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by sarah180 6y ago
I thought this was going to be about linked lists.
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by sarah180 6y ago
Here's the best way I know to explain it, paraphrasing Stephen Hawking: Imagine taking a picture puzzle that you'd completed, putting it in your clothes dryer, and turning on the tumbler. I think you and I can both safely say that
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by sarah180 6y ago
A significant portion of advertising is about building brand identities and associations in consumers' minds, not about driving direct sales. This is why some companies worry so much about their ads appearing next to objectionable cont
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by sarah180 6y ago
"They told us all that we shouldn't jump off a bridge into shallow water, so none of us did—and not one single person got hurt. I can't believe we all listened to such wild fearmongering." You've made a classic conv
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by sarah180 6y ago
I wouldn't drop it altogether, but getting dozens of connection invites daily from people I've never met is very obnoxious. Even somebody from LinkedIn bizdev spammed me after I asked them to stop; I had to block them…. I've
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by sarah180 6y ago
It could happen, but I suspect this is a negotiating position more than a real desire to leave behind x86 in favor of Apple's ARM architecture chips. It makes more sense for them to improve the iPad Pro than to drop software compatibil
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by sarah180 6y ago
I have a simpler explanation, and my mantra for life. Are you finding something difficult? Is it something you've been doing frequently for a long time? If not, then of course it's difficult. Keep hope: We get good at th
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by sarah180 6y ago
I wonder why they suggest that racial diversity has an inverse relationship with union formation. Is this because of a broader range of employee perspectives on work? Are employees in diverse environments less comfortable talking to one ano
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by sarah180 7y ago
I would this a mutually beneficial endeavor more than a "free lunch." Ultimately there are real resources put in to make all these things happen: the business, bank, network and consumer all have costs here. None of it is "fr
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by sarah180 7y ago
> the writings of your journal …unless that journal is electronic
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by sarah180 7y ago
It's a reasonable hypothesis, but I think it overlooks the scope of information that is now shared electronically and the ability to collate it. Noticing the people from whom somebody get mail is very different from having access to a
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by sarah180 7y ago
Can we also talk about CR vs LF and HTML vs plain emails? They're equally relevant discussions and totally not things that have been settled for ages by everyone but the obsessed.
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by sarah180 7y ago
More accurately, they're putting back dials for temperature control in one of the only cars the make that doesn't already use dials. They're not getting rid of touch screens, nor are they pushing against the industry: they&#x
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by sarah180 7y ago
This is all correct—but you should always look at the actual paper and not the summary article that some journalist wrote. The authors are pretty clear about what they've shown and how it fits into ideas about chaos.
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by sarah180 7y ago
This headline is (unsurprisingly) misleading. The argument is actually "the rounding error of this calculation is smaller than the Planck length, and we still get rounding errors that compound to large amounts over time." This is
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by sarah180 7y ago
A depression can kill a lot more people than COVID-19. This is why the state of California just told young, healthy people to continue to visit restaurants for now as long as tables are six feet apart. This is not just an idea from thin a
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by sarah180 7y ago
This is effectively how you print money in a modern economy. They're giving banks access to a lot more cash and have reduced reserve requirements to 0%, meaning that banks can loan new money without limitation and without fear that the
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by sarah180 7y ago
If you're a giant financial institution, would you want to count, hold, warehouse, secure and move around $100 million in $100 bills? It weighs roughly the same amount as a car. It's the same reason I keep my money in a bank with
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by sarah180 7y ago
I had a similar experience when doing my first serious work in a compiled language. I found and reported a compiler bug in double-precision division (in a commercial C compiler). It took me years to stop blaming the compiler for my bugs.
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by sarah180 7y ago
It's hard to imagine Amazon actually starting a bunch of retail locations. They'd probably buy Whole Foods or something…
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by sarah180 7y ago
Is "somebody filed a lawsuit" really "news"? No. It's really only news if it survives motions to dismiss.
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by sarah180 7y ago
If you find this interesting, read up on event-sourced architecture.
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by sarah180 7y ago
Yeah, people who drive-by PRs to unnecessarily fix a minuscule style or dependency-version issue is one of my pet peeves. I don't spend a lot of time on it, but this kind of cynical game playing sucks. These kinds of contributions prod
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by sarah180 7y ago
From the USPTO: > The specification must include a written description of the invention and of the manner and process of making and using it, and is required to be in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person ski
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by sarah180 7y ago
> Paying all these engineers to write that code was expensive, and now you want to give it all away for free? Most companies never do that for anything, why would they make an exception? I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but I&#
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by sarah180 7y ago
Beating Factorio quickly is not the primary point. It's more of an engineering sandbox than an objective. (Of course optimizing for time is valid.) Also, please tell me how to pack 80 hours of anything into a couple days. :-)
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by sarah180 7y ago
America was not intended to be a pure democracy. The "checks and balances" of our government are really several different forms of government. We have the democracy of the public, the plebeian officers of the house, the aristocrac
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by sarah180 7y ago
> Changing a particular sentence doesn't seem like a big issue. Certainly a power given to the governor. > Let the governor change money. I'm sure Tony Evers appreciates your support for making him the judge in all criminal
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by sarah180 7y ago
I once spent quite a long time tracking down a bug that would only occur if the time between 10:00 and 12:59 because of the extra character that occurred in the date formatting, leading to an unexpected line wrap that led to a lookup bug la
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by sarah180 7y ago
It is not just the elderly who can be victimized. These callers use sophisticated scripts to scare people, engaging the fight-or-flight reflex. Once you feel profoundly threatened, parts of your brain physically shut down, quickly making yo

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