jdmichal

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by jdmichal 8y ago
Debt is a fixed number that doesn't expand as the economy does.
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by jdmichal 8y ago
Incoming thread hijack: I wish I had seen that thread! I've been looking for an article I'm pretty sure I found on HN. It was an idea of the development of consciousness from the basis of developing models for action planning. It
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by jdmichal 8y ago
And yet it's apparently completely foreign to you that others may make that exact same choice regarding other software? (And this is coming from a guy that used to program entirely on text editors, because I didn't like how bloa
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by jdmichal 8y ago
Which is pronounced with /β/, a sound closer to /v/ than /b/.
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by jdmichal 8y ago
Only Surface Laptop has alcantara... This is about the Surface Book 2.
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by jdmichal 8y ago
Windows Vista started running defragmentation as a background process nightly. Then SSDs happened.
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by jdmichal 8y ago
Interstate commerce has been interpreted very broadly... So broadly that consuming things you grew yourself is under subject of interstate commerce. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich
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by jdmichal 8y ago
The basic reading would be, that unless the Constitution defines a power of the federal government, that power resides with the states and citizens. As mentioned in the Wikipedia article, its addition was basically CYA, as it was and is tru
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by jdmichal 8y ago
I've been told in discussions with school board members that parent involvement is the number one driver of student success. Not teachers, and definitely not dollars per student.
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That sounds like a need for named and default constructor parameters. With the two of those, you can mix-and-match whatever values you want, with non-defaulted ones being required. And since the parameters are named, they self-document at t
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by jdmichal 8y ago
Eh, good call. Sued is probably extremely rare / non-existent. I'm assuming their modus operandi is to register as a creditor on bankruptcies and try to claw back what they can that way. End result is still the same: They'
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by jdmichal 8y ago
If you need cash to pay the bill and/or Amex sues you, liquidity is a positive. Liquidity means those assets can be easily converted to cash so that Amex gets paid. Liquidity isn't the problem; price stability is. And gold and sil
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by jdmichal 8y ago
Ding ding ding! Here's a random credit card from American Express. Cash advances have a drastically higher interest rate, PLUS a 3% (minimum $5) transaction fee. https://www.americanexpress.com/us/credit-cards&#x2F
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by jdmichal 8y ago
To be successful, you need to breathe. I will now remove all oxygen from the room. It's your choice, not an obligation, to then negotiate with me to provide oxygen. Unfortunately for you, there are no other oxygen providers to negotiat
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by jdmichal 8y ago
I view non-reified types as a mistake in Java, because it's easy to work-around: <T> void doStuff(Class<T> type) There, now you are guaranteed by the compiler to have the type of `T` at runtime. With this simple a work-arou
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And it's infinitely expandable to improve accuracy, at a linear cost of computation!
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/a.ɾʰam r̩ʰ.eɪ.l̩n sɛ.le.ɛɲ i.hir.kɾɪ.ke.ɛ.ɾi nːɛ.a dɾi.hen.in.xuɪ.ɛn/ This is put together using the pronunciation guide present on rihan.org, which does not list IPA. So take this as a very rough attempt.
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by jdmichal 8y ago
I don't think state is the problem. I think the visibility of state is a problem. In most programming, state is some nebulous thing that you really only get to see in a debugger. Otherwise, you're left reasoning about what you
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by jdmichal 8y ago
I wonder if it would have made it any more obvious to explicitly define it as: f(x) = 0*x + 6 EDIT: Or even, if multiplication is a problem, f(x) = (x - x) + 6
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by jdmichal 9y ago
The IPA is /me.a kul.pa/. So that's a reasonable approximation. The vowels are off. If you know Spanish pronunciation, it's exactly the same for this word. Specifically, The E sound is actually the single-vowel /e&
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by jdmichal 9y ago
I played in 2002 -- team 278. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabolical_Dynamics The field was carpet, and we put treads on the wheels for traction. Our most common problem was blowing our fuse due to using drill motors
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And "anticipating" could be a more general term that doesn't necessarily have the happiness connotation. "Eagerly anticipating" would give a hit to a certain desire for it to happen, but not necessarily happiness .
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by jdmichal 9y ago
I'm pretty sure this is the correct explanation. We have a site that recently moved to this setup, and I know for a fact that there are roughly 20% fewer seats than employees. That's what they came up with as acceptable after crun
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by jdmichal 9y ago
I like the idea of using a color signal to show a changed value, with the change cascading to lower "digits". So, for instance, if the GB change, then so do MB, KB, and B. If GB and MB remains the same, then only KB and B will cha
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by jdmichal 9y ago
That's why it's not a no-tolerance policy. But, you will probably find that some people tend to "attract" such external events. Because they don't leave enough time to account for any externalities. Or, in this pa
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by jdmichal 9y ago
> Whose responsibility is it to make those cards more common, if not Mastercard's? The issuers. Of course, Mastercard has some influence over them... But they certainly can't unilaterally dictate conditions to them beyond whate
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by jdmichal 9y ago
That seems like a silly idea; the pitch change is not nearly as drastic as during braking. Cars decelerate faster than they accelerate. I don't know of any car that can go 0-60 in 100 feet, but there are plenty of cars that can go 60-0
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by jdmichal 9y ago
Except what happens is that business want to release a completed feature. But you're half-way through your monthly deploy cycle and thereby have to either push the date or force your process faster. TheCoelacanth made a sibling comment
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I disagree. I got the opportunity to hear a talk from Jez Humble, and one of his examples was HP and printer drivers. So this is likely in your last scenario there. They still reaped a lot of benefits from fixing their development processes
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by jdmichal 9y ago
I mean, this advice is pretty firmly held for hitting things like animals. Albeit for other reasons -- it helps prevent them from going over the hood and towards the windshield. Generally the pitch won't matter that much in vehicle-t

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