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by rfw300 5y ago
Have you seen Python 3.10's pattern matching? https://peps.python.org/pep-0636/ While it doesn't bring you Haskell ADTs, it sounds like it could make your `isinstance`-style code a lot cleaner.
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by rfw300 5y ago
This is a common belief, but it is false. The eligibility provision has an oft-forgotten second clause: > No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, sha
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by rfw300 5y ago
Yeah. This post certainly warrants further inquiry but our baseline level of skepticism should be fairly high here.
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A regular expression to check for prime numbers (2007)(noulakaz.net)
3 points by rfw300 5y ago|0 comments
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by rfw300 5y ago
As someone who does a fair chunk of legal writing, I sorely miss citation signals when doing other kinds of writing. The ability to make a specific kind of reference to a source other than a direct citation opens up a lot of expressive flex
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by rfw300 5y ago
We can call it a tuition fee!
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by rfw300 5y ago
This was a wonderfully accessible intro to word embeddings and how they work. Worth a read for anyone just starting out with NLP or just with a passing interest in it.
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by rfw300 5y ago
Let it never be said that the creators of the “small child” product don’t have a wicked sense of humor :)
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by rfw300 5y ago
> If someone went for coffee with 26th US secretary of defense for the united states of america and explained how it would be useful for the military, and that person said it would be and they could easily have the military look at testi
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by rfw300 5y ago
Not to put words in OP’s mouth, but I think they were using “cancel” descriptively, not pejoratively. I don’t think there was a suggestion he didn’t deserve to be cancelled, just that he was.
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by rfw300 5y ago
There’s absolutely no need to pick a fight in this thread, or any thread. Why don’t we all practice some grace in the Christmas/holiday spirit?
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by rfw300 5y ago
That strikes me as outside the scope of a feasible version control tool (and is probably undecidable in most cases). Seems like you’d be much better off handling that with a test suite and CI.
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by rfw300 5y ago
In fact, even if the ads do load, I’d prefer that the comments don’t.
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by rfw300 5y ago
Americans who are under the watchful eye of a hostile SEC and face serious prison time if they get caught are much less likely to be scammers than some anonymous group from the Bahamas.
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by rfw300 5y ago
Yeah, Numba usually delivers on its performance promises when used right, but can be such a huge hassle oftentimes as to make it not really worth it.
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by rfw300 5y ago
Not that there aren’t other issues here, but there are imitation windows (portholes?) that would provide that light cue in the morning. It wouldn’t be a totally windowless cell.
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by rfw300 5y ago
Not at all, you just compute hashes for all of the acceptable forms of the password up front and store those hashes.
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What is truth? (2005)(thedailywtf.com)
4 points by rfw300 5y ago|1 comments
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NP Complete 3rd Grade Math Problems (2018)(leosstemhacks.wordpress.com)
217 points by rfw300 5y ago|182 comments
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by rfw300 5y ago
Do you think it was wrong to do in hindsight?
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This Can’t Go On(cold-takes.com)
254 points by rfw300 5y ago|258 comments
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by rfw300 5y ago
If that guy’s views are typical of the class, that says more about the class than anyone judging the guy.
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by rfw300 6y ago
I suppose all criticism is cancel culture if you just pretend the “cancel” part is there.
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by rfw300 6y ago
I’d imagine that’s substantially less common than your everyday racist spambots in news comment sections. I doubt the amount of influence you can gain from astroturfing a news comments section is worth the cost of dozens of newspaper subs
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by rfw300 6y ago
It’s worth noting you can set up shared settings between every Jetbrains IDE which will sync up all of your keybindings, color schemes, etc.
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by rfw300 6y ago
The rough answer is that we have a duty to help to a degree that is reasonable enough that we'll keep doing it. So organizations like Giving What We Can, for example, ask members to pledge to donate 10% of their annual income to effect
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by rfw300 6y ago
I think what he’s saying is not that there is no semantic difference between the two, but that in practice programmers use the two so interchangeably that not checking for both is likely to cause more trouble than it’s worth.
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by rfw300 6y ago
Yeah, Google has a chat app addiction that’s not going to be solved by buying yet another chat app. Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/
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by rfw300 6y ago
Ah yes, I must’ve been hearing things all those years ago when Trump called for a “complete and total shutdown of Muslims entering the country”. Extremely non-racist thing to say. Get over yourself.
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by rfw300 6y ago
> Just imagine if Microsoft had taken a 30% cut from every developer who ever compiled software for windows Microsoft has the whole code-signing racket going on for Windows, but that's at least a flat fee in fairness.

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