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by mathw 5y ago
Won't happen. The billionaires will just buy Bitcoin. Their investment managers probably already are.
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by mathw 6y ago
I'm amused that you consider political organisations or businesses any less likely to be corrupt.
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by mathw 6y ago
It's not so much about having their shit together as having a terrifying autocratic government of the kind the UK government are still pretending (unconvincingly) they don't dream of emulating. Also there may well be areas of Chin
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by mathw 6y ago
Not really, because subconscious bias is actually real.
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by mathw 6y ago
It would be a pain, but they're not changing any existing repos so it's up to the team to coordinate if they want to adopt such a change themselves (and GitHub have enhanced some of their tooling around branch renames to make it e
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by mathw 6y ago
Why does anybody other than policing and security agencies need access to this stuff? NHS? Fire and rescue? WHAT? They don't have a role in investigating crime. Okay the fire brigade do post-fire analysis of possible arson etc. but tha
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by mathw 6y ago
I wonder if most of the pain is actually caused by Rust async being an MVP, so things like async trait functions (which would be very nice) don't exist... yet. I don't know if anybody has shown that they can't ever exist, it&
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by mathw 6y ago
I was really annoyed by that one because the "areas of brain do different tasks" hypothesis has very little to do with phrenology, which is about how studying the shape of the skull might tell you things about the personality and
129.
by mathw 6y ago
What's arbitrary about it? Just be nice to people! Don't go around saying racist or sexist or homophobic things in public. We'd really, really like it if our kids grew up not being scared to tell us they're gay, or if ou
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by mathw 6y ago
Or we're dealing with the paradox of tolerance, where we cannot be tolerant of intolerance because the intolerant will destroy the tolerant culture which my generation have been trying to build. Some of us have, anyway. The one we feel
131.
by mathw 6y ago
Yes I read the Rust code and just knew it would likely not be dramatically faster than the JS - certainly not as fast as it could be. This is why all languages reward study and depth of knowledge, as you just avoid some of the patterns whic
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by mathw 6y ago
I've been trying to push property-based testing at work but there's not a load of enthusiasm showing. I guess it's in part because we work in C# and the best option appears to be FsCheck, which is very inconsistently document
133.
by mathw 6y ago
Sometimes it's like adding a new floor to an existing house in between two of the existing floors without any of the occupants noticing.
134.
by mathw 6y ago
Amazon enjoy that kind of thing too. Look at a product page, Amazon ads become for that product or similar ones. Buy it, and... they still want me to buy another one. And they wonder why people use ad blockers...
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by mathw 6y ago
The USA has a massive democratic deficit for want of a better term. It's not unique in that, but this kind of ridiculous way of passing harmful stuff attached to more important legislation and how corporations with deep pockets wield s
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by mathw 6y ago
I get excited about new things, but they almost always turn out to be disappointing. So I spend most of my time trudging along getting stuff done and wishing my tools didn't get in my way quite so often.
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by mathw 6y ago
I used to spend far too long (in my opinion anyway) hovering under a towel over a bowl of hot water with some menthol-bearing substance added (exactly what varied over the years) when I was a kid. It worked though, really eased the congesti
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by mathw 6y ago
Don't lose sight of two things: Erlang is designed for massive, distributed, highly reliable network systems. Therefore, it is likely that a lot of Erlang code does a lot of waiting around for the network rather than needing every avai
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by mathw 6y ago
gRPC is not a CORBA equivalent though. Was CORBA ever intended for APIs operating over IP networks?
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by mathw 6y ago
Not doing the first example is a sure way towards either copying that function and changing it a bit because you need a slightly different call, or a function with a pile of branches in it because it needs to operate in several modes. Both
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by mathw 6y ago
The study is tailored to the standards of vaccine approval, of course it is. They need to prove safety and efficacy, so they design a trial which will allow those factors to be measured. Kind of difficult to prove efficacy if you don't
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by mathw 6y ago
That phase 3 study for the Oxford vaccine is already underway, and its initial findings are what the article is referring to. It was one of the first (possibly the first, I'm not entirely sure) to enter phase 3.
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by mathw 6y ago
I'm really surprised this has gone this far, it was ridiculous when it was first proposed and it's ridiculous now. Just require people to be explicit about what the burger/sausage/cheese-like thing is made of and that&#x
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by mathw 6y ago
> Somehow, Battle of Britain is celebrated as a multi-national cooperation. Not that I've ever noticed. I don't think I learned until I was 17 or 18 that there were non-British pilots involved on the British side. And I live in
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by mathw 6y ago
I'm not sure I'm on board with telling users that you can fix this issue by disabling all service workers without telling them that some functionality on other sites might not work as they expect afterwards, because it depended on
146.
by mathw 6y ago
One way you can get rep on SE is to find those questions and actually answer them. People tend to appreciate it, assuming they notice amidst the mess.
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by mathw 6y ago
When I started doing instructor training for aikido classes and started being out on the mat as an assistant, answering questions, helping people correct things they hadn't realised weren't working like they should, I found to my
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by mathw 6y ago
I once had the most intractable, weird problem I'd ever faced up to that point, no help from my colleagues (I only had one and I was very, very much more experienced in that area), spent ages trying to understand it, trying to find ans
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by mathw 6y ago
I'll definitely take the paper from Nature Medicine over the article by someone associated with Steve Bannon. I simply do not believe it is plausible that this many scientists are in on the massive cover-up that would be required to hi
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by mathw 6y ago
Yes we should. We should have a standard which is actually a standard and actually makes sense for what people are actually writing APIs to do. gRPC would be a candidate, but the need for dev-side tooling to turn proto files into code is a

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