martinflack

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by martinflack 4y ago
Maybe usernames could be hidden at first and then be revealed after a timeout. We do need a way to distinguish participants so we can correlate replies to earlier comments of the same participant; otherwise it's way too disorganized as
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by martinflack 4y ago
> I feel a lot has to do with the technology that's available; in 1966 when Star Trek aired you couldn't really rely that everyone had seen all the episodes; who can always be at home at a given date and time? People got lives
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by martinflack 4y ago
> nothing that SVB did was categorically different than other banks That appears to be untrue; the other banks hedged interest rate exposure. https://www.fdic.gov/analysis/cfr/working-papers/2006/2006-
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by martinflack 4y ago
I want to believe he married the girl.
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by martinflack 4y ago
In sequences, even just too calls like "more?" and "next" will let you entertain all kinds of strict and lazy possibilities.
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by martinflack 4y ago
In the UK, "the Government" is a phrase more akin to "the x Administration" (where x is the President) in the US; although technically it includes the parliamentary majority as well as the executive.
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by martinflack 4y ago
It's probably a short-term social phenomenon. We don't bother detecting mathematical output from calculators or spreadsheets; we just like that folks give us the right answer, even if they had easy tooling to produce it. However,
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by martinflack 4y ago
I always imagined a mountain climb. So steep learning curve would mean daunting, high effort, high "drag" (gravity), but if you undertake it and push hard, you do, in fact, gain tons of utility (rather than proficiency per se) in
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by martinflack 4y ago
Yes and no. A pet parrot repeats what you yourself trained it with, or at least the people in the residence. ChatGPT was apparently trained on the web en masse; the parrot can speak back with the sum of human knowledge, to some approximatio
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by martinflack 4y ago
California is a big place with a lot of varying community attitudes... that sounds like quite a big assumption.
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by martinflack 4y ago
> They won't even let people with solar panels feed their excess power to the grid. Is that true? If so, TIL...
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by martinflack 4y ago
> I can get something done in Python much faster Take a look at the CL libraries PY4CL, PY4CL2, and CL4PY. I use the first one for some things. It can be useful to bridge over to Python for something and come back with the answer.
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by martinflack 4y ago
The player (on a Roku at least) definitely needs work. You can't say "I watched this" (perhaps elsewhere) and mark an episode watched. Frustratingly, if you accidentally play two seconds of an old episode it insists that you
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by martinflack 4y ago
APPEND is for concatenating two lists. If you're trying to add a value, then if your NIL is already in a variable, use PUSH to add the value (to the front). This will build the result list in reverse, so you can NREVERSE it at the end.
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by martinflack 4y ago
That was my thought as well. With sufficiently advanced computing and world modeling, we wouldn't use DNA to bring back real creatures, just high-fidelity digital ones, complete with a simulated environment that suits them.
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by martinflack 4y ago
> The further problem if you can turn off secure boot is that these pieces of hardware often can’t then be turned back on with a different secure boot chain – say, one based on open source software. Is your statement meant to be inclusiv
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by martinflack 4y ago
If donations is a factor, it would be more logical for politicians to consider the likelihood of future donations rather than past ones. In fact, if the chance of future donations is close to zero, there is a certain appeal in making an exa
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by martinflack 4y ago
At least with Brother you can mail in the old laser drums that you pull out. I hope to God they're doing something sensible to reuse ink/parts.
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by martinflack 4y ago
This is highly dependent on the two countries in question, your passport(s) / visas, and your day job.
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by martinflack 4y ago
I'm not defending their action, but there is a question of (a) authority and (b) capability. You're asking about authority, and yes SBF has stepped down, but the Bahamian regulator may have undertaken this on its own authority (
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by martinflack 4y ago
At least the conversation hasn't progressed to printing it upside down or on the back...
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by martinflack 4y ago
> all the "convenience" of online menus goes away when a waiver has to bring their book of allergens to the table and manually take the order anyway. Which is silly because an online menu is an amazing opportunity to do extensi
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by martinflack 4y ago
One would have to check that particular example, but in general, there are buildings in SF and NYC where the HOA fee covers amenities that are, frankly, hotel-like. Staffed gym with climbing wall, 24/7 valet parking, food can be sent u
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by martinflack 4y ago
I never use it for regex, because when using CL, I tend to be authoring the regex from scratch. But I found it elegant and thought it might be useful to interpret someone else's hairy regex. But the reason I mentioned it, was because I
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by martinflack 4y ago
I think what I'd really like is some way to expand format strings into McDermott-style code (and ideally vice versa). I think CL-PPCRE gets this correct for a similar domain: regex strings. The library is not pedantic about whether you
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by martinflack 4y ago
You should look into BritBox[0], a BBC and ITV project, available on Roku, Amazon, and probably other platforms. I have no affiliation; I was just born and raised as a child in the UK and miss the shows. It's got quite a lot. [0] http
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by martinflack 4y ago
I read "This is an S, the letter, not a 5." and smiled... aaahhh, someone who's been deep in the trenches. ;-)
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by martinflack 4y ago
And do not under any circumstance forget to administer a captcha of traffic lights.
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by martinflack 4y ago
Which version of Chrome and OS?
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by martinflack 4y ago
If you learn Lisp, both the language and the tooling, you'll come to really like the parens. I suggest to everyone who uses Lisp, just set your editor's syntax highlighter to make the parentheses fade into the background color alm

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