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by lincolnq 6y ago
We use Mypy to type check python, and I really like that system. Catches a lot of errors. Not as many as a full static typing system, but still a lot, and you can always drop back into dynamic typing when you want.
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by lincolnq 6y ago
I feel silly responding to a downvoted comment, but here goes anyway: Correlation does not imply causation, but it wiggles its eyebrows suggestively and points “look over there!” (Thanks Xkcd) In this case, we are in a position of not knowi
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by lincolnq 6y ago
I don’t think they are relying GPS for any indoor stuff. They are using WiFi triangulation, including a WiFi survey you can upload where you walk around with an app and say where you are on the map. WiFi triangulation should be able to pick
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by lincolnq 6y ago
Ugh, this is both-sides-ism at its worst. The impact of actual fraud on elections is nil, whereas the impact of subtle disenfranchisement is easily election-swinging. Both are anti-democratic, but that doesn’t mean they are equally bad.
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by lincolnq 6y ago
I hadn't heard of this till now, but I'm fascinated by projects like this. Others in this thread have said that there are leadership issues currently, leading to some kind of stagnation or decline. You said in another comment that
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by lincolnq 6y ago
Could you unpack this? The only social justice-related example in the piece was a positive one (antebellum abolitionism). It seems like you might be reading into the piece more than was intended.
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by lincolnq 6y ago
It’s procedurally generated, dungeon crawler, with collectible items and permadeath and resource management. I don’t like arguing over definitions, so call it whatever you want, but those are a number of components that feed into the appeal
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by lincolnq 6y ago
This is very exciting! One subtle thing which I noticed is the distinction between class patterns and name patterns (bindings). In particular, it is possibly confusing that the code `case Point:` matches anything and binds it to the value P
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by lincolnq 6y ago
I think culturally, because “explicit is better than implicit” (from the Zen of Python). Switch statements have a lot of implicit-ness to them (implicit invocation of equality comparison, to start) and it never seemed quite necessary, given
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by lincolnq 6y ago
FWIW, a 10-day meditation retreat is a very accessible way to try a really different lifestyle for a short period. (You’ll probably want to wait to try it until COVID is less of a threat though.) If you want a specific recommendation, the G
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by lincolnq 6y ago
With Strava, you record your workouts (run, bike etc) and it will show you where you went, how far and how fast. Then it finds commonly-run “segments” within your ride, and ranks you on those segments against your friends and the world, so
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by lincolnq 7y ago
This is a great comment, except for the last line, which is extreme hyperbole.
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by lincolnq 7y ago
That’s the point of the article. You don’t need it. The soup is an excuse to buy the status symbol.
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by lincolnq 7y ago
Resist the urge to be annoyed by this, and use it as an opportunity to practice a useful skill: that of searching for value from something where the value isn’t highlighted upfront. Most of today’s media tends to “tell you what to think” in
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by lincolnq 7y ago
For me, scents are rich sensory experiences. Yet I can’t describe cinnamon to you, other than that it smells like cinnamon. It’s like an opaque pointer, I can compare equality but not inspect it beyond that.
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by lincolnq 7y ago
Ooh, good question. (How big a market is currently is a matter of simple research, so I’m mostly interested in trying to guess about how a market will change.) I think the way most investors do it is probably by maintaining a “story” about
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by lincolnq 7y ago
Is there an age at which you favor forcing scientists into retirement?
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by lincolnq 7y ago
My house has the same street name and number as another house on the same block, across the town line (it’s about 15 houses away). UPS and FedEx drivers rarely mess it up, but Amazon contractors drop my package at the wrong house about 60%
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by lincolnq 7y ago
Usually with company values you don't just give them to somebody once and never talk about them again -- you repeat them over and over again in company meetings, with lots of examples and associated lore. Most values can't really
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by lincolnq 7y ago
At my company, they are cultural principles that make us different from other companies, that bleed into our hiring practice and day-to-day work. For example, "we are egolessly mission driven" is one of our values: this helps us r
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by lincolnq 7y ago
I'm very excited about this! I recently switched to desktop + iPad, and I can't currently code at all on the iPad because all the apps I tried suck. I'm hoping that VS Online will solve my problem.
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by lincolnq 7y ago
I only liked it a little bit but was recommended by someone for whom it was their favorite book ever. I only really took away one thing from the book (some deeper level of understanding of what is meant by "quality", in the sense
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by lincolnq 7y ago
Nvidia has a popular series of "RTX" gpus released in the last year, which are billed as having real-time ray-tracing capability of some sort. It is not exactly clear to me what the best ways of making use of this are yet; if you
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by lincolnq 7y ago
<3 — did you know that book (Anathem by Neal Stephenson) has an “official” soundtrack? Iolet by David Stutz. Check it out.
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by lincolnq 7y ago
Anyone want to start one? The project is not easy. It requires carefully reading tax codes and implementing them, handling presumably thousands of explicit legal requirements plus whatever edge cases exist that may or may not be explicit in
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by lincolnq 7y ago
I think it's something to do with: iterm2 interprets <magic control sequence> as triggering the tmux integration feature. But you can put that magic control sequence into other places.
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by lincolnq 7y ago
Why is that by definition?
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by lincolnq 7y ago
I have one of these too. I ended up not using it because I preferred my long-standing kinesis. It was quite comfortable though; my main complaint was with the switches -- I didn't like the Matias switches it ships with (I prefer Cherry
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by lincolnq 7y ago
I have used a kinesis for 12+ years as my main keyboard. I'm not fully sure what you are asking -- I would guess you're referring to the fact that it's harder than usual to type with one hand and mouse with the other, because
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by lincolnq 7y ago
Yudkowsky wrote about this. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/X2AD2LgtKgkRNPj2a/privilegin... In short, it does seem like it should be illegal to pull names out of a hat.

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