dllthomas

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by dllthomas 1y ago
Do you want HypnoDrones? This is how you get HypnoDrones.
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by dllthomas 1y ago
> When any country mentioned hits the population of a small or medium US state, let us know how it goes. I don't know "how it goes" but Poland has the population of a large US state.
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by dllthomas 1y ago
> It isn't actually possible for fixing a bug to break a workaround. That's not true. For instance, if there's a bug in formatting, that might be worked around by handing the unintended formatting. But now you're (m
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by dllthomas 1y ago
Well, no, it indicates that it is sometimes impossible at a fundamental level. That doesn't speak to whether it's a good idea some of the times when it is possible.
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by dllthomas 1y ago
I use tmux (or screen) as a bag for holding context. I set an environment variable before spawning it, and then key a lot of things in my .bashrc off that environment variable so I get context-specific functions/aliases/vars&#x2F
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by dllthomas 1y ago
> some people favor one parent, and some the other A number of the responses here say things like this, and I'm picking this one somewhat arbitrarily to call out that "people" isn't the only dividing line - some peopl
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by dllthomas 1y ago
Yeah, if all the context you want is the backtrace, that works just fine.
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by dllthomas 1y ago
> the difference in Rust between just returning an error (a ? at the end of the expression that can return one) vs adding context is much higher I don't disagree with what you've said, but I think this is likely to be read too
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by dllthomas 1y ago
Nit, but you also have to remove unsafeCoerce, some pointer stuff, and possibly a few other things.
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by dllthomas 1y ago
Perhaps Devil's advocate, but my rebuttal would be that we're not necessarily comparing similar gains to correctness as to optimisation, and that perhaps the correctness gains can be better attained another way where the optimisat
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by dllthomas 1y ago
"Wait, what did I change that impacted that test?" An intersection between code coverage and a git diff once answered that handily for me.
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by dllthomas 2y ago
No, the crime isn't staying in. The crime (if it is one) is choosing to stay in. If he reports on messages from 6mo ago with an auto-delete of 1wk, he was aware of it roughly 6mo ago (and taking it seriously enough to preserve things)
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by dllthomas 2y ago
Though tbh I might take Bozo over Columbus.
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by dllthomas 2y ago
> Can you do the first two years of education and credits at a community college, and transfer to a state school for the last 2 years? That's what I did (albeit at a very different time in my life) and it worked well. Community col
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by dllthomas 2y ago
> UBI will not increase supply or decrease demand Actually, I contend that it can increase supply of "housing sufficiently near sufficient income" by improving some marginal (existing or potential) housing. Many devils in the d
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by dllthomas 2y ago
I remember dragging my wife there ages ago. Being a vegetarian, she was concerned there wouldn't be much for her until she saw there was a section of the menu labeled "Artichokes"
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by dllthomas 2y ago
It seems relevant to keep in mind that, IIUC, Octavian believed (or pretended to believe) that he was saving the Roman republic.
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by dllthomas 2y ago
Limping along is sometimes better than crashing. It's highly context dependent.
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by dllthomas 2y ago
You can't point to one of them, but you can point to infinite sets of them.
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by dllthomas 2y ago
What I do is split up my work by context into different screen (or tmux, depending on mood when I set up the computer) sessions. I have a script that attaches one by name if it's present and otherwise creates one with the name in ques
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by dllthomas 2y ago
Nah, there's a lot of space between "this should be the favored interpretation" and "this is strictly implied" - especially in the context of a math puzzle!
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by dllthomas 2y ago
The original wording was "You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat." I think there's a good argument that the intended interpretation sh
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by dllthomas 2y ago
> For example, when someone accuses you of taking money out of the register, it would be an example of whataboutism to point that the person accusing you does it too. I don't think it would. Or at least, I don't think it neces
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by dllthomas 2y ago
"Whataboutism" is pointing out other bad things to excuse or distract from the bad thing I'm doing. Other countries doing the same thing is an argument about whether the thing is actually bad, and could be valid.
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by dllthomas 2y ago
I thought we actually ran a surplus for a year or two? My impression is the "how", though, was "take in more revenue than expected because of the tech bubble", which isn't exactly a "how" we could or shou
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by dllthomas 2y ago
32 is less than 38, regardless of the political valence. On the grounds that I'm, y'know, human I will grant that I'd probably find myself filling in the details of where exactly the constitutional lines are drawn somewhat di
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by dllthomas 2y ago
> the people asked for this, right? No, not by sufficient margin. Even assuming every state would decide this direct question the same way as they did the Presidency this past election, a Constitutional amendment requires ratification by
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by dllthomas 2y ago
Indeed, per their profile they're in Brazil, which is not a guarantee of that but does make it likely.
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by dllthomas 2y ago
I don't think the current sense is suicide exactly, but rather (hyperbolically) so sold on a (misguided) belief that you would commit suicide if, per that belief, they were "supposed to" do so. I agree that it would feel a
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by dllthomas 2y ago
It's not immediately clear to me how we should read the Constitution on that question, but the Impoundment Control Act seems to explicitly include "delay" alongside "withholding" in things that it might be forbiddin

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