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by joshuak 5y ago
The above is a false statement because if we say A is "true" then the statement becomes "true != true" which is obviously a false statement. In fact if we put anything in the place of A the results are the same. If, howe
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by joshuak 5y ago
You certainly may define your own symbology. But if you want to communicate with others you’ll need to agree on your symbology. In the common mathematical understanding A != A is defined as a false statement. In any example that one can con
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by joshuak 5y ago
These are imperative commands to execute, as apposed to a declarative statement comparing a value to itself. You can’t switch between symbolic representations to use the meaning of one to make statements about the other because the meaning
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by joshuak 5y ago
No doubt technology has improved, however the domain of the unidentifiable always sits at the edge of sensor capability. Anything that is well resolved by sensors can be identified. Anything that cannot be resolved at all goes unobserved al
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by joshuak 5y ago
observe–orient–decide–act
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by joshuak 5y ago
The DMCA provides for a counter claim that would require Google to restore the alleged infringer's content unless the alleged owner promptly shows proof of a court filing against the alleged infringer. This is automatable, fair and all
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by joshuak 5y ago
Even GUI's can be as fast or faster then terminal if it's not oriented around visually searching and selecting each step in the path.
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by joshuak 5y ago
It is also common trope that people say "but consider the typical user." I think both arguments are valid. At differing points in user skill level. For example I would not expect a "typical user" to know or want to use a
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by joshuak 5y ago
I think by "manipulations" the parent's implication is, manipulation to some purpose, as in to fabricate support for some political or philosophical belief. It's so common to manipulate reality for the purpose of enterta
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by joshuak 5y ago
Looking at the wikipedia article I can see where one might be confused. A blockchain is a growing list of records, called blocks, that are linked together using cryptography. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of th
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by joshuak 5y ago
Git is a block chain. Block chains require a previous block's hash to denote sequence. The hash for any block of data can be appended to Merkle tree, even duplicate blocks. In a block chain it is easy to find history because the link t
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by joshuak 5y ago
No block chains are different than Merkle trees entirely. Block chains include previous hashes in each block, whereas Merkle trees, as the name implies are trees of hashes. In Merkle trees blocks do not include the previous block's ha
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by joshuak 6y ago
It seems to me the platforms that have the most trouble maintaining a grasp on reality are the ones that don’t allow down votes. Down votes are the cognitive immune system at work. Not that down votes are necessarily correct, but rather the
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by joshuak 6y ago
Text is displayed on the movie screen all the time, so I'm unclear what your argument is here. Yes zoom the whole thing, as apposed to zooming only the text and then changing the layout to accommodate. As a user I do this all the time
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by joshuak 6y ago
It doesn't mean compromised useably, it is a guarantee of usability. Dynamic layout, re-flow and responsive design compromise usability. The utility of responsive design is not improved usability, its improved designer productivity at
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by joshuak 6y ago
I strongly disagree with this general philosophy. One should be able to use an absolute, non-relativistic unit of measure that requires no external knowledge at all. Not even to other parts of the same layout. Relativistic units are inadequ
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by joshuak 6y ago
I know a number of people, myself included, who task their loved ones with "helping" them code by as if asking a college. None of the loved ones in question have the least qualifications or interest in coding, yet they are all imm
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by joshuak 6y ago
Agreed, the original CoreOS is by far my favorite server OS so far. I was very sad to see it get sold to RedHat, though few other people shared my concern at the time[0]. I wish I could say my concern turned out to be unjustified, but alas
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by joshuak 6y ago
Unless you're the kind of person that actually sits and reads the EULA prior to hitting OK every single time, I'd say it makes complete sense people are up in arms. There is a difference between legally defensible and reasonable e
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by joshuak 6y ago
No reliable message delivery, does not help define distributed systems because it can be broken down into a more fundamental elements that are required to guarantee that reliability. Shared memory works well for me because in my mind shared
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by joshuak 6y ago
If you are not buying from Amazon, then nothing on the entire page should imply that you are. Why is this not obvious to us? It wasn't to me either. There has got to be some cognitive bias at play here to lead to our acceptance of in
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by joshuak 6y ago
Genuine question. Why don't platforms support both up and down voting? I've always found it pretty obnoxious that you can only encourage content you want not discourage content you don't want. HN seems to have a good system.
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by joshuak 6y ago
August 19, 2014, just FYI
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by joshuak 6y ago
Yeah the value of being able to eliminate pod mutation as a source of trouble is pretty hard to overcome by any feature I can imagine mutability offering. Certainly not the example given. Actually the example must be over my head, because I
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by joshuak 6y ago
I see what you did there
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by joshuak 6y ago
True, which is one of the reasons why the practice of launching goroutines inside of packages is discouraged. Granted its sometimes unavoidable and some package maintainers just didn't get the memo, nevertheless when deciding on a pack
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by joshuak 6y ago
Or you could have just caught panics at the top, and transformed them to errors. https://github.com/dre1080/recovr That's what we do. Well we always use errors, but we can't be sure the packages we use won&#x
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by joshuak 6y ago
I've done A-list visual effects work since the 90s, and I can say that film for motion picture production[1] varies widely in it's grain density and size. This variation is amplified by the fact that DPs often "push" or
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by joshuak 6y ago
Yeah, I've done enough fine dining in my professional career to know that "schedule a ..." means a low value product pumped up by dedicated sales. Even if an actual product value exists after accounting for spin, the gated ac
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by joshuak 6y ago
You can. It's just very costly. Rays typically represent just a single sample, so the more probabilistic the projected image becomes (read "unfocused"), the more samples are required to capture it smoothly. This is compounded

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