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by philh 14y ago
I haven't noticed a recent surge, and without evidence I'd be skeptical that there has been one. That said, my general feeling is: it's probably anti-annoying most of the time (an option which you've left out), and sometimes somewhat annoyi
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by philh 14y ago
> If Watsi didn't exist, many of the patients on our site would have likely died. How do you quantify that impact? Roughly, by comparing it to the number of people who die in other hypothetical scenarios. You can't get exact numbers, bu
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by philh 14y ago
I did find myself thinking "this has to be a solved problem" as I was writing the socket code. Thanks, I'll look into those.
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by philh 14y ago
I actually have been hoping to get feedback on whether people think https://github.com/ChickenProp/ds-debug is/could be useful.
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by philh 14y ago
You might want a lookup method to usually throw an exception if it doesn't find anything, but sometimes return a user-specified default. It's problematic though, because writing a thin wrapper becomes a pain in the ass.
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by philh 14y ago
> don't pay attention to most of the negative things people say here This is good advice. > they can't stand to see someone as young as you being more productive than them. This is not why people are being negative. If there was no
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by philh 14y ago
> But we can compute the optimal strategy for an abstract version of poker that, for example, during pre-flop betting treats pairs of aces the same way as pairs of kings. Not a big deal, but the wording of this seems off. It doesn't sou
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by philh 14y ago
My first reaction is more like "okay, so it's one o'clock". I never really noticed that it was weird before, though now it's pointed out I can see that it is.
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by philh 14y ago
> Even though getting officials fired is not your preferred method to help jumpstart reform there are no reasons for you to discourage others of doing so. Yes there are, if you think that it's not going to work and that the attempt is d
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by philh 14y ago
> "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." --George Orwell, 1984 I think I've frequently heard this called a great opening line, and I've never worked out why. It doesn't tell me anything that I care a
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by philh 14y ago
> What could go wrong with that? If something can go wrong when people with handguns shoot near a nuclear power plant, then something has already gone horribly wrong.
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by philh 14y ago
> The Joker scares the city onto its two ferries. Once the ferries are in the middle of the water, he cuts their power and gives them both a button to blow up the other ferry, thereby constructing a prisoner’s dilemma (one boat is fille
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by philh 14y ago
> within 24 months the first calls to outlaw bitcoin will echo from some Senator or House member's office in DC. It'll lead to blanket legislation targeting bitcoin and any similar services that could exist in the future. To be clear, y
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by philh 14y ago
That's interesting and surprising, thank you. I'm going to need to consider this further.
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by philh 14y ago
> In fact if we observe the variation in today's population the minimum viable height and strength bar seems to be quite low, and since the distribution is approximately normal, it doesn't seem like evolution favors tall people more tha
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by philh 14y ago
> Human relationships are mostly defined by cultural norms, not genetics, or else short people would have been selected out millions of years ago. I think that humans are taller than we were millions of years ago. So yes, in some sense
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by philh 14y ago
> (And the parenting example is a good one. IMHO someone who does their best at raising a child with random genetic disorders like sociopathy, schizophrenia, or Down's Syndrome absolutely deserves as much praise as someone who raises a
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by philh 14y ago
Note, there's a distinction between "praising someone for their effort" (where you say something is good because they worked hard at it) and "praising their effort" (where you literally praise the effort they put into something).
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by philh 14y ago
> Rugland calculated in his head what a PhD in Physics worked out on paper. Besides that the problem doesn't begin to approach PhD-level... You could probably say the same thing of me when I'm running or cycling. But whatever calculatio
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by philh 14y ago
(The digits of pi are definitely not randomly distributed, since they can be generated by a deterministic algorithm; and a randomly distributed infinite digit sequence need not have that specific probability of finding a d-length sequence
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by philh 14y ago
On a similar note, my own choice is Egan's Diaspora . Most of the characters are sentient software, and it explores some of the implications of being able to fork oneself, or rewrite your software. On top of that the physics is, to the bes
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by philh 14y ago
ack hilights results by default, so `(?=silver.*)needle` would potentially be useful. But, yes, not the same as the grep|grep.
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by philh 14y ago
That's (weak) evidence that macrokernels are superior. QNX had a head start, but did not maintain the lead.
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by philh 14y ago
If one person develops a theory and makes ten predictions which turn out to be true; and if a second person observes the same ten things, and then develops a theory without knowing the first; then I consider this stronger evidence in favor
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by philh 14y ago
> The impression I certainly got was that his approach is to theorize about something, then design experiments to test out his theory. As opposed to running a bunch of experiments and then figuring out a theory that would explain the co
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by philh 14y ago
In insurance, people who get lucky subsidize people who get unlucky. If you can test luck before getting insurance, then lucky people don't get insurance and there's nobody left to subsidize unlucky people. Forbidding insurance companies to
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by philh 14y ago
Not really. As I understand, the different layers are: 1. In-game, he can write non-arbitrary but sufficiently powerful machine code to be executed directly. He uses this to write layer two. 2. He can write arbitrary machine code using A, B
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by philh 14y ago
> it is written by somebody who purports to understand happiness for a sizable fraction of people. Why does that seem strange? There is a large body of research into human happiness. I haven't looked into it closely, but I would be surp
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by philh 14y ago
Perhaps, but I recently read something which suggested they (to be precise, Native Americans) really were happier than the European settlers of the time: "All of the white people who joined Indian tribes loved it and refused to go back to w
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by philh 14y ago
I'm pretty sure his objection was that you were being a dick.

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