mrec

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901.
by mrec 9y ago
Yes, I've seen this syndrome coming from (pretty senior) management far more than from developers. My suspicion is that it's more about padding the CV than just "feel[ing] more important" - they may well be behaving rati
902.
by mrec 9y ago
Yes, but so what? People not in need would still be benefitting from BI payments to them, and those benefits should be offset against any increase in tax and/or reduction in salary. There's a legitimate question as to whether a
903.
by mrec 9y ago
This sounds plausible, but my question in this context is always: given that people in first world countries are not currently starving to death by the millions, where is the money coming from to keep them alive? If this money were to be re
904.
by mrec 9y ago
> if it isn't enough to live on (at a very basic level), the experiment would fail In terms of what I'm hoping for I agree, but it does depend on who you're pitching to and what their goals are. Assuming that BI is restr
905.
by mrec 9y ago
But "the cost of extra shipping" has to be offset against the annual Prime fee, and all the perks you list apply just as much to vanilla (non-Prime) Amazon. In recent years I've found myself swinging back towards buying thing
906.
by mrec 9y ago
Presumably with sourcemaps, same as you use to debug minified JS. I dunno how reliably that works in practice these days, but it's not a new problem by any means.
907.
by mrec 9y ago
> Also the yearly membership locks people to amazon to an extent. True, but I see that as a strike against Amazon. I was really pissed off recently when I found Amazon were selling the DVD/BD of a popular recent movie as a Prime e
908.
by mrec 9y ago
I've been getting a lot of that too; it's a bit scary how consistently some people can not know what their email address is, even for stuff you'd think they'd care about. Job offers, Facebook signup confirmations, utilit
909.
by mrec 9y ago
The periods (intervals between events) there would be [93, 22, 155, 112] My. That doesn't look like they're getting shorter.
910.
by mrec 10y ago
I don't remember that one. If you should happen to find it again, I'd very much appreciate a link. Scott often approvingly reblogs things for being interesting and thought-provoking, rather than necessarily agreeing with them, but
911.
by mrec 10y ago
That's usually known as "Chesterton's fence" [1]: In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There e
912.
by mrec 10y ago
You make an interesting point in the last para. I agree about the focus on outrage in modern identity politics (if you haven't already read it, SSC's The Toxoplasma of Rage [1] is the best overview I've seen), but I'm
913.
by mrec 10y ago
> People got to Australia around 40,000–60,000 years ago by boat so it seems unlikely that people needed a land bridge Maybe, maybe not. Living for days on an open raft or equivalent is going to be a lot tougher when you're nearly
914.
by mrec 10y ago
Seems to be paywalled.
915.
by mrec 10y ago
> If you only have one of TryParse or Parse you cannot judge the intention. Sure you can. To take Java as an example, if you only have one parse method and it returns an `Optional`, you can indicate the intention by whether or not you ca
916.
by mrec 10y ago
> There is a deep semantic difference between TryParse and Parse Sure, but I don't think that splitting every possibly-failing API call into throwing and non-throwing forms is the right way to express that difference, and a lot of t
917.
by mrec 10y ago
As I see it, the Rust (etc) approach avoids two problems: 1. The C problem of forgetting to check error returns. Yes, exceptions (checked or not) also avoid this. 2. The C++/Java/C# problem of exceptions being more expensive than
918.
by mrec 10y ago
Ah, OK, that makes more sense. Thanks. What's the default if you don't select "Advanced Options", btw?
919.
by mrec 10y ago
I'm not at all convinced about making the general user choose between 32- and 64-bit versions at installation, given that even techies disagree on the relative merits [1]. (Sometimes with themselves [2].) If the system only supports on
920.
by mrec 10y ago
It's enabled by default in Firefox.
921.
by mrec 10y ago
Fair point about arms reduction. I'd been thinking "nuclear war in general" rather than "a nuclear war right now", which is probably the more useful discussion.
922.
by mrec 10y ago
Their are upsides and downsides either way. Moving the coalition-building to before the election, as the US and (to a lesser extent) the UK do, means that voters have a pretty good idea of the final outcome they're voting for. On the o
923.
by mrec 10y ago
I think you're being extraordinarily optimistic. Here's [1] a declassified JCS report from 1961 estimating over 200 million deaths from a US attack alone , not including the counterattack. This was with lower target populations a
924.
by mrec 10y ago
MAD isn't current US policy and hasn't been for some time. US doctrine allows for flexible responses and the possibility of a nuclear exchange staying within the bounds of a regional conflict, rather than automatically escalating
925.
by mrec 10y ago
Yup. Karachi, Shanghai and Beijing alone would put you above the total casualties of WW2. I've no idea what GP is smoking.
926.
by mrec 10y ago
Is it really Leavers saying that, though? Or is it Remainers telling everyone that Leavers are saying that as a way of trying to make Leavers look bad? Obviously, as with anything in reality, it's a bit of both. But polls both before a
927.
by mrec 10y ago
But if it was a last-minute thing, what happens to checked baggage, which may have already been loaded onto the plane by that point? Does this imply you're much more likely to get picked for last-minute eviction if you didn't chec
928.
by mrec 10y ago
Right. Which makes it mildly ironic that John Wheeler, a leading early proponent of many-worlds, also proposed the one-electron universe... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe
929.
by mrec 10y ago
Back when I read about this stuff I had the exact opposite reaction - Occam's Razor seemed to favour Many-Worlds. Given direct experience of one universe, I think it's more ontologically conservative to introduce multiple universe
930.
by mrec 10y ago
"Even a potato in a dark cellar has a certain low cunning about him which serves him in excellent stead. He knows perfectly well what he wants and how to get it. He sees the light coming from the cellar window and sends his shoots cra

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