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by riwsky 5y ago
That is arguably why it’s called “in formation” in the first place
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by riwsky 5y ago
Your problem isn’t generics or any other language features; your problem is a lack of effective code review or technical leadership.
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by riwsky 5y ago
Yet again, a bunch of web technologies trying to approach the speed of c
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by riwsky 6y ago
But if you did that, TCP/IP would no longer be a great fit. You’d want some sort of hypertext-specific transport protocol, I think.
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by riwsky 6y ago
You’re not contradicting my point, you’re just using the word “image” to refer to a different concept than I did. That “100x100 pictures of the real world” won’t reflect all the 10,000 dimensions available in “a 100x100 bitmap” is certainly
516.
by riwsky 6y ago
The issue with your question is that the dimensions of the configuration space and the physical form aren’t even approximately the same thing. Take, for example, a 100x100 grayscale image. It’s a flat image; the physical dimensions are 2.
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by riwsky 6y ago
“SF poop-testing startup, once compared to Theranos, here again compared to Theranos”
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by riwsky 6y ago
To go with fictionalized cryptocurrency, some cryptocurrencied fiction: OCEAN’S ELEVEN: Danny Ocean, The Organizer, gets a crack team back together to pull off One More Big Heist—of an online casino. He recruits The Acrobat, The Demolitions
519.
by riwsky 6y ago
meanwhile python be out here like: [(m.group(1), len(m.group())) for m in re.finditer(r"([a-z])\1*", “aaaabbbcca")
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by riwsky 6y ago
The story of Abraham (where he goes to sacrifice his beloved son, Isaac) emphasizes one man’s individual devotion to God, over and above any societal (or even his own) sense of consequentialist ethics; while I would probably agree that Chri
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by riwsky 6y ago
They certainly have a lot of sway, there—“history is written by the victors”, etc—but that we are having this discussion in the first place seems proof positive that said sway doesn’t prevent people from holding informed, contrary opinions.
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by riwsky 6y ago
Except Amazon aren’t determining what is true for the world, they’re determining it for themselves based on their assessment of the evidence and control only their own actions? This is true of everyone. To impute a stupid decision-making al
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by riwsky 6y ago
Gravity isn’t particularly controversial these days, no. Many things that aren’t now, though—like the curvature of earth, or heliocentricity—once were; that a topic is controversial doesn’t mean there’s no right answer. And I would agree th
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by riwsky 6y ago
What are you checking books for? Run experiments. Don’t go to your books about dropping weights off Pisa, just _drop weights off Pisa_. I don’t care what people are certain of: either those weights fall independently of their mass or don’t.
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by riwsky 6y ago
“We just assume we’re right.” That’s just it, though: we assume we’re wrong. We audit ourselves. Watch any of the press conferences where the Georgia election officials detailed the extra work they did. It is that we assume we are wrong for
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by riwsky 6y ago
It is not clear from the article that the author needed a persistent data structure. It’s also, frankly, not clear they‘d benefit from using an HAMT at all: the only measurements they present are of their problem domain, not of any implemen
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by riwsky 6y ago
Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things” ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Thing... ). Yes, API design has its own gotchas and specific practices—but some of the best (and worst) APIs I’ve ever
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by riwsky 6y ago
Your characterization of sanitized secure views as something other than data in a database strikes me as vitalistic (and dubious). The “communicate with code, not messages” in your first comment strikes me the same way: code is data, and da
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by riwsky 6y ago
You’re really on to something with this query language for structured data idea! I’d find it super-useful as a dev to be able to think of a backing service not as a set of disconnected endpoints, but a base of operations for dealing with da
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by riwsky 6y ago
People keep arguing for array covariance as if soundness and developer ergonomics were in conflict, but upgrading your type system from a laptop keyboard to some infamously-sound Cherry MX blues shows you indeed can have both. With the amou
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by riwsky 6y ago
Correction: Java’s type system has been unsound since version 5; version 8 (which TFA describes as the start of the issue) just happened to be the latest version at the time it was discovered.
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by riwsky 6y ago
The argument isn’t that basing sentencing on physical attractiveness is unfair because attractiveness is randomly distributed (“less a given”), it’s that it’s irrelevant a priori; accordingly your argument misses the point. In contrast: IQ
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by riwsky 6y ago
yes: human beings. For basically everything we can feasibly ask python to do, it can do that thing faster than we could on our own; few are the things that we need done faster than that.
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by riwsky 6y ago
Aka… Laban notation? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laban_notation_symbols
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by riwsky 6y ago
The word “only”. The article argues well that efficiency should not be absolutely important - but the remark about Freud missteps by treating efficiency (in this instance, of vertical building) as absolutely unimportant, as opposed to merel
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by riwsky 6y ago
“As some who legalizes only as an amateur I honestly find baffling the whole idea that a law school would teach students any particular nation or jurisdiction’s legal code. Shouldn’t they be learning concepts, rhetoric, and logic? Isn’t a c
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by riwsky 6y ago
Re your first point: his point isn’t absolute ungameability, but relative ungameability
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by riwsky 7y ago
Yaron Minsky (speaker in the talk, and guy who introduced OCaml to Jane Street) wrote in detail about how the firm decided on this in ACM Queue: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2038036
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by riwsky 7y ago
Oscar employee, here. I haven't been involved in the company's COVID response (having joined only a few weeks ago), but the efforts of those I know on these tiger teams have been tremendous—spinning up risk assessments, testing lo
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by riwsky 7y ago
I hit this, and the solution for me was to turn off my content blocker.

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