samatman

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by samatman 2y ago
It's delusional to think you'll win Powerball just because you bought a ticket. But that's a case where the odds of _someone_ winning are reasonably high, due to the very large sample size. This is like if $billionaire annou
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by samatman 2y ago
Definitely. It's important that every ad-hoc out-of-band data format look "like this" never // Like this Bad Things will surely befall us if we break the taboo.
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by samatman 2y ago
It's not going to happen once either.
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by samatman 2y ago
Everyone in the thread up to the point where you commented was talking about telegraph cables. I believe you when you indicate that you thought you had changed the subject back to something else, but you gave no indication that this had hap
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by samatman 2y ago
You need consensus either to convict, or to _declare_ someone not guilty. In the US there is an important distinction between the presumption of innocence, and its declaration in a court of law. Someone with a hung jury or mistrial is still
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by samatman 2y ago
That's all it takes for a hung jury, yes. In which case the prosecution will have plenty of grounds to screen for that in the next trial, that next trial will happen, and then the guy gets convicted of first degree murder. Presuming he
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by samatman 2y ago
It is by no means always illegal to kill people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justifiable_homicide This assassination meets none of the criteria however. I suspect we'd find an amusing overlap between people who
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by samatman 2y ago
Seems tautologically true to me. Culture covers a lot of ground. Like saying "cities have a lot of people for urban reasons".
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by samatman 2y ago
The topic was the telegraph network, which did not have that property.
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by samatman 2y ago
> Aristotle believed that women have fewer teeth So you haven't read Aristotle, you've read about Aristotle. Many such cases. I didn't recommend Aristotle without qualifications. I recommended Rhetoric . It's a
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by samatman 2y ago
What would he tell his wife?
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by samatman 2y ago
Emoji are text in all the ways that matter to a programmer. There are codepoints in Unicode which aren't textual, but emoji are not among them. Emoji don't introduce any edge cases of their own. If your software can't join a
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by samatman 2y ago
Do you think Clarence Thomas would vote against Loving v. Virginia?
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by samatman 2y ago
Before dismissing the value of rhetoric, I recommend reading it: http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/rhetoric.html I'm perfectly serious, it's literally the foundational text on the subject and we still have th
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by samatman 2y ago
Good scissors seem to obviously fit into the "Tools, devices, and appliances that efficiently perform a useful function" category, so I'm not sure what to do with your specific example. I can't easily come up with exampl
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by samatman 2y ago
This isn't scroll jacking, any more than it's "scroll jacking" when there's a header or menu sidebar which doesn't move with the text. Scroll jacking means something specific, like the style which was introduc
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by samatman 2y ago
The author appears to be a crank. Judging by the breadth and usual focus of his screeds^W posts, he has no particular insight or special expertise, other than catastrophizing things. I'm willing to entertain a discussion of the dangers
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by samatman 2y ago
Yes, this is the difference between more typically Western European surnames and patro/matronyms. Russians typically have both, many Americans of Scandinavian descent have whatever patronym their paternal n-th grandfather had when the
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by samatman 2y ago
You guaranteed it would be a negative interaction when you negatively interacted with the post. You're allowed to skip the ones you don't want to reply to.
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by samatman 2y ago
Insofar as that's true, it isn't a fact about Aristotle, it's a fact about the mindset of scholars who came after him.
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by samatman 2y ago
I would consider all of surnames, patronyms, and matronyms, to be "family names" in the broad sense. They're based on who your family is, after all.
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by samatman 2y ago
The Flint water crisis has been over for a very long time.
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by samatman 2y ago
Calling someone a Luddite doesn't mean you're saying they're a textile worker organized by Ned Ludd. So it doesn't matter what the historic Luddites were or were not, because it's not a statement about them at all.
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by samatman 2y ago
Hey, TIL. I like that more, in a way, and less, in a way. The angle bracket is pointing off into nothing but throws `foo.txt` into `bar` anyway, so the control flow seems more messed up than in `bar < foo.txt`. On the other hand it'
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by samatman 2y ago
I prefer the trivial cat, because the < redirect puts the source in the middle of the pipe. cat foo.txt | bar | blah > out.log vs. bar < foo.txt | blah > out.log It looks more like what it is. Also, with cat you c
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by samatman 2y ago
Zig is a BDFL language, but it's far from a one-man language. There's a Zig Foundation with several full-time paid contributors, with a larger design team who collaborate on the big picture. If Andrew Kelly were kidnapped by alien
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by samatman 2y ago
I, too, imagine a person in my head, and then immediately wish that they die in a terrible accident, possibly taking innocent lives in the process, because I decided I don't like the imaginary person I just created. In my head.
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by samatman 2y ago
Of course it does. The Great Lakes have 1/5th of the world's freshwater. Absolutely enormous volumes of that water run out the St. Lawrence into the sea, continually, all the time. I don't have any reason to leave my taps op
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by samatman 2y ago
Other than the JavaScript, you mean. https://cloudmersive.com/article/Understanding-Embedded-Java...
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by samatman 2y ago
I believe every paragraph of this besides the personal anecdote is completely made up. Care to change my mind?

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