eesmith

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by eesmith 2y ago
You are using examples which are typically plural. Consider instead these singular forms: "My shelf contains no Elf-on-a-Shelf" / "My shelf contains no elephant" / "My shelf contains no Hemingway book.&quo
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by eesmith 2y ago
Or FreeBSD or AIX or ... You might feel better viewing it as a way to avoid the trademark on "Unix" than as a contraction.
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by eesmith 2y ago
The question was 'What rules do you consider ugly?'. I think that rule is ugly. I explained why. If you don't like the thread, move on.
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by eesmith 2y ago
Yes, I even pointed out how it's in PEP 8. That I think it's wrong and ugly is an entirely different point. PEP 8 specifically says it it not universal: > Many projects have their own coding style guidelines. In the event of an
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by eesmith 2y ago
The point I was trying to make is to give examples of rules I thought were ugly, to give a concrete response to paulgb's request for such a rule. One, as I learned, could be resolved by a simple use of a terminal ",". The oth
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by eesmith 2y ago
Sweet! Thanks! I did not know that, and I've no problem with a terminal comma there. My point stands - I do not think those spaces are superfluous. Consider the following: a = 4 def foo(i: int): return "A"
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by eesmith 2y ago
When I write argparse or click, I use one parameter per line, like: parser.add_argument( "--stdout", choices = ("true", "false"), default = "true", help = "log data to
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by eesmith 2y ago
My point is that DRM is still not intellectual property. The DMCA prohibits circumvention of DRM, even when there is no copyright infringement. It's illegal for an author of a story who still holds the copyright to it, to download a DR
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by eesmith 2y ago
> You'd have to prepend a "most". I don't care about that level of penny-ante pedantry. That's turns every forum into hyper-correctionalist tedium. As I already quoted, the DMCA DRM clause holds even when there i
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by eesmith 2y ago
Certainly it means the government should stay out of the market, but the large majority of laissez-faire capitalists still want a government . The following quotes are from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laissez-faire#C
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by eesmith 2y ago
Laissez faire capitalists still want a government, so I don't see the point of following your tangent.
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by eesmith 2y ago
I don't think it's bringing up intellectual property is all that useful when talking about DRM. DRM is a technological means to enforce private control independent of the (limited) legal monopoly from copyright. It's legally
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by eesmith 2y ago
I can't reconcile 'Imagine having a pair programmer mentor with infinite patience and deep knowledge.' with “Look at this buggy code the LLM produced!” Well, I can imagine many things which aren't true - but that's
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by eesmith 2y ago
> recognize and parse any and all ipv4 and ipv6 addresses and CIDRs contained within it (these may be surrounded by random words or symbols like commas), then return them as a list' Did I miss the generated code and test cases? I wo
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by eesmith 2y ago
If a candidate comments that libraries are getting rid of overdue fines as research has found it's not effective at getting books back in time, while negatively affecting their poorest members, and that libraries which got rid of fines
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by eesmith 2y ago
I got "A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?" for Christmas, by the Weinersmiths. The index is so good I've shared my happiness about it several times.
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by eesmith 2y ago
It looks like that method was known by 1880, if I read https://archive.org/details/indispensablebic00stur/page/14/m... correctly ('The "indispensable" bicyclist's handbook; a complete
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by eesmith 2y ago
I'm having a really hard time verifying that it was a Wright Brothers innovation. I can find claims that it was so, but nothing substantial. For example, this 1959 kids book - https://archive.org/details/wilburorvi
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by eesmith 2y ago
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=CMV says 'Change My View', though 'Catch My Vibe' also works here.
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by eesmith 2y ago
You likely meant to write 'xenon' there, not 'helium'. FWIW, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenon has > Because of its scarcity, xenon is much more expensive than the lighter noble gases—approxima
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by eesmith 2y ago
Am I smarter then Einstein and Dirac? No way.
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by eesmith 2y ago
How did that distinguish between antisemtic, anti-Israeli, anti-occupation, and anti-genocide? Like, 'In November, Israeli soccer fans were chased and beaten by crowds in the Netherlands' but the NYT did not mention how that inclu
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by eesmith 2y ago
> it showed the nature of what I was talking about My apologies. Yes, it did do that. The overall point is that you have to be there in person to judge quality - there was no advice for how to do it with internet sales. The rest of my re
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by eesmith 2y ago
You asked "What kind of discrimination isn't covered by motives of nepotism or DEI?" One of my examples was how women couldn't be in combat roles until recently. Is that 'Nepotism'? No, not unless you have a ve
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by eesmith 2y ago
These are far from the actual definitions of those words, to the point were I have trouble making sense of it. Like, the history of racism in the Americas recognizes a lot of different cultures, and even puts a hierarchy to them, typically
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by eesmith 2y ago
Do you consider slavery, the Trail of Tears, the internment of Japanese-Americans, and the restrictions on women from serving in combat or some juries as discrimination? In many states, it is okay to discriminate based on political views. H
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by eesmith 2y ago
Where is discrimination on that triangle? If discrimination is on that triangle, where do you place efforts to counter discrimination? You suspect because it fits with your worldview, or you suspect because of your knowledge of the cosmonau
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by eesmith 2y ago
Which shows the importance of in-store purchases over sight-unseen. > Popular high-quality brands include Levi Strauss & Co I regards that as highly suspect advice. I stopped buying jeans because even name brand jeans weren't du
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by eesmith 2y ago
Here is a supporting example found from a DDG search for "DEI nursing": "The Rise of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Practitioners in Academic Nursing" at https://ojin.nursingworld.org/table-of-con
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by eesmith 2y ago
DEI is focused on the identify insofar as that identity has been the basis of discrimination preventing equality on the basis of abilities, skills, etc. > they signals it's the reason they got hired to this position That does not fo

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