mjw1007

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by mjw1007 7y ago
It's not my favourite style of writing, but it's by no means word salad. That paragraph presents a single coherent line of thought. They could have chosen simpler individual words, but there's nothing difficult in the phrasin
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It was updated for the half-way-house 2018-edition changes in Rust 1.31 (in December 2018). It wasn't updated for the further changes ("uniform paths") made six weeks later in Rust 1.32.
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It has not been updated. use-declarations.md was updated three days ago to replace incorrect text with a note saying «Note: This section is incomplete» though. I understand why build system trouble meant the policy was changed from "th
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The bug is https://github.com/rust-lang/reference/issues/487 I'm not quite sure how it got to be that way, as the policy is that reference documentation is supposed to be written (if not actually in plac
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It doesn't help that the Reference still hasn't been updated to describe how 'use' paths work nowadays (for well over a year now).
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I think a programmer might well do a better job than a lawyer. Some years ago, Mozilla decided to relaunch their browser under the name "Firebird". That was a poor choice of name, because there was already a free-software database
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I think Normal Lamont in 1990 was the last chancellor to be promoted directly from chief secretary to the treasury (which is in fact the second most senior position in the treasury). His predecessor, John Major, entered the cabinet as chief
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One variant of this is to use Python syntax but parse it with the `ast` module rather than evaluating it. This avoids the security problems and the risk that someone will start to write programs inside the configuration file, but gives you
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Historically, one of the main purported justifications for agricultural subsidies has been to ensure that insert-country-name-here can be more nearly self-sufficient if some crisis comes along to make importing food difficult. That doesn&#x
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I don't think the post was intended to be a boast about how many messages they send. I think it was intended to be a description of how it's sensible to set things up at the scale they happen to have.
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For example, a Swedish company might have made an English version of an existing Swedish ball and mistakenly failed to change one image.
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Naively, if immunity from prior exposure lasts for a few months, then we might reasonably hope for a vaccine whose effects last for a few months. I suppose if that happened people would get revaccinated frequently.
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It isn't so simple, because there are many ways of dividing up the work that's going to be done into job roles (and the division tends to be industry-wide, rather than done separately within each company). The people doing the hir
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Ford claimed his motivation wasn't supply and demand for labour, but a wish that his workers should have been able to buy his product. Worstall says two things: - Ford's claimed motivation makes no sense; - there is a plausible mo
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That way of prioritising things makes sense, but in this case it meant the on-call SRE and someone from the edge networking team wasted their time diagnosing the hardware problem. It seems a shame that the blog post wasn't able to foll
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by mjw1007 7y ago
He could be doing both. NB I have no reason to suppose the story is actually true. Very likely it isn't. But the motivation the story claims Ford had does make sense. He was in a position to influence other employers' decisions by
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by mjw1007 7y ago
Right. I think Worstall is correct that the story only makes sense if the pay decision can be generalised to other companies, otherwise it won't have enough effect on the market. But there's no good reason to generalise "Ford
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by mjw1007 7y ago
The story makes a good deal of sense if, in general, wages are set only partly by supply and demand, and partly by the employers-as-a-class's feelings of how much money people doing that sort of job ought to earn. In this case producti
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by mjw1007 7y ago
Right. High temperature and thermal throttling are things that can and should be monitored directly. Spotting it by digging down from service-level monitoring instead isn't terrible, but it isn't something to be proud of either.
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by mjw1007 7y ago
« Typo was as surprising inside as it was outside. Its similarity measure was based on trigram frequencies, which it counted in a 26x26x26 array. The small memory, which had barely room enough for 1-byte counters, spurred a scheme for squee
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The "competition" that Google is bidding against is all the other ways that people capable of finding this sort of bug might choose to spend their free time.
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The GNU tar man page is explicitly a shortened reference, because the real manual is in info format. Info manuals are often examples of documentation done well, and the tar manual looks pretty decent. For example it has sections like "
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« Euclidean - state your axioms and let users derive the rest. Easiest for the API provider, but hardest on the user. This is the most common form of documentation. You see it all the time. Each entry point in the API is sort of explained,
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That doesn't answer the question, which was « Given a specific priority, what additional benefit do you get from having an additional severity label on the bug? » not « Given a specific severity, what additional benefit do you get from
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That seems to mean "if you assume that the drug seizure records are not falsified, you can conclude that the police are not lying or producing false evidence".
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The chart showing cases outside China by date of onset of symptoms (Figure 2) looks reasonably reassuring: the peak seems to have remained in the same place (the end of January) for a week or so now. On the other hand, they also say that th
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There's often some poor journalism involved too. If archaeologists have only come across tool X in cultures which engage in (say) year-round agriculture, they'll fairly naturally come to a weakly-held belief along the lines of &qu
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I'm sure Norvig is very good, but I think the sudoku webpage is presenting a finished program in an idealised way, not recording the process he used to write it, false starts and all. (It seems likely to me that there were some false s
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One big problem with SVG is that the specification is so large that everyone implements a subset, so interoperability suffers. Lots of XML-based standards of a similar age seem to have suffered from this. There was an idea that there'd
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Sure, but we want to be sure that the chosen model fits in correctly with the borrow checker. That's the part I was interested in.

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