jholman

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by jholman 4y ago
> I can't tell if you actually missed the black squares or are just trolling. This was very, very hard to miss. I (not the person you're replying to) have no idea what you're talking about. Not on Instagram, and didn&#x27
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by jholman 4y ago
What? No, doing it by population is a bad approach. Land is the resource you're dividing up. The question is how much of the divided-up land is allocated to an (allegedly) niche usage. Doing it by population is like saying "almo
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by jholman 4y ago
Here are some comments from the perspective of computing science (i.e. not from the perspective of software development). There is a conceptual thing called a "finite state machine", which has no memory except a set of finite stat
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by jholman 4y ago
I think you're looking for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZxqVC_tBdc Note, however, that the state, in this story, that has underfunding problems and cannot figure out how to adequately supervise the civil engi
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by jholman 4y ago
What are you hoping for a reference to? It's like standing up at a poetry slam and saying "Could you please cite your work". Or is this some meta-meta-humour that I'm too HN to understand?
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by jholman 4y ago
I agree with the sibling comment that there is nothing in the spec saying whether or not strings are interned, and commend the reference there. Also, you probably meant the === operator, because discussing the == operator is a whole extra b
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by jholman 4y ago
As far as I can tell, reading the spec, you're totally wrong. Specifically, I believe that it is not true that every time the computer compares two strings that it needs to compare length. Whether or not any string or strings is&#x2F
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by jholman 4y ago
When I googled that I was 80% confident that you were trolling me and I was falling for it. Nope.
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by jholman 4y ago
uBlock origin, the adblocker
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by jholman 4y ago
It's a yellow fruit that you unzip and eat the white bits, it's a banana !
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by jholman 4y ago
Same: I understand the advice, but it's trivial to find cases where it's useful. I have three enabled. One is for a past side-hustle, but the others are messages.android.com and messages.google.com . Definitely keeping both of t
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by jholman 4y ago
The linked essay literally claims that, even if times change, humans need to write to generate good ideas. That's why it seemed fair game to mention societies with different norms and different training.
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by jholman 4y ago
I think there is clear historical evidence that this thesis is, at a minimum, greatly exaggerated. Socrates never wrote, and I think he had more good ideas than Paul Graham ever will. Muhammad was not even literate, and unless he was insp
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by jholman 4y ago
I found this example helpful.
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by jholman 4y ago
It feels like you didn't read the article I read. THIS article defines "code smell" exactly as you did. And it says that using aria-* incorrectly is not a smell, but an error, exactly as you did. The claim of the article is
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by jholman 4y ago
Sorry, it's your opinion that researchers and/or engineers working on DL or Bayesian methods work better when they're distracted by many diverse tasks? What?
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by jholman 4y ago
I've read the fine-print terms of a mortgage perhaps half a dozen times.
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by jholman 4y ago
Apropos of which, it always baffled me how bad the React Router documentation was, given that the company name was react-training. It was like an anti-ad.
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by jholman 4y ago
See my sibling comment, but I agree with you, especially about Lex's track record, and I think the other commenters are projecting. And you're right, reframing a question is like THE MOVE for academics, so it's completely not
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by jholman 4y ago
I don't think it was calling out a bullshit move (and definitely not a dig) a) Saying "I wonder when language models will do this" is a total Lex thing to say. That's what he's into . b) Lex is almost always a sof
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by jholman 4y ago
Uh, that's not at all a good paraphrase. Q: "Does [removing some sensors] make the perception problem harder, or easier?" (note, this is literally what Lex asked, your restatement is misleading) A: [paraphrasing] "Well m
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by jholman 4y ago
Weird example. JS took a long time to take off, and had virtually no marketing budget. Or is your point that JS took off despite that, and so maybe is high quality? I think that's wrong too.
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by jholman 4y ago
20% lose-it-or-lose-it yearly is my experience in Canada, and I believe that's on top of being allowed to make double payments. And yes, the prepay penalty is generally based on the interest they would lose or a few month's intere
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by jholman 4y ago
I would imagine it's because the transcript contains strictly more information than the video?
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by jholman 4y ago
What's the irony?
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Good god, yes.
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by jholman 4y ago
Pedantry alert, but it drives me crazy: "Wiki" is a type of software, like "editor" or "web browser". It is not the name of wikipedia. Yes yes, language evolves, but this is like someone deleting the Internet
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by jholman 4y ago
I think you didn't read @JohnFen carefully enough. If the reason I am doing something is that I believe it will create results independent of being seen to have done it, I am not virtue signalling. Which is what @JohnFen said. Conve
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by jholman 4y ago
I did this also. C and C++. Although none of my teammates are now Known Names, as far as I know, and also we did sometimes collaborate a little bit. But not at the "terminal" (not really a terminal), because in the labs used fo
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by jholman 4y ago
Canada Post also has a canonical list of all valid addresses. I live in an apartment, let's say unit 555 at 123 Main St, and my canonical address has the form 555-123 Main St. This is not unusual in any way. It is vanishingly rare to

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