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by mjlawson 4y ago
It is. The results section indicate that BCS performs better than Dr. Fill by a significant amount. I'm curious how well this performs on the New York Times Thursday puzzles, and specifically whether or not it can handle rebus answers
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by mjlawson 4y ago
I agree with you here, that it is striking there isn't a single mention of what members might think. But I also wonder if it's relevant at all. To me, there's no real correlation between intelligence and being a good person.
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by mjlawson 5y ago
> First, the term "free speech" is overloaded-- it means a legal right to speak free of government interference, and it also means a cultural environment of pluralism where opposing views are welcomed and debate is encouraged.
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by mjlawson 5y ago
You are technically correct. The best kind of correct! In practical terms, it depends on the license used. Since most licenses used in open source will prevent you from making these kind of requests, this consequence isn't likely to ha
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by mjlawson 5y ago
Not only does it require more steps, it also has to meet the following criteria[1]: * no other packages in the npm Public Registry depend on * had less than 300 downloads over the last week * has a single owner/maintainer So while your
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by mjlawson 5y ago
This is true for npm. After the incident with leftpad, you can't unpublish anymore. You can, however, publish a new patch update that completely breaks everything.
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by mjlawson 5y ago
It would likely be a good idea to divest yourself from this package given the actions of the maintainer. As others have said, this appears to be intentional. There has been a 6.6.6 release to npm published ~8 hours ago as of this post, whic
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by mjlawson 5y ago
You have a low threshold for outrage, then. I'm not sure how you came to the conclusion that I'm making quick judgments or somehow neglecting people's motivations, but all I can say is that you're wrong. And who exactly
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by mjlawson 5y ago
I completely agree with a lot of your points here. I've been making enchiladas for years, and I've incorporated a lot of recipes into my approach. I suspect that very, very few people would take issue with me enjoying the food of
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by mjlawson 5y ago
Actions have consequences in society, and public actions moreso. That's part of the cost of being in one. I don't think it's particularly outrageous to expect that people who say and do hurtful things, either intentionally or
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by mjlawson 5y ago
> You find that to be a perfectly fine and fair thing to happen? I think I've already conceded the fact that I don't. But let's look at it from a different angle. 1. What should be the appropriate reaction to being called
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by mjlawson 5y ago
Honestly, I read the first 8 or so and found most to be appropriate social backlash when taking full context into account. 1. White cafeteria workers serving Kool Aid and watermelon-flavored water for Black History Month, while lying to a s
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by mjlawson 5y ago
> ... how is a novice web developer supposed to know what is missing? That is a great question. Is it the job of the tooling to prevent a novice developer from shooting themselves in their foot? Do we need higher-level abstractions in ou
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by mjlawson 5y ago
This reminds me of a set of poems, Knots, by R.D. Laing, the first of which goes: > They are playing a game > They are playing, at not playing a game > If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me.
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by mjlawson 5y ago
I completely get that this ease of configuration is a huge selling point. Yet I don't think that precludes the possibility of pre-loading information and injecting it at runtime. My main qualm here is probably one where the meaning beh
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by mjlawson 5y ago
Personally, and I totally recognize that I'm likely arguing a moot point, I don't conflate static-site generation and server-side rendering and I don't think they can or should be used interchangeably as the author indicates.
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by mjlawson 5y ago
In Upstate New York where snow drifts can sometimes completely block visibility at intersections, honking is pretty common as if to say "ready or not, here I come!"
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by mjlawson 5y ago
You're missing the forest from the trees here; no one's suggesting that. Instead, we're saying that perhaps you shouldn't use Sweden as evidence supporting non-intervention when their deaths per capita was an order of ma
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by mjlawson 5y ago
When you're in these situations, you are faced with a challenge which isn't solved by code reviews no matter how illustrative, nice, or demeaning they are. It's first solved by identifying what the cause is of their poor perf
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by mjlawson 5y ago
I agree wholeheartedly here. Server side rendering is incredibly difficult to do right, and while Next has some idioms that I find a bit unwieldy, they work well. It's also insanely customizable which I quite enjoy.
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by mjlawson 5y ago
Immuni is the official contact tracing app for Italy with 10mm downloads.
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by mjlawson 6y ago
Using leverage isn't the same thing as belonging to a corrupt union. If anything, your leverage should be used to improve said union, if you have it. The same energy and fervor that goes into establishing a union presence and and shoul
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by mjlawson 6y ago
This echoes my experience with trying to leverage BPM tools to automate workflows. The biggest thing that the tools in this space neglect is how important data are. Typing is completely non-existent, and validation has to be bolted on and i
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by mjlawson 6y ago
That's my take here as well. It's hard to take this seriously and I refuse to back this when it's posted anonymously, although I agree with the sentiment behind it.
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by mjlawson 6y ago
This isn't accurate. Slack has 100% control over the content that goes on their site, and that includes 3rd-party tracking pixels and other mechanisms that lead to these cookies from 3rd parties.
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by mjlawson 6y ago
I honestly wonder if it was originally booked at the Four Seasons hotel, but Trump vetoed that idea because of his stake in Trump Hotels.
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by mjlawson 6y ago
That isn't the rationale that the editors used to make copy suggestions - that's the rationale that Greenwald is projecting onto them. I suggest reading the email thread he posted on his blog - it does not make him look very good.
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by mjlawson 6y ago
> if Go can do it, Swift can do it even better. This might be hyperbole, but if not I'd love to see some examples on how Swift can improve on Go's concurrency patterns.
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by mjlawson 6y ago
You make some interesting points here, but I think your logic is fundamentally limited. There are alternative, imaginative ways to solve this problem that don't necessarily involve capital. In _The Dispossessed_ by Ursula K. LeGuin, fo
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by mjlawson 6y ago
I feel like you're not acting in good faith here, but I'll bite. I consider it not worth my time to have to be an expert in all things in order to live my daily life. I consider the few overburdensome regulations that occur within

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