lazulicurio

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by lazulicurio 6y ago
> both of your points seem to illustrate the complexities of the languages, not "...that Unicode is a flawed idea" The flaw in Unicode is that it punts on the intrinsic complexity---pretending that codepoints have language-inde
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
How about: case folding for the letter 'I' is dependent on whether the locale is Turkish or not. ;)
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
Interesting. Unfortunate that the deprecation notice doesn't include much rationale. I found at least one mail thread about it[1], which seems to confirm that the main thought was that semantic information about text should be handled
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
As someone who uses SQL Server at work, I was surprised to find that this wasn't a standard feature in other DB engines. I use it all the time! Glad to see it spreading.
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
Along similar lines, I've thought that it would be useful if Unicode included language marks (i.e. codepoints to identify blocks of text as being written in a specific language). It would be strictly more useful than the barebones left
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
> Well they are magical until you need to do something a bit more complex, like window functions. The best method I've personally found for window functions is cross/outer apply + narrow indexes with included columns. A lot of
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
Yep! And they're pretty magical. Beyond materializing joins, you can use COUNT_BIG to greatly speed up common DISTINCT queries and the two row trick[1] to enforce complex constraints. [1] https://spaghettidba.com/2011&#
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
> This kind of turning on people who agree with you in principle but might have some of the details wrong is exactly the kind of fractally magnifying divisiveness that some of these subthreads are talking about. > We are all largely o
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
I'm curious 1) in what way you think the quote isn't representative of the president's tweet? 2) how you would distill the tweet into one sentence if you were asked to summarize it for an article?
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
> Everything else is about making things go smoothly by setting everyone’s expectations about what the chair’s rulings will be. Exactly this. And to add on: if the members (in aggregate) do not trust the chair, then it really doesn'
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
Yep. Worst application I've ever had to work with was a WinForms monstrosity where ~300 form elements were used to store the application state, and none of them were named (so it was all "TextBox1", "TextBox2", etc.
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
Although the economy is a complex system and it's dangerous to try to over-simplify, my personal opinion is that there are two main and intertwined causes: 1) the cost to participate in the US court system. 2) the abuse of copyright, p
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
Treating stocks as fractions of future real productivity ignores why companies sell shares in the first place. If the value of a company was wholly in its future real productivity, then companies would never part with ownership. However, co
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
With that line of reasoning you're countering your original point. If companies don't sell shares, then there's no stock market. If there's no stock market, then there's no rate of return for stocks. If there's
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
I think that you and I have fundamentally different views on what it means for a company to sell shares.
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
If you re-read the last sentence of the GP's comment ("To an average small investor, shares in almost every company might as well be Magic cards. Their only value is to sell them later to a different collector"), I think that
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
That same reductionist argument can also be applied to stocks. Share ownership doesn't generate value in and of itself either. You're saying that businesses generate value. No disagreement from me there. But then you're sayin
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
Bonds are not just an accounting mechanism; bonds are an alternative to stocks for investment. Even government bonds create value---if not funding something tangible (such as infrastructure), just the existence of a stable and functioning l
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
> But what else is there? That's my point. Stocks outperforming cash, bonds, and precious metals isn't some universal truth. It's a product of Fed/USG policy (and other factors).
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
Let me take a stab at this: When I say "I think stocks are overpriced" I don't necessarily have a specific number in mind. Rather, it's shorthand for "I think that the Fed and USG attempts to avoid deflation at all
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
At least with respect to judges, it's not so much "Republicans might do this" as "Republicans are already doing this". Don't want to get too deep into the weeds here, but take a look at https://www.y
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
This article and the associated comments reminded me of 'Object-Oriented Programming and Essential State'[1] which was posted on here about half a year ago. I'm just going to copy from a thread that I felt got to the crux of
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
I'm still having trouble grasping the distinction that you're trying to make. Is it just that there's a separation between purchasing power and asset value?
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
> This Cantillon effects [...] is not accurate in modern financial markets > The FED intervenes by buying financial assets which directly benefits people who hold these financial assets [...] Poor people without savings (and without f
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
> They are not buying or rather spending more - that's the problem I think that you might be missing the point of the GP. They're not saying that trickle down will invigorate the economy. They're saying that QE is bread an
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
But the skills to build low-volume, high-margin fighter jets are distinct from the skills to build high-volume, low-margin toasters. They'll be some overlap, don't get me wrong, but quantity has a quality all of its own.
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by lazulicurio 7y ago
Discovering Rust is actually one of the stepping stones that led me to my "this shouldn't be this hard" moment!
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by lazulicurio 7y ago
I used to feel that way a few years ago, but my opinion has shifted over time. C# has its own issues with verbosity and bloat. For example, although I appreciate the readability increase from overloaded comparison operators, it's a lot
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by lazulicurio 7y ago
Code generation is definitely important to talk about, but that really wasn't the focus of my first example. Even if Foo and Bar were both reference types, the same reasoning would apply. In C#, you can do: class MyClass : IList&
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by lazulicurio 7y ago
Absolutely. Erasure lets you write code that's actually generic, instead of code that appears to be generic. For example, in C# IList<Foo> and IList<Bar> are two different interfaces that happen to have similar methods. Whe

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