giantDinosaur

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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
Interesting position to take that because it doesn't solve all the problems of crime it won't be a useful tool in e.g. analysing thousands of hours of footage that no person every would (fine, I'll grant that'll require
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
I'm curious: who wouldn't delete their own videos if they thought they'd become evidence? Is that not a common strategy? Not sure how many people would like to end up in court just for the headlines.
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
Nobody disputes olive oil's caloric content. It does seem like a stretch though to imply it has anything to do with the obesity crisis in the western world. Olive oil is not a recent introduction to our diets. Perhaps people are using
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
"Automated license plate reader cameras, which are commonly mounted next to roads or on police cars, also use machine intelligence and are widespread. The technology has definitely reduced violent crime, as it has allowed police to tra
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
10 hours a day is a personal nightmare. That's very much not what the best part of a 4 day week is about. Fuck this obsession with junk productivity as measured by hours - some weeks you can get more done in one day than five, but nobo
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
What an amusingly accurate comment. I still remember the pasta the main character was making in the Wind-Up Bird Chronicle at one point.
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
For me it's definitely more that I have a smartphone which facilitates easy access to a socially accepted addiction - sitting alone might make me passingly think about some eventual demise but it certainly doesn't dominate my thin
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
My impression is that the consensus is reasonably strong that masks work in and of themselves, that is - they do act as a physical barrier against transmission, but , most infections are happening at e.g. family gatherings and in household
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
Right. Similar problem to Typescript - generally its best users are those already sold on static types, for many others the temptation of <any> and friends is too much, and interacting with untyped/poorly typed libraries + poor t
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
I'm actually quite curious as to where annotations make things less readable. Do you have any examples? I can imagine if the annotations are wrong and somehow pass checks that this would be true - which is a possibility, I haven&#x27
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
The Witcher 1 had some seriously major issues until roughly a year after launch. They are like Bethesda - consistently buggy launches. The difference is that CDPR tends to release gargantuan patches after about a year that fix most of the t
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
It is for games, and this is a direct consequence of that.
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
At least for bootstrap, most of the relevant classes are essentially aliases for flexbox, so I don't see why it would be much use.
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
Those look like Java loops, and I don't recall them being much more than sugar over a for loop (although presumably they're implementing some Iterable class and apply to more than just arrays). Either way, like most things in func
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
A for loop's greatest strength is its greatest weakness: you can do anything, including in most languages mutating the index variables (god forbid..!), deeply nesting with mutable data, and so on. I usually find I can understand a map
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
The tvtropes article itself notes that it isn't necessarily bad, which is interesting, and that it happened right after the very first season as well - such that the 'golden era' had already had quite a bit of flanderization.
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
You're currently still an undergrad ? That'll be why. It's obvious you'll likely leave a job when you go back to studying.
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
I've done that kind of thing. It did not help many people, and I came to despise everything about my life. Give me some intellectual enjoyment and I'll be much more motivated to help people.
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
Collateral damage becomes a certainty when you start planting bombs everywhere. How could it not? One does not approve these missions thinking the chances are low (and I doubt one would care much if the civilians don't live anywhere th
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
They also do do normal diplomacy to some degree too, which is basically the obvious part of advancing one's interests - but a lot of stuff is definitely going to be easier to work out face to face.
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
Thanks. That makes it very clear (to me), although definitely a harder sell to have to explain all these possibilities to others.
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
I'm rather confused: what is ReasonML ? is ReasonML now ReScript, or is it still its own thing? A quick google suggests ReasonML is for targeting native platforms? But I used it for the web at one point? Anyway, there was already a p
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
I suppose I should clarify, since you're right about reaching a certain level and being content with it (which is fine, naturally.) What I mean is that 2000 hours of my life can simply vanish into a video game black hole, absent any ot
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
One of them might get you laid, the other won't ? Less flippantly, one of them requires consistent improvement or you'll quit - there's no zombie-state when learning piano where you'll be content with sitting at the same
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
The issue with excel is that there's no standard construction that anyone can query; most likely it's extremely hacked together since it's not a database, but made to look like one. Spreadsheets are great for doing stuff rela
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
I'm not that interested in 'upending' the car, in the sense of getting rid of it, but creating much more balanced systems and urban design as seen in countries like the Netherlands - where you have the choice of multiple wa
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
Supplies won't be that limited by the middle or end of next year, and yes, some airlines are waiting for that (it's fun being in Australia - you actually cannot leave.)
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
Yes, I wouldn't touch this. Any willing victims out there who can give us a review? ;)
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
There's two different things here: communal cooking/engagement, and the distribution of labour (i.e. mostly women). The former is presumably a positive, the latter is very unequal. You do appear to be passing judgement on both at
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
Ill-health, loneliness, road deaths, pollution, ultra-expensive infrastructure: if 'technological progress' is the city designed around the car, I want none of it.

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