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by norswap 6y ago
Here's a basic failure to even contemplate the motto that "correlation is not causation".
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by norswap 6y ago
Haha you're right, thanks! Something was rubbing me the wrong way as I wrote it but I couldn't figure it out.
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by norswap 6y ago
It's also weird for Japanese, typically the stroke order adheres to a certain logic, althought there are many exceptions (very roughly: top to bottom, left to right, trace a horizontal line before crossing it, do one stroke at a time,
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by norswap 6y ago
All models are wrong, some are useful, yadda yadda. Of course it doesn't explain humanity, that's just bad clickbait. But clustering things together helps analyzing things according to a certain theory/outlook. You can use MB
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by norswap 6y ago
More info: in 左, you'd draw the horizontal line first, while in 右 the slanted vertical line goes first.
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by norswap 6y ago
I wouldn't hold up in any serious suit, but it could be a good patent trolling weapon. Let's hope that when IBM inevitably goes the way of the cuckoo, this does not fall in the wrong hand and/or patent reform has happened by
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by norswap 6y ago
But Crystal doesn't have those either.
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by norswap 6y ago
Designers and monks all over history beg to differ: https://www.gwern.net/Red
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by norswap 6y ago
As opposed to? This just sounds like dumb shell hate. I personally would have used another language, but shell ain't that hard if you have some experience with it, and are using shellcheck as the author does. The config formats of the
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by norswap 6y ago
It's funny to me how wrong all of the answers of this thread are: These programs are too broad. / The talent is abroad. / This is a ticket for a Visa. Those may all be more or less true, but the broader issue of why these pro
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by norswap 6y ago
Does a language really have to aim for a specific use case?
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by norswap 6y ago
Cool. Could you maybe just read ahead and evaluate the claim for yourself and then post a comment about that if you end up agreeing/disagreeing with it?
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by norswap 6y ago
Something being written in C does not mean "understanding or contributing is close to impossible". That's as much of a boogeyman as I've ever seen.
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by norswap 6y ago
Is it really admirable though? If you remove the tether of software engineering, then CS is just math. I think what I like most in CS is when theory comes in support of SWE. Having something that is elegant and practically useful. (And I do
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by norswap 6y ago
Their regular laptops are priced at 2x or more the market for similar specs. The Mac Pro is more than 4x. Unless they align themselves with market price (within a premium range, maybe up to 50% more than median), I don't see how they c
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by norswap 6y ago
It would work if you somehow could get the value of `z` (the "return" value of `add` in the example). Then you have a unit test for `add` on its own, and if you also unit test `f1`, `f2` and `f3` (which it calls depending on the v
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by norswap 7y ago
It doesn't matter that people find the moldiness disgusting, as long as people talk about it. Clever. Also for all the fact that this is a stab at McDonalds, their decision to rebrand to green more than a decade ago (in Europe, and may
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by norswap 7y ago
I think the issue is that this is a good heuristic, but a shitty rule. You'll do well if you follow it, but you can find another set of rules (or heuristics) that you can follow, and you'll do well too despite completely violating
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by norswap 7y ago
Nope, and I've been searching. The issue with the spotlight engine that everyone uses is that it excludes "hidden" directories and in particular every dot file and dot directory.
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by norswap 7y ago
Honest question: isn't the benchmarks game unrepresentative because it encourages submission of heavily optimized non-idiomatic programs? Edit: looked at the source, which is easily accessible. The Java examples are reasonable (if slig
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by norswap 7y ago
Well you know it says `nospectre_v2 nospectre_v1`, they're not being exactly sneaky about it.
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by norswap 7y ago
The OP specifically said he's not advocating for stopping all measures, but for easing them up a bit.
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by norswap 7y ago
I'm sorry but this insulation talk is complete nonsense. Here (Belgium) houses are mostly made of concrete blocks with an insulation filling, then fronted with bricks. No reason why you'd need to use wood to add an insulation laye
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by norswap 7y ago
Just like the constructors (whom you actually pay), supporting additional devices comes with a cost unfortunately :'(
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by norswap 7y ago
The Wheel of Time series. I came to identify with the three main male characters (Perrin, Mat and Rand) at different periods of my life, and the story of them tackling their own personal struggles really inspired me. The female characters i
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Between the Spreadsheets(1843magazine.com)
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by norswap 7y ago
I'd be curious about the long-terms effects of pneumonia in general. Are they similar? Can this be counteracted by training lung functions?
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by norswap 7y ago
Trump was never very ideologically inclined, so this does not seem unbelievable. He mostly acts out of self-interest and to stroke his ego (a caricature, but one which doubles as a fairly solid heuristic). As other commenters have pointed o
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by norswap 7y ago
I doubt the Chinese government will be so attached to these traditions (?) that they choose to preserve them over increased probability of catastrophic risks.
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by norswap 7y ago
How can this possibly be bad for Amazon? Deliveries will explode as long as the post keeps running. More web usage also = wins for AWS.

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