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by dllthomas 2y ago
Plutonium is heavy metal.
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by dllthomas 2y ago
It's never Luips.
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by dllthomas 2y ago
Uncertainty as to the line between "one piece of information" and "two pieces of information" may be a problem. I don't think it makes sense to say it's "the problem" when most people don't
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by dllthomas 2y ago
> I have to assume there's industry wide misunderstanding on this term? The "misunderstanding" is at least as prevalent as the original, yes. I wasn't trying to say the original is "correct" - language is de
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by dllthomas 2y ago
I think a part of the problem is that in addition to being a well regarded principle with a good pedigree, "DRY" is both catchy and (unlike SOLID or similar) seems self explanatory. The natural interpretation, however, doesn&#x27
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by dllthomas 2y ago
> I started out really DRY When you say "DRY" here, would you say you had familiarity with the original definition, or merely what you (quite understandably) inferred from the acronym? Because I think the formulation in The Pr
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by dllthomas 2y ago
> piping colored output through 'less' can result in some messy control-character rendering rather than having the desired effect. It can, but -G or -R can fix that.
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by dllthomas 2y ago
Not to mention the bigoted penguins.
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by dllthomas 2y ago
Also, the Bitcoin received as mining rewards might sometimes be more valuable to the recipient than the notionally greater amount of other currency (or even nominally greater amount of Bitcoin!) spent on equipment and power, eg if it is out
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by dllthomas 2y ago
Using "majority of people" to mean anything but something over 50% of people is going to lead to miscommunication. I'd advise against it. > If you think betters do not have the odds right, you should start betting right no
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by dllthomas 2y ago
Betting on winner, or on popular vote? Because even assuming the betters have the odds right, those are not the same thing.
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by dllthomas 2y ago
My understanding is that Silver's model has been more favorable to Trump than 538, by virtue of 538 having Kamala up just a little while Silver had her up less or Trump up a little. In the past couple days 538 shifted a little toward
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by dllthomas 2y ago
Doesn't really undermine your point, but as a fun aside: Trusting Trust style attacks on compilers were (theoretically) solved by David Wheeler with "diverse double compiling".
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by dllthomas 2y ago
It does display the lyrics w/ one click, also the sheet music, has multiple recordings, and is actually Lehrer's site. It's true that there's no video.
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by dllthomas 2y ago
> Now I'm pretty sure we will see the first trillionaire in the next decade Not if we do the right thing and switch to labeling our large numbers using the "long" system. Then they'll merely be back to being "bi
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by dllthomas 2y ago
https://tomlehrersongs.com/wernher-von-braun/ is perhaps a better link.
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by dllthomas 2y ago
There's a social sense in which you're correct - the machine wasn't counting on that wage, didn't cancel plans to be available, etc... But from a financial perspective, most of the cost for the machines is probably in bu
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by dllthomas 2y ago
I think you probably need more dexterity (and grip strength) for minimal successful communication with a pen than with Morse code, especially if you wind up trying to do both without visual feedback. The odds of those around you noticing is
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by dllthomas 2y ago
I don't think the fact that the law (rightly, I will grant) unified two things when determining whether to punish means that we should always unify those things in our reasoning in other contexts.
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by dllthomas 2y ago
"Typing your code forces validations at the boundaries" was too strong because of course you can type your code without actually doing the validations, but you can structure your code such that that won't happen accidentall
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by dllthomas 2y ago
The accounts may be serious (even accurate!) but whoever chose the numbers was not being serious in their choice of number. Or it's quite the coincidence.
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by dllthomas 2y ago
> I see some reports claiming that the trigger message was “07734 58008” but hard to tell if all these accounts are serious. Clearly someone's not being serious.
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by dllthomas 2y ago
> With a half decent IDE you do not need it. I agree. > It is inexcusable. I think it can be quite easily excused on grounds of triviality, though whether that's appropriate may depend on context.
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by dllthomas 2y ago
> The game "tit for tat" requires you actually tit if you get a tat. My understanding is that in iterated prisoner's dilemma, "tit for two tats" will often outperform "tit for tat", so in its original s
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by dllthomas 2y ago
I once came to a complicated, multi threaded C++ program and saw: using namespace std; // using namespace standard
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by dllthomas 2y ago
> really, this is a stupid question and a waste of everyone’s time Yeah, I think I agree. I was just responding to (what I saw as) sentiment that it was entirely unrelated to performance, which seems to overstate the case. > Could yo
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by dllthomas 2y ago
> there’s nothing you could plausibly call Judaism Incorporated I guess there's Mel Brooks.
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by dllthomas 2y ago
> How on earth does that indicate if a junior frontend dev can do their job or not? Playing devil's advocate, maybe a junior frontend dev that doesn't trust that they understand what someone is asking for and pushes back on bit
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by dllthomas 2y ago
I wonder whether a (legal? social?) requirement for a full "credits" on any painting involving more than one person would change things.
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by dllthomas 2y ago
I have twelve.

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