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by lamontcg 3y ago
Yeah, its really weird to appeal to the noble intentions of a corporation. They're both just engaged in business. I can believe that Apple is acting incredibly badly in this case without needing to fluff up Epic Games at all. Apple and
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by lamontcg 3y ago
This does surface the fact that its another await/async red/green function language though. If they're already making it gradually typed and not low-level, I don't understand why they don't throw away the C ABI-ness
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> If he was willing to lie before, why wouldn't he do it again? Especially when it worked out perfectly for him? really hope you've never told a single lie in your entire life before.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> On the other side you argue for no restrictions, typically until the day before birth. No you really don't. If you look at all the bans on "partial birth abortion" they don't allow for any exceptions at all, includ
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Generally error messages get watered down to nothingness because it gives news reporters less meat to chew on. Not knowing if its a "me or you" problem means that small problems might actually get missed and not need any PR respo
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Draft horses are going to be a lot better at hauling and plowing fields. The fact that they don't work well in mountainous South America goes to show how more difficult the geography there is. Which kind of Jared Diamond's point.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
A friend of mine has owned Windows laptops for years. She's constantly trying to do pinch-to-zoom on the screen of my MBP when I'm showing her something. She gets super frustrated at how backwards my computer is. I can see how tha
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Backpropagation is just the chain rule from basic calc. Done on a massive scale in something like an LLM. You can absolutely express it as equations.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Except you and that article are quite wrong and the naming of the "Planet X" theory happened in 1894 long before the discovery of Pluto in 1930, back when astronomers also thought there was only 8 planets: > In 1894, with the h
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by lamontcg 3y ago
This also looks like more moat and regulatory capture for existing IAAS providers.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
My favorites are the BSoD commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNqPTOb31S8 and the pixie dust commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nbEeU2dRBg
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by lamontcg 3y ago
"Planet Nine" is a term of art that refers specifically to the 2016 theory. "Planet X" refers specifically to a theory proposed by Percival Lowell in 1906 about the orbit of Uranus which was disproven in 1993 by Voyager
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by lamontcg 3y ago
And "MACHOs": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_compact_halo_object In the 1990s I went to a talk which suggested that "WIMPs" (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles aka supersymmetric particles
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by lamontcg 3y ago
All the alternatives to slack and discord seem to have some technological/philosophical axe to grind which is in opposition to "make it easy to setup and pleasant to use for the vast majority of users". If someone would just
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I've had git bisect work perfectly to show me that a commit that I would swear up and down couldn't cause the problem was what was causing the problem. In those kinds of situation git blame and git log are a bit useless since you
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Newsflash: most people working 40 hour weeks aren't working the whole time and spend a lot of time surfing reddit and HN when they're not yapping about sports or their weekends with coworkers.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I'd put git blame and git bisect above all of these.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
The problem now is that the bulk of the legitimate bored strangers are desperately trying to come up with some witty pun or incredibly comfortable The Office reference on reddit to garner fake internet points and are indistinguishable from
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> The other problem USA has is poor education and lack of well separated waste streams. I’ve personally experienced ridiculous “wishcycling” from my extended family in the US where they just throw whatever they want to feel good about th
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I think I added them up separately and normalized by 50% because my brain loves to make shit hard.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I don't really consider that a mistake it lets you compare the switching strategy to the not-switching strategy. YMMV.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I use Siri all the time for really trivial things like settings alarms/timers. Any time I try to do something slightly more complicated, like maintaining a shopping list, it gets terrible pretty quickly.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
The asymmetry is that if you pick the one with the car first (only 1/3rd chance) then Monty Hall can show you either of the other doors. If you pick one without a car first (2/3rd chance) then Monty Hall must show you the door th
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I'll take your suggestion along with my 12 years of professional experience with Ruby under advisement.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Government is flawed, but there's no better solution, and it requires constant attention by the population or it forms political cancers. But its easier to just hate on it and get the government you deserve.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> I'm not surprised you found Ruby uncomfortable when you describe Ruby as not having a type system. It might just not be the right language for you. That's fine. Thought we were supposed to "respond to the strongest plaus
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Seems like this would be a good feature for Kagi search if it isn't there already?
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I used to write Ruby professionally, and found the lack of any type system and duck typing to cause pretty severe problems. Not knowing if the variable you were dealing with was a String or a URI was great until it very suddenly became not
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by lamontcg 3y ago
TSA lines are an obvious soft target and if someone wanted to take a lot of people with them, they could just use a suicide vest in the security lines. It would have the same chilling effects on the air travel economy and spread terror.
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So again, the point of most security systems isn't to be impenetrable against dedicated attackers. They're supposed to stop relatively casual attackers and to establish that measures had been taken to secure the system. In the c

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