jrandm

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by jrandm 7y ago
> Ever hear the expression "Your right to your fist only extends as far as my face?" I have. A "community guideline" or social disapproval of threatening violence may disallow those sorts of expressions, but they&#x27
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by jrandm 7y ago
I don't mean to dispute that ESR may be a jerk, but I'd ask you to consider what his position is: > It's less bad that people sometimes got their feelings hurt than it is to institutionalize a means by which dissenting opi
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by jrandm 7y ago
If you happen to see this, during an editing pass it would help to include information about what language you're using to present your code examples when the article is standalone for a wide audience. Something like: "For this se
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by jrandm 7y ago
> the code examples are given in a language everyday programmers will probably not recognize The code examples are given assuming the reader already knows the language and runtime -- not once in the article does it say what this language
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by jrandm 7y ago
For some definition of "serious" I think the gains from a readable implementation in your working language far outweigh performance or correctness concerns. To put it another way, I'm rarely parsing data for it to be directly
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by jrandm 7y ago
I would agree if everyone exposed wore masks the spread of this contagion would be reduced considerably. Logically, I might extend it to everyone wearing masks would considerably reduce the spread of exhaled contagions. This might first
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by jrandm 7y ago
My layman's understanding is that any barrier will stop some percent of most things. In the case of small, airborne particles, this stopped percentage of already-dry, floating material is very small. That means inhaling through them is
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by jrandm 7y ago
> Finding an algorithm that approximates how a human approaches a page layout doesn’t feel like it would be all that hard. "In CS, it can be hard to explain the difference between the easy and the virtually impossible." https:
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by jrandm 7y ago
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett is a story involving a competition between a traditional post office and a light-based telegraph system called "clacks." You might enjoy the book and/or television adaptation. After his death a
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by jrandm 7y ago
The sibling replies by IggleSniggle I fully endorse as supporting my meaning in the original post. As to explaining more about my thought process: You asked a hypothetical "what if" question which, given the question itself is im
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by jrandm 7y ago
I believe accurately conveying identical information in a manner everyone can understand is an impossible, or at least unreasonable, burden to place on individuals. Instead, what if people tried to hear graciously and "assume good fait
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by jrandm 7y ago
I got sidetracked searching for pictures of the multiplayer part of the game Vagabond's Quest.[0] I wasn't successful, unfortunately, but a number of the pages outside the login wall were archived.[1] I think you might find severa
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by jrandm 7y ago
React is cool if you want components. Web components had crap support because browsers needed to implement them; React you could use immediately. I agree Redux isn't an improvement there, media queries for user preference[0] were. Howe
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by jrandm 7y ago
Think of a different website: maybe goggle.com (no idea what's on this domain), seems like a reasonable typo. Would you be bothered if your computer or network was sending emails to whoever "goggle" is, not "google"
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by jrandm 7y ago
I think an extreme circumstance would be someone hijacking microsoft.com and trying to ransom it off but I'm not really familiar with ICANN's specific powers. Why should everyone in the world not get to use a thing because Microso
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by jrandm 7y ago
I didn't say anything about capabilities. If a base requirement is the thing is implemented with X, like wanting a table made of teak wood, and you give me a table that doesn't have any teak in it you've ignored half of my re
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by jrandm 7y ago
If someone says write a grep-like thing in Python so we can see how you write something like that in Python and someone else submits anything in Perl that's not an XY problem. It's a basic failure to meet clear requirements.
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by jrandm 7y ago
Can substitute airplanes[0] and computer games/graphics[1], though if we have to be that pedantic I found a couple names[2] in the history of satellites section of wikipedia that don't seem to have formal education beyond a milita
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by jrandm 7y ago
I think it's important to distinguish that many of the things being monitored are not being posted publicly. From the article: > In 2016, the company expanded that analysis to students' school email accounts, monitoring all mes
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by jrandm 7y ago
I agree it'll probably become the new idiom in JS, but it probably needs another few years to begin taking over from the idiom that existed for decades before (and still works). If you've seen that more common than call/apply
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by jrandm 7y ago
That's a significantly newer syntax, so I wouldn't say it's "more idiomatic" than explicitly referencing the original function on the prototype (which is idiomatic to JS) and was the way to do it until the spread pr
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by jrandm 7y ago
> On GitHub, a fork refers to a copy of a repository used by a contributor to stage changes they’d like to propose upstream I'm not sure this is accurate and is the crux the argument. IMO a fork on GH refers to a "fresh" (
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by jrandm 7y ago
> You don't have any rights at the border. This is, to the best of my knowledge, factually untrue. > Canadian courts have generally recognized that people have reduced expectations of > privacy at border points. In this contex
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by jrandm 7y ago
Could you elaborate on that thought? Individuals also have the authority to assert their rights, one of which in Canada is the freedom from unreasonable search and seizure[0]. R v Fearon[1] places limitations on this exact type of search on
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by jrandm 7y ago
Why doesn't everyone simply refuse to share passwords, as is mentioned numerous times on various Canadian government websites? Basic search finds tons of pages from all sorts of departments https://www.canada.ca/en&#x2F
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by jrandm 7y ago
I think most programs admit and accept the physical risks of physical sports. Brain trauma is less understood than something like a knee injury, but that's exactly why these studies need to continue to gather data. We can continue to i
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by jrandm 7y ago
The paper disagrees with your restatement: > caution must be used in interpreting the high frequency of CTE in this sample, > and estimates of prevalence cannot be concluded or implied from this sample https://jamanetwork.c
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by jrandm 8y ago
I want to add to what chris_mc and others said confirming this horrible instance is used as a training exercise for lots of the US military. When I did USMC boot camp in the late 2000s this and other less publicized examples were used to en
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by jrandm 10y ago
The hourly rate is to make an apples-to-apples comparison to someone whose full-time job is to do that kind of security work, either salaried or contracted. Would it make sense to award bonuses to every in-house security researcher based on
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by jrandm 10y ago
I'd be curious to know what those same folks think regular security staff should be paid. From another thread here, the author talking about the time involved: >Two to three hours discovering and writing the initial report, couple m

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