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by mcculley 4y ago
The two phrases were used by two different commenters. I questioned that one was equal to the other. I still do.
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by mcculley 4y ago
How does that help the implementor of a subclass?
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by mcculley 4y ago
As someone who has been using Java since 1.0, I welcome these little improvements but agree that the language is now a mess for a beginner. All of the little rules and corners make sense to someone who learned them gradually. To a beginner,
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by mcculley 4y ago
The reality of the situation has not caused me any discomfort. I remain unconvinced that the two phrases are descriptions of the same thing.
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by mcculley 4y ago
Does this existence of fewer women in a job mean that they are kept out by those who think them “undeserving of a career”? Only 4% of sewage plant operators are female. Is that because they are kept out of the industry?
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by mcculley 4y ago
I am not a woman in the Japanese job market. I am merely a man trying to understand how "job opportunities and career growth severely limited by the heavily patriarchal culture" is the same as "treating half the population as
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by mcculley 4y ago
And you think they are the same? How much experience do you have with the Japanese job market?
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by mcculley 4y ago
One is hyperbolic. One can believe that there is some bias against women without believing that they are treated as undeserving of having a career.
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by mcculley 4y ago
I am not convinced that finding "job opportunities and career growth severely limited by the heavily patriarchal culture" is the same as "treating half the population as undeserving of a career".
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by mcculley 4y ago
It is said that Hemingway leveraged the same effect by leaving a sentence unfinished when stopping writing for the day. I use the same technique to remind myself I am not finished with something. This is also called the Zeigarnik effect: h
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by mcculley 4y ago
As I remember it, the RSS readers under test did not correctly handle encodings, blissfully ignorant of the difference between UTF-8 and Latin-1. Many had processing pipelines that did not preserve encoding.
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by mcculley 4y ago
The first time I saw perfectly valid Unicode take down an RSS reader (in ~2003), it was an ü that did it. I have taken to calling that the kaboomlaut in unit tests.
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by mcculley 4y ago
I agree that notice is preferable. The question was, “Would it be legal not to?”
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by mcculley 4y ago
Yes. California is an at-will state. The employer can terminate at any time for any reason. Unless they have a contract, they can do anything they want.
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by mcculley 4y ago
If I were a student, eager to solve math problems and become better at math, no book would be better than any other book at presenting and guiding me to problems that would improve my understanding?
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by mcculley 4y ago
Every company in healthcare (and many other industries where privacy is important) needs to know that they should not be giving customer data to third parties.
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by mcculley 4y ago
I remain unconvinced that it has anything to do with Apple thinking about the user’s mobile data bill. Watch what happens when Apple is no longer entangled with Qualcomm royalties. Though I do like the idea that this is why tethering to my
648.
by mcculley 4y ago
You can buy a Dell with a cell modem. It’s more likely about the patent/royalty situation with Qualcomm. If Apple starts making their own cell modems, they will start putting them in laptops.
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by mcculley 4y ago
Did they figure out how to put a cell modem in it?
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by mcculley 4y ago
Just bill me by bandwidth used. It is ridiculous that one cannot buy a MacBook Pro with a cell modem. I fight with tethering at least once a week.
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by mcculley 4y ago
> You're obviously going to be convicted of speeding if your geolocation data shows you going 80mph for an hour on the expressway, right? Do you really want to wait until this case shows up in court to try to prevent this kind of dy
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by mcculley 4y ago
I am not talking about situations where there is really a bad human at the helm. I can buy shares in BP or Altria and not suffer any consequences beyond losing my investment no matter how many people those corporations kill. Having algorith
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by mcculley 4y ago
We already have a mechanism for absolving responsibility: the corporation. It allows shareholders to profit and not lose more than invested. When they invest in tobacco companies, for example, the system is working as designed.
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by mcculley 4y ago
I agree. This is why I am surprised by the assertion and asking the person who made it.
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by mcculley 4y ago
I agree. This is why I am surprised by the assertion and asking the person who made it.
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by mcculley 4y ago
You think no company, government, organization, or religion will ever allow algorithms to make choices on how to deploy capital or otherwise affect the world without human approval?
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by mcculley 4y ago
There was no way to ensure that. In the end, a couple bits of burnt wood broke off and were floating. We went around in a small boat and gathered them up.
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by mcculley 4y ago
My father passed away in 2020. As he was a mariner, we wanted to give him a proper send off. We had him cremated and built a little wooden boat. We put his cremains in the boat and set it adrift and afire just offshore of Florida’s Treasure
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by mcculley 4y ago
This is a great example of a mesofact. It is one of those things where experience actually works against a better understanding of the world.
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by mcculley 4y ago
They should also ask their mortgage and auto loan provider. I was running a consultancy when Paysa came online. We were surprised to see it knew a lot about compensation and titles of most of my employees. But not all of them. We found that

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