jstanley

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by jstanley 11mo ago
Your comment just reminded me, I bought a circuit board from the US recently and some of the pins were not soldered properly, I had to fix it myself.
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by jstanley 11mo ago
That is not the reason that Japanese people don't buy many American products. The reason is that there are hardly any products made in America.
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by jstanley 11mo ago
Knowing the name of a thing is different from knowing the thing. You can "know thyself" perfectly well without having labels.
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by jstanley 11mo ago
If it only works when you write the types correctly with no mistakes, what's the point? I thought the point of all this strong typing stuff was to detect mistakes.
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by jstanley 11mo ago
> What if there's a cosmic ray that change's the value to something not expected by the exhaustive switch? I could forgive that. The TypeScript case is more like "what if instead of checking the types we just actually don
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by jstanley 11mo ago
Perfect examples of the kind of thing I'm talking about, thank you.
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by jstanley 11mo ago
My first introduction to TypeScript was trying to use it to solve Advent of Code. I wrote some code that iterated over lines in a file or something and passed them to a function that took an argument with a numeric type. I thought this woul
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by jstanley 11mo ago
The fact that there can be runtime type errors that were proven impossible at compile time is why I will never enjoy TypeScript.
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by jstanley 11mo ago
> I do 100% agree the GPS thing is such a bad decision. It just becomes noise that no one pays attention to anymore. It's not noise for me, I only ever have GPS on for Google Maps, and I like the indicator because its absence reassu
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by jstanley 11mo ago
You're still focusing on "programming as a job" being fundamental to programming, and I'm saying it's not.
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by jstanley 11mo ago
I don't know what to say about your battery life issue, other than that I don't have any such problems. What's obnoxious about the green GPS icon? How does it make the notification bar useless? It is on all the time while I&#
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by jstanley 11mo ago
How are you ending up with a byte-order mark in your shell scripts though? This has literally never happened to me. I don't know a single piece of software that writes byte-order marks, they are super niche.
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by jstanley 11mo ago
This is kind of a myopic view of what it means to be a programmer. If you're just in it to collect a salary, then yeah, maybe you do benefit from delivering the minimum possible productivity that won't get you fired. But if you l
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by jstanley 11mo ago
I've only read the abstract so far but: Wow! What the hell? Is this real? Why would this be happening? Who would choose to transmit information in this way? And how can they know the information in the first place? I just don't ge
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by jstanley 11mo ago
That doesn't mean it doesn't work. That means it does work! If other market participants chose not to use something then that would show that it doesn't work.
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by jstanley 11mo ago
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2820462/microsofts-solitaire...
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by jstanley 11mo ago
In my experience the problem with Debian is that sooner or later you're bound to want to use something that is only 5 years old and therefore not included yet, so you end up having to install it from source or something else, but somet
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by jstanley 11mo ago
> The system does NOT use Machine Learning, it relies purely on Math. You may be surprised to find out how machine learning works!
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by jstanley 11mo ago
Am I right in thinking he flew up there in a paramotor and then jumped off it? What happened to the paramotor? It just crashed in a random place you have no control over?
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by jstanley 11mo ago
> let's say that Musk is 250k times wealthier than I am. Does he have 250k shoes? do you only have 1 shoe?
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by jstanley 11mo ago
Being confused about how 2 environments could produce different individuals even though they are given the same DNA is like being confused about how 2 compilers could produce different binaries even though they are given the same source cod
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by jstanley 11mo ago
I used Teams in Firefox on Linux and didn't have any issues with it, other than it being generally slow and bad.
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by jstanley 1y ago
For comparison it's about 10 olympic-sized swimming pools worth of water, doesn't seem very significant to me. Unless you're going to tell people they're not allowed swimming pools any more because swimming doesn't
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by jstanley 1y ago
Does that make rivers more person-like or less person-like?
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by jstanley 1y ago
> Most people who (quite reasonably) hate corporate personhood would probably have a knee-jerk reaction that personhood for a river can/should be normalized. I would have thought that people who hate the idea of corporate personhood
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by jstanley 1y ago
Can you maybe reword this comment? I can't work out what you're trying to say.
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by jstanley 1y ago
If you want something more open source go for a Prusa. I don't buy that a Prusa is more robust than a Bambu. I used to have a Prusa Mini and now have a Bambu X1C and it is a world of difference. I would never go back.
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by jstanley 1y ago
OK, but be careful what you wish for. We might get regulations on allowable thought if that's what's necessary to regulate computation.
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by jstanley 1y ago
Do you think animals don't have feelings?

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