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by jonahx 6y ago
brew install git
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> If we assume that newspapers goal is to sell papers to the maximum number of potential readers, this indicates a decline in general literacy / IQ of reading populace. No doubt audiences are less well read today, but in theory this
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> We can probably agree that governance is complicated though. Yes. I don't think there is an obviously correct solution either way. I'm really only arguing that "trust the majority" is not something I trust. Not t
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I would argue this claim is empirically false. > and if they're wrong the majority will undo it as the majority will feel the effects. This assumes the majority will correctly identify the root cause. Whereas, in fact, they cannot
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by jonahx 6y ago
> What's the alternative? The minority of the population makes all of the decisions? That some decisions are based on evidence and expert-knowledge. Of course, this can be gamed, but it's not clear at all that this risk is gre
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by jonahx 6y ago
Honest question: Is the argument that, as a developer, I should be able to construct a large building with 1-person apartments the size of prison cells, say, if there is a market for that? Should the only limit be restrictions imposed by f
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From the article: > I chose “boring technology” as the pithy SEO-friendly title for this content, and I regret it most days. It’s kind of distracting. “Boring sounds bad, why is he saying it’s good?” Et cetera. It’s a real shitshow. >
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> The type of commentary that I find less useful, is the vague notions of "there is a serious problem here" comments that I hear sometimes on Hacker News. In creative writing workshops, a common quip about the feedback of non-w
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If my aim was just to learn, what would be the advantages and disadvantages between gforth, retroforth, and factor?
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The options are good, but I don't like the IFS suggestion. Bash has a perfectly good way of dealing with spaces in array elements. Fixing the example in the article is as simple as adding double quotes around the array: for nam
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Personally, the whole thing feels oppressive to me. I'd rather pay $30 on Amazon than explain to my "community" why I should be chosen to get X or Y. It reminds me Charlie Sheen's quip about prostitutes: "I don’t p
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As a ruby developer who went through a stage of being enamored with meta-programming, I'd argue that it's siren song: enticing, but dangerous and destructive. It's especially dangerous because it's fun to write -- it
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Those look really good -- how would it taste different if you used egg white instead of aquafaba?
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> I don't take notes of IRL conversation I have, they're ephemeral. Fairer analogy: If you could search transcripts of your IRL conversations at no additional cost (no notetaking), would you? I think most people would say yes.
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This looks amazing. Do you know if there's anything similar to this that would work on Mac/linux?
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Related: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/can-you-make-an-unfair-...
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To clarify, I'm not saying your assumptions are necessarily wrong, or that you shouldn't try to test them and see what happens. I'm just proposing another possibility is that everyone playing on both sides is a "punter&q
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> Someone has to provide a market. That person has to do it profitably. But by this reasoning no one would play blackjack at the casino. That is, how do you know people laying these bets aren't just gambling at a disadvantage? You
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> Can't imagine using computers without one. I have no empirical proof of this, but I would be willing to wager the deed to my house that the vast majority of users, having been explained what a cli is, the benefits of it, and how t
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Good article. The key insight was a bit buried though: By using the pointer to the current element, you lose information (that element's ancestor), forcing you to introduce a "prev", and to track and update 2 variables. By u
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> He sets and updates his odds such that he can match exactly the right amount of money for each outcome such that he makes a profit no matter the outcome. This is only one way bookmakers work though and not the most profitable. If you
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> I tried my hand at making some back bets by hand using the terminal programme I made illustrated in [2], and no bets were matched. > Now the problem is to figure out how to, given the exact odds for each outcome, successfully lay al
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Who is matching your bets? Other recreational players that don't understand the true odds? I'm assuming not BF?
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> Cool, as a rough approximation, it is close to (1/50)^6, right? No. 50^6 is about 938x bigger than (50 choose 6), which is the correct chance of picking 6 of 50 numbers. > And wouldn't the odds really be: p = (1/49 *
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The first paragraph is a gem: "A program is generally exponentially complicated by the number of notions that it invents for itself. To reduce this complication to a minimum, you have to make the number of notions zero or one, which ar
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Great explanation, thank you.
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"if one thinks of functions as fuzzy versions of points" Can anyone elaborate on this?
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> It’s about proving every possible point. Writing maintainable software is about solving the problem you actually have as simply as possible. Introduce abstractions only when you need to.
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> In terms of your algorithm, you would want to decouple your ingredient prep from your cooking algorithm. Otherwise, if prepping ingredients takes longer because you buy a new prep tool, your food winds up over or under-cooked. Secondly
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by jonahx 6y ago
I suppose that's fair. But I think it's less the "big and exciting" part and more the "imagining myself trapped and dying of thirst" or some such that motivates the "consequences" part of the equatio

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