mcherm

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by mcherm 9mo ago
I agree. My own suspicion for the resolution of the fermi paradox is that there are 4 steps that we have seen occur only once (or zero times) so it is difficult to measure their probability. If some of those probabilities are significantly
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by mcherm 9mo ago
> if it's democratic like that I'm mostly OK with it One thing to keep in mind. It might be that it's "democratic" in that all the homeowners are allowed to vote for or against the zoning policy (or for or agains
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by mcherm 9mo ago
It's been a long time since I kept current on games. Reading these descriptions, I have only one comment: What the *HELL*?!!?!!!
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by mcherm 9mo ago
Where are you getting that implication? I didn't see anything in the article suggesting that neutrons were simple and I would share your skepticism if someone claimed they were. The fact that neutrons can spontaneously decay into proto
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by mcherm 10mo ago
No, because the black needs to cover up other shapes (up until the final step of rendering).
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by mcherm 10mo ago
When the behavior is not only something something you "don't like" but is also (as this woman perceives it) a professional threat (she makes a living out of carefully choosing her words; she felt this attributed to her words
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by mcherm 10mo ago
What is the alternative to announcing a divorce? Keeping it secret? Not using social media to communicate? In this case she explicitly did NOT make any mention of the divorce on social media when her husband first sprung it on her, nor duri
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by mcherm 10mo ago
> I don't think the laws are dictating Apple to completely turn off the accounts, but instead dictate that Apple should take measures against it. You misunderstand the nature of financial regulation. The laws on things like money la
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by mcherm 10mo ago
Personally, I find lots of reasons to prefer an orders Dict to an unordered one. Even small effects like "the debugging output will appear in a consistent order making it easier to compare" can be motivation enough in many use cas
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by mcherm 10mo ago
It doesn't work that way. Paying users would discover product-market fit for the "market" of people who want to be paid to use it. Working with paying users (even if they are incredibly hard to acquire) will discover product
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by mcherm 11mo ago
No, it is carrying out a highly effective asymmetric war. Russia has vastly more resources, but proportionately, Ukraine's forces are being far more effective than Russia's.
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by mcherm 11mo ago
Which is more likely, a DDOS attack on your site or a Cloudflare outage? I think that for most sites the DDOS attack is more likely.
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by mcherm 11mo ago
To me, those sound like meaningful pros and cons, not a reason to completely dismiss it.
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by mcherm 11mo ago
I receive all my SMS messages through a separate app, because my SMS provider is not my TelCo. Please propose solutions that will not harm people like me.
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by mcherm 11mo ago
Great! Based on this, I would like to sign up to get early access to Android Developer Console (to distribute apps ONLY outside the Play store). The article explains that they will start sending out invitations to people on the waiting list
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by mcherm 11mo ago
Please explain what kind of magic your solution uses to ensure that reports always come in at a perfectly even pace without any peaks or valleys. Because without that, your proposed approach will not work.
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by mcherm 11mo ago
Odd that your experience would be so different from mine. I routinely experience denials. To give an example, about 60 to 80% of the time, when I visit the dentist for a regular cleaning the charge is denied and I have to submit additional
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by mcherm 1y ago
> Posted to HN yesterday [...] No comments. I wonder if that is partially because many (like myself) aren't subscribers and can't read the article.
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by mcherm 1y ago
Interesting. I wonder how you even manage to utilize the modern web.
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by mcherm 1y ago
Yes. Just like C++ "const" is a type system construct that assumes all other code is C++ (or at least cooperates with the C++ code by not going around changing random bytes). As far as I can tell, ANY guarantee provided by ANY lan
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by mcherm 1y ago
Because it is (or was it the time this article was written) against the law. The company that owned the tax preparation software lobby to Congress to pass a law requiring that the IRS not provide a free and easy way for people to submit t
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by mcherm 1y ago
And does it allow "side loading"? Privacy might not be the only draw!
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by mcherm 1y ago
> I’m just surprised someone decided to bankroll them for so long. When you are PROFITABLE (but not as profitable as your investors would like) you can run FOREVER without anyone "bankrolling" you. It's a foreign concept i
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by mcherm 1y ago
Chuck Norris doesn't even NEED analogies. He explains the original problem so hard that you understand it without reference to a similar but more familiar situation. Chuck Norris would probably have mentioned "dev" and "
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by mcherm 1y ago
Attempted suicide is criminalized in some jurisdictions for exactly that reason.
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by mcherm 1y ago
There are ways to work around that problem. For instance, just making it a rule that they are not allowed to lie to you about how things are being used -- we know that won't work because if they're willing to lie they are also wil
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by mcherm 1y ago
I like to write assertions that aren't always easy to check. Like asserting that a list is sorted.
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by mcherm 1y ago
That DOES seem easy, but it's because the code you wrote only works for functions of two arguments. Can you write a Haskell version that works for functions with any number of arguments?
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by mcherm 1y ago
That's a fine upper bound, but it doesn't minimize but usage since it also can represent illegal positions.
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by mcherm 1y ago
Look, impeachment and removal from office IS the correct thing to do. But criticizing would-be King is a good first step. Let's allow them to take that first step.

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