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by jakear 3y ago
Why not allow function literals that define multiple arity implementations? Something like... def sum(list) do plus = { fn -> 0 end ; fn x, y -> x + y end } Enum.reduce(list, plus(), fn x, y ->
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by jakear 3y ago
Eh, carcinization is a better ontological fit. Many separate things evolving into the same structure, versus the process of losing electrons and/or structurally degrading.
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by jakear 3y ago
The "career" in question could be autorouter developing. That said, I'd suspect it's similar to CS: autoprogrammers are "known" to not work. If you can understand and articulate the business logic in a concis
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by jakear 3y ago
This one was crazier than usual – an expression to decrypt the results page: (guesses=>$$('.nyt-emoji').forEach(cell=cell.innerText=guesses.shift()))(JSON.parse(localStorage['nyt-connections-beta']).history.flat
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Connections: Group Words by Topic(nytimes.com)
1 points by jakear 3y ago|2 comments
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by jakear 3y ago
Hah, I just went down a whole rabbit hole on super-logarithms and tetration wondering why you found it so critical as to warrant standard-library inclusion.
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by jakear 3y ago
Nah, it's just that 99% of people aren't so chronically online as to need a web service to find out how to freely drink water in a place with free water drinking infrastructure.
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by jakear 3y ago
Peer review isn't the same thing as validity either. Both are proxies, sales are simply a much better proxy. Especially long term sales from an established company. Look at it like this: a Peer Reviewed (tm) article comes out saying &q
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by jakear 3y ago
This is a perfect example. In the real world, some placebos work. You take them, believe that they will work, and they do. Fantastic! Your problem has been solved, you share your story with friend(s), the cure spreads based on how well it w
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by jakear 3y ago
In want of sales.
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by jakear 3y ago
Engineering, not scientific. High Sales = A large number of people can attest to the engineered good or service being of high enough quality that they will exchange hard earned money for the ability to use it. Peer Review = Some folks who d
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by jakear 3y ago
Industry doesn't need peer review. The proof of the pudding is in the sales.
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by jakear 3y ago
It's the general public that equates "peer reviewed" with "definitely correct, does not need to be questioned".
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by jakear 3y ago
I didn't get AppleCare. Looks like it'd be $70/yr, so I'd be $210 down (plus $100 for screen repairs). The battery was $130 [1], and the screen was $170 [2]. Comes out to a bit cheaper to DIY, and I don't have to gi
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by jakear 3y ago
The speakers didn't need to be replaced, that was a misdiagnosis on my part. But the process was easy (note for the readers: take a dry toothbrush to your speaker grilles if they ever start to sound off). As for the battery, yeah ideal
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by jakear 3y ago
I'm happy as a clam on my 16gb M1 air. One hidden nice feature is how cheap and easy DIY repairs are. To date I've replaced my battery, monitor, and speakers (my lifestyle involves very rough handling of the machine), and everyt
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by jakear 3y ago
Not at all. You just swallow fecal matter. Usually in a pill.
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by jakear 3y ago
Sucks. Shoulda got a better lawyer. I know folks who have gotten out of full on crashes at 0.18 BAC thanks to lawyer shenanigans.
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by jakear 3y ago
I've seen a handful in CA. Usually they're visible from a large distance, given the flashing lights and traffic backup. Sometimes they'll even have signs up a few blocks in advance warning about the upcoming stop.
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by jakear 3y ago
In some sense, it is. Barring random sobriety checkpoints (which are generally avoidable).
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Show HN: Visualize Your Spotify History(spotifystats.pages.dev)
1 points by jakear 3y ago|0 comments
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by jakear 3y ago
FWIW in my experimentations with prompt-engineering and Q/A seeding, asking GPT to self-reflect on conversation/system history more often than not results in a partial-to-complete hallucination. If this is stable across a variety
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by jakear 3y ago
What bugs me the most is Flex centering absolutely sucks at handling overflow. Have a flex box with content that is supposed to be centered? Great, looks perfect for the first few items. But then try it on a smaller window or with more item
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by jakear 3y ago
I do not consider the stated material conditional logically invalid.
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by jakear 3y ago
Talk when you've given your house back to whatever native people were there before you. Or should you give it to the "native" people that were there before them? Or the ones before those ones? Or maybe just accept that the on
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by jakear 3y ago
This could be (and has been) said about literally any "first peoples" anywhere. Does something about them being "islanders" change things for you?
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by jakear 3y ago
Yeah last played is a good one. I actually have a smart list of all the top played songs that were last played over a year or two a go, which I look through to find some "fell through the cracks" things I enjoyed at one point. W
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by jakear 3y ago
Neat. I note both of these queries could be done via my UI easily, but sharing the results would be impossible without sharing your entire history too.
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by jakear 3y ago
Yeah, it is an unfortunate limitation. I submitted a request for all my data to Apple, that might have the info needed but they take quite a while to respond. That said you don't need to have the songs actually downloaded to show up in
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by jakear 3y ago
Eternal is in going back forever and double-break as in what this page does where you group by two categories at once (Year/Title, Artist/Album, etc.). I did see Spotify has a way to request all your data but it takes them up to 3

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