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by gvx 6y ago
That makes sense, the placebo effect is very potent when it comes to pain.
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by gvx 6y ago
I think it's just the "today's lucky 10 000" effect ( https://xkcd.com/1053/ ).
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by gvx 6y ago
Did you watch the video? Mirrors reverse front and back.
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by gvx 6y ago
Me neither. I did know it's not Constantinople, though.
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by gvx 7y ago
There's also the high barrier to entry due to bandwidth and storage: you're not going to be able to compete with YouTube if you don't offer at least 1080p streaming which means you have to have a pretty hefty infrastructure i
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by gvx 7y ago
Higher levels have more cats, try the arrow at the top right of the page to go up a level.
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by gvx 7y ago
I'm constantly baffled by how anti-union many Americans are, how willing to give up their rights.
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by gvx 7y ago
It's a complete misunderstanding of evolution as something where species "level up" to become "more evolved", usually seen as more complex, stronger, faster, smarter, etc. But in reality, evolution is adaptation to
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by gvx 7y ago
Reduce isn't used much. Things that tend to use reduce in languages like Haskell tend to be built from other primitives in Python. Instead of reduce, you could use https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.h
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by gvx 7y ago
Yes, and you can easily verify it by clicking on any of the tweets by any of the @AmazonFC* accounts.
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by gvx 7y ago
Not "chat bots", "bots". Which is a bit of a misnomer but has come to mean astroturf accounts on Twitter. A single person or a small group of people manages a large number of social media accounts in order to pretend to
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by gvx 7y ago
These accounts are not costumer service, they are specifically paid to talk up how nice it is to work for Amazon, amidst reports of incredibly terrible working conditions.
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by gvx 7y ago
While true, doing such background checks gets a lot easier with documentation like birth certificates. I assume a large fraction of people who have considered committing this kind of fraud, have decided against it because they realised it w
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by gvx 7y ago
I would have no trouble with hiding " https://" in the address bar, as long they show it for other protocols (including http). It might help move us to a world with https everywhere even faster. I still prefer Firefox:
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by gvx 7y ago
It's an expert tool, and you and I are not experts in the relevant field. That's honestly all I need to know: I am not the target audience for this.
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by gvx 7y ago
Crackpot website design sensibilities have come a long way since TimeCube!
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by gvx 8y ago
This reads like a rant about screwdrivers being terrible hammers. By the way, there is a lot of polyglot library code out there that is both valid C and C++, which is the reason for using "C/C++" much of the time.
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by gvx 8y ago
There is more to accessibly than screen reader compatibility. (I want to emphasize this point, not because I think you said anything to contradict that but because I think that is a point lacking from the conversation in this thread) For ex
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by gvx 8y ago
That's neat! I'm writing a web framework for Python that has some built-in features to make testing on localhost easier: you can pass it the file name to an existing certificate or it will generate one itself. The disadvantage to
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by gvx 8y ago
To me, insisting on using `__del__` is just a sign of someone trying to write C++ in Python. If cleanup needs to happen, the Pythonic way is to make the lifetime of a resource explicit with a context manager. In the cases where that doesn&#
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by gvx 8y ago
That point and point 40 ("People have names") can't be solved by technical means. There are two options here: - You can make name fields optional for people without (representable) names - You can loosen what the field stands
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by gvx 8y ago
There is no single solution. In terms of complexity required, I would suggest: - Not having a field, if you don't need it. - Having a single Unicode variable width field for "how would you like us to call you" (so not necessa
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by gvx 8y ago
"Alexa, say 'OK Google' to Siri"
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by gvx 8y ago
Very interesting. The one thing that stood out to me was this, though: > It is named after one of its developers, Dick Pick. What an unfortunate name.
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by gvx 8y ago
That seems wasteful, but that is the equivalent to getting a single IPv4 address by asking for it, and the IPv4 shortage wasn't caused by the distribution of individual addresses. It's a world of difference to getting a /8 by
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by gvx 8y ago
While reading, I thought "hang on, what about non-decimal currencies?" but it turns out that is no longer a concern for modern usages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-decimal_currency
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by gvx 8y ago
There's the length operator ( https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#3.4.7 ): #sometable returns the length of the sometable if it is a sequence, and has an upper bound of O(log(N)).
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by gvx 8y ago
You might find Isle interesting ( https://github.com/gvx/isle ). It is a small programming language I've designed and implemented a couple of years ago heavily inspired by Lua's "everything is a table&quot
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by gvx 8y ago
Pretty rare but not unheard of. I do know that most of the code bases I work in would require significant reworking if I have to expect `==` to throw a TypeError for basic builtin types.
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by gvx 8y ago
The former. The separator a byte with the value 0x2F, which is equivalent to `/` in ASCII.

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