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by feoren 2y ago
It is encoded as such. That's why most columns are made nullable. It's crazy to say you need to use the full power of a 1:N relation with some child table when you know N cannot be greater than 1, when a nullable column already
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by feoren 2y ago
> The hypothesis I find most compelling is that IQ levels have "naturally" been declining for decades You find compelling the idea that organisms naturally get dumber with each successive generation? What possible mechanism wou
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by feoren 2y ago
> However, don't we grow tolerant to pleasures? Yes: growing tolerance is part of the addiction cycle that causes you to need ever more to satisfy the same urge.
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by feoren 2y ago
2486 is only a square/rectangle if the keys are exactly square. They're certainly not in the example image shown.
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by feoren 2y ago
(My guess) They don't know they're supposed to.
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by feoren 2y ago
It's nice to have an expert's perspective, but he undermines himself a bit. He says this: > The people who believe this stuff when they hear it will not be persuaded, because I'm obviously a Big Pharma Shill. Pre-empting a
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by feoren 2y ago
Health insurance companies conspiring with each other and with providers to drive up costs is not an unintended consequence of the ACA, it is a predictable consequence of monopolistic collusion. Imagine saying "all the grocery stores a
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by feoren 2y ago
Should a false positive from the YouTube anti-spam algorithm accidentally temp-ban someone from commenting on YouTube for a week, or should it permanently and irrevocably destroy their online presence, possibly preventing them from logging
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by feoren 2y ago
I have never actually seen aspect-oriented programming used in the wild. Out of curiosity, in what context are you seeing AOP used?
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by feoren 2y ago
> I think it's kind of funny how some people get confused about the fact that there are many reasons to listen to many kinds of music. It has always boggled my mind that this point seems to be lost on every music streaming service
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by feoren 2y ago
> The same gravity that wants to pull you in keeps you in orbit I would say it's your velocity that keeps you in orbit. Without the velocity, you fall into the star. Without the star's gravity, you keep going away in a straight
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by feoren 2y ago
Temperature is so wibbly-wobbly. The probe will reach an equilibrium energy-in vs. energy-out temperature depending on its distance from the sun, its surface area facing the sun, and the materials being lit, vs. its surface area facing away
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by feoren 2y ago
> The difference is ... [whether] all references/pointers are implicitly nullable [or not] Right so we're narrowing down the actual problem here, which revolves around implicit vs. explicit, compiler support vs. on-your-own, st
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by feoren 2y ago
> With respect, that goal is far from clear. How do you measure how much they like the product? Completely agree: focus groups, A/B testing, Net Promoter Score, 5-stars, like/dislike -- all of those systems are notorious for be
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by feoren 2y ago
> they can measure other sorts of productivity Spoiler: they can't do that either. How do you measure the productivity of a bridge engineer designing a new suspension bridge? Number of struts placed on the blueprint? Even with mor
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by feoren 2y ago
Lately, "nulls should not be in your language" sounds like "reality should be simpler". Queue angry fist-shaking at the complexities of real life and a wistful longing for a logical, functional, mathematical world. In re
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by feoren 2y ago
> rather than keeping them around to keep senators happy To whom are you directing your advice, then? This is like those articles headlined "Donald Trump must resign" -- who is supposed to make that happen? Who with any power o
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by feoren 2y ago
I could imagine saying "God, are you seeing this?" to playfully emphasize something sinful they're seeing. Or similarly "Hey FBI, did you know about this?" to playfully point out that something is (or seems) illegal
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by feoren 2y ago
I'm sorry, but that painting experiment is bafflingly silly. The same two artists painted 11 paintings based on independent majority votes of a bunch of general criteria, and then made a shocked-Pikachu-face when all the paintings look
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by feoren 2y ago
0 hours of "passive reading". If you want to get better at the SAT verbal, you should start practicing SAT verbal questions immediately. If I want to get better at the piano, how many hours of music should I passively listen to be
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by feoren 2y ago
> My mind also wanders, and I can go several pages before realizing I haven't really been reading. I think this is an under-rated benefit of reading. Would you feel like you failed if your mind wandered during a guided meditation?
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by feoren 2y ago
They state that condition when they introduce the p^2 + 4q^2 condition, but at the point that GP quoted ("one must be odd"), they had only referred to them as "numbers" and "whole numbers". So it's not c
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by feoren 2y ago
> read a paragraph out loud on the spot and sound natural As someone who reads aloud a lot, I contend that this is a subtly different process than simply reading quietly on your own, and something that must be practiced. You need to set
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by feoren 2y ago
There's no reason to think the computation is "happening" anywhere but our universe, or even "happening" at all in any real sense. Light follows a geodesic. Atomic reactions tend to minimize energy. Rivers follow th
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by feoren 2y ago
> I don't think it's true that legality is determined based only on what's beneficial to the rich and powerful ... I don't think the legal system is 100% foolproof Nor do I, but it sounds like I (and likely some of th
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by feoren 2y ago
You're ignoring a litany of intentional efforts by powerful people to keep the system as broken as possible so that they can take advantage of it. Things didn't just get this bad on their own; this is the result of decades of stra
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by feoren 2y ago
> Most importantly - is this legal? If legality is determined based on what's beneficial to the rich and powerful, then this is equivalent to saying "most importantly, does it benefit the rich and powerful?" which is, of c
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by feoren 2y ago
The country has been going crazy yelling about trans people and gay people and black people and Irish people and "Ingins" for hundreds of years. Suddenly we stop worrying about 7 trans athletes and pay actual attention to what&#x2
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by feoren 2y ago
> Don't like it? GTFO out loser! Uproot your family, move away from everything you know, all your friends, and go take a chance in a completely different country. Just change everything about your life and stop trying to make anythi
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by feoren 2y ago
As a programmer, my favorite way to think about Vacuous Truth is to think about the relationship between binary operators and their corresponding sequence operators. Think about taking an operator like "plus" and extending it to s

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