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by dmurray 10mo ago
I would expect the opposite. Commercial products are run by product managers: they do whatever the business needs that day, and if it doesn't work for most inputs, "that's fine, our users will only ever need addition". F
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by dmurray 10mo ago
Auto-generate a TypedDict type while type checking, while doing nothing at runtime. I expect this is not a very big ask and the various typecheckers will have versions of this soon after release.
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by dmurray 10mo ago
It looks like the wheels could stay attached to the outside of the suitcase. It means leaving it in the less standard configuration to pull around (landscape rather than portrait) but that can be overcome with a longer handle.
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by dmurray 10mo ago
> If they want to have their database be the authoritative copy pricing information, then they can just not put up price signs to begin with. This one really does vary by jurisdiction, but no, grocery stores generally must display prices
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by dmurray 10mo ago
Sure, but it's in the same category as the owner putting up a sign by mistake, or omitting to update a sign by mistake. Or more realistically, an employee of the owner putting up a sign even though the owner had instructed him to put u
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by dmurray 10mo ago
I don't think the laws of the specific jurisdiction matter. In every US jurisdiction, the prices aren't completely legally binding (what if the previous customer changed the price tag?). In ~every US jurisdiction, if you systemati
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by dmurray 10mo ago
If you create one to prank your friend, and he ends up falling for it and sharing it in another group, and it gets to someone who alerts the authorities, without including the context of "this was sent to me by a guy who's a bit o
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by dmurray 10mo ago
This doesn't sound good at all. It's quite reasonable in many applications to want to send the same message twice: e.g "Customer A buys N units of Product X". If you try to disambiguate those messages using, say, a times
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by dmurray 10mo ago
Why do they care what you watch? I expect they pay a flat fee to license content (if not, how is that policed?) so the marginal cost to them is the same no matter what you watch. I'd guess they push you to their content for the same re
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by dmurray 10mo ago
Presumably there's some level at which this can be solved in a purely monetary way. If the average Dodge Ram causes X millimorts of deaths per year (per km? per km on suburban roads?) and every dollar spent on public healthcare (drug i
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by dmurray 10mo ago
Do you understand why this isn't a workable solution for everyone, and likely not even for the last 10% of your journey?
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by dmurray 10mo ago
"multiple vendors, but only one of them is nice enough to give the product away for free" is not "effectively single-vendor". The other CAs aren't prohibitively priced for anyone who has a business need for lots of
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by dmurray 10mo ago
Yes, it's silly. They surely use orders of magnitude more consumables (latex gloves, plastic bottle tops for chemicals...) in preparing a batch of mosquito proboscides than the hypothetical nozzle would take up. The university's m
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by dmurray 10mo ago
And then you find that the inks they've tried it with are solutions of cancer cells. The necroprinter prints cancer.
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by dmurray 10mo ago
I understood Windows named some of the most important directories with spaces, then special characters in the name so that 3rd party applications would be absolutely sure to support them. "Program Files" and "Program Files (x
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by dmurray 10mo ago
I don't recall this, and I do recall running something like "diskcopy A: A:" to do that operation.
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by dmurray 10mo ago
> Schools typically have no space to squeeze it in. Here is a typical pathway for a CS student: https://catalog.njit.edu/undergraduate/computing-sciences/co ... That course has 28 credits in first year, 3 of whi
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by dmurray 10mo ago
> It's not that each congruence gives you new information So it's not that each congruence gives you N bits of information, and you want kN bits in total. It's more like each congruence has a 1/k chance of giving you
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by dmurray 10mo ago
This isn't saying much. There are glaciers in parts of France and Germany now.
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by dmurray 11mo ago
A John Deere tractor would be useful to a primitive agrarian society, but they didn't have one of those either. We have plenty of evidence for domesticated cats 4,000 years ago in Ancient Egypt. We have no evidence for cats in earlier
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by dmurray 11mo ago
In practice if you have a very high ping, you're losing packets or there's buffering somewhere. Not because you have a 30,000 km long ethernet cable.
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by dmurray 11mo ago
Colleges are full of debating societies, chapters of political parties, and budding social activists. Politicians just go where there's an audience.
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by dmurray 11mo ago
I've soured a lot on directly productionizing data science code. It's normally an unmaintainable mess. If you write it in R and then rewrite it in C (better: rewrite it in English with the R as helpful annotations, then have someo
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by dmurray 11mo ago
That's not why it's used in data science though. Lots of data scientists use Python all day and have no concept of ever working in a different field. It's used in data science because it's used in data science.
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by dmurray 11mo ago
Are they actually unsafe or they just haven't gone through the certification? They're on sale in Europe where the car safety standards are slightly different to the US, but generally considered more rigorous.
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by dmurray 11mo ago
Don't most people maintain the view that Tibet is part of PRC China? They might think further autonomy or independence for it would be a good thing, like the Basque Country, but the control isn't really disputed right now. And nob
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by dmurray 11mo ago
This seems like one of those scenarios where you find out Disney did make a Roger Rabbit sequel, but they never marketed it, or it had a limited release in 12 California cinemas, and it only existed as a pro forma device to show they st
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by dmurray 11mo ago
> Hamas was an aspiring near-peer military force This is beyond ridiculous. Israel is a nuclear-armed regional power with tanks, a modern navy, a state of the art air force, the best missile defence system in the world, and one of the be
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by dmurray 11mo ago
Do I spend more, or on different things? And do I get any extra value out of the extra things I buy? Most people spend approximately all of their disposable income. The information is valuable to marketers fighting to divide up that pie, no
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by dmurray 11mo ago
What would an actual market price be for this PII? Let's say someone offers $X, and in return they post on a public website your name, address, date of birth, Social Security number and employer. Not a lifetime feed, but a single snaps

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