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by fyi1183 8y ago
I believe you make a lot of good points, except for one: Walking as a white man through a black neighborhood, the police won't stop you. And even if they did, their attitude would be very different than if it was the other way around
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by fyi1183 8y ago
You may be thinking of compassion or sympathy rather than empathy.
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by fyi1183 9y ago
I'm not going to dig up your earlier post, but discussing up- and down votes like you're doing here is an anti pattern on HN. I think that if you look objectively at your comment, you'll find that it doesn't contribute a
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by fyi1183 9y ago
Are you sure about that? I haven't actually lived through the Troubles in England, but my understanding is that while terrorist acts were obviously reported by the news, there was much less hysteria than for today's much rarer ter
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by fyi1183 9y ago
The relationship between government activities and government use or threat of force is highly nonlinear. The biggest chunk of government use or threat of violence is in property rights enforcement. Anything on top of that is mostly peanuts
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by fyi1183 9y ago
I agree that that's not well supported, because it kind of goes against the grain of git thinking about project versions rather than file or directory versions. What you should probably do in this case is use git merge nevertheless, bu
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by fyi1183 9y ago
Because of how floating point works, it doesn't matter. The difference between modelling in meters or millimeters disappears in the exponents. What matters for precision is the mantissa, which is 23 bits in single precision floats. So
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by fyi1183 9y ago
Here's what you wrote: > Or that I used the generic term rather than the git-specific term? In the context of the discussion, generic term refers to "check in", and git-specific term refers to "commit" (which
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by fyi1183 9y ago
I'm well aware of that, but the ggp was arguing that "check in" is a generic term and "commit" isn't. That's pretty obviously nonsense.
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by fyi1183 9y ago
git log -- filename Unless the file hasn't been touched for many years in a Linux kernel size repository, that's faster than you can blink. I do occasionally wish that git blame was faster. Building up a cache of side in
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by fyi1183 9y ago
I don't know if you're intentionally trolling, but I have been using version control for almost 20 years now and have never used the term check-in. All version control software that I've used in that time used the term commi
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by fyi1183 9y ago
What krupan and kazinator are saying is that you would use exactly the same command as today, i.e git add -p etc. However, unlike today, those commands would automatically also do the equivalent of: if HEAD is marked as WIP then
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by fyi1183 9y ago
Please don't use recovery Q&A. As a user, I cannot trust that a website gets the recovery flow right. Some websites will allow you to bypass email and password if you know the answer to the question. Because of that, I cannot put i
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by fyi1183 9y ago
I call bullshit. It's a nice story, and I don't doubt that some Venezuelans benefit from bitcoin somehow. But for BTC to be considered a "lifeline" for the population would require people to actually do day-to-day tran
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by fyi1183 9y ago
They're clearly not. At the same time, they may be propping up a tyrannical system. "Just following orders" is not a solid argument for your morality. It's clearly a complicated mess. My personal hope is that we eventual
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by fyi1183 9y ago
So on [1], there is an interesting question of cause and effect. Are women voluntarily taking inherently lower paid jobs on average? Or is it involuntary / due to social pressure? Or are certain jobs lower paid because they're p
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by fyi1183 9y ago
In certain Nordic countries (Sweden at least, I believe), all tax data is public. By extension, everybody's income is public as well. It doesn't seem to be an issue.
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by fyi1183 9y ago
They are also no longer fossil fuels, just chemically equivalent or at least similar hydrocarbons. I wonder if language will eventually change to reflect that.
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by fyi1183 9y ago
So what about the volume of the observable universe in cubic Planck lengths? The whole point of having no upset bound on numbers is that this kind of game can be continued arbitrarily.
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by fyi1183 9y ago
Oh but it is, independent of the language. Fewer LOC means more code on the screen, which means you can more easily grasp the functionality of some piece of code, which makes it easier to maintain.
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by fyi1183 9y ago
This can work sometimes and may even sound wise, until you realize that a lot of people's character and behaviour is determined by their environment. So I prefer the direct approach that is known to work by directly helping people do
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by fyi1183 9y ago
See, this is an interesting thing about labor law: it can actually protect both parties. If Marriott was forbidden by law from firing the employee in this situation, then they could much more easily deflect the pressure from China. Make som
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by fyi1183 9y ago
The black box criticism is fair but to be expected. Early 3D APIs were black boxes, but that had the advantage of allowing IHVs to experiment with different implementations behind the scenes. Now that things have largely settled down, movin
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by fyi1183 9y ago
This doesn't help at all with deep refactoring. The "git way" of producing small, self-contained changes covers all possible changes, not just feature additions.
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by fyi1183 9y ago
The fact that commits are organized in a DAG is absolutely not an implementation detail. It's one of the core concepts of distributed version control. It's also kind of silly to call git's terminology "non-standard"
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by fyi1183 9y ago
But git doesn't actually require you to know these internals. You don't need to know the format of git pack files or the network protocol in order to use git. You do need to understand the concepts of commits and branches.
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by fyi1183 9y ago
I've been wondering the same thing. A few points come to mind: It's easy trot out the "but the bureaucracy!" argument. Helicopter money is in-your-face money creation which brings out the gold bugs and inflation hyperven
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by fyi1183 9y ago
QE: Not really. The problem with QE is that it's a purely monetary operation, so the only way it could lead to real economic growth is if it somehow lead to more lending. But arguably debt leads to instability, and besides it's li
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by fyi1183 9y ago
To put a finer point on it, most people still believe that (monetarily sovereign) governments are constrained by their income and by the willingness of lenders to accommodate government debt. But that view is incorrect: the real constraint
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by fyi1183 9y ago
I think you may be missing the more interesting point. Corporations can be seen as non-human intelligences that emerge from the structure of the corporation together with the incentives of is environment. In that view, the humans inside the

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