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by philh 10y ago
> If someone's factually wrong, a response pointing out the errors is far more effective than a downvote, and encourages further discussion. If something is offensive, flag the comment and move on. I try to downvote poor conversatio
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(I've never used Go, so please correct any errors.) > var _ = unusedImport This is what the devs suggest as an alternative to having a compiler flag to turn off the check. But with a compiler flag, I can easily discover the unused i
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I think it's closer to the other way around. People who can't score goals can still contribute in a football game, for example as goalkeepers. But if you select your team based on who's the best at scoring goals, they're
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Rather, the SENPAI protocol makes dating available to people who aren't socially adept but are comfortable with homomorphic encryption. Socially adept people can continue to flirt.
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You're asking why isn't it obvious to me that the two metrics can be meaningfully compared? If I could answer that, I would know whether or not they could be meaningfully compared. Your post doesn't convince me. Whether that&
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I'm no expert here, so maybe there's some justification. But it's not obvious to me that comparing a company's income to a country's GDP makes sense.
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This could happen if Uber manages to be cheaper by avoiding taxes or breaking speed limits; or in general does something that's good for the customers, but bad for society, and so is forbidden. I don't know that that's the ca
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"If CSV would stick to commas ... then even such overly simple heuristics would've sufficed, wouldn't it?"
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Okay, it sounds like what you call assumptions, I would call "data". Or "background data" or something. If I think Bruce Wayne is Superman, I might base that on the fact that they're both physically very fit; that o
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Sure, but mhd was saying that if we stuck to CSV being actually comma-separated, "ID;P" would distinguish CSV from SYLK. I'm saying that it wouldn't.
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"ID;P" is valid at the start of CSV as well. Fields are allowed to contain semicolons.
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If you see Bruce Wayne and Superman in the same room, then "Bruce Wayne is Superman" can only be true if you assume something you didn't have to assume before. It means you should be less confident that Bruce Wayne is Superma
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One thing I question with Le Châtelier, is how do you know which equilibrium will be pushed back towards? Humans have a desire pro-speed and anti-risk. Supposedly, if you introduce seatbelt laws, speed increases and risk stays the same. How
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> (A1 & A2 & ... & Ak) -> H This is backwards. It should be H => (A1 & A2 & ... & Ak) It's not "if these assumptions hold, the hypothesis is true". It's "for this hypothesis
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$HOME/.config would somewhat mitigate against this exploit. A user running wget is much more likely to be in their home directory than in .config, and a hidden script file is less dangerous if there's nothing around which will exe
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> Take "throwing star" versus "shuriken", or "raw seafood" against "sushi." Does English have words for those objects or concepts? Um, yes. It has the words "shuriken" and "sushi&quo
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> being able to prove things about some beautiful intricate mathematical structure most of the times doesn't help you much with the world of matter. How about discovering a flaw in human crypto systems? > Super-intelligence won&#
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> Before reading the article, had you ever considered that there might exist a word describing exactly why cat videos are popular? I feel like that word is pretty close to "squee".
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> Since we have already established that the candidates are in all other respects equal No we haven't. We've established that the candidates are all people you want to hire. That doesn't mean you have no preference between
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You don't just have to beat the analysts. You have to beat all the other people in tech who think they can beat the analysts.
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Not saying they don't exist, but I don't think I've ever encountered a vim instance where that didn't happen.
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I think Make is also broadly associated with autotools, which surely can't help its public image.
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Often, "I couldn't tell that this was a parody" says more about you than about the thing being parodied.
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Typically, a good samaritan law relates to the situation where a bystander tries in good faith to help someone, and accidentally makes things worse. A good samaritan law says they won't get in trouble for that. I don't see anythin
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To be precise, he admits that it ruined his life, but he doesn't regret it. Regret is a fairly specific emotion, and not regretting something doesn't mean you think it was okay. I do broadly agree with you, though.
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It sounds like you're saying the effect is more apparent because TFA is bad. But the effect you claim is that people pretend (to themselves or others) to like works that have a brand or franchise or cult following behind them. And you
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> I don't think I have claimed that True, but you are claiming that people are pretending to like TFA, and presumably you don't think people are pretending to like the prequels. It's rare to hear anything good about the pr
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> it is easier to play along and pretend we enjoyed it, even convince ourselves it was good, than admitting we were lead on and it is pretty bland Even easier than this is to actually enjoy things. I didn't like it myself, but I&#x2
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This feels like bulverism: you've decided that people are wrong, and now you've come up with a fully general explanation for why they're wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulverism If you ask people w
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Ages ago I wrote a simple command that let you do shell scripting in the shebang line. http://reasonableapproximation.net/2010/07/27/silly-things-t... I'm not sure I've used it since, but I still li

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