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by nimih 4y ago
Probably not. I'm not the strictest vegetarian (I'll sometimes treat myself to oysters, and will eat meat if it's the only reasonable thing available at a restaurant or dinner party), and at this point in my life, I just plai
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by nimih 4y ago
It's possible that a lot of office workers have decided they have good reasons to prefer working from home beyond the highly contagious airborne disease. I know that I personally have, but further research is probably necessary to dete
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by nimih 4y ago
> How do we know that BB(n) exists for all n? What would it mean for BB(n) to "not exist"? Recall that BB(n) is defined in a very concrete way: you take all the Turing machines of size n (which are easily enumerable combinatori
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by nimih 4y ago
Yeah, I can't figure out what the hell the significance of 1,666,666,666 is. I'm usually able to suss these things out, but I'm having a devil of a time on this one.
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by nimih 4y ago
While this is an interesting theory, my personal anecdotal experience doesn't really seem to support it. Some particular bands seem to have gotten more expensive over time (e.g., if I want to see Modest Mouse in Oakland this December,
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by nimih 4y ago
cyclic redundancy check
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by nimih 4y ago
I'd agree with this in a vacuum, but unfortunately the state of infrastructure in the United States[1] is such that most people--especially lower-income folks--need to drive to work, the grocery store, to ferry kids to/from school
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by nimih 4y ago
> If ensuring that people from marginalized backgrounds get good treatment is important in third level education, would the same arguments not apply in a much stronger fashion to first and second level? They do, which is why [primary] sc
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by nimih 4y ago
One thing to note is that, not only can taxes be made progressive, liability insurance is likely regressive considering higher paying jobs are more likely to be remote.
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by nimih 4y ago
Within the standard library, `clojure.core/pmap` is good for simple problems[0], whereas the various functions in the clojure.core.reducers[1] namespace are a bit more sophisticated and would probably solve the sort of problem you&#x27
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by nimih 4y ago
> I don't think the impact is as great as they say. Can you expand on this? I'm not particularly familiar with the style of financial analysis they're doing in the study, but the authors claim the methods and variables the
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by nimih 4y ago
It's very unclear to me who, exactly, is going to be able to determine that significant numbers of children are accessing my website if I'm not tracking any sort of analytics beyond hits/day. Even taking into account section
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by nimih 4y ago
You should really start by thinking through your so-called "threat model": what are the things you're actually trying to protect against, and what risks are you comfortable with? There's never going to be a perfectly sec
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by nimih 4y ago
Yeah, maybe. I certainly hope that, given how great Gankra's writing is, the business that is running their blog does not end up fined many thousands of dollars due to some stupid California law.
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by nimih 4y ago
It's very unclear to me which specific paragraph A-E would be triggered by the act of publishing writing about food or music on a personal blog. Perhaps if I kept detailed metrics about my users and discovered a significant number were
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by nimih 4y ago
You should also quote the following section: (4) “Likely to be accessed by children” means it is reasonable to expect, based on the following indicators, that the online service, product, or feature would be accessed by children: (A
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by nimih 4y ago
I dunno, the "declarative-ness" of `make` is a pretty important component of its usefulness. In particular, the property of `make`, wherein the structure/details of the computation is implicit in the provided configuration an
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by nimih 4y ago
You should probably just read the study itself (which will presumably be published in the next issue of the Alzheimer's Association's journal of Alzheimer's & Dementia, going by the conference's website), if you&#x27
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by nimih 4y ago
14th paragraph: > Ultraprocessed foods are defined as "industrial formulations of food substances (oils, fats, sugars, starch, and protein isolates) that contain little or no whole foods and typically include flavorings, colorings,
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by nimih 4y ago
> do I want some recent college graduate with a psychology degree to be in charge of my experience? Um, no. This strikes me as a very strange way of framing things. When you phrase it that way, I'd also reflexively say "no,&quo
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by nimih 4y ago
I agree with your specific assessments here, but I was trying to get at the question of whether there are meaningful and measurable differences in the broad-scale accessibility of e.g. whitespace-centric syntax vs lispy syntax vs curly-brac
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by nimih 4y ago
The article closes with this thought: > While both languages are much easier to read than say, PHP or Java, [...blah blah blah...] Which leads me to wonder: Have there been any serious studies of the readability of programming language s
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by nimih 4y ago
I can only speak anecdotally, but I'm on a social slack channel with a group of about a couple dozen or so IRL friends; it's mainly for shooting the shit, but we'll typically plan both small get-togethers and larger many-mont
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by nimih 4y ago
> I can be as careful as I want in writing panic-safe code, but there's no ergonomic and non-hacky way to ensure that I don't use third-party crates in a way that can possibly panic either. There's also no way to ensure th
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by nimih 4y ago
You can still have a lexing step when using a parsing combinator approach, and in practice you probably should for complex parsing tasks. Unfortunately, I'm not sure I've ever read a tutorial which really walks through doing such
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by nimih 4y ago
> And you do have to understand TypeFamilies to use Megaparsec. This is only the case if you're using custom input streams, right? Writing a parser that just operates on ByteString/Text seems like a pretty gentle/reasonabl
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by nimih 4y ago
If that's the case, it means that GPT-3 doesn't just raise ethical questions, but legal ones as well: several jurisdictions around the world currently require that search engines allow for the erasure of private information upon r
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by nimih 4y ago
The OP is probably understanding "capitalist" in the sense of Marxist economics, wherein surplus value generated by laborers is extracted by investors. In that sense, co-ops, where the workers themselves maintain complete democrat
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by nimih 4y ago
> Your playstyle shouldn’t change if the big blind is $1 or $1000. Your playstyle might not change, but it certainly seems plausible that the average players' does. Anecdotally, even a $5 vs $20 buy-in seems to meaningfully change
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by nimih 4y ago
I'm not sure I'd describe developing a gambling addiction as becoming a "high level games player," to be honest.

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