jdmichal

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by jdmichal 6y ago
Note that those are specifically the "Egyptological" names. Ancient Egyptian did not write vowels, but it did write several semi-vowels. So those semi-vowels are transcribed as vowels, and the vowel "e" fills in as nec
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Larger companies can do this with virtual machines in their own datacenters, which cuts down a lot on the cost. Especially for developer machines, which have relatively high requirements on memory.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
The problem is that it's not just a base utility layer being shared. It's the entire web-standards stack. Which means that Google would now have pretty much free reign to push the standards wherever they wanted, because if it&#x
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I agree with you. I did intend for that as a thought experiment, but I didn't make that clear. However, the part about teaching the need before the material and leaving time for exploration I'm very serious about. I think it&#x
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by jdmichal 6y ago
The forced cadence of certain topics actually does have a part to play. Imagine if you could have skipped all those English classes back then. Guess what? You would be learning it all right now! Just like you're _re_learning it rig
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I think for recipes specifically it started with the fact that a recipe cannot be copyrighted, but that flavor text around a recipe can. This is why recipe books do the same thing.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I'm confused by your response. Is your core business mapping objects to databases? As in, that's what you get paid for? If not, my heuristic is that you should not be writing an ORM tool.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
> I think a thing is not a good example though — takes longer than a few hours / an afternoon, to write a thing , add tests, fix bugs, corner cases. More like a week, or weeks, ... You're making my point for me. This is exa
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I agree with this statement also. By writing code to do JSON parsing, JSON parsing is now part of your business.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
My rule is, don't use a dependency to implement your core business. Is JSON parsing our core business? No, so why would we ever write -- and thereby commit to supporting for its entire lifetime -- JSON parsing code? All the code you
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I never said anything otherwise? I'm unsure what you're trying to get at. Are we just agreeing with different words?
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Agreed. A rich, independently-wealthy asshole. But there's also a difference between my moral judgements and my preparations. I can hope someone won't be an asshole, but I will prepare for it.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Yea sorry that's bullshit. I certainly don't need the stress of a job in my life if I have other options. I don't care how much I like my job, it's still a job and the only reason I'm doing it is to make money. O
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by jdmichal 6y ago
It's a common functional thing. I know F# has both `|>` and `<|` to go both directions. It also has `||>` and `|||>` variants which take two- or three-value tuples and spread them to arguments. https://docs.mic
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Or the hitch is placed at the wrong height for the trailer.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Does your truck not have self-leveling headlights? Or is the change outside their ability to handle?
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by jdmichal 6y ago
It's suspected that the entire stereotype of "lazy and stupid southerners" (in the US) was actually hookworm infections. This one not necessarily behavior altering, but just drastic malnutrition that eventually also affected
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by jdmichal 6y ago
You mean your phone that has its own built-in, unswappable assistant? Since Windows Phone died[0], I can't blame them for getting out of a business where they are immediately outleveraged by the competition. [0] I say this with lament
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by jdmichal 6y ago
IMO it's intrinsic shortcomings. These started coming out once the language processing got good enough to be reliable. And that part has continued advancing. But after you have that parsed instruction, what do you do with it? That&
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Maybe it's weirder than your local news, because your local news never finds out about those weird police calls like they do in Florida?
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I think you misinterpreted the part about automation. I think the argument is: How does an automated build determine what version number to assign the build? The answer is generally that a human has to be involved. This follows from the
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by jdmichal 6y ago
This strikes me as a first-world privileged thing, similar to how Europe built its industrial revolution on coal but now tries to prevent others from doing the same thing. Even in the US we eat domesticated livestock (cattle), cultivated b
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by jdmichal 6y ago
It's possible to overdose on water . I really, really doubt that there's no such thing as a lethal dose of LSD.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
That is a pathological way of thinking about it. You could also think of it as a collective pact.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
The LEO dictionary is a consistently-good online dictionary for German <-> English: https://dict.leo.org/german-english/umkehren It seems to have a strong sense around "returning to a previous place / s
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Ah, yea. There's definitely climates in California where that would work. I'm in Tampa Bay, and during the summer there's very few times when you would want outside air coming in. Even if it's OK temperature-wise, hum
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Can you point me to anything? I'd love to learn more about that. I'm not sure how that would work when the outside air is absolutely hotter than desired. We still do things like airflow through attics, because that's above
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Buildings were designed differently, and society worked differently. Buildings now are designed to be sealed against the elements, where before A/C they were designed to maximize exposure to airflow. Things like lanais, Bahama shutte
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by jdmichal 6y ago
What if consciousness is a spectrum? What if consciousness is the logical end-game starting with the ability to selectively attend to and respond to stimuli? That's attention schema theory. And in such a theory, dogs are pretty far
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by jdmichal 6y ago
GP is potentially not wrong. There's a theory called attention schema wherein consciousness emerges from an advancing capability to create models of both the external and internal world. One level of that is obviously physical modeli

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