munch117

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by munch117 2y ago
I was under the impression that Americans landfilled their garbage. I don't doubt that waste export is a thing, but is it really that large a proportion?
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by munch117 2y ago
> So the diagram should not be used because of an education problem with some audiences? A problem like this one that he mentions, "People associate longer shapes with greater quantity", is not something you can fix by teaching
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by munch117 2y ago
Perhaps I expressed myself poorly, and left room for misunderstanding, because I cannot possible imagine that we have any real disagreement on how to compute quartiles. Any set of numbers I give you, you can compute quartiles for it. There
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by munch117 2y ago
A plot that requires the reader to be perfectly qualified is a bad plot.
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by munch117 2y ago
Count data points in each quartile. You can do that for any sortable data, independent of distribution.
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by munch117 2y ago
But is that what they're actually used for? The data has been reduced to three numbers, throwing away most of the information that you would need to assess whether the distribution is gaussian or not. If it's not, how will you ev
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by munch117 2y ago
Isn't that the whole point? That the graph type is very easy to misunderstand. If you are right, and not even a professional data visualization consultant properly understands the graph, then who will?
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by munch117 2y ago
Algebraic notation hasn't changed notably in the last (at least) 50 years. The abbreviated form that most people use today was also the form that most people used 50 years ago. (A change to indicate draw offers is the only one I can
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by munch117 2y ago
Kinda misunderstands algebraic notation: You are by no means required to use the minimal unambiguous notation. In fact, the canonical form is something like "Ng1-f3". "Nf3" is a context-dependent abbreviation of that. D
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by munch117 2y ago
If you read between the lines, they're actually saying that agile projects fail to finish on time 268% more often. Not finishing on time is a very different thing from failing. Especially for agile, where you're supposed to del
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by munch117 2y ago
I'll admit that I'm in well over my head here. I'm no banker, and I've never had a realkredit loan myself. But here goes. I believe the difference is that mortgages are tied to the individual property, and thus individ
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by munch117 2y ago
How would the current value be determined? The lender has no incentive to offer you a competitive price, when your alternative is to pay the loan in full. The point of the Danish system is that it's a market system through and through
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by munch117 2y ago
Only slightly disappointed that this isn't about a Forth dialect called 'Spring Forth'. Great cartoon.
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by munch117 2y ago
In the corporate sphere, this is way easier to investigate than most other forms of corporate crime. Investigating price fixing or discrimination is hard, because it happens over a protracted period, and you have to show a pattern, and ever
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by munch117 3y ago
So make it more precise. DOB + n * 365.2421.
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by munch117 3y ago
When it comes to being ambiguously defined, "senior" is not just any old term. A senior can be someone who's two years out of school, or it can someone of retirement age (senior citizen), or anything in-between. Given contex
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by munch117 3y ago
The configuration complexity clock ( https://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2012/05/configuration-comple... ) is another description of the same phenomenon. The inner platform is the DSL at 9 o'clock.
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by munch117 3y ago
Sounds about right, thank you.
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by munch117 3y ago
That's my interpretation as well. It doesn't put him in a much better light, though. It's like he's so incompetent that he didn't even realise that there was something that needed covering up.
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by munch117 3y ago
Question: That part of the brain he likes to call the cockroach brain - what's the standard name for that part of the brain?
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by munch117 3y ago
Fair enough. You can optimise for lots of things. But when people warn against "premature optimisation", specifically, they are advising you to give higher priority to things like modularity, readability, abstraction and mainta
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by munch117 3y ago
For you, me and James Hiebert, this sort of optimisation is exhilarating. Getting a half-hour job down to milliseconds? Awesome! But for the scientists that wrote the original code, maybe not. Maybe they think of this sort of thing as dru
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by munch117 3y ago
"Premature optimisation" refers to speed or size. Using the phrase to talk about those other things is a stretch. (Except maybe cost.) You can design for modularity, readability etc., but optimising for them doesn't sou
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by munch117 3y ago
I do. dict() costs me less eye strain to recognise out of the corner of my eye. Why the triple question marks? You could have just asked the question straight.
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by munch117 3y ago
Because every object stepped over is downgraded from visited to not visited. At most 1 object is set to visible per lookup.
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by munch117 3y ago
O(N), but amortized O(1).
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by munch117 3y ago
I think merge sort would provide a better experience. Quicksort can be great for human-comparison sorting if you let the user pick the pivot, and if you have a direct-manipulation interface for dividing a big pile into two smaller ones. Hum
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by munch117 3y ago
> We don't break user space. That's one strategy. It has consequences, such as keeping around K&R declarations and implicit pointer/int conversion for decades after they started being warned against. Other strategies
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by munch117 3y ago
Yes, GDP is an unreliable measure for value created. It's not just that some work isn't counted. It's also that work is counted based on monetary remuneration, even if it's contribution to the general welfare is very lo
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by munch117 3y ago
Search-replace has its problems: auto tautology = sizeof("automatons are on auto"); but int float f; is not a big one: The compiler will flag it as a syntax error, and you fix it as it comes.

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