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by scott_s 7y ago
Agreed. And I have also used it in C++ for RAII purposes. In C++, braces introduce a scope, and objects local to that scope will be destructed upon exit.
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by scott_s 7y ago
As I understand it, the difficulty with this approach is that it depends on the night being significantly cooler than the day. Heat from the day can radiate away during the cooler night, preventing cumulative heat buildup in the stone, whic
603.
by scott_s 7y ago
That's true in C++ as well: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/scope
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by scott_s 7y ago
Jeff has an art director. And he likes what that art director produces. You don't, but he does.
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by scott_s 7y ago
I feel that your second paragraph is disconnected from your first. This study is about the IRS audit process for publicly-traded corporation, not individual filers. We can easily fund more audits of publicly-traded corporations while decrea
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by scott_s 7y ago
Wear a weight-vest. (Although that's probably going to increase "ligament-strain" somewhat, but I don't think it's possible to make something physically harder and not increase ligament-strain.)
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by scott_s 7y ago
> In reality, the case broke Microsoft's monopoly on pretty much everything but desktop operating systems (the market broke that later on) and a chastened Microsoft was unable to apply its 1990s tactics to the emerging mobile market
608.
by scott_s 7y ago
That's my feeling yes, but I would check with other people, too!
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by scott_s 7y ago
I think that pause-by-default is more important than keyboard support. Put another way, I don't think that "play" as in "play a movie" is the right metaphor. I think that by default, the user should control progress
610.
by scott_s 7y ago
I think that the default behavior should be that the user has to click or press the keyboard to progress the story. I started reading one of the stories, and it quickly went faster than I was processing. (Partially because I am unfamiliar w
611.
by scott_s 7y ago
Something can both be a historical pattern and popularized as something we pay attention to. There are also historical patterns that many people don't talk about frequently or pay attention to. Aside from that, I'm not sure how yo
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by scott_s 7y ago
Humans are not predicted to grow infinitely. As areas industrialize, more people have less children. Projections I have read predict we will level off at about 12 billion people by 2100. But the areas of the world now with less population g
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by scott_s 7y ago
The presumption here, as I understand is, is that a zero-click search happened because Google used one of their inline apps to answer a question. (For example, if I search "population of new york city", I get a big and bold answer
614.
by scott_s 7y ago
> When I bought my first car in 1999, the very first thing I did was buy an SF Bay Area Thomas Guide and study it. I knew that I was going to be driving in the Bay Area I better learn all the major streets and freeways. I don't thin
615.
by scott_s 7y ago
I'm at a loss at what word choices you object to; people bickered over the world "soul" in that thread, and talked about Cartesian metaphysics and quoted Socrates. Perhaps your real objection is someone else taking their work
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by scott_s 7y ago
"Please stop." (Or maybe that was more pg's style.)
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by scott_s 7y ago
CS conferences still have peer-reviewed papers. Authors do all of the work for making the final paper. CS does have journals, and it's much the same in that authors do almost all of the work. (I have one time seen changes to a journal
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by scott_s 7y ago
> Going from a final draft to a published, peer-reviewed paper involves quite a few menial tasks, and scientists will either need to fill those roles themselves, or someone needs to pay someone else. In computer science, the authors do a
619.
by scott_s 7y ago
I don't think that's true - I can find the opening sentence in the submission, as well as in their FAQ and an interview, but not the rest of the paragraph, and in particular, not the implicit instructions for how to access Sci-Hub
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by scott_s 7y ago
In my experience, yes, I see the misconception frequently. I think it stems from Microsoft using the name "Virtual memory size" for swap space in earlier versions of Windows.
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by scott_s 7y ago
I think that misses one of the lessons of the study: people need to be invested in the checklist for it to help. In other words, they need to want to go through the process. The checklist itself is not magical. When it's effective, i
622.
by scott_s 7y ago
Please do not use a quote-framing (literal quotes, italics or brackets) when re-phrasing what someone else said.
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by scott_s 7y ago
Perhaps it's simplest to refer to the comment I replied to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20565292
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by scott_s 7y ago
> Why would it make more sense to "spin a limited number of times before going through the slow path to acquire a mutex"? Have you ever waited at a door for someone, and after a long enough time, sat down on the floor? It'
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by scott_s 7y ago
It's the topic of our discussion.
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by scott_s 7y ago
I don't think that addresses what I was wondering about. That a child acknowledges that their made-up friend is in fact made-up does not mean they're faking the made-up friend.
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by scott_s 7y ago
The form of your argument is that some people were wrong about a subset of X , therefore the opposite attitude of those people must be true for all of X . That's clearly not a valid argument.
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by scott_s 7y ago
Because for a 3-7 year-old, I'm not sure how to differentiate between made up a fake friend and made up a friend . edit: To directly answer your question: I don't know, and that's part of my point.
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by scott_s 7y ago
Are there any such documented cases? I would think that level of cognitive indirection is beyond most 3-7 year-olds.
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by scott_s 7y ago
McCandless starved to death. Why he starved to death is not settled (and probably never will be), and a poison which prevented his body from metabolizing food is one suspected contributing factor: https://en.wikipedia.org/

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