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by nimih 3y ago
As is explained in the abstract, purely functional data structures are most useful when you want to avoid assignment, either due to the restrictions of your programming environment (f.ex. you're programming in Haskell), or because that
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by nimih 3y ago
I havent work in the P&C industry for many years so I have no special knowledge here, but given the past half decade of CA wildfire seasons and what the climate scientists have to say about what’s coming down the line, it seems pretty p
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by nimih 3y ago
In terms of the insurance industry at least, California isn’t too far out of the ordinary compared in terms of bureaucracy and red tape (especially compared to, say, some eastern states with powerful and aggressive regulators such as NY or
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by nimih 3y ago
Speaking personally, a webpage with nothing beyond a cool or interesting sequence of images is already in the 90th percentile of good HN posts.
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by nimih 3y ago
Do you not use your pinky to hit the caps lock key?
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by nimih 3y ago
Blocking ads on the youtube mobile app (or even a mobile browser) is much more difficult than on desktop.
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by nimih 3y ago
The OP I was responding to specifically used the phrase “content creator,” which is popularly understood in the English speaking world to refer to artists, writers, musicians, video creators, and other such pursuits who generally have rathe
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by nimih 3y ago
Which content creator, specifically, is getting paid when I see an ad while trying to find a package tracking notification in my email inbox?
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by nimih 4y ago
Perhaps it's a regional issue? I get (searching from the US) No results for "from:mtaibbi" whereas I get plenty of results searching for other handles.
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by nimih 4y ago
This takes twelve keystrokes and 3 mouse clicks to verify (including the click to take you to twitter in the first place). Certainly within the capacity of even the most incurious HN readers.
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by nimih 4y ago
That makes sense, thanks for clarifying.
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by nimih 4y ago
Yes. You can prove it to yourself with this program: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
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by nimih 4y ago
> The device ultimately needs the wifi passcode in plaintext. Why is this the case? There are a number of cryptographic methods of varying complexity which allow a server to authenticate a client against a password without storing the pa
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by nimih 4y ago
I can't speak for Go-centric articles in general, but for this one in particular, the only one (as of now, after 14 hours of comments) bringing up Rust is this single person with (apparently) a weird chip on their shoulder.
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by nimih 4y ago
> It does more than that. It understands how to do basic math. You can ask it what ((935+91218)/4)*3) is and it will answer it correctly. Swap those numbers for any other random numbers, it will answer it correctly. At least for GPT
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by nimih 4y ago
Wrong. Two reasons, actually: 1. Culture is a dynamic and malleable thing, and through thoughtful criticism, it's possible to help people not be pedantic assholes on internet message boards. 2. If a post is both unnecessarily abrasive,
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by nimih 4y ago
I had access to--and used--OneMedical through my employer-provided health insurance for a couple years. The way to understand it isn't as an alternative to your health insurance, but as a care-provider network with a nice app and a bun
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by nimih 4y ago
> Like are there other people claiming that this purist version of exactly-once does exist? In my experience, the purist version of "exactly-once" exists as a vague, wishy-washy mental model in the brains of developers who have
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by nimih 4y ago
This issues are in the context of distributed systems where you want to be able to recover from losing a receiver (f.ex., we want to be able to reassign partitions for a Kafka topic when a consumer goes down). If you don't mind your sy
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by nimih 4y ago
I'm certainly not going to defend Uncle Bob here, but I don't think you have to be a SOLID cultist to think that preferring smaller functions, factoring out oft-repeated patterns, and relying on a language's abstraction featu
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by nimih 4y ago
> Our job is to write programs that run well on the hardware that we are given. The author seems to be neglecting the fact that the whole point of “clean code” is to improve the likelihood of achieving the first goal (code that runs well
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by nimih 4y ago
I hadn’t realized the only reason stalking is an issue is because there’s no negative consequences for doing it. Glad someone finally solved that problem.
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by nimih 4y ago
These sorts of screeds against regexes always strike me as very strange: regexes can be written in the terse, difficult to read manner that the author demonstrates, but they can also be written with inlined comments, named capture groups, a
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by nimih 4y ago
I'm pretty sure you're wrong even just going by (edit: pre-2022Q4) features listed on the wikipedia page[1], and that appears to leave out a number of cool and useful things such as polls and the extensive support for image alt-te
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by nimih 4y ago
The & operator in Data.Function--which is just flipped $ with slightly higher, but still very low, operator precedence--at least gives you a way to deal with this in base; it's unfortunate it isn't more widely used in tutorial
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by nimih 4y ago
I’m not sure about you, but in my experience, trying to ship code while it still has failing tests tends to not get approved during code review.
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by nimih 4y ago
{1} U {2} = {1,2} and is not in the family.
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by nimih 4y ago
Yeah, the human being behind the counter will probably ask "why the hell are you ringing up each book on a new credit card," to which the OP would presumably answer "I'm buying books for work and this is how they make me
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by nimih 4y ago
That's a good point about non-determinism, although I wonder if there are known convergence/stability results in the ML literature that allow you to effectively ignore that detail (i.e. it seems plausible that you could get someth
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by nimih 4y ago
With this variant, since there are a finite number of legal board positions in chess, and Human^n chess is simply chess with a finite number of moves prohibited at each board position (claiming is the same as resigning, in this formulation)

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