ergothus

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by ergothus 7y ago
> It has to judiciously pick which places to look in the same way humans do There's a lot in that statement that can mislead. It has to "look" - that's true, AFAIK, and is super interesting. But that's not the s
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No different than every pro player smurf account, right?
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> Are people really that fragile? It's not fragility, so much as perspective. When you are thinking something is simple, and you say "Am I'm thinking I'm impressed with my own cleverness?" it's easy to say &
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by ergothus 7y ago
I think you're right, but that the tone I read in your words would prevent people from improving. Rather than "I'm so clever" it is more "this isn't complicated". One can argue they mean the same thing, b
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> There is no country on the planet that stands for individual freedom more than the US; we were founded on the idea There's a lot packed into that statement. Without switching into an off-topic discussion, I'd suggest that it
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> Indexing is expensive. If there's a shared public index, that'd make it a lot easier for people to try new ranking algorithms. Maybe the index can be built into the way the new internet works, like DNS or routing, so the cost
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by ergothus 7y ago
> Because we know that the web server is not write once. You know that. People don't. I dont particularly care if YouTube allows people to edit videos, but on anything with comments, allowing someone to know it was edited seems lik
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by ergothus 7y ago
My issue with this has always been that my longhand is terrible, and writing under pressure makes it worse. Longhand notes (which I do frequently for the RPGs I run, so practice isnt the issue) are nigh unreadable. I literally have dozens
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by ergothus 7y ago
Your summary is a bit outdated, I believe. While there is definitely a ceiling as the above poster added, the last decade has had a LOT of effort in improving options for non-management IC development. The big companies are realizing ther
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by ergothus 7y ago
I dont have a suggestion, but as a datapoints you could look at testacular => karma. It definitely took a while to complete, but was definitely done for similar-sounding reasons. You can use searches to see how long it took, if usage t
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by ergothus 7y ago
Your point is very valid, but I cant even SAY it, so I havent even gotten to the typo stage. "Crurl" is in "rural juror" territory.
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by ergothus 7y ago
I completely understand and almost always share your reaction. Socratic CAN be done well - The novel Starship Troopers is actually like that...the arguments may not be your first pick, but you consider them all reasonable, and then you dis
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A world where we have cheap shipping/flights but pay the same excessive total or more elsewhere to deal with the externalities isnt better, it is just shifting the misery around.
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by ergothus 7y ago
> Maintaining that trust keeps a whole lot of other relationship dynamics healthier. Most of us learn at an early age that "We'll see" means "No"
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True. And? While I understand the need for a level of competitive relationships, would it be so terrible to put the burden of selling arms to gross human rights violators on other countries? Of course, it COULD be bad. Real bad. Hand-w
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by ergothus 7y ago
I think the above poster's point is less about dealing with that misunderstanding and more against emptily restating the oppositions argument with the purpose of making them feel heard, WITHOUT expending any effort to actually understa
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by ergothus 7y ago
The problem being that most everyone thinks they're fighting for the truth. Person A will complain that "SJW types" are being hired, the complaint being that they are biased against the truth. Person B will complain that &quo
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by ergothus 7y ago
> Are those considered successful examples? I'd argue the issue is "successful at what?". I've done primarily FE for the last several years and the argument I make with my BE peers is that our BE-focused industry focu
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> The New York Times is no longer the steady unbias pillar it once was Okay, I'm open to hearing this - I've certainly noticed a decrease in quality (vs quantity - NYT still leads there) vs, say, the Washington Post. > They
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by ergothus 7y ago
> Companies these days bend over backwards to make the office experience as optimal as possible. My last 3 companies over the last 7 years (I'm new to one of them) have: * open offices (2 of the 3) or short-wall cubicles. That lat
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by ergothus 7y ago
I was disappointed the article was about ML and not about human learning. When I was young, I got by on picking basics up quickly. Now I'm in my forties and I'm having to actually learn how to learn because there are no simple ba
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by ergothus 7y ago
> know that everything lives in one place. That was what bothered me about iTunes...I was never sure WHERE things lived. Even if I pointed it at a folder, was that my music, or just an input source for where my music actually ended up l
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by ergothus 7y ago
Generally developers tend to either (1) misunderstand them when they encounter them in the wild or (2) accidentally invoke them. (I believe multiple languages have had issues with '04' being treated as an octal, which works fine
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by ergothus 7y ago
Donate to the EFF - they write amicus briefs and generally empower the legal profession to have that understanding. That said, courts generally don't focus on "how important" something is - that's supposed to be Congress
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by ergothus 7y ago
> You see a shop selling postage stamps - perfect. But of course such a shop is for stamp collectors. That is a fantastic analogy and I'm stealing it for my own uses! Thanks for the great breakdown.
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by ergothus 7y ago
A lot of comments here about LibreSSL and Apple vs OpenSSL. Which is fine, that was my immediate reaction. But do the criticisms re:weak defaults, unlabeled deprecated commands, and uninformative output apply? Because I'll admit -
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by ergothus 7y ago
> A majority of those 40% would be resubmitted "would be" and "could be" are not the same. Note I'm not trying to "blame" (or justify) Apple here - just trying to get a grasp on how many people try an
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by ergothus 7y ago
I'd love to know how many of those 40k rejections revise and get approved. Even if we say, 80% of those are scammy ad/malware crap, that leaves 16k. (I'm using totally guessed numbers, so I'll say that while Sturgeon&#x
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One change I'd like to see is in the opposite direction: We (U.S. society) should stop assuming that someone who has wealth is automatically more meritorious than someone without. We've taken the concept that "someone who is
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by ergothus 7y ago
> There is so much wrong with your post that I don't even know where to begin. There is so much going on in these posts that I don't even know where to begin. Above poster makes claims. I'm like "I don't know nu

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