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by philh 11y ago
Someone pointed out that this isn't correct, and then deleted their comment. (?) I now think the behiviour I ascribed to print, is actually what repr does. I'm not sure about print, but I guess it is just rounding to a certain num
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by philh 11y ago
> printing the number might just cut off the digits at some point. I'm not sure, but I think it's not really about cutting off the digits (although that's the effect it has). At least with python, I think what happens is
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by philh 11y ago
> I don't know why you're being downvoted. Didn't downvote, but personally, I really dislike sarcasm used in this manner. It's not so much questioning as flat-out contradicting. And it does that in a way which doesn&#
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by philh 11y ago
> It's too expensive; it has the wrong nutrient balance; it's made in the wrong place These don't sound like dealbreakers. One assumes that it can be made more cheaply with scale; with adjusted nutrient profiles; and in pl
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by philh 11y ago
I take your point that floor space per person is probably a better metric than population density. That said, > high-density living (like SF) is pretty much the standard I don't believe this. Yes, there are denser cities than San Fr
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by philh 11y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and... Netherlands is number 30. Admittedly most of the others are a lot smaller, but Bangladesh and South Korea are a lot bigger. San Fran is also denser than t
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by philh 11y ago
I'm not sure I disagree with those specific examples as much as it may seem. I do think that if you're not shithubbing, you have a level of responsibility which perhaps[1] Gruber and TJ (the maintainer in the second link) weren&#x
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by philh 11y ago
Aside: given that my github name is chickenprop, the obvious name for my shithub would be chickenshit. Sadly, it was registered a couple of weeks ago. If you're reading this, chickenshit, I hope you make good use of that name.
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by philh 11y ago
> Aside from the fact that much of the code that was “released” was sub-par, the very act of putting code out into the world implied (whether intentionally, or not) a willingness to participate in a social contract with those who chose t
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by philh 11y ago
> We are animals, we should live like them and not worry about anything. Why does living like animals specifically mean not worrying about anything? Why not "we are animals, we should live like them and not cook food, wear clothes,
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by philh 11y ago
> In this context, you would not only reach your destination, you would be both annihilated and preserved (kinda like Schrödinger's feline friend). Is this a meaningful comparison? How I read the preceding bit, the way in which you&
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by philh 11y ago
Another data source: http://www.grandjuryfoundation.org/lgdaconvict.php Table 1 gives the ten-year average 1996-2005 for California as 84% criminal conviction rate.
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by philh 11y ago
Yes, thanks. I should have said "courts".
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by philh 11y ago
Another aspect that I haven't seen much discussion of, is: punishment is there partly to stop other people from exacting it. Situation one: A kills B, B's brother kills A, A's brother kills B's brother... and eventuall
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by philh 11y ago
It could indicate that judges are overeager to convict, or it could indicate that prosecutors are unwilling to try someone they aren't really damn sure of. Or a combination of the two, or probably a bunch of other reasons.
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by philh 11y ago
> If you end up in front of a criminal judge (at least in California) you are essentially guaranteed of being convinced. That seems untrue. http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/2015-Court-Statistics-Rep... I'm lo
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by philh 11y ago
I said that a cleaner might have incentive to steal. You've turned this into "all housekeepers are thieves" and "the domestic help is always stealing stuff". That's not what I said, it's not what I meant,
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by philh 11y ago
You seem to be replying to a comment which has very little in common with the one I wrote.
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by philh 11y ago
With a driver, your life is in the hands of someone who has nothing to gain from getting in a car crash. With a cleaner, your possessions are in the hands of someone who might have plenty of incentive to steal your stuff and sell it.
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by philh 11y ago
If you want a stable version, you can't necessarily just git clone. (Maybe if the default branch is kept stable, but I wouldn't trust that by default.) You also have to find the right branch/tag and do a checkout.
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by philh 11y ago
> "Consider three whole numbers, such that the sum of the square of the first two equals the third" I wouldn't say that in conversation. I'd say something like: "consider three integers, with a squared plus b squ
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by philh 11y ago
Do I take it that you think it shouldn't be legal to sell organs? And I assume you agree with most of the rest of the world, that organ donation should be legal, and that selling things should be legal. It follows that arguments of t
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by philh 11y ago
The same argument applies to selling organs. I bite that bullet, but I somehow feel like most people reciting that quote do not.
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by philh 11y ago
Apparently, I'm a user who doesn't know better. Thank you for taking the time to condescend to me.
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by philh 11y ago
I somewhat agree, but * There aren't many politically-related definitions (fisking and anti-idiotarianism are two), and the ones there are don't necessarily describe the political leanings of what the book describes as "hack
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by philh 11y ago
Against my better judgment, I went through the archives to check for changes to the politics entry. As far as I can tell, this is the complete list of entries: First entry, 1991-01-03: http://jargon-file.org/archive/jar
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by philh 11y ago
"Shriek" has been in the jargon file since pre-ESR. See http://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-1.5.0.dos.txt (Also, AnimalMuppet wasn't attributing that shebang etymology to ESR or the jargon file, just t
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by philh 11y ago
Not 100% unbreakable in general, but I think it does pretty well in the real world. There are plenty of messages that Eve simply can't decrypt with complete confidence. For example, she can't tell ATTACK WILL AT DAWN from ATTACK D
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by philh 11y ago
With EMS, the symptoms are real whether or not those people can actually detect wifi hotspots. Similarly, it seems like the vampires genuinely have symptoms which are cleared up by drinking blood. Now, if someone believes "wifi hotspot
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by philh 11y ago
These sound like potentially pretty serious problems: > felt weak all the time, lacking all the energy to run and play sports like his friends > Besides relentless fatigue, other common symptoms appear to include severe headaches and

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