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by dllthomas 2y ago
Absent context, I think there's a reasonable argument to be made. Remember, though, that we're comparing a JD Vance who was recently impressed with the importance of following the rules with a Trump recently impressed by the oppo
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by dllthomas 2y ago
The phrase occurs in that book, but I'm not sure it's reasonable to say that it had "the current sense" before Jonestown.
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by dllthomas 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_theology
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by dllthomas 2y ago
"Completely useless" might be too strong. In a context where you're already doing RAG it would help you verify what's produced. Certainly it's radically less useful than if it could produce citations to the training
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by dllthomas 2y ago
It was certainly done in Rome, but 80 years ago isn't ancient.
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by dllthomas 2y ago
The term predated the movie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_royal_(professional_wre...
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by dllthomas 2y ago
> Indeed, the world is not IID. Right! And even if it were, in the sense that that's what we should expect as real world input, it wouldn't generally be the best distribution for finding bugs.
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by dllthomas 2y ago
Ah, yeah, generating for property testing probably doesn't want a uniform distribution. What patterns are interesting will surely depend on what we're doing with the array.
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by dllthomas 2y ago
Not weighing in on any particular tech (hypothesis or otherwise), but intrigued by your example... My initial impulse is to pick a random cell which must not be zero, generate a random number for each other cell and a random non-zerp number
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by dllthomas 2y ago
I mean, it would, wouldn't it? Theodore Sturgeon wrote a bunch of books, and I've always assumed his "Revelation" was initially delivered in that context.
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by dllthomas 2y ago
It feels really gross that he was acquitted in the second impeachment partly because he argued that criminal court was the appropriate venue for the issue, and then turned around and argued in criminal court that he was immune for not havin
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by dllthomas 2y ago
> He can be President all day long in jail. Playing devil's advocate, at least in part... In practice, he cannot perform many of the duties of the office effectively - or perhaps at all - from jail. The Constitution is the supreme l
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by dllthomas 2y ago
It is obviously not true that only 64% of voters who cast votes in the 2024 election cast votes in the 2024 election, so some meaning slipped here, somewhere.
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by dllthomas 2y ago
"Voters" doesn't always mean "eligible voters". "Those who cast votes in the election under discussion" seems a reasonable sense of the term in this context. You are correct that he got the plurality and
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by dllthomas 2y ago
That seems true for any attempt to continue using the IP for the same thing. Turning it into a parody of that thing might have an audience (and therefore produce ad revenue), would not seem to need Jones involved, and be something for which
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by dllthomas 2y ago
Yeah, my comment was just a suggestion that that wording be imported into the question, rather than living in a clarification.
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by dllthomas 2y ago
I think the puzzle is better if the person "only speaks falsehoods" than if they "always lie" - depending on context, a true statement can be a lie.
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by dllthomas 2y ago
The specific linguistic concept your reaching for is "implicature" from pragmatics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicature
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by dllthomas 2y ago
Okay, but granting that, why ?
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by dllthomas 2y ago
I honestly don't know, but if not I would like to understand why.
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by dllthomas 2y ago
"This is not money you were ever going to pay." I don't see why. Don't out-of-pocket maximums only apply to covered care?
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by dllthomas 2y ago
I think that's probably right, yeah.
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by dllthomas 2y ago
With a sufficiently broad definition of "database", yeah, that's my understanding.
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by dllthomas 2y ago
I very much agree that Brooks didn't "start everything" but I think he brought value to the discussion of those human organization problems in the context of software. Weinberg got there earlier but I feel like I personally
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by dllthomas 2y ago
I think there's some space between MMM and agile and the former (as problem statement more than proposed solutions) holds up better. It's been a while since I last read it, though. > Anyway. In your opinion, what the pathologi
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by dllthomas 2y ago
> Individuals and interactions -- over processes and tools That's why I proposed having a "build team" where you ask an individual to run your compiles for you, rather than dealing with an impersonal CI system. More Agile
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by dllthomas 2y ago
Unless I miss something, it's very much not a standard measure of inflation. That said, leaning on that "at all": If wages are stickier than expenses, then the gap between wages and expenses will represent recent inflation
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by dllthomas 2y ago
`?` and `let ... else` both partially address this, yeah.
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by dllthomas 2y ago
> By either marking your data as const, or encapsulating mutations with private fields and public methods That would seem to be making illegal states unreachable rather than unrepresentable, closer in spirit to "parse, don't
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by dllthomas 2y ago
> How can you "Make illegal states unrepresentable" with mutable state and sequences of mutations that cannot be enforced with the type system? I think you're confusing "make illegal states unrepresentable" with

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