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by mumblemumble 3y ago
I think that it might even be worse than asking a meteorologist for sunshine. Because asking a meteorologist for sunshine has no conceivable influence on the weather, but putting a thumb on the estimation process can absolutely alter the de
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
The impureim sandwich is often thought of as a sort of impractical purism that only a Haskell programmer could love. But it's really quite useful in imperative and object-oriented code, too. For example, in typical enterprise programmi
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
I would argue it's more a blind spot of big data, which tends to tacitly imply just doing correlational studies on data that happens to be laying around. Most data scientists work for companies that don't really want to pay for co
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
Remembering that a line of code is a price you pay, and not an accomplishment in and of itself, is a valuable mindset to maintain. And I think that 500 lines is a comparable volume of code to digest across many languages. It may accomplish
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
> Zero copy state transfer is a viable and high performance alternative . Completely agreed, but also, adding my own emphasis there. The technique has has enough gotchas, edge cases, and additional security considerations that it should
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
> Some people just don't have the ability to say "yeah, we've got enough". It seems fairly clear to me that having more stuff makes people more greedy. And, yes, there is causation there, not just correlation. You can
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
It's signaling. Wearing prominent logos sends yourself and others a message that you have the disposable income to pay twice as much for a version of the thing that has a special picture on it.
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
My public library has thousands of DVD. More than I could watch in a lifetime, I think. There's even a bit of streaming. And, outside of the Disney stuff, none of it has ads I can't skip. All free. I mention this and someone alway
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
I'm OK with that. Big picture, EVs are just sweeping the fossil fuel problem under the rug, and I've yet to see a response to this problem that doesn't rely on counting chickens before they've hatched. And the cost of (o
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
Next you'll be telling me Beyonce's sisters should be named Beyoncd and Beyoncf instead of Aeyonce and Ceyonce.
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
In XML's defense, the attribute-vs-child-element choice is always obvious and straightforward when you're using it as a markup language . It's only when you use it as object notation that it becomes wonky, because there th
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
I used to work at a place where the company car we'd have to drive when visiting the home office was often one of the higher-end Mercedes sedans. (I don't remember which one.) The controls were such a confusing, overdesigned mess.
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
I think that this time around it's not actually something that falls under US antitrust law. At the time of the 2001 IE antitrust suit, Internet Explorer had 90% browser marketshare and was using it to prop up the dominance of Windows
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
It's starting to bleed out of Edge, too. Recently Outlook showed me a popup explaining that they're going to start ignoring my system default browser setting and open all hyperlinks in Edge instead, on the pretense that Edge offer
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
If we're using the more formal/traditional definition of "type safe" of "won't crash or go into an undefined state due to runtime type errors", then I think that it doesn't actually change the type sa
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
It's also nice for making certain kinds of code more readable and maintainable in a way that isn't perfectly emulated by anything in OOP. Here's a nice talk on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfYA
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
Throw a checked exception in there and it all goes to hell all over again.
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
Well, also, if you're going to write something like Numpy, Python is the most hospitable language for it. C extensions really are a superpower of the language. It would not be easy to achieve a similarly effective result while working
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
I think you may be right about the lamplight fallacy. I just started learning Mandarin this year. It's somewhat famous for having a simple grammar, but that in no way means that it has lesser expressive capacity. It just means that the
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
If it were a proper random sample then it would be a decent-sized sample that should permit the calculation of a useful confidence interval on a non-negligible proportion. The cool thing about random samples is that the size you need is gen
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
I don't. But I know from experience as someone who gets paid to do statistics that you work with the constraints that are set by your employer, and the person who gets to have the job is the person who's willing to do the job.
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
We probably don't. Empirically demonstrating the effectiveness of an advertising campaign is notoriously difficult and expensive and few people in the adtech industry have any interest in paying for that kind of research. See, for exam
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
Does personally targeted advertising even add that much value over contextual advertising? I occasionally click on AdWords ads, or look up a company I see on an ad in the subway station, or follow up on Internet ads that I know are contextu
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
Maybe, but probably not the way it works out in the stories we tell ourselves. I vaguely remember a study making the rounds in the news a while back that found that, while women certainly do sometimes dump men or refuse to have sex with the
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
I wonder what the kama sutra's model has to say about surveys indicating that women who have sex with women tend to have significantly more satisfying sex lives than women who have sex with men. Presumably, for the purposes of the mode
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
Some good old-fashioned body positivity might work even better with even fewer side effects.
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
I'm more or less in that boat. I did by my laptop, a 2013 MacBook Pro, new, but 10 years later it's still fine for my purposes. For productivity purposes, the only real concessions to its age are that I did have to get the battery
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
But it really doesn't take much to stay up to speed. I'm with kashuntstva; I stopped actively consuming the news a year or two back, and I find I'm not tangibly less informed than the people I know who leave CNN turned on all
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
If we're talking about the United States, it's not an oxymoron at all. I've got some extremely profitable 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations I could show you. Autism Speaks comes to mind. They may not be making money for publ
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by mumblemumble 3y ago
> OpenAI is a serious threat to Google's 1%, because it can give better answers It does seem to give better answers. But I don't think that's necessarily indicative of which kind of technology is capable of giving better s

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