mLuby

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by mLuby 5y ago
{ // Start of block statement. const foo = "a" + 2; // Only available inside block statement. console.log(foo); // "a2" } // End of block statement. cons
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by mLuby 5y ago
First time I've ever seen JS blocks statements in the wild; I wonder if the author is coming from a language where that's common.
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by mLuby 5y ago
If you're on Twitter, two accounts you might appreciate in one tweet: https://twitter.com/R_P_one/status/1413506570575515655
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Can't stand this headline format "We need to talk about X" because it implies the author speaks for the group rather than to the group, and to my ear it always carries a condescending tone. See also "We're all [
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Exactly. And "space" itself isn't a great place for industry, it has solar radiation for power, vacuum and no gravity for certain industrial processes, and lots of space to put things. I expect heavy industry (and mining) wil
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I did a research project on this. Aerial wind turbines have two key advantages over terrestrial ones: access to steady high-speed winds at altitude, and limited ground footprint. But floating or flying imposes limits on their size and effic
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That kind of perfect is possible in math but not in software, which runs on physical machines and was written and verified by humans. It's like building your bridge inside a vacuum chamber with no entrances or exits—possible but not
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> Step it up or step out, Bezos. So much negativity in this whole topic, IMO due to Bezos's involvement. Space is hard technically, politically, financially, so the more entrants in the space race the better. Every space program
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by mLuby 5y ago
A long enough, massive enough stick could theoretically be a gravimeter. You'd just have to be so impossibly perceptive (or use an interferometer) that you'd notice the difference in gravity each half of the stick experiences. No
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I see their status page showing red for the website. https://imgur.com/a/mBbfLtZ I'm not surprised when a company's status page only reports on (highly available) services, not the website or blog—which are l
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Eh, we do have a basic "gestalt consciousness" (I prefer "hive mind") in the form of a legislature, which has the power to modify "the rules" so the market and individuals react. Recently though it's the m
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So have your replicators approach a system from an unexpected vector; one course correction in interstellar space should be enough. Also I'd expect the probes would communicate with the homeworld via relays (where they were replicated)
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Animals are stuck in local maxima (betrayal in the Prisoner's Dilemma). A more evolved group might discover and be able to reach the global maximum (solidarity in the Prisoner's Dilemma). Imagine if tigers or sharks developed pack
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> just doing the same thing over and over At that point it's worth considering if the work can be automated or outsourced.
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I don't think it does. But what's to stop the whole (limited) crew from suiting up (without MMUs), slowly venting the interior air, doing the EVA, then returning and re-pressurizing the atmosphere from interior tanks? My guess is
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by mLuby 5y ago
Thought-provoking questions! For me, ad-tech creates a few interrelated concerns: 1. Pervasive, asymmetric surveillance increases the power differential between individuals and big corps/governments. The latter groups can use that powe
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I'm fine with school equipment and software being fully locked down, but the facial recognition and automated behavior detection (let alone correction) is way beyond the line. Why are kids, the ones we're supposed to protect, bein
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> For their own good reasons, mathematicians use "functor" as a concrete noun. Haskell copied this, hence how often you hear about "a functor". > However, interfaces are adjectives that describe a data structure, w
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You forgot the part where this toaster is free. Nobody except DIY hobbyists and tinfoil privacy weirdos actually pay for a toaster in 2050.
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> bypassing the expensive patented side of things I thought the whole point was you can't bypass a patent. Nice site by the way—I appreciated the option to skim the pictures rather than skipping through a video.
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by mLuby 5y ago
Not specific to one faction. It's a local maximum, so all sides will adopt this strategy unless the environment or rules change. My 2¢ on why "slam" specifically: 1. It's a super short word, which matters in headlines an
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by mLuby 5y ago
April Fools' Day
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That's reasonable—glad to know you considered it. Two alternatives to the free tier for single or small-batch uses so that you don't need to deal with payment information and reduce sign-up friction: User completes a human-level t
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by mLuby 5y ago
Why not have an API that publishes your API to all of them?
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Is there an API for creating, or at least registering, APIs? (Maybe save that for 2022-04-01.)
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Anec-tangent: when I left a start-up, I turned in the company laptop. Then when I asked if I could buy it back (since it nicer than my personal laptop), they just gave it to me for free. That was a really nice and totally unexpected gestu
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In other words, workers are alienated from the products of their labor, and are aware that the surplus value (profit) of their labor is being taken from them but aren't able to stop it (individually).
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Lots of FAANG people on here (Fighting An Antagonized Naked Giraffe).
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Sounds perfect for a Dr. House mystery.
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Would you have to prove only that the test discriminates, or also that it was intended to discriminate? The latter sounds nearly impossible.

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