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by mynameisash 1y ago
> just ones that are so intentionally cryptic so as to invent needless specific sigils that you need to memorize. Can you back up this claim that the language is intentionally cryptic ? Ignoring that: other languages have sigils (Perl&#
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by mynameisash 1y ago
> It will be better on certain topics and worse on others. This sounds like a "both sides" kind of statement and I don't think it's fitting literally immediately after acknowledging that you don't think Musk is g
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by mynameisash 1y ago
> keep yourself motivated As an entertainment device, Duolingo is fine. I used it to start my French journey, not truly appreciating the INCREDIBLE difficulty and quantity of effort required. Fortunately for me, I was and still am super
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by mynameisash 1y ago
I really enjoyed Veritasium for a while, but it seems like he's fallen into this trap. Click-baity, cookie-cutter videos. On the other hand, while I didn't follow Tom Scott particularly closely, I always enjoyed his stuff, and whe
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by mynameisash 1y ago
> Its a failure of leadership that schools needed a statewide ban to make such an obviously positive change. I assume you mean that it's a failure of the school's leadership? My kids' school has been applying more strict
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by mynameisash 1y ago
> That is already free in every US state. What?
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by mynameisash 1y ago
> The complaint is pretty much that WhatsApp engineers can access metadata (NOT the content of the messages). I don't even take this statement at face value. It's trivially easy to include models on client side that can do some
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by mynameisash 1y ago
I wired approximately that much money internationally years ago with Wise (then known as TransferWise). Wasn't a hassle at all, didn't require any rigamarole, and importantly, didn't require crypto. What's the problem wi
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by mynameisash 1y ago
The comments here are... interesting, as they indicate a strong split between analysts and those engineers that can operationalize things. I see another dimension to it all. My title is senior data engineer at GAMMA/FAANG/whatever
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by mynameisash 1y ago
> what this program does is trivial to describe and should have a commensurately simple implementation Why do you think that a simple implementation follows from a simple explanation? As an example, see XKCD 1425[0], whose transcript I i
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by mynameisash 1y ago
> Personally, hearing a portion of a song you love daily is the quickest way to ruin the song. I sort of agree with you. A few years ago, I joined a new team at work that had a really bad on-call rotation (lots of tech debt, bad TSGs, et
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by mynameisash 1y ago
I was coming home from work on my bike very late a few years ago, and I was on the side of the lane where your car tire would be -- not in the center. It was a good thing, too, because there was a full size ladder in the road, lined up exac
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You also can get better velocity than with other languages due to the compile-time checks.
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The title is referring to the fact that the building shown is the original Building 3. It has since been demolished, and now there's a new Building 3.
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by mynameisash 1y ago
> when you went looking for room 2352, you didn’t know what color wing it was in. I worked in building 6 for a while. That was frustrating because the two halves of the building were mirror images. If I had to go to the other side of the
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by mynameisash 1y ago
> Unlike human therapists, which have no hard oversight like this study did. What do you mean by that? My wife is a licensed therapist, and I know that she absolutely does have oversight from day one of her degree program up until now an
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by mynameisash 1y ago
> Do you really think you're going to send 1,000,000 nudes to your wife without accidentally sending one to the wrong person!? That seems like the wrong way to spin this hypothetical probability. A quick search says there are 1.38B
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by mynameisash 1y ago
> On a per mile basis it was cheap Just to make this concrete: I keep spreadsheets for all my vehicles, and I enter every single fuel up. My family's CRV costs $0.161/mile to drive. I bought a VW ID.4 in January, and I also tra
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by mynameisash 1y ago
Among many other things, I'm formatting many of my recipes and working on generating LaTeX to make a physical recipe book. My son has inherited my love of cooking and baking, so we'll refine the book, add comments and photos, and
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by mynameisash 1y ago
https://archive.ph/4jZ8V
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by mynameisash 1y ago
"Providing a false statement to Congress is a crime, regardless of whether you are under oath."[0] [0] https://www.hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2019/04/five-...
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by mynameisash 1y ago
It's extremely well-known and documented that the War on Drugs was racially motivated, and hence drugs used by certain minority groups more than the majority white population were made illegal. GP's comment isn't suggesting a
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by mynameisash 1y ago
> For deciding if a user is in Texas you could create a simple polygon completely inside Texas and one in Oklahoma. This seems like the obvious optimized v1: create extremely compressed (simplified) polygons wholly within the proper geop
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by mynameisash 1y ago
> thanks to broadcast updates on social media, your friends already know what have you've been up to, so they can delude themselves into thinking that they've maintained a relationship because they know superficial details. Thi
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Lots of responses to your first two points, and I immediately jumped to your last one: > Third, I was surprised the author felt bad. A sign that there is unfortunately some stigma in re-using things. Ever since my wife and I got married
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by mynameisash 1y ago
Norman talks a good deal about cognitive load and that good design is intuitive. Ideally, you shouldn't notice good design because it's near invisible. OTOH, I recall Tufte going on and on about cutting the "data-ink ratio&qu
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by mynameisash 1y ago
I've heard so much praise for The Visual Display of Quantitative Information , but why, I'll never know. I bought it after hearing someone rave about it, and I'll be damned if I didn't hate every page of the book. It fe
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Here is what he puts forth: > If it's possible to control your environment through your thoughts or steer your perceptions (or soul if you prefer) through other universes, I'll bet the secret to doing that is a process called &
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by mynameisash 1y ago
> I've been trying rust for the past 2 months fulltime, > recently lost an afternoon on something that could very well be a known compiler bug With respect, at two months, you're still in the throes of the learning curve, an
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by mynameisash 1y ago
I don't remember where, but I once heard someone talk about "error-message-driven-development" in Rust -- that is, using the error messages provided by rustc to guide you in your development process by way of fixing bugs in n

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