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by icambron 4y ago
But they didn’t measure that. They’d have to measure that by showing a bunch of people each sequence and asking “is this random?” Instead, they threw a complexity formula at it, which measures some specific thing, but not “other people” Tho
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by icambron 4y ago
You missed the parent’s point. “Equal 1s and 0s” is not a sequence; it’s a class of sequences. So the fact that sequences with that property are more common than the specific sequence “all 1s” is true but doesn’t answer the question. 111100
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by icambron 4y ago
That’s my interpretation too, fwiw. But I stuck with the narrower facts
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by icambron 4y ago
You can define terms however you want, and thus devise any measure you want. But that’s not a definition of randomness I recognize. Perhaps entropy. Randomness is not a property of the result; it’s a property of the process used to generate
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by icambron 4y ago
I agree with the article that the study is flawed in its unwillingness to exclude the all-H and all-T answers. But I’ll go further: the original study is just silly. “Make a sequence that looks random” is sort of a nonsensical ask. Looks ra
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by icambron 4y ago
Sometimes people just want to spend money on something they’re passionate about. How good the ROI is doesn’t matter to them, so you’re not really deceiving them
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by icambron 4y ago
I mean, it could; rich people do what they like. But would it statistical aggregate? I really doubt it. And do they want to live in that mansion surrounded by multi-unit buildings built by developers buying the nearby acres? Also seems unli
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by icambron 5y ago
That’s not quite it. The solution isn’t to stop them from doing it or warning them more aggressively; it’s to make it genuinely less dangerous. For example, make the stars all come back when you reverse the switch. Of course that’s a lot ha
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by icambron 5y ago
I don’t exactly disagree with this point, but in mitigation, being constantly vigilant must be exhausting, and even bright people with strong executive function are going to slip up once in a while. It’s just too hard to keep your guard up
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by icambron 5y ago
This is very silly and I urge you to rethink this position. The software is free, it contains a very explicit warranty disclaimer, and the implicit social contract is that nobody owes anyone anything. There is no fraud here. If you download
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by icambron 5y ago
It’s not the structure that he has wrong (fixed vs points); it’s that he doesn’t want to take too much money and is letting them decide what’s fair.
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by icambron 5y ago
He had me until the money part. Don’t be like this; capture the value you add or someone else will. You’ll be forever in debt to my priceless advice.
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by icambron 5y ago
I also do this with my Advantage 2 (along with several other remaps), but I wanted to point out that the caps->esc remapping is now quite straightforward in osx.
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by icambron 5y ago
This part jumped out at me: > L1 is slower; 0.5 ns -> 1.5 ns Why did that happen?
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by icambron 5y ago
This is why, IMO, hard mode is bad. It's in an important sense actually easier! Sure, good play results in more guesses than in not-hard-mode, but that would be like saying a 100m sprint is easier than a 2-mile race because the latter
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by icambron 5y ago
Those aren't the same thing. A deprecation is a change in contract. A change in contract has to be worked out with consuming teams. In fact that's the whole point of deprecation: to kick off the migration process. Still need the r
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by icambron 5y ago
Just today, I deleted a directory called --process in my home. Most likely, I just forgot a -- or otherwise messed up a command. We'll see if it comes back!
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by icambron 5y ago
Putting aside the details of how to make it fast on MySql, I always push back on pagination designs that require direct addressing. Pages don't have any semantic meaning for the person clicking on them. Why would they click on page 17?
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by icambron 5y ago
I bought a desktop from System76 (it's wonderful) so I gave Pop_os a spin. It's pretty clean but there were just too many little things that didn't _quite_ work right. Customizing keyboard shortcuts never quite got me what I
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by icambron 5y ago
Yeah, CD is a big game changer here. Managing config separately from code is a big pain (as that piece points out in colorful detail), and as the countervailing painfulness of a deploy drops toward zero, it becomes better and better to just
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by icambron 5y ago
Do they...not have geese there? (I'm Ohioan, and can confirm never having heard of this... questionable variant)
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by icambron 5y ago
There's no meaningful argument on how to pronounce "gif" except "how do people pronounce gif?". Otherwise we're all going to comb through historical records to find out who first said "gift" or "
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by icambron 5y ago
The T1200 was -- and I never thought much about how weird this is until now -- my family's computer for a few years. We got a laptop for somewhat arcane reasons and I'm not sure it was the right decision, but my dad loved that thi
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by icambron 5y ago
My cofounder and I were doing a recent retrospective on our most recent acquisition, and while we're very proud of the product, we considered that your approach may have been more sound.
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by icambron 5y ago
They're really different product lines because each one is a complete rewrite; each has its own patch stream, which, like yours, change wildly without warning, as if the developers are just trying random stuff out. And nothing is eve
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by icambron 5y ago
The maintenance of several products in different lifecycle phases is a huge issue for us. Different failure modes, different protocols for providing feedback, and different basic maintenance needs. For example, v1 requires the users to mana
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by icambron 5y ago
A good example is the common wood screw, which you might use in repairing a piece of furniture. Another is a drywall screw that holds drywall to the wooden studs behind it You don't always want the beefiest screw. Sometimes you want it
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by icambron 5y ago
This surprises me because it's a major problem for me, particularly for GitHub. I end up doing this for clones that don't even link back to the orginal: 1. Search for something 2. See the cloned issue but no results for the origi
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by icambron 5y ago
Yeah, good clarification. I didn't have the distinction quite right. I just knew it smelled old
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by icambron 5y ago
I suppose you can still find that sequence of words, but I think it usually coveys happenstance, not intention, as it does here. This sentence reads as very dated to me: > The original machine had a base plate of prefabulated amulite, su

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