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by epr 7y ago
Regardless of if they make a profit, they saw a discrepancy between current prices and what they considered more accurate prices and to the extent they made a profit they were correct. There is still the huge benefit that now these masks wi
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by epr 7y ago
It is truly painful to see how little people seem to understand or appreciate the living organism that is human action in the aggregate. Large surges in demand which are inevitably met with price increases are signals to other parts of the
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by epr 7y ago
For anyone who is new to assembly and has $10 to spare, I would recommend getting Human Resource Machine on steam. It's essentially a game that teaches you basic assembly programming. It's a lot of fun, and very hackable since you
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by epr 7y ago
It is quite confusing when projects advertise that they have best-in-class performance then don't provide benchmark results in the readme or documentation. This may be an extreme example of that.
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by epr 7y ago
I'm sorry, but for the type of work he is suggesting (bash script equivalent), you don't need anything besides the standard library. I cannot think of a single system I have used in recent decades that didn't come with python
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by epr 7y ago
The most practical way to give these ideas an opportunity to grow (IMO), is to start with code. Rather than code being stored as text, we store it as "objects" (as described in the article). To the extent which you are already usi
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by epr 7y ago
> tightening the schema only works when you can adequately define the requirements of both ends up front There are degrees of tightening though, aren't there? It would be a matter of necessity (to me, at least) that an interface lik
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by epr 7y ago
> So now you turn one problem into two problems: manage the schemas and manage the data This seems to completely ignore the fact that we are already managing schemas right now in the form of ad-hoc parsers and serializers which are argua
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by epr 7y ago
I get what you are saying, but sometimes there may not be any useful feedback to give. Lets say you just don't like the candidate personally or think they aren't a good culture fit, feedback might be hard to give without just hurt
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by epr 7y ago
:x
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by epr 7y ago
Thank you. I swear every time I see a tutorial where someone is using vim they say to save and close with :wq and it drives me nuts.
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by epr 7y ago
> sometimes one side is unambigiously right and the other unambiguously wrong Certainly you can try to pick some objective criteria for determining who is right, but that is beside the point that these questions ideally split a target po
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by epr 7y ago
I was looking for exactly this only hours ago, and did not know exactly how to phrase it in my google search. Such a bizarre coincidence. From page 8: "The manifold assumption is powerful because it lets us translate many of the things
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by epr 7y ago
"maybe"..."in the future" is the root of much object oriented evil
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by epr 7y ago
Debugging macro expanded code is definitely the number one pain with Hy, although a somewhat workable solution is to view the output of hy2py (comes with hy). As far as the lack of functional programming semantics go (no tail call eliminati
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by epr 7y ago
Racket is great if you are looking for a high quality general purpose language, but if you want to use important python libraries for pythons's popular use cases: numerical/scientific computing, data science/ai, etc., then Hy
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by epr 7y ago
Common Lisp over here like: * (+ (+ 1 1) (expt 2 256)) 115792089237316195423570985008687907853269984665640564039457584007913129639938 * (+ 1 (+ 1 (expt 2 256))) 11579208923731619542357098500868790785326998466564056403945758400791
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by epr 7y ago
I have a lot of gripes with the first part of this article regarding old languages that "failed" (which I detail below), but what follows is a pretty reasonable assessment of why Lisp never really "clicked" as an enterpr
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by epr 7y ago
> Some economists argued the dot com bubble was a net positive for the economy. I am no economist, but virtually any economist I have read would respond to that statement with: Compared to what?
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by epr 7y ago
> Not all bubbles have negative consequences for the economy Unless we are using a different definition of "bubble" than it would seem (to me) most people intend when they use that word, this is a factually incorrect statement.
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by epr 7y ago
You may want to look into symbolic regression. I often find that by applying a downward pressure on the fitness of less parsimonious individuals as well as one or more substitution operators (where applicable) you can get very elegant resul
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by epr 7y ago
Do healthcare providers think that consumers would make decisions differently if presented with pricing up front? If so, how does their omission not fit the legal definition of fraud?
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by epr 7y ago
> What’s being sold is software that helps make optimal decision using data Doesn't this apply to virtually all software?
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by epr 7y ago
Chromium by itself is really great. I miss nothing. I see lots of browsers mentioned here that are chromium derived, but add extra features. I switched several years ago from chrome to chromium and have never missed any features from chrome
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by epr 7y ago
Quite to the contrary, the limitations of functional languages are intended to make code easier to reason about for humans. Making small programs is one thing, but the combinatorial explosion in potential states as you approach large progra
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by epr 8y ago
> I do not speak of merchants buying and selling on credit, or of those who buy on credit in order to turn the purchase to a profit. Did you really just not read the article at all? He is clearly referring to things like consumer debt ra
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by epr 8y ago
"The user should never have to take extra steps to not use autocomplete" Failure to follow this rule is possibly the most egregious of sins one may commit, and is unfortunately very common. You have to wonder if people doing this
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by epr 8y ago
Seriously... Anytime someone suggests that they have a "secure" piece of software without providing caveats relating to the inherent insecurity of every modern CPU and firmware stack based on closed-source proprietary blobs that t
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by epr 8y ago
Thank you. I do acknowledge that this is generally an unwelcome point of view, but the reason my comment was originally flagged was I believe for legitimate reasons before changes I made soon after commenting. After I was flagged, I looked
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by epr 8y ago
> "This is actually literally true. There universe's resources are finite. Economic growth comes at the expense of natural resources." The idea that "resources" that humans use are a fixed quantity that can only

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