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Facebook to stop recommending civic and political groups(bbc.co.uk)
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by louthy 6y ago
> Don't ever, ever admit that you protest something the left does What does the political issue (left or right) have to do with this? Isn’t this a discussion about the surveillance state? In this case that people become suspects be
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> I'm amused that Chemists / Physicists also have the word "Polymorphism" and that it means something completely different from the programming term. Seems like a good reason to stop using it [in programming], and the
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> Violent insurrection is how the republic that governs the people who operate Twitter was started, there can be good parts of it So you're comparing the insurrection that happened last week, in a mature, functioning democracy to th
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> If you think this is about Trump's freedom to tweet, you've sorely missed the point I really haven't. Trump is the only western leader to have been banned from the mainstream social media platforms. You can't clai
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by louthy 6y ago
How does your outburst relate to my comment? What obligation does twitter have to give anybody a voice? Especially a voice that has incited a violent insurrection. I don't see how Twitter are struggling to maintain user trust, excep
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by louthy 6y ago
Loss of Twitter use isn’t loss of freedom. No laws have been changed. He’s just lost access to a private company’s services. It is not the same as any of the things you list
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by louthy 6y ago
Conflating multi decade long concerns with the remaining few days of a presidential term is hardly a useful comparison. A tech company banning a user isn’t equivalent to a new law on the statute either.
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by louthy 6y ago
You can keep claiming it’s one tweet if you like, but you know this is disingenuous. It’s 1 tweet + 4 years of destabilising lies + 1 incitement to insurrection Propaganda over the ages has been studied very closely, there are known techn
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Propaganda doesn’t need to be explicit; it’s clear the intent of these messages, just like the veiled messaging in his incitement speech. It’s clear that once something like a violent insurrection happens the companies previously giving a p
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by louthy 6y ago
These are reasons to ban driving. Anybody can have an accident at any speed that could lead to a fatality.
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We don’t need AVs for that. Adaptive Cruise Control with self-breaking cars can do this now; it’s very much how I prefer to drive on a motorway, knowing the car will deal with it if I lose concentration or react late for whatever reason. O
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Calling cocaine a ‘hard drug’ is just programming from 50+ years of the War on Drugs. And whilst it’s not the safest drug ever, the vast majority of people who do it are not dying, or have any real long term negative effects. Of course ther
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I never used Resharper, just plain old VS. It was dog slow, I’ll never go back, it’s not just the performance, but lack of stability, crashes, lots of exceptions, etc. It just feels like a project that’s not been given the love, and one t
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by louthy 6y ago
I use Rider now, VS got to the point of being so slow that frequently I'd have to wait 0.5 seconds for each character I was typing to appear. The performance is utterly, utterly terrible. Yet, all I see from the VS team on Twitter is
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by louthy 6y ago
I guess you probably know my good friend Rich Aplin?
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by louthy 6y ago
There's a lot of reasoning here, and some of it makes sense. But a lot of the time it's just where the founders are from. In the 80s when the home-computer revolution was kicking off, a lot of the kids/young adults that got
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by louthy 6y ago
This was the comment I hoped to see when clicking the link. And if it wasn't here, I was going to write it! I know we don't often do the flippant remarks thing here, but that headline was far too inviting.
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Not every approach is bad. As an interviewer myself I find that just talking to the person as a human being and asking them about their current work, previous work, and interests tends to expose nearly everything I need to know. I initial
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How much code do you normally write on whiteboards in front of people? It is such an artificial and for some, confrontational, way of problem solving, that it just filters for people who can stand in-front of whiteboards. It's a disc
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by louthy 6y ago
> Assume f: X -> Y. We can now map x_1 to y_1 f(x_1)=y_1. And then change this same function by mapping x_1 to y_2: f(x_1)=y_2 They would be different functions, the first being the identity function: x => x, the second being: x =&
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Functions are a mapping between a domain and a codomain, the mapping absolutely isn’t mutable, the definition of the function is the relationship between the domains. If I have a function: int Add1(int x) => x + 1 I would expect
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> I bet I’m up more than you one year from today. Those are exactly the types of exuberant comments that are hyper prevalent before a crash.
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Seconded, my personal favourite. I remember when I first discovered it and even the idea and concept blew me away. Create your own with the Brian Eno Bloom app too :) [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGwrUGu1V1k
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by louthy 6y ago
I have a deck (pics: [1][2]), not original - probably from around 2001-2002, but they are :) There's a twitter bot that randomly posts the cards [3], which is cool too [1] https://tinyurl.com/yy76phgw [2] https:/
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Also good: To Dissect a Mockingbird [1] 1. http://dkeenan.com/Lambda/
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Interestingly, it seems if one politician discovers fire, it would die with them. Surely, by now, one politician has learned how technology works and has started the process of teaching others?
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> So I rather do lots of testing, for all known test cases. How is this any different? You can still make mistakes in your test code, test data, omit cases that would fail, etc. I think I'd be less confident in a set of unit tests
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Because you've eaten a burger, lived in a city, work in a chemicals factory, driven a car, crossed a road, [insert anything else that increases the chance of death or illness], ... Everyone gets ill, everyone dies, smokers in most coun
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And some people take the 'No' badly. It's frustrating having to explain that the code in a PR needs to be maintained forever , and it's the repo maintainer that will have to do it, not the contributor. A simple propos

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