jdmichal

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by jdmichal 4y ago
Yes. The proper way to implement this flow is to ask for the information, and then present the exact same result screen regardless of the actions taken. Any additional information or action should be done exclusively through the contact i
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Uh, so... That's basically Disney World right now. You must reserve your visit to the park, and there's a paid system (Genie+) to compete for ride times without waiting in line. And there's a really good video someone did o
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by jdmichal 4y ago
So am I understanding correctly that your assertion is that the card networks actually don't want to do business with these companies, and they use the law as an excuse? I find it the claim that they would rather not do business with
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by jdmichal 4y ago
The law tells them who they can do business with, and they comply. That's not really a guise , unless me driving the speed limit is also a guise... If there's any challenge here, it's that such law restricts card networks&
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by jdmichal 4y ago
I'm confused... Where does due process come into play in a contractual relationship between two companies? It's applicable to governmental entities in criminal law. Contract disputes both do not involve the government outside o
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by jdmichal 4y ago
On the topic of Harry Potter and reimaginative fan-fiction, there's Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality , in which Harry is reimagined as a science- and technology-savvy rationalist. http://www.hpmor.com/ It a
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by jdmichal 4y ago
Interestingly, my neighborhood was mostly on a single company, due to several HOAs banding together and negotiating a group deal. But the company has now announced that it will no longer be honoring the group discount, so it's probabl
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by jdmichal 4y ago
Japan's GDP-per-capita has been roughly stable since the 90's: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location...
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by jdmichal 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_source_heat_pump#In_cold_c... A study by Natural Resources Canada found that cold climate air source heat pumps (CC-ASHPs) work in Canadian winters, based on testing in Ottawa (Ontari
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by jdmichal 4y ago
> Some people consider Runes alphabetic and some do not because it does not follow the order of ABC. Even in narrow contexts, that's not how linguists use the term. Futhark runes are pretty clearly alphabets, because consonants and
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by jdmichal 4y ago
I have a story very similar to yours. I worked in the office for a total of one week in March 2020 before we voluntarily switched to remote. (In Florida, so no real lockdowns.) We were expecting it to be a few weeks, maybe a couple month
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by jdmichal 4y ago
The article makes it very clear where things were exploited. Especially the circumnavigation of the new token limit seems pretty relevant to the discussion of whether this was playing within the intent. If he’d wanted, Medjedovic could no
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by jdmichal 4y ago
Broken slot machines do happen, and it's been made very clear that the player does not benefit. https://www.aol.com/2016-11-02-broken-slot-machine-dupes-wom... https://www.foxnews.com/us/not-a-winn
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by jdmichal 4y ago
And what if the vending machine measures coins by weight, and you so happen to have a "coin" that is just a properly-weighted blank. You're still interacting with the vending machine as technically intended . But by not in
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by jdmichal 4y ago
Personally, I also don't care much what language I'm in. But not everyone has a brain that works that way. Also, some of the people I'm referring to are also of non-traditional backgrounds. Meaning they don't have a fo
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by jdmichal 4y ago
I'm going to repost a comment of mine from two years ago. This is not an unknown thing to school boards. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23012403 The wife of one of my good friends was on the county school board
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by jdmichal 4y ago
Sometimes I'm really surprised that people have such a hard time extrapolating from their own experiences learning to children and school. Individuals will tend to learn things at their own pace. Individuals will tend to learn differe
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by jdmichal 4y ago
Grice's maxim of relation: Be relevant. https://psychology.fandom.com/wiki/Gricean_maxims#Maxim_of_R...
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by jdmichal 4y ago
There would be huge capacity problems associated with combining entire years of students. Many teachers, classrooms, and entire schools are already on the edge of overcapacity.
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by jdmichal 4y ago
That's why my favorite ORM in Java is MyBatis. It doesn't do SQL generation; it only maps objects to SQL parameters and results to objects.
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by jdmichal 4y ago
Isn't "LINQ without the underlying SQL" simply list comprehensions?
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by jdmichal 4y ago
There's two signs before that notifying of both the upcoming speed change and the traffic signal: https://www.google.com/maps/@33.8729084,-118.2881048,3a,75y,... I'm also extremely surprised that there's
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by jdmichal 4y ago
Oh I 100% agree with you on the chances that this means anything. There would have to be some evidence that they just made up a number, or invented a methodology that they knew would drastically undercount, or some-such. Just running a di
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by jdmichal 4y ago
Any percentage that was not calculated using a methodology? As HillRat said: * As long as they used _a_ methodology, * and that methodology spat out 5%, * and there's no material information to indicate that anyone thought the methodo
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by jdmichal 4y ago
It's rather silly to assume the clause would be written that narrowly. I replied above with what would likely be a relevant clause, which covers any and all information supplied by Twitter.
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by jdmichal 4y ago
Of course they didn't write it that specifically. That would be extraordinarily silly. One writes the clause to be as general as possible, while also covering the primary concern. Witness, page 25: > Section 4.7 Information Suppl
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by jdmichal 4y ago
It's a grant from a private organization. It's at worst a breach of contract. And if he simply called it a salary paid to himself to continue development and marketing of the app, that probably successfully clears any hurdles.
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by jdmichal 4y ago
I'm amazed that people didn't see this coming as the end game of the "cut the cord" transition... This was always where it was going to end up. Netflix proved the concept, but it ends up that having an early-mover adva
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by jdmichal 4y ago
You hit it pretty spot on. There's still a lot of management expected at those levels, it's just of an influential type instead of an authoritative type. Which is often even harder to wield effectively. You're still expe
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by jdmichal 4y ago
They don't even use burners at that scale, they use replicators. Takes seconds to stamp a DVD. Here's a place in California that charges as low as $.075 each per copy, and this is low volume pricing... http://discrepl

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