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by setr 5y ago
I think the differentiator is the quality of “evil” — the joker has a type of evil, with a certain texture and patterns associated with it. Whereas a truly 1D villain will simply take on any kind of evil necessary to fit the moral goal. You
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by setr 5y ago
This seems to be a highly involved analysis to determine whether Armstrong was lying about his intended phrasing… but for what purpose?
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by setr 5y ago
I don’t think you should be expecting a local in-memory db to require batching for reasonable performance; the main reason it’s a problem for normal DB’s is the network — you’re constantly waiting for the roundtrip. Which you obviously stil
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by setr 5y ago
> IMO, it would be strange to make a moderation team the highest authority in an organizational structure. I don't really agree with their demand to be the ultimate authority over everyone. I think it makes sense, scoped to their do
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by setr 5y ago
I would expect SO usage to follow a distribution like Zipfs — most visits hit a small subset of common Q/A, and there’s a ridiculously long tail of random questions getting a few visits where caching would do next to nothing. I’m fairl
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by setr 5y ago
I don’t understand; did the author of the torrent toss in a bunch of nothing to pad out the number, or is there that many references to nothing in the NFT chain? The former seems pointless, but for the latter, I’m under the assumption that
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by setr 5y ago
I’ve seen sites scraping 4chan continuously, and just republishing the chat in a different aesthetic. The strange thing was that you could post to the site, and it would be persisted there, but it wouldn’t get forwarded to 4chan. So you cou
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by setr 5y ago
I’m fairly positive title insurance has nothing to do with losing the title. It’s dealing with the problem: someone sold you a house, but they weren’t actually allowed to do that. With possibilities ranging from they didn’t actually own the
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by setr 5y ago
It’s money you have to spend (shelter is non-optional), and mortgage is definitely a better investment than renting (you’ll get at least some of it back on selling, unless it dips very far) whereas rent is guaranteed to be burnt. And th
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by setr 5y ago
> If "longevity" were a bell curve, we would see some humans at the 150 years old mark. We do not. I agree with everything else (including that its not a bell curve), but this particular reasoning seems off — it could still fol
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by setr 5y ago
> Virtually all "memory leaks" are freed eventually, usually when a program closes. I think that's literally the definition -- it can only be freed upon program death. More specifically, there's no way I could choos
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by setr 5y ago
Right; but my point is that “they take it seriously” is something you can only evaluate when they have the chance not to. Right now, they can do whatever they want (except mark it 1.0.0) and uphold all semver rules. They can talk about it,
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by setr 5y ago
TBH I had looked it up when writing the prior post to make sure I wasn’t just running off my own naivety From the spec[0]: > 4. Major version zero (0.y.z) is for initial development. Anything MAY change at any time. The public API SHOULD
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by setr 5y ago
I don’t think that makes much sense to say until they actually encounter a scenario where violating semver could be done and even be reasonable, and they actively choose not to. Pre-1.0 semver is fairly meaningless, so taking it seriously r
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by setr 5y ago
I think he meant 6 years is that function was introduced
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by setr 5y ago
Sengoku Rance is my favorite example of this — a hentai game whose game mechanics and plot are so engrossing that no one sticks around for the hentai
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by setr 5y ago
You have a fairly complex logic being stuffed into a binary operation — NaN == NaN and NaN != NaN are both irresponsible. The same with comparing to INF. The correct answer is that boolean operations don’t successfully represent the possibi
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by setr 5y ago
postgres takes a lot of design inspiration from Oracle, but AFAIK has never made any real attempt at being strictly compatible with it. You might be thinking of dblink in oracle's world, and foreign data wrapper (fdw) in postgres, whic
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by setr 5y ago
> how do I render as little as possible at a time, but also render everything/anything in the list "immediately" or as fast as possible. Isn’t that the constraint of basically any rendering system? The html page itself — I
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by setr 5y ago
I did it myself with some kit bought online for a 2013 (I think it might have actually been specifically an iFixIt kit). Ungluing the battery took all of 15 minutes and the plastic card jiggering was fairly trivial. I’m quite positive the a
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by setr 5y ago
> It's not appropriate for a professional device since it requires you to look down and doesn't lend itself to the "mechanical" use of devices that high-paced work requires. Sure it could; it just has to beat the cost
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by setr 5y ago
> I sure as hell am not going to assume legal liability over systems I do not really have control over. That’s pretty much the goal, isn’t it? If everyone refuses to do the work without sufficient control, then power should shift accordi
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by setr 5y ago
The problem I think is that if your dependent apis aren’t also consuming Optionals, and relying on type = null || type logic, then you end up constantly translating back and forth between the two endlessly, defeating any ergonomic gains. Th
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by setr 5y ago
> Every NullPointerExceptipn my code ever caused was good, because it helped find an error state that had no acceptable default non error state alternative. Isn’t that the point of Optional? It just moves that identification of those err
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by setr 5y ago
A replay is just another client to sync with — just arbitrarily far behind.. :)
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by setr 5y ago
I'm largely agreed with this, but to add on: if you consider the idea source -- Alexander's A Pattern Language -- the notion of a pattern is a more useful than that; it is both a communication tool, as well as the realization that
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by setr 5y ago
I believe he was thinking of programming language paradigms -- e.g. procedural, stack-oriented, vector-oriented, functional, etc. Though "learners" should have given it away as well
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by setr 5y ago
If your dozens of scripts are top-level (on the html itself) then you can fetch all of them in parallel — so you wait your connection speed roughly twice (roundtripped). If they’re nested dependencies (where you don’t identify the next nece
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by setr 5y ago
That doesn’t seem to match. In this case, AFAICT, both wanted the cooling effect. No one wants the heat. The saline solution was now being used to cool double the volume (2x the cellar space), so it seems pretty clear-cut to me — if saline
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by setr 5y ago
It used to be true in US tech as well — you started with IBM, and you died in IBM. Loyalty was mutual — though in the end, everyone will still work towards their own self-interests… and a companies’ path to self-interest is much more far-re

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