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by jpk 3y ago
Sure, but brains aren't useful without the rest of the human.
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by jpk 3y ago
Do you have an example? Some seemingly empty stretches you see along I75 through Georgia, for example, are farmed for trees that're periodically harvested to make paper products. I wouldn't be surprised if some of these parcels
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by jpk 3y ago
Ultimately it is, but I guess my point is that having goofy signatures like these down in the bowels of a library (like FP-Go, or Scala's stdlib) might just be necessary goofiness because FP is FP. (Not to knock FP. Engineering is ab
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by jpk 3y ago
Big Scala vibes here, see also [1]. 1: https://github.com/scala/scala/blob/v2.13.11/src/library/sca...
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by jpk 3y ago
This comment is needlessly hostile. It's ok to correct someone if you think they're wrong, but this tone isn't conducive to curious conversation.
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by jpk 3y ago
I mean, sure, but literally every avenue of human endeavor endures ignorant and/or contrarian criticism. Science certainly isn't spared from this, but it generally doesn't prevent good science from getting done. However, the
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by jpk 3y ago
I don't think the problem here is the actual scientists. The problem is the "I Follow The Science™" laypersons. A scientist can speak on a subject with some degree of authority, and be perfectly open to dissent if it's
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by jpk 3y ago
In this case I'm not too keen on blaming users for this when the option is sorta buried in the current design. The Tools button isn't prominent, the current value of the time range option is completely hidden when it's on th
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by jpk 3y ago
Yep. Also, the days of the "Advanced Search" page have passed, but Google still has time range options under the "Tools" button near the top of the results page. If they're giving the user the option to filter res
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by jpk 3y ago
Which isn't surprising, because Perl was originally designed to be a replacement for shell as a scripting language. So, it borrowed lots of stuff from shell scripting, and if you've spent lots of time in bash, awk, sed, etc, then
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by jpk 3y ago
The gas piped into homes isn't 100% pure methane.
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by jpk 3y ago
Alternatively, one account on an instance that still federates with both halves of the split could still see content from both sides? One could even do this by running their own instance? Or is there something preventing this?
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by jpk 3y ago
Without really supporting or elaborating on your thesis here, this comment it basically content-free.
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by jpk 3y ago
This is kinda what we call "legalese". It's a sort of formalized subset of English (or whatever language) that leans on standardized turns of phrase, it tends to set up definitions for terms that are then used throughout a d
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by jpk 3y ago
Opt-in telemetry is fine. :)
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by jpk 3y ago
I'm not sure I'd call 7-10 years "pretty short". That's roughly 10% of one's entire life.
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by jpk 3y ago
> There's no real debate because 2/3 players actively believe & push for a small web. It's a miserable rock & hard place situation, trying to figure out what to do when there's only one ayer who believes in a
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by jpk 4y ago
I assume "))))" is idiomatic because of the typical depth of nesting required in languages like this. If you always used newlines and indents to align the closing character, you'd waste a lot of vertical space. That's
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by jpk 4y ago
True, but there are two things languages like C have over this one: (1) Enclosing stuff in parens and curlies happens less often than they do in this one. So the depth of nesting is typically shallower. (2) The idiomatic way to handle clo
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by jpk 4y ago
One thing the Python version doesn't suffer from is lines that have to end in something like "))))". Syntax readability may be subjective, and I agree that the business logic in both examples are equally readable, but I thin
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by jpk 4y ago
Fun fact: The Adobe enterprise slack workspace is not only open to everyone to add emojis, but (AFAIK) every slack-using company that Adobe has ever acquired has had their slack workspace subsumed into the Adobe one, which includes bringing
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by jpk 4y ago
Yep, Nintendo called them circle pads.
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by jpk 4y ago
If that's all it was, then it's likely a firmware update would not only prevent the issue, but also reverse it if the storage is actually healthy. That doesn't seem to be the case here, though.
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by jpk 4y ago
Hi, and welcome to Hacker News. For good reason, comments like this don't do well here. Please read the site guidelines, and use them to make comments that encourage curious discussion. :) https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by jpk 4y ago
The cycle counters are a just monotonically incrementing values, so polling them just lets you calculate the average effective frequency over the poll interval. You're right that stuff like i/o might happen in different numbers o
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by jpk 4y ago
Yep, taking short visual breaks fairly often is what did it for me. One thing I did was install bird feeders just outside a window of my office (WFH), which gives me a reason to glance away from the screen at a longer focal distance. Also
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by jpk 4y ago
If that's the case, then I'm confused about what line 19 on Form 1120 is for. The instructions read an awful lot like the deduction individuals can take. The limits are different (corps can typically only deduct up to 10% of tax
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by jpk 4y ago
Hm, IANAA but my understanding is if you sell a widget for $10, which costs $8 to produce, you have to pay taxes on the $2 profit. But if you present the option to your customer to pay $10 + $1, knowing the extra dollar will go to a charit
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by jpk 4y ago
AFAIK, it's all about tax deductions. If a company gives to a charity, they can write it off, but they'd rather someone else foot the bill for the giving. So by presenting the option to round up your purchases or whatever, they
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by jpk 4y ago
I think my point is that because the nebula is in our own galaxy, its motion relative to Earth would be dominated by the orbital motions of the two bodies (insofar as one can consider a whole nebula a "body"). So any Doppler shif

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