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by jemfinch 9y ago
It sounds like perhaps a case of being so focused on whether the program could be built that they didn't stop to ask whether it should be built. Automatic code formatters don't need to be perfect or complete; they simply must
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by jemfinch 9y ago
The reason you're not contributing to the conversation is that your comment seems to reflect a naivete borne only by those few who haven't read Thompson's "On Trusting Trust". tl;dr: We can't even trust the com
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by jemfinch 9y ago
> I feel like decaf doesn't taste as good Decaf doesn't taste as good, at least in the US. The American public won't tolerate a higher cost for decaf than ordinary coffee, so roasters pay for the decaffeination process
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by jemfinch 9y ago
Did I miss something? The article doesn't seem to say much other than "Setting a high bar and holding people accountable is important." I wanted something actionable but found nothing.
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by jemfinch 9y ago
Is this surprising at all? Of course most people recover emotionaly from divorce. Most divorces are mutual, and these people have just gotten out of the most toxic relationship in their lives. Firing is decidedly not mutual.
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by jemfinch 9y ago
Does that mean ticket prices will increase?
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by jemfinch 10y ago
He's saying that it's so reliable and the throughput is so high that sometimes you have to convince yourself that your computers are halfway across the planet.
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by jemfinch 10y ago
> [T]he market has to prefer quality over price, and pay for it even when there is a cheaper, lower quality alternative. That's really hard to do when so much of the market is living paycheck to paycheck. Many people want to choo
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by jemfinch 10y ago
Reading the diff, I'm neither surprised that this bug existed nor will I be surprised when similar bugs arise. There must be a more readable to write even low-level code like this.
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by jemfinch 10y ago
Is there any reason to treat these as drugs instead of just poisons? We sell all kinds of poisons on the regular basis and don't bat an eye. Are these any more interesting because they're opiates?
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by jemfinch 10y ago
So, in a timeline this: * "We have an eyewitness! File the charges." * "Our eyewitness recanted, dismiss." * "We now have DNA evidence, refile the charges." You actually think the trial should not be allowed t
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by jemfinch 10y ago
Sorry, I should have been clearer. I'm not afraid of strangers, I'm afraid of social workers for Child Protective Services. I'm afraid of legalized kidnapping because my preferred way of parenting would expose my kids to sm
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by jemfinch 10y ago
There's nothing I want more than to let my kids roam like I did in the late 80s and early 90s. Sadly, I can't, because I'm quite literally afraid that someone will take my kids (completely ignoring that the real dangers of t
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by jemfinch 10y ago
> There used to be a thing on usenet, when usenet was still a thing, of people saying "RTFM" or "RTFF" (the last "F" being FAQ). I know. And two decades ago, in my youthful inexperience, I was objecting aga
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by jemfinch 10y ago
> It is not a community norm to condescend with instructions on how to use Google. The downvotes should make that clear. It isn't now, and that's sad. But there was a time when this community valued straightforward, direct com
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by jemfinch 10y ago
> Condescension (which is what links to that site are) does not make a substantive comment. Neither does asking a question which is trivially answered by Googling. Why are you reserving your rage for the person trying to support communi
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by jemfinch 10y ago
> The magnet companies sold these items as a toy to children and resisted efforts to put warnings on them and resisted efforts to stop them being sold to children. That's categorically false.
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by jemfinch 10y ago
It's not very close at all. I found it disappointing, to be honest. Very little on the mystery of deciphering Heptapod B, nothing about the breakthrough in communications based on Fermat's Principle, and honestly very little of
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by jemfinch 10y ago
No doubt the injuries are horrifying, but so are fireworks-related burns and gunshot wounds. It's hard to imagine a world where neodymium magnets should be more regulated than fireworks and firearms, but that's the world we lived
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by jemfinch 10y ago
As an exercise to the reader, name: 1. He who works with his hands and heart, but not his head. 2. He who works with his head and heart, but not his hands.
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by jemfinch 10y ago
I'm a C++ programmer who hates garbage collection on general principle, but I have to say: 20% of CPU time spent in memory management isn't all that unusual (especially in software that hasn't been optimized), whether or not
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by jemfinch 10y ago
I wish they'd stop calling these expressions "regular".
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by jemfinch 10y ago
What happened to real Super Soaker guns, like the 50, the 100, or even the 300? When I search for "super soaker" on Amazon I see only a few Nerf branded guns that look like cheap knockoffs.
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by jemfinch 10y ago
> If you know Asm you'll be far better at C; things like pointers and indirection immediately make sense. Be sure not to confuse cause and effect there: if you managed to learn ASM, you must not be the sort of programmer who is conf
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by jemfinch 10y ago
> the thread with the lock can be suspended, killed, or go off on a wild goose chase, and the progress of the algorithm cannot continue. That's what made it click. Thanks!
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by jemfinch 10y ago
> In neither this paper or the classic lock free stacks do you have lock contention on writes as you are using CAS operations. Given that real-world locks are most often implemented using CAS, is this distinction a valuable one? In eith
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by jemfinch 10y ago
FWIW, I was raised in Cincinnati and spent almost a decade in Columbus, and "needs fooed" sounds perfectly normal to me, too.
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by jemfinch 10y ago
Ok, ecumenical ish :-P
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by jemfinch 10y ago
The canon of the new testament was effectively decided for the western church (at least) at the regional councils of Rome, Hippo, and Carthage in the late fourth century. I don't know anything about this particular text, but the canon
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by jemfinch 10y ago
Have you read Bostrom's argument? Which premise do you think is true?

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