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by mjw1007 6y ago
It might be a nice to have a place where people can file low-effort bug reports, or perhaps "symptom reports", where there's no expectation that a maintainer will respond or even look at them. Then they could be treated rathe
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by mjw1007 6y ago
When I file a bug report, I often feel I would like to add a disclaimer, along the lines of: « I'm filing this bug report because I found a bug. This isn't a complaint that the bug exists, or a suggestion that you prioritise fixin
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by mjw1007 6y ago
This is the aspect that baffles me. I've heard people say with a straight face that they'd prefer to use Oracle "so there's somebody to sue" if things go wrong. But it also seems to be uncontroversial that no good c
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by mjw1007 6y ago
A third category is those chosen for their physical position.
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emacsclient to an emacsserver on another machine works fine. You'll want to tunnel it over ssh. If the machines don't have a shared filesystem namespace, I suggest writing a small wrapper that translates the file's pathname t
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by mjw1007 6y ago
But a similar list in the other direction would be non-empty, right? For example, PostgreSQL's SERIALIZABLE isolation level has actually been serializable for nearly a decade now. As I understand it, Oracle's isn't yet.
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by mjw1007 6y ago
From https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54225572 : « By law, they have to know who their clients are - it's not enough to file SARs and keep taking dirty money from clients while expecting enforcers to deal with the pr
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by mjw1007 6y ago
This is a project group under the "libs" team (ie, the team responsible for the standard library). So I don't think language changes are going to come out of it.
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by mjw1007 6y ago
I see one of the two shepherds for the group is the author of https://github.com/yaahc/eyre , which is a fork of `anyhow` that adds features. So I expect that's an indication of what's likely to come out of th
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by mjw1007 6y ago
It's common for papers to include words like "recently", or indeed "has not yet", which are rather more time-sensitive and still don't specify an exact year.
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I observe that the same is true for the paper's authorship information, but nobody seems to have any difficulty placing that prominently near the top of the document itself.
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That seems rather sloppy to start with: you could easily end up a year or two out (the date that matters isn't the date of publication, it's the date that was in the author's head when they wrote something like "Twenty y
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by mjw1007 6y ago
The first sentence of the article begins "Twenty years ago", and yet the article itself is undated. This appears to be entirely normal for scientific papers. Can anyone tell me how this foolishness came to be considered acceptable
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by mjw1007 6y ago
Note the article says which bit of the treaty it's talking about (the Northern Ireland protocol). If he'd written "I've heard from legal advisers that they've been asked to provide a justification for breaking part
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by mjw1007 6y ago
Murray often claims to be reporting something he was told by an insider at the Foreign Office. I'm not sure whether in general to believe him. In this case I'm convinced, from what we know now, that he was telling the truth: that
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by mjw1007 6y ago
Here's an example of his conspiracy-like thinking from last year: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/10/bad-faith-ne... He claimed to have inside information from the Foreign Office, that the g
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by mjw1007 6y ago
In the 80s, largely because compilers were expensive. I think it had a (smallish) second chance in 2001, when GNAT was put in the main GCC tree. By then plenty of people were disillusioned with C and C++, and I think it could have got momen
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by mjw1007 6y ago
It turns out that there is very little scope to relax the axioms: for almost any voting scheme, there are circumstances where you do better by not voting your true preferences. See the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem. Pretty much the only sch
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by mjw1007 6y ago
In the special case of Stack Overflow, I think the overriding concern should be to make sure that the page with the title "How do I do foo with 'cut'" has, as its most visible response, a description of how to do foo wit
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by mjw1007 6y ago
You very likely are facing an XY problem. It's usually still best to start by answering the question actually asked, and let the asker carry on from there. Very often the answer to the question is "there's no way to do that&q
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by mjw1007 6y ago
« Answer the question first ». There are so so many interactions that would go better if people would only do that. Yes, you may well be able to guess that the asker is taking the wrong approach, and if they only told you what they were rea
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by mjw1007 6y ago
As the post says: « Each person has and keeps having their own policy for signing keys. ». Many people will only sign keys if they have confidence that the name on the key is its controller's "real name" in some sense. Maybe
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by mjw1007 6y ago
You can see the help for the proposed `sq` command line interface here: https://docs.sequoia-pgp.org/sq/index.html Thought the article says they're not planning to release this with v1.0
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by mjw1007 6y ago
These days on the web, I think my brain is taking non-"professional" presentation as a positive signal. Compare these two sites: https://lygte-info.dk/ https://www.lifewire.com/best-rechargeable-ba
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by mjw1007 6y ago
If you summarise the article as "John Conway was good at thinking of names. Try to be more like John Conway.", then I think many mathematicians will think it's a reasonable suggestion.
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by mjw1007 6y ago
Well, the Home Secretary would probably be forced to announce an inquiry, which might report over a decade later, long after said Home Secretary's political career was over. Consider for example https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by mjw1007 6y ago
They might, for example, decide to demonstrate one aspect of their communication skills without asking clarifying questions by showing that they can, on the fly, produce a high-level summary of what happens when you load a URL followed by o
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by mjw1007 6y ago
The trouble with doing this in an artificial situation like an interview is that you're leaving the candidate to guess your purpose. If they correctly guess that what you mean is "please engage in a simulation of a planning conver
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by mjw1007 6y ago
I wonder why they can't. SO seems to be eternally undecided about whether it's trying to be an unconventionally structured forum, a massively multiplayer online game, or a jointly edited database of useful information. I wish it w
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by mjw1007 6y ago
An interesting thing to look for in the 2019 report when it comes out is whether any money changed hands when they settled the lawsuit with Yahoo!/Oath/Verizon.

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