logicchop

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by logicchop 6y ago
I'm a 40+ year old senior dev. This archive has some of my own ANSI art from around 1994. Amazing memories! Kudos to whoever is keeping it alive.
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by logicchop 6y ago
cppreference.com is by far the best resource for the language and the standard library. It is also well organized and easy to navigate. "errors creep in" is a well-taken complaint about life in general, not cppreference.
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by logicchop 6y ago
False. SMTP is not mandated by the standard.
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by logicchop 6y ago
I agree. I think it looks neat.
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by logicchop 6y ago
It's too bad that an article about "simple writing" is so hard to read. It has "simple" words, but it's clunky. Two examples: "That kind of writing is easier to read, and the easier something is to read,
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by logicchop 6y ago
Remember grabbing newly released demos from your local BBS? Remember ansi packs, mod music, all that? It was truly magical.
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by logicchop 6y ago
Agree on the "evil" part (or maybe "irritating"), but if I recall correctly from a few years ago, Nvidia has done this before with full access to the encoder only being available in the Quadro line.
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by logicchop 6y ago
More evidence that, not only do we live in a simulation, but that our simulation is running in Factorio. Great writeup Bartosz.
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by logicchop 6y ago
Fraud is real, and vast, and if it creeps in it undermines the whole thing. What's the alternative?
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by logicchop 6y ago
I get so fatigued by "behavior" advice like this. Why spend time trying to optimize your chat encounters? Is the status-quo that much of an enemy that we have to fight it in every small corner?
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by logicchop 6y ago
I think it's important to point out that "being nice" also involves making room for people that might come across as rude, or that have difficulty expressing themselves in a polite way, or that are just speaking directly. I o
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by logicchop 6y ago
It is harmful to the team you're with, but there's no alternative right now. It is substantially easier to find a new position when you are currently employed, even if your stint has been brief. This is common knowledge, and as su
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by logicchop 6y ago
That's how I read the title; that's what I'm going with.
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by logicchop 6y ago
I had to buy a TI-86 in 1992; 8th grade math. I still have it, use it almost every day, and love it.
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by logicchop 6y ago
Make sure there are by being one.
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by logicchop 6y ago
It probably gets worse than that. Eventually, if you pursue the task with gusto, it has to boil down to just letting people in regardless of merit. And then, if those you just let in aren't doing so well, you have to just let them pass
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by logicchop 6y ago
I think your assumption here is that if you were to filter based on those things you'd get an outcome that would be representative of the total population. But I don't see why you think that. Look at relatively poor Asian kids in
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by logicchop 6y ago
Could be, but almost every company I have encountered is desperate to hire good people and none of them cared at all about where I or anyone else I knew went to school.
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by logicchop 6y ago
Weren't many of those kids coming from India, for example, "born into that type of sytem"? Isn't that exactly why they are here and not there? I would dare say that racism/classism in modern day India is much worse
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by logicchop 6y ago
Maybe it's the style of the article but I'm not sure I get the point. Is the complaint that tech is "too white"? If so, that doesn't seem true. Look for example at Google's own internal reporting: Whites are on
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by logicchop 6y ago
You might have an Aristotelian sense of "success" in mind here (meaning that it covers something like the long-term overarching benefit of the person), but I don't. I just mean success as in, anxiety medication actually impro
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by logicchop 6y ago
The author's point is well-taken; but I don't think the problem is simply that psychological problems have become "de-personalized," and I think the move to "chemical" explanations is largely because the "
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by logicchop 6y ago
Your "Just prohibit.. " line sounds like a mandatory sentence to me; just in this case a mandatory sentence of "none." What would be left to the judge's discretion exactly?
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by logicchop 6y ago
I am not replying to disagree with the spirit of your comment. I just think you should be a bit more careful thinking about it. Obviously she was not jailed for a crime she didn't commit and wasn't convicted of; she was jailed for
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by logicchop 6y ago
"What does that have to do with your original assertion, that it's totally fine for a judge to sentence a woman to 496 days in jail for unpaid traffic tickets because she's suspected of being an unfit mother?" This is an
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by logicchop 6y ago
That's a defensible position, but you then have to accept something like mandatory sentences, which introduce their own set of issues.
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by logicchop 6y ago
Again, wildly naive. There is no "rule of law" that is so prescriptive. We basically have a loose confederation of laws, interpreted by courts, and exacted by humans. There is flexibility in various aspects, including sentencing,
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by logicchop 6y ago
That's wildly naive and I think with a little bit of imagination you too can envision a scenario where it makes sense. It needn't be "wild guessing" on the judges behalf; there could be even absolutely convictable eviden
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by logicchop 6y ago
1. I don't think the judge has to believe the justice system is flawed. It might just be that the justice system has limits, and that sometimes those limits are not sufficient to bring about the best outcome. Again, consider prosecutor
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by logicchop 6y ago
I agree with you that failure to pay traffic tickets is hardly grounds for that sentence, and that it would in fact be stupid if those were the grounds. And that is exactly why it is a pretty uncharitable initial interpretation of what happ

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