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by philh 9y ago
I've sometimes used it (or ve) in the past, because there's no good gender-neutral pronoun and I don't like to assume. (This is partly a politeness thing and partly an accuracy thing.) Occasionally when I would do so, people
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by philh 9y ago
> it's been decided that it's in the best interests of society that you don't do that job. Remember that what has been decided, and what is actually the case, are not always the same. That's why people advocate for ch
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by philh 9y ago
I'll try to get in touch tomorrow. By default I'll open an issue on github, unless there's another way you'd prefer me to contact you?
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by philh 9y ago
Oh? I've looked at seaborn, but it didn't seem very ggplot-ish. No grammar going on. There's ggpy (formerly ggplot), but that also doesn't have a grammar going on under the hood, and on top of that it pretty directly t
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by philh 9y ago
From what I've seen, pretty much. It seems to be a pretty direct translation (though I've found some bugs that I haven't filed yet). The thing you'll need to do is that when in R you write unquoted expressions in your ae
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by philh 9y ago
I really like ggplot2, but I'm not sure it really competes with matplotlib or d3. It feels like, if it doesn't already support the thing you want, implementing it in ggplot is a lot harder than in mpl or d3. For specific examples,
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by philh 9y ago
IIRC humans are the only (or one of very few?) mammals to have permanent breasts. In most mammals, breasts are a turn-off for the male because they signify inability to give birth right now. In humans, breasts are a turn-on for the male, fo
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by philh 9y ago
I feel like you're describing growth in general, not natural monopolies specifically. There's a high cost to building a store and the more stores you build, the more customers you serve, the more stores you can afford to build. Th
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by philh 9y ago
> I look at the picker of sides and their motives to determine the consequences of picking a side. Taken literally, this suggests that you can't work out the consequences without looking at the supporters. If that's what you me
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by philh 9y ago
> If you are on the side of revealing this information, you are on the same side as some pretty unpleasant folks. I try to pick my sides based on what seems right, not based on who else picks that side. (I do not have a side in this part
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by philh 9y ago
(0x15 suggests the 21st or 22nd issue, but the intro says it's only the sixteenth.) edit: title's been fixed, this is no longer relevant
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by philh 9y ago
I interpreted that as them not having access to a Windows machine and wanting to try out the experience for themselves before attempting to teach someone else.
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by philh 9y ago
> Wouldn't an AI that can be a judge in a Turing test be able to pass the Turing test? Not automatically, unless it had unlimited time and/or compute power. Verifying a potential solution seems to be much easier than generating
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by philh 9y ago
I'm not sure that's fair about question 2. It's hard to say because I know python (but not the deque class), but none of the incorrect answers seem like they'd be correct in any sensible language. Like, whatever language
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by philh 9y ago
Mildly annoyed at myself for getting question 8 wrong: the true answer was what I thought that code would be doing, but the bytes didn't look like valid UTF-8. I had a brainfart and thought that continuation characters were always vali
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by philh 9y ago
Another interpretation is: Someone can be "a stand-up guy" and still fuck up this badly. More generally, at some point you might find yourself thinking: that would be an obviously unethical and stupid thing to do, and this person
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by philh 9y ago
There's another thing that I think is worth bringing up: sometimes the things that we think are useless are, in fact, useful to the people who buy them. See http://theunitofcaring.tumblr.com/post/160054980296/
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by philh 9y ago
I believe that most people, if prevented from suicide, are glad to have been prevented. You might want to read http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/25/in-defense-of-psych-tre... Personally, if someone told me in
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by philh 9y ago
I note that a motorcycle's selling price is not part of its inherent value, and Pirsig was the one who brought that up. I fully agree that there's a certain type of value that a motorcycle lacks when it doesn't work; but then
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by philh 9y ago
> Right now this screw is worth exactly the selling price of the whole motorcycle, because the motorcycle is actually valueless until you get the screw out. If I read the situation correctly, the motorcycle with this screw is certainly n
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by philh 9y ago
> Interesting to note that nazis killed as much ethnic poles as polish jews. But also note that this was about 90% of polish jews, and something like 10-15% of ethnic poles. (90% from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi
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by philh 9y ago
Like I say, I don't know that it is. I presented a hypothesis that seems like it fits the facts fairly well. Do you have another hypothesis about what the term means in context? I note that "it's a reference to Paradise Lost&
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by philh 9y ago
To give a shorter answer: Scott Alexander (at the slatestarcodex link), through the poem, associates Moloch with negative-sum games, where no one comes out better than they went in. In extreme cases they force us to sacrifice the things we
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by philh 10y ago
For more examples of this phenomenon, see "all lives matter", "pro-life" and "family values".
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by philh 10y ago
> At the moment if you join a channel you can't read its backlog, no. Then I'm not entirely sure what you were referring to, when you said "IRCCloud can". Backlog from before you joined the channel is the specific fea
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by philh 10y ago
How does it do this? When you use IRCCloud to go to a channel for the first time, where does IRCCloud get the history for that channel from? (You say "they're a client too" - I confess, I don't know what they are apart f
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by philh 10y ago
A few people have replied, saying how to get chat history with IRC, but as far as I can tell, none of them work like Slack. With Slack, you can see history from before the first time you connect. It looks like none of the IRC solutions enab
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by philh 10y ago
> Chances are, you picked the alphanumeric names as the luxury cars and the name-names as mass-market cars. You did this even though there are at least two cars in there you’ve never heard of, because I just made them up. The tagline tot
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by philh 10y ago
I don't think it's a single JS file. The query string seems to be significant. I currently request MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML. (I set it up years ago, so I have no particular recollection of choosing that query string
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by philh 10y ago
> Unless you can guarantee that imgur will never host porn Enterprise policies don't need to be that enthusiastic before they'll block imgur. Imgur does in fact host porn.

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