kuang_eleven

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by kuang_eleven 5y ago
I just tried this, and the official python language docs came in third with SA just after. Now, for sure, it should be first, instead of the dumbed down tutorials, but it's certainly on the first page.
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by kuang_eleven 5y ago
An even bigger issue is that most algorithmic districting would violate the Voting Rights Act, strangely! There are many, many requirements to designing what seems like a "good" set of district boundaries, but several of them are
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by kuang_eleven 5y ago
Absolutely. I live in West LA, one of the places in the US worst hit by the housing shortage and it is hard to even find an apartment and vacancies are filled quick. Luckily, I haven't had to move in a while, but it was bad enough th
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by kuang_eleven 5y ago
They are the dominant player in only a few of those, and even in those dominant markets, they are far from a monopoly. Now, if they use a dominant position in one industry to gain advantage in another, that is a different story, but also a
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by kuang_eleven 5y ago
I would suspect because Python is R's main competitor in data science.
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by kuang_eleven 5y ago
Luckily, Python >> R > Matlab, and the fight between R and Python is core to data science. Last I did any real investigation, R still had the edge in highly-theoretical and new techniques, for whatever reason it was much more used
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by kuang_eleven 5y ago
As is general true in English, there are a lot of idiomatic ways to say the same thing. I would probably say to move them "off to the edge" or just "to the edge". Confusingly, "off the edge" would not be corr
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by kuang_eleven 5y ago
Python has all of those things: - language regularity; black has been the default for years now, and if you want to enforce a different style, there are other tools - documentation and online communities; not even a contest, no language com
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by kuang_eleven 5y ago
Interesting, that sounds like the philosophy of (modern) ToME, which takes some of those ideas to extremes, to its benefit I find! For example, potions are removed in favor of Inscriptions, that are equipped to limited slots and have cooldo
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by kuang_eleven 5y ago
I mean, of course users don't care about clean code. I care about clean code, because I care about future-me.
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by kuang_eleven 5y ago
I'll take a whimsical metaphorical name over a name that is utterly generic and un-googleable any day though. Looking at you, Go...
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by kuang_eleven 6y ago
This is something I've certainly thought about, as another proponent of as-high-as-possible inheritance taxes. What about taking inheritance and gifts as ordinary income to the recipient? Ideally this would be coupled with a reform on
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by kuang_eleven 6y ago
Same here. In fact, in looking at the Ian Knot page again, I might start tying the "Starting Knot" differently as well!
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by kuang_eleven 6y ago
I cannot disagree strongly enough, this is how you end up working on teams that are just disconnected, hostile fiefdoms. Solving an issue that is intractable via discussion is when you escalate. Probably to a tech lead, or even to a manager
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by kuang_eleven 6y ago
Bonuses always seem like a perverse way to do compensation anyways; if a worker requires a bribe to do their job properly, they should be fired.
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by kuang_eleven 6y ago
Weirdly, there is great evidence for the author's point, he just didn't mention it! In short, the vacancy rate is incredibly low, ~3.5% [1]. Taking the other data the author mentioned, that means that ~1.5% is non-market vacan
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by kuang_eleven 6y ago
The biggest problem with Scrum/Agile is that it is easy to do wrong, but hard to do right. Then again, every team that I've seen doing Agile wrong does any other system wrong too, it's just pointing to systemic problems that
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by kuang_eleven 6y ago
Yes, if done properly. I have had great luck with an Agile/Scrum methodology, to the point where I actively advocate for it over other management/time structure styles. There are a few points that are important to it working well
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by kuang_eleven 6y ago
#4 is essentially my favorite solution to Prop 13 (although I would accept just about anything that would get rid of it). Basically, for residential properties, keep the existing Prop 13 tax increase logic, but apply the difference in taxes
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by kuang_eleven 6y ago
It was originally a fan-edit, based off a comment by George Miller. The official version came later, using the same name. https://blackandchrome.wordpress.com/ (Although the video is long, long since taken down)
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by kuang_eleven 6y ago
Reminds me of the fan-made "Black and Chrome" edit of Fury Road. B&W with all dialog removed, was a interesting watch! Highlights the brilliance of the choreography, even though I wouldn't suggest watching that version th
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by kuang_eleven 6y ago
I wonder how much the Steam release for Dwarf Fortress will help that? Tarn is explicitly focusing on a default iconset and better UI, although the release date is set as "time is subjective"...
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by kuang_eleven 6y ago
I really wanted to get into Rimworld, but it mostly felt like a stripped down Dwarf Fortress... Even so, the base building was fun, the endless raids less so...
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by kuang_eleven 6y ago
Just speculation, but I wonder if it is because of the order of words; the Indian Ocean has the same structure of "[adjective] [noun]" where the adjective is describing the noun. In that case, English requires using "the&quot
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by kuang_eleven 6y ago
There are quite a few permutations on liquid democracy, some of which stake out different points on openness vs. susceptibility to vote buying. For example, you could have only people who have delegates have open votes, while those that don
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by kuang_eleven 6y ago
Living in West LA, it varies; but it's usually the number. There are a few exceptions, but they are specific to the freeway, like most people would take the PCH, not "the 1", although people would know what you are talking ab
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by kuang_eleven 6y ago
I, as someone with no outstanding student debts anymore, would be ecstatic to have universal student loan forgiveness. It is the right thing to do, and part of being a conscientious citizen is advocating for issues that help society, even i
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by kuang_eleven 6y ago
As Liquid Democracy is agnostic to how you resolve the votes on a given issue (first-past-the-post, ranked choice, etc.), I figure I can implement and play around with some of the more exotic methods there too...
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by kuang_eleven 6y ago
A toy project to implement Liquid Democracy ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy ). Seemed like an interesting idea, more on the large scale than the small, but I wanted something to work on! As much an excus
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by kuang_eleven 6y ago
With any luck, this will kill Postmates. That business model is deceitful at best, actively a scam more likely.

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