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by repsilat 8y ago
(Ah dang, "put together" is to construct, "put out" also to extinguish, and to be put out is also to be disappointed... I'm not going to add to the list.)
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by repsilat 8y ago
> I think I would use over for all of those. Is that wrong? You're probably right, I should have tried harder to find a better example. The "on" doesn't sound too awkward to me, though, and I might say it just to av
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by repsilat 8y ago
Right. In HTTP on TCP over IP? Speaking "on" English doesn't seem so strange if we can talk over (i.e. through) the radio. And English gets so much less reasonable. "Put up" is to house, "put down" i
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by repsilat 8y ago
Ooh, really cool. The comment about function-pointer comparisons was a pretty funny ramification I hadn't considered too. Real "wtf" debugging case I bet. I wonder what the standard says about it, what the linker can/cou
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by repsilat 8y ago
Dunno about other places, but in New Zealand commercial trucks mostly have voluntary GPS tracking/logging to estimate their road mileage for road levies. (IIRC because they can subtract mileage travelled on private roads, but the per-
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by repsilat 8y ago
I imagine it would help to keep binary size and compile times down too, though I don't know by how much. I wonder if C++ compilers "collapse" things like `vector<Foo⋆>` and `vector<Bar⋆>` (or even `vector<size_
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by repsilat 8y ago
Exactly. The reason startup salaries are low is that the companies don't have the cash to pay. If they had customers who believed in them they would have cash. If they had investors who believed in them they would have cash. Asking the
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by repsilat 8y ago
From the horse's mouth: http://m.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/claas-relotius-r... An investigative journalist was found to have fabricated large parts of his reportage over years of work for the paper.
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by repsilat 8y ago
> anything remotely worth watching on there costs extra. Sorry, I just meant to refer to Prime free shipping. That was super ambiguous of me.
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by repsilat 8y ago
> Segmentation is the biggest problem. But that's true for every digital store not just Netflix. The effect in TFA only really happens with fixed-cost, apl-you-can-eat offerings. (Amazon Prime is another.) It's why people gro
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by repsilat 8y ago
Funny what apparently simple differences in mathematical models can imply. I studied an old-school "Wardrop model" of traffic flow in one class in school. In that model, your speed along a road segment is a function of the flow (v
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by repsilat 8y ago
What a bizarre legal situation -- instead of banning sports betting, the federal government tried to force states to ban it. It isn't like 1992 was pre-Wickard v Filburn.
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by repsilat 8y ago
> How would a restaurant be in any way analogous to a yacht? The GP meant that it's a business people get into because it's their passion, and it is a lot of people's passion when compared against the market for it. I&#x
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by repsilat 8y ago
I totally agree that market solutions aren't perfect. I alluded to some legal fixes in place, but there are of course many others, some of which address concerns you raised -- fitness for purpose, abuse of market power, varying levels
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by repsilat 8y ago
Hah, thanks. I knew the idea wasn't original to the person who told it to me, but was too lazy to look up the original source. Maybe I should get around to reading it...
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by repsilat 8y ago
Someone once told me that "exit is more powerful than voice". I think they meant that the market is a better democracy than voting. Capitalism traditionally gives power to customers through their ability to choose not to buy the c
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by repsilat 8y ago
Hmm... if you were a horrible person you could declare a `char[n]` member instead of a pointer. Then you could placement-new the impl in the constructor, and static-assert that `sizeof(impl)>=n`... No more cache misses :-). :-(
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by repsilat 8y ago
It might be obvious but worth saying anyway. Giving something a name can help you use it as a unit of work, or reason more effectively/accurately/mechanically. A lot of arguments are built on abstractions like "competition&qu
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by repsilat 8y ago
> stripped of your state given rights That seems like a strong way to put it... How about "stripped of opportunities not taken away by the state"? California didn't give anyone a "right" to buy/use weed, t
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by repsilat 8y ago
> you don't want browsers to make multiple guesses The webserver does that work.
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by repsilat 8y ago
> if that’s the difference between catching a connection in SF or not then that’s a 20 minute savings it could be Here's a heuristic you should try applying: under some reasonable assumptions, getting to the platform X seconds ear
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by repsilat 8y ago
This is kinda true in theory, but about as far from the truth as you can be in practice. Zero-overhead abstraction is a core part of the language's philosophy, and that means features are designed to be translated to "efficient&qu
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by repsilat 8y ago
I agree. The "flexibility" of being able to operate on a subset of the container was never a good argument, because you could trivially make a "view"/slice template type to fake begin/end to any pair of iterato
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by repsilat 8y ago
That's an interesting point -- to a computer scientist a chronological order is exactly as "algorithmic" as any other order, but I think it might not be to a layman. Possibly the neatest demonstration of the difference. (I gu
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by repsilat 8y ago
Somewhat off-topic, but what is the lay definition of "algorithm" these days? From the articles I'm reading I think it's something different to (or at least much more specific than) the technical/CS definition. Peop
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by repsilat 8y ago
And, to be fair, the ones paying money to stay in those mini-hotels. (And, to be clear, "the ones making money" includes local businesses benefiting from increased tourism, and their employees.)
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by repsilat 8y ago
I think they mean they side with Wittgenstein over Plato, but I don't know what to call the two stances.
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by repsilat 8y ago
I noticed my post missed the point a bit... I was thinking about functions that check properties of bit sequences, not functions that check properties of predicates on bit sequences. I get how it works now, thanks. Wish I could edit/de
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by repsilat 8y ago
> Here's an example when the function fails to terminate: I figured this seemed too good to be true. In fact, isn't there a simple reduction to the halting problem? Make a "sequence" i -> M halts in i steps
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by repsilat 8y ago
Buffett has been candid about not being able to find good investment opportunities lately... Berkshire is sitting on a mountain of dry powder (in short term Treasuries) and iirc has (shockingly for them) considered buybacks or dividends bec

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