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by pacala 7y ago
Hopefully only the specific Java incantation. Other languages have different syntax, so arguably they are not Java. Java: public String concat(String str) Javascript: String.prototype.concat ( [ string1 [ , string2 [ , … ] ] ] )
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Google had the option to buy SUN, too.
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Not copyrightable APIs is a fairly dangerous precedent. 1. Good APIs are hard. 2. Under Alsup's ruling, good luck competing with AWS sales org when they decide to offer your own APIs as a service. 3. Nothing prevents Google from invent
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Cue is intriguing. The flexible typing mechanism is very powerful. Alas, the documentation is lacking. There is quite a bit of musing around the type/value lattice semantic and how the core operation is "<set of nodes>: <
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24/7 pokemon go.
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Not being constrained by the publish or perish treadmill is a huge plus.
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Extrapolate a bit more. Imagine a Maps app that allows you to see individual people and forward predict their interactions with the world with half second resolution, conditioned on the personalized stimuli you feed them through their elect
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Would you please elaborate what are the issues with Apple? From my limited perspective, they indeed focus on high margin products, and deliver them with a decent quality. I use a mid 2015 Macbook and an old iPhone 6S. Pretty reliable, both
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Q: What would a tool of actual decentralization look like? A: A pre-modern village.
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To the extent there exists a correlation between some characteristic and the outcome, models that exhibit the correlation will be more accurate than models that don't, irrespective whether the characteristic is used as a model feature
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Nuclear reactors contain highly toxic materials. No matter how smart designs they use, they'll decay and leak if left unattended for a long enough period. We have huge spent radioactive material storage problems right now. Just imagine
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Nuclear energy is deeply irresponsible. It requires maintenance of reactors to prevent significant environmental contamination. On a long enough timescale, it is impossible to guarantee continuous maintenance. At some point in the next mill
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While that's a much better formulation, it still lacks substance. Elaborate what is it that you find complex and sketch some concrete simpler alternatives. Review cycles where one side asks for reams of explanations, while being parsi
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First rule of the CoC: You do not talk about the CoC.
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Conda to install python, pip to manage dependencies.
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The other comprehension gap is that, thanks to Moore's law, these methods can be deployed at scale. Everyone is now a target, 24/7. In the good old days of XXth century and Bond movies, it took a highly paid analyst to target some
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Alas, Fitbit data has just become part of Google's surveillance economy.
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Your neighbor's Ring camera is not recording your fingerprint every time you get out of your house.
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Sounds like they've overshoot the ecological limits. Yet not a word on shutting off the immigration firehose.
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We'd be better off building our cities to encourage mass transit. Micromobility follows as a bonus.
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Different language families. It is/was feminine in the Latin world, and masculine, related to germanic Arne, in some pockets of Western Europe [Frisia, Scotland, France]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne
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Whenever you catch yourself engaging in tribal identity-based discourse, apply the reciprocity litmus test: swap identities and read the resulting statements: "We no longer sell it (the author’s decision to just use Amazon, a female-le
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What is the alternative? Our brains simply cannot cope with an endless sea of fresh faces, each of them requiring an acuqaintance effort, only to disappear in the mass of unfamiliar faces within minutes. The known-host / fresh-guest mo
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He should open-source this whole thing ... and start selling click-bait ads ... with a heavy dose of surveillance ... like the rest of us do.
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Do you have data? This is an interesting case-study where political expediency may brush over confounding variables: * Own a gun and kill oneself with it. The primary risk factor being depression, not the gun. * Own a gun and be part of a c
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Snowden: But I didn't come forward to be safe. If I wanted to be safe, I'd still be sitting in Hawaii, making a hell of a lot money, to spy on you.
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What short time danger, geologically speaking, can be averted by space colonization?
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Tweets are mass produced quotable out of context discourse. To be harvested to support arbitrary theories.
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gp is complaining about third parties quoting tweets out of context. When Twitter's raison d'être is out of context quoting. He saw trees, I'm glad to point at the whole forest.
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Bingo! That's why Twitter is so distopian: they can craft any narrative by choosing which tweets to show in your timeline. The ultimate out-of-context quoting machine. 140 character limits was set in place for a reason.

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