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by drb91 8y ago
> Why is it conceptually wrong to say the average of an empty array is zero? It’s not conceptually wrong, it just means the “mean” you’re referring to calculates a different value than the “mean” we’re taught in school. So, underlying as
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by drb91 8y ago
> It’s similar to computing NaN-mean or NaN-sum for an array of all NaN values (which returns 0). Why would you want to do this rather than validating understanding of the data before computing on this? > For purposes of updating the
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by drb91 8y ago
Common compared to what? Taking an average of an empty array is nonsensical.
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by drb91 8y ago
Is there any evidence these myths are related in historicity?
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by drb91 8y ago
It seems like a cleaner design to me—emphasis on a well-defined pipeline and immutable objects.
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by drb91 8y ago
Mozilla should be counted, but we need as many players in the space as we can find. They also seem do have more transparent interests and incentives—they don’t run an ad network (and i don’t begrudge them the google royalties in the least
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by drb91 8y ago
They also did this for adnauseum.io. Use firefox! They do not seem to have this conflict of interest problem.
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by drb91 8y ago
At the same time, the data set is atrocious.
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by drb91 8y ago
Well, if it's a documented feature, I'd call it that. You don't call "single user mode" a backdoor. Granted, you can disable single user mode.
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by drb91 8y ago
There are many socialist concepts you might implement. If you consider nationalized healthcare, then the vast majority of all western countries are socialist democracies. This is why it's weird to hear people bring up gulags in the US-
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by drb91 8y ago
> But when you have the whole internet as your audience, no matter how many times you are refuted, you can say it again and a whole group of people will be hearing it for the first time. Why is that a problem? You can't force people
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by drb91 8y ago
This may be an unpopular opinion here but it's spot on.
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by drb91 8y ago
My question stands. :)
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by drb91 8y ago
Well, that’d be great!
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by drb91 8y ago
> I certainly have gripes with academia but I don't think there is a monolithic motivation for students. Well, there is chasing funding. In your area of the universe, does the money follow worthwhile problems?
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by drb91 8y ago
> destroying modern science As the author points out, it’s doing a decent job destroying itself.
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by drb91 8y ago
The receipt shows you voted, not how you voted. It’s a strip of paper along your ballot; marks go elsewhere.
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by drb91 8y ago
Well if you’re ignoring state actor security and trusting a provider, what does signal offer over irc/tls?
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by drb91 8y ago
That was not an NSL.
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by drb91 8y ago
There's a similar process in California, but you get a receipt. Does georgia offer a voting receipt?
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by drb91 8y ago
> When you share a page it shares the canonical URL. By what mechanism? Because copying the URL from the bar does not copy the correct URL, it copies the AMP url.
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by drb91 8y ago
How do you share the page with someone then?
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by drb91 8y ago
> The ones on their mobile devices who click AMP links by and large seem to love them. Really? The main comment I've heard about it (when people mention it at all) is that it messes up the URL. I doubt most people notice anything ch
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by drb91 8y ago
That's true. But you only need to re-format the events you care about from that dependency.
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by drb91 8y ago
The line between plugins and features is only useful if it's meaningful. Pocket is, by every appearance, a bookmark service. Why is that integrated into the browser? There's already Firefox Sync. It should be opt-in; I'm in a
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by drb91 8y ago
Ok, I’m in agreement there.
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by drb91 8y ago
...only if you view software development like gambling. All problems can be methodically addressed; fixing log formatting is actually rather easy to track down.
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by drb91 8y ago
Linking is only one step in package management. Besides, in this scenario, it may not be viewed as a library a user should manage. The only benefit I can think of from linking is getting security patches without recompiling. That might easi
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by drb91 8y ago
And what dependency management or package system would you use to install that library? Distributing the source, especially for self contained libraries, is easily managed with the rest of your source code.
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by drb91 8y ago
Yea, but they’re mostly interchangeable. Not a good thing for spotify.

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