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by philh 12y ago
String interpolation is one of the things that I've never understood about python. I'm not a massive fan of Ruby's particular syntax for it[1], but not having any syntax at all feels like such a massive oversight. And then I
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by philh 12y ago
If you want format strings with sensible placeholders, you end up with something like "Hello {person}, it's a {weather} day".format(person=person, weather=weather) The list of variables (person, weather) shows up thr
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by philh 12y ago
Possibly worth clarifying: the false positive rate ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positive_rate ) is "probability that a test will return positive, conditional on the hypothesis being false". It's t
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by philh 12y ago
Pretty sure poor people are more likely to be depressed and have horrible lives than rich people.
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by philh 12y ago
> the meme is not that actual ability and self-assessment are negatively correlated I don't think there's a single DK meme, but I do think that this is a common DK meme. Somewhat-serious suggestion: maybe people who actually un
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by philh 12y ago
So would you predict that people offered $100 for an accurate self-assessment would be well calibrated?
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by philh 12y ago
From your perspective, is there a difference between "user gives you a temporary email address" and "user gives you their real email address and ignores the email you send"?
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by philh 12y ago
Yeah, it seems like there's no general solution to this. If I put in '10AM in Chile' for grabbing coffee with a friend, I probably want it to stay in wall time no matter what happens to the offset. If I'm making a note o
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by philh 12y ago
> List? predicate... (list? '(1)) => true (list? '(1 2)) => false Uh? That doesn't seem to be the case on http://tryclj.com/ or according to http://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/l
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by philh 12y ago
> I would gladly accept that, and I think all reasonable people would too Hello, apparently I'm unreasonable. And so is everyone else who has said that they choose torture over dust specks. If you select 3^^^3 people, you're go
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by philh 12y ago
> What would we expect to see different between the societies, 1 minute, 1 day, 1 year afterward? Would there be any difference? Any new wars or suffering? I think you would expect to see differences. You've made 3^^^3 days slightly
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by philh 12y ago
Basically I think you're just rounding something down to zero which isn't quite zero. It's too small to express, but it's not zero, and when you multiply it by 3^^^3, it becomes far worse than fifty years of torture. Eli
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by philh 12y ago
I think he does, although he doesn't say so explicitly in the original post. http://lesswrong.com/lw/kn/torture_vs_dust_specks/ At any rate, I choose torture, and I think that's the majority view at
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by philh 12y ago
More like, "he believed that he'd accidentally invented an eternal torture machine and then he tried to turn it on , and I yelled at him even though the eternal torture machine didn't work."
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by philh 12y ago
> EY's definition of good is ruthlessly utilitarian, Note that people frequently misunderstand Eliezer, especially wrt the basilisk. (Though it's not clear whether you're thinking about the basilisk in this paragraph, so t
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by philh 12y ago
Just to be clear: I think that currently, these TVs do not record audio and send it over the internet except when voice control is specifically activated (and not just enabled). I'm not saying they don't have that ability, or that
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by philh 12y ago
I would bet $10 against $20 that the line > Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party. was removed from a
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by philh 12y ago
Only the conversations that you have while holding down the button on the remote control that tells it to start listening to you.
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by philh 12y ago
For bonus points (or not, depending on the recipient's sense of humour) construct a resume that would be suitable for the underhanded C contest ( http://www.underhanded-c.org/ ).
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by philh 12y ago
Not necessarily. That Act might be an update to a previously-existing one that also forbade gender discrimination.
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by philh 12y ago
If you've learned something interesting by investigating deeper, feel free to share. I promise I'm not being deliberately disingenuous, but I'm honestly not sure what you think I've done wrong. I've read the article
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by philh 12y ago
I don't think you have anything to apologize for. You haven't said anything that comes close to being offensive or disrespectful, as far as I can tell.
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by philh 12y ago
Better qualified to make statements like what ? She hasn't said anything about the document except to pretend to misread part of it, and call it bad grammar. The rest is insulting Linus and the kernel devteam. The twitter thread does
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by philh 12y ago
What do you think her criticism is, that should be taken seriously? As far as I can tell it boils down to "The kernel people are abusive, Linus in particular is abusive, and this document doesn't change my mind about that".
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by philh 12y ago
> She seems to have understood it to mean it is unacceptable that you should feel uncomfortable and your feelings are unacceptable. No she hasn't, she's just... I don't have any polite description of what she seems to be d
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by philh 12y ago
You're right, when MrBuddyCasino said "I think this design is better than that design", he clearly meant "we should get rid of that design".
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by philh 12y ago
Often it goes both ways. Of the people who oppose it, most do so blindly and dismiss valid arguments in favor, while a minority understand the arguments well enough to reply to them. Ninety percent of opinions are crap.
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by philh 12y ago
I'm curious why this was downvoted?
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I found it a little funny, but not funny enough to justify being that level of asshole.
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by philh 12y ago
More on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3753_Cruithne The yellow kidney bean orbit depicted only takes a year, but it doesn't actually form a loop, and the kidney bean moves gradually away from the Earth

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