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by jmull 1y ago
Wow, it is truly amazing the levels of rationalization people are able to achieve. Trump is your fault, not Clinton's.
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by jmull 1y ago
To actually be fair, you'd assess the level of politicization of the numbers the government produces. While it's true that both 10 != 0 and 100 != 0, you are certainly off track trying to equate 10 and 100.
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by jmull 1y ago
If you want to do a good job, definitely do not get mad over use cases. Devs are more like Spock, not The Hulk. We work better when we stay cool, clam, and logical, not when we get angry and heated.
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by jmull 1y ago
> ...where the advice follows set patterns only mildly tailored for the recipient, seem to be severely at risk I doubt it. Search already "obsoletes" these fields in the same way AI does. AI isn't really competing against
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by jmull 1y ago
Yeah, that's why I think it's nonsense. Measuring doesn't mean don't think. Measuring and thinking are two different things. You need to do them both to optimize effectively.
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by jmull 1y ago
> I dislike the “intuition doesn’t work, profile your code” mantra because it seemingly says profiling is a viable replacement for theoretical calculations, which it isn’t. This seems like a nonsensical statement to me. How could measuri
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by jmull 1y ago
I'm pretty conservative about adopting third-party libraries (due to the long-term issues each one has the potential to cause), but an app updater is probably worth it. It's just tricky, basically one fat edge case, and a critical
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by jmull 1y ago
It will backfire if they don't do something nobody has ever done? How does that work? I think you mean that Trump people will get mad at them for highlighted his screwup. I'm sure that's true -- they've decided to back T
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by jmull 1y ago
> if you believe your short thesis enough to put money behind it, I’m more rather than less inclined to believe that you believe Not really. The short seller just needs enough people to believe their claims. How true or important those c
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by jmull 1y ago
What’s the logical train of thought here? It’s OK for a citizen to lose their rights if a political party exists that espouses views you don’t agree with and it’s possible someone related to that citizen may (or may not) have listened to th
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by jmull 1y ago
You are detained and a guard brandishing a machete presents you with a choice: he’ll either cut off your right hand, or cut off your left. Being right handed, you choose your left, and he lops it off. Was it really your choice to have your
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by jmull 1y ago
> this isn’t the issue it was a year ago From the article, it looks like this brief was dated Feb 25 this year.
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by jmull 1y ago
The point is, people are breaking the law all the time, that law is rarely enforced, yet no one seems to be calling for a widespread crackdown on speeding. The previous poster calls on us to be concerned about crimes and criminals leading t
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by jmull 1y ago
I’m suggesting it may be a bad idea to criminalize ordinary and even positive behavior. I think you’re making a better argument in favor of sanctuary cities than against. All the bad things you describe are the result of fear of immigration
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by jmull 1y ago
You're saying sanctuary cities lead to more people buying cars and opening bank accounts... that's the bad thing?
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by jmull 1y ago
An aside: “monkey patch” doesn’t mean what you think it means. More on topic… crimes aren’t all the same, and the willingness of a person to commit one kind of crime doesn’t necessarily mean they are willing to commit another kind of crime.
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by jmull 1y ago
What does this have to do with this situation though?
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by jmull 2y ago
Tricking people into thinking you personally wrote an email written by AI seems like a bad idea. Once people realize you're doing it, the best case is probably that people mostly ignore your emails (perhaps they'll have their own
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by jmull 2y ago
Hopefully most people get that the exact meaning of "pixel" depends on context? It certainly doesn't make sense to mix different meanings in a mathematical sense. E.g., when referring to a width in pixels, the unit is pixel w
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by jmull 2y ago
With Svelte anyway, a third-party component just gets in the way. You just make whatever it is you want in HTML and make it reactive (put it in a file with the right extension and add the svelte-specific reactivity you want). It's simp
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by jmull 2y ago
That’s not what this paper says.
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by jmull 2y ago
There's a paper bill in there. Place it poking out the top, just like you would have with paper money or a credit card. No need for a new prop when there's already one handy.
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by jmull 2y ago
It seems unlikely. We've invented and used various memory/thinking/cognitive assists throughout time, and, for us collectively at least, these seem to just expand our capabilities. AI will surely cause problems, possibly prof
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by jmull 2y ago
You're complaining about generating code... While I agree that's typically a bad idea, this seems to have nothing to do specifically with zig. I get how you start with the idea that there's something deficient in zig's c
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by jmull 2y ago
You can think of a network generally as a bunch of uniform nodes with uniform connections each with a random chance of failure, as a useful first approximation. But that’s not what they really are. If you’re optimizing or troubleshooting it
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by jmull 2y ago
> Roughly speaking, the latency of systems like object storage tend to have a lognormal distribution I would dig into that. This might (or might not) be something you can do something about more directly. That's not really an "
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by jmull 2y ago
I think you should be able to load whatever software you want on your phone (though technical speed bumps are good, imo). But this is far from the biggest problem in this story. e.g, if it’s important to be able to access the information av
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by jmull 2y ago
That's a cool project. But I wonder if generating rust is the best approach. On the plus side, you can take advantage of the rich type and type checking system the compiler has. On the other hand, you're stuck with that compiler.
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by jmull 2y ago
Yes, he was obviously lying, as he has done about so many things. Well, it's obvious to some us, anyway.
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by jmull 2y ago
Trump said he was not going to follow the project 2025 plan. So you're making two immediately contradictory claims that Trump is doing what he said he would, and is following the project 2025 plan. That's not coherent. You'

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