drewcoo

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by drewcoo 3y ago
> They are all amazed how beautifully simple the phones are and with just one or two taps Wouldn't they prefer one or even no taps? > Have you ever watched an elderly person trying to navigate the complexity of a modern smart pho
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by drewcoo 3y ago
"In good faith" or "with good intentions" mean the same. Isn't every referendum system plagued with that problem. Want a second opinion? Ask any Oregonian! The alternative is to have elected officials write and pass
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by drewcoo 3y ago
I suspect it might be easier and less open to litigation to have robots make the food. Or manage the restaurants.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
This. They were basically Uber attached to a single pizza restaurant. A great investment for a manager. Not so good long-term for the employees. Good thing there's a lot of turnover!
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by drewcoo 3y ago
That says more about Domino's food quality than the delivery fee. Full disclosure: I worked at Domino's many decades ago and I ordered pizza in Seattle for over 20 years.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Why is the title changed from "though" to "when," changing the meaning? [edit to add] Also, a comma was added, so this resulted in a net loss of one character while also changing the meaning.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
There was the Israeli pawns claim: https://www.thejc.com/news/university-condemns-millers-comme...
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by drewcoo 3y ago
If you're going to talk about the origins of the SAT, don't forget that it was designed by a eugenicist to try to exclude black candidates. Ironically, the problem with them now is that they're now used to exclude white peopl
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by drewcoo 3y ago
I could just as easily say that choosing not to have children has changed me in a way that I can't explain to people who never experienced that. The broadest group of my cohort decided to have children. It was the easiest path to begin
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by drewcoo 3y ago
My diagnosis allowed me to finally realize why neurotypicals seem to lack "theory of mind," why they act so inconsistently, seem so superstitiously, and be so prone to believing they have unprovable "mental powers." We a
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> You're confusing typing categories :) I find if my typing is really accurate, I introduce fewer bugs! /s
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> first big push for unit test popularization as being centered on Java and JUnit Perl's and TAP came before the xUnit family. TAP quickly spread to many other languages because although we were testing in them, the idea of a stand
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> But only one map from Minutes -> Seconds. Actually, time is difficult. Really difficult. Some minutes on the real world clock do not have 60 seconds.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Well . . . testing, checking, proving, validation, verification, etc. are awfully closely related terms and people don't agree on definitions for them. And that's just scratching the surface of the "OMG What Is Testing"
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by drewcoo 3y ago
So it's a feature request. FOSS doesn't make feature requests go away. And you've already built a bunch of things for customers to do integrations and/or customizations. It just turned out that you did that so well that
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by drewcoo 3y ago
https://psychcentral.com/health/broken-window-theory#broken-...
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by drewcoo 3y ago
You can't own the commons. You don't get to spew air pollution from your property. Or constantly play loud music. You shouldn't be allowed to force your eyesore on people either.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> the reason is partially the same We do not know the actual reasons for the Sumerian number system. The best we have is post hoc claims and just so stories. There is no indication that early computer science was beholden to the Babyloni
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> Standardization on 8-bit multiples only really occurred with the IBM 360 in the late 1960s. It's not "standardization" when only one model from one company is doing it. The 8-bit byte was common in microcomputers and as
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Today's subway riders "watch people around them?" That's creepy and rude. Has NY changed so much? > I am one of the last Mohicans who reads the print news Ok, by this point I'm wondering if the article is AI-writ
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by drewcoo 3y ago
You know that "bubble" thing mainstream media talked about a lot until the dire existential threat of Trump meant we couldn't acknowledge certain bubbles? It's the bubble thing. Before there was mass media, we also had h
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> Say I go to buy a coffee. It's never awkward Baristas and prostitutes are paid to be nice to customers. That's not the same as a cocktail party. Well . . . not ones I've been to, at least.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> I'm not sure that there was an inrush of programmers because "it could make a lot of money". I certainly saw that in college in the 90s. I was shocked at the number of people who didn't know anything about or even r
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Action Jackson!
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Labor fought hard for retirement and benefits. That's all slowly unravelling, so now The Economist can boldly proclaim that you shouldn't even want that retirement. Labor also fought hard for shorter work hours and work week. I su
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> Those who don't believe in anything at all are atheists. We atheists believe things. We just don't believe in gods. You can find spiritual atheists and superstitious atheists and atheists who are flat earthers. All manner of
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by drewcoo 3y ago
That's what editors are supposed to do. And authors gaining editorial control is why so many books later in a popular author's career are worse and worse - no one able to trim them. As examples I'll pick Neal Stephenson and J
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Table-based testing is property-based testing. Nothing in property testing says who has to choose the values used. There are libraries that automatically test valid/invalid inputs for types. But automatic case generation is not require
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Maybe find a new day job and keep that one if you're headed toward burnout.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Please, nobody tell Randall Munroe! Because I would literally spend days worth of time scrolling.

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