm not sure how clear Strachey's definition can be, considering he never provided one. But his description of ALGOL procedures as second-class mentions that they can "never be represented by a variable or expression":
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by djur 4y ago
> x.foo doesn’t “return a bound method object.” It just accesses an attribute and returns the value of that attribute. The attribute can be any Python value. Python docs, section 3.2, subsection "Callable types". https:/&
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by djur 4y ago
News outlets already have social media policies (often inconsistently enforced, but they exist). If they were really worried about their employees using their good names to kickstart their Substack they could do something about it. In reali
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by djur 4y ago
I agree to an extent, but I also think this is kind of kicking the can down the road: how do workers collectively decide what is in their interest and what isn't? The historically successful socialist answers to this question have gene
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by djur 4y ago
> its just syntax sugar for a symbol passed to a #send call This isn't the case. If you override `send` it only affects direct usage of `send`. You can't override method dispatch. You can in some other OO languages but not Ruby
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by djur 4y ago
There is nothing about first-class functions that requires function call syntax to be the same as method invocation syntax. OCaml, Objective-C, and Smalltalk all have different syntax for method invocation and function calls. To make it con
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by djur 4y ago
Everything is an object in Ruby. Proc objects and Method objects _are_ functions. The same is true in Python -- functions are instances of the 'function' class. What's the difference between a proc and a function? Nothing. &q
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by djur 4y ago
The Wikipedia article is wrong. A proc is a function. The misunderstanding here is confusing methods with functions. "def foo" defines a method, not a function. That same article claims that Java has first class functions on the b
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by djur 4y ago
Saying someone "succumb[ed] to weakness" while you instead "ground it out" and lost weight "the right(er) way" is clearly saying that you're better.
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by djur 4y ago
I have no idea what they mean by Ruby not having first-class functions. Of course it does. It's a fundamental feature of the language.
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by djur 4y ago
How was the process with insurance? About a year ago I tried to get on semaglutide and my insurer shut down every option. It was extremely demoralizing.
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Also, these medications aren't stimulants, which is really important for people who might be at higher risk for heart issues.
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by djur 4y ago
To the extent that lifestyle changes include "not eating as much", it seems self-evident that the weight loss was the result of lifestyle changes. A drug that makes it easier to stick with a diet is a huge deal!
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by djur 4y ago
One of the expected benefits of the medication is to make it easier to comply with recommended lifestyle changes. It simplifies the analysis to recommend a specific set of changes rather than letting all of the participants improvise their
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by djur 4y ago
One effect of these drugs appears to be weakening that "comfort -> food" urge. There's some evidence that it also affects similar urges for alcohol.
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Bariatric surgery also tends to require a period of weight loss beforehand as well as extensive behavior modification afterward. These new drugs should make that process much easier.
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Do you have any reason to think that the sample isn't representative?
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I would find it pretty surprising if the CEO of my company unilaterally canceled my meetings. Hell, I'd find it surprising if my boss did it.
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by djur 4y ago
It is completely normal, acceptable, even desirable for a team of people working on a project to meet regularly to coordinate their efforts. That is how groups of people have worked together since time immemorial. It is unreasonable and dog

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