jdmichal

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by jdmichal 6y ago
This is it right here. You can either expect all the people hearing your stuff to learn enough about engineering to understand your engineering statuses. Or you can learn enough about what the business values in your work to rephrase it t
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by jdmichal 6y ago
It was to manufacturer's advantage for electricity to be standardized. Otherwise they would have to support components for every single distributor. I don't know if it was to distributor's advantage... I think there's
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Yes. I just reloaded the Dev Fonts page with and without locked fonts and it only downloads them when the fonts are unlocked. I forgot to mention that one may also set a minimum font size. That one does occasionally break a layout here or
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by jdmichal 6y ago
> That's the font you are reading this comment in, in fact. Wrong. One of my favorite features of Firefox is that I get to choose whether websites can override my fonts. And they can't. Serifed Georgia is default, Ariel if t
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I certainly don't blame you for not noticing the `#fbf3f3` background color on hover. However, it seems that every link is either small caps or has that trailing ° character. It looks like the former is used for internal links, and t
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I thought I understood your problem statement as something along the lines of "How do I stop the rule (a+b)->(b+a) from firing just because they can". So my proposal was to only attempt to apply certain rules if they helped re
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I think you'd be best by defining two classes of rules. The first would be simplifications , and these you want to apply as much as possible. The second would be definitions , which can be used to help make simplifications possible
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Sure, sorry for any misattribution. > The mechanism of the HUP resembles the OE in parts at least. OE was initially proposed as a mechanism behind the uncertainty principle, but it's actually just an attribute of the wave nature of
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by jdmichal 6y ago
You're mixing up Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and the observer effect. The former limits the precision at which certain linked properties can be known. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principl
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I always make sure to fill my bathtub before a hurricane in case our power goes out.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
> to draw a general conclusion > Mgechev is telling us not to draw a conclusion from Jeff’s piece. You're really going to pull out a dictionary on me, then blatantly ignore the emphasized word in your chosen definition that i
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Generalization literally means to apply the point to all involved. So no, it's quite appropriate for mgechev so reject generalization if the point doesn't apply to them. And that in no way a rejection of the facts presented. Th
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Is it just the text that's supposed to be upside down: ᴉɟ (ɐ == q) { ɔ; } Or the whole thing? { ;ɔ } (q == ɐ) ɟᴉ I want to make sure I do this the right way.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
There's a lot of implicit assumptions around this stuff that actually matter a lot, and the demographics of the actual candidate pool [0] as opposed to the general population is a huge one. I would venture that most people pushing
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by jdmichal 6y ago
It depends. By marketplace, what people mean here is that Amazon is taking zero risk on the inventory. They are merely providing a place to list it. (Along with maybe some other paid services such as fulfillment and inventory managemen
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by jdmichal 6y ago
> A tiny Germany company... Did you read the same article as me? The company started 2020 with slightly less than $5B capitalization. The owners are already top-100 wealthiest in Germany due to an earlier startup working a similar spac
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by jdmichal 6y ago
A lot of it is learned heuristics. Things like how fast the ball normally travels, how hard it looks like the player threw or hit, game knowledge about places it makes sense for the ball to go, etc.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I'm honestly not sure it is sarcasm at this point... The entire situation is approaching Poe's law for me.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
> I could have been shot and killed by a mugger... Don't get excited yet. Roving bands of raiders is still a potential outcome of climate change.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
This is just reiterating the first post I responded to, and so I'll respond in kind: Why does Grubhub have any responsibility to obtain the restaurant's consent? If I pay someone to go to the grocers and pick up some items for me
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I think everyone is in agreement regarding the information misdirection stuff being unethical at best and certainly potentially fraudulent. But simply listing restaurants and offering to deliver food from them is not that.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
At least you didn't cut off the second half of that sentence. The AS WELL AS there is carrying a lot of weight. As long as the restaurant is offering pickup service, Grubhub is very clear about that offering.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
You left out the second part of that sentence. Emphasis mine: > ... you type in an address, we tell you the restaurants that deliver to that locale as well as showing you droves of pickup restaurants near you. The complainants here se
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I can buy this, if the customer is ordering directly from the restaurant and Grubhub delivers that order. Because that's what a subcontractor relationship looks like; you the customer only deal with the primary contractor. But if I o
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by jdmichal 6y ago
This is a strawman unless I missed where it's being specifically claimed. Obviously posing as the restaurant and serving your own product is fraud.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Well, the restaurant is participating, in the sense that they are making food for a customer. They just don't understand who the customer actually is. Secondly, are the customers not ordering the food from Grubhub ? Why would they b
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by jdmichal 6y ago
But the customers are ordering the food from Grubhub , no? So why would they be confused that there's a middle-man?
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I'm curious why they would need the owner's permission for listing? I can understand the issues around things like the alleged practice of replacing the businesses' information. But the idea of just having a third-party del
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Tax avoidance is not money laundering. Not even close. TFA does a good job of describing the process, of which zero pieces fit "purchasing foreign property to avoid local taxes". Reintroduction of these funds back into the lo
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Wikipedia mentions carpenter bees are quite capable. Which probably explains how my neighbor's gets pollinated. I know it's certainly not by hand.

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