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by setr 5y ago
There is the idea of multiple discovery[0] — that they tend to occur simultaneously and independently within a short timespan. It’s often just time for the discovery to be made, because of all the proceeding work. [0] https://en.
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GP is talking to application developers, not compiler devs.
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> lack of … higher Ed or better performance. It sounds like now you’re being relatively underpaid — if they value her lack of skills at the same level of your having skills, something’s gone wrong. In fact, according to your definition,
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by setr 5y ago
What you’re describing (in the too much fresh blood scenario) is very similar to usenet’s eternal september — the older users need to train the new guys into the “culture” (which will also evolve with their presence). But if there are too m
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the fact that it was built under certain constraints, which are no longer applicable, does not mean that the design is no longer valid -- it just means it may no longer be valid. "constraints breed creativity" is the idea that you
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> markdown plus extensions with useful information (like links) does not qualify in my book as markdown Almost every useful markdown system extends markdown arbitrarily. Markdown is standardized much like SQL is — a standard exists, but
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The thing I never understood with investment funds doing that is that they should be able to make more money on their investment by renting it out while they’re holding it — the rent high enough to cover near any risk, as rent normally is p
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Never heard of this term, but it sounds.. normal? I’m not really clear on the morality issue here; it seems to be that 1. People should own not rent, and 2. BTL players tend to operate as bad owners. Point 1. is just absurd, because that’s
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On windows and Firefox, it fails with network error partway through buffering. Repeated refreshes make further progress, until I had the whole thing.
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The risk with google is they’ll drop maintaining the project. The risk with Oracle is they’ll break your legs, and ask to be reimbursed for damages to their bat.
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More generally, I believe this is exactly the same as flow-field pathfinding, which conveniently has the property that you end up with a solution to the whole map -- so you've solved all pathfinding for all entities anywhere in the map
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I think more importantly, they're responsible for anything they put on the air. Twitter claims a lack of responsibility, yet also wants to be the final arbiter.
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Depends when you do it. Obviously if you go full Madagascar at the first sign of trouble, you’ll crush it, but it’d pretty absurd behavior (every false flag would trigger lockdown). I waited a little by accident and then went full lockdown
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Wouldn’t they just end up selling the stock to pay the loans, and pay taxes then? It seems more reasonable that they’re betting on the stock values increasing more than the loan interest rate
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The theater I was at reached a point of nearly physically hurting. It doesn’t really work when it’s distressing during passive explanatory scenes . I didn’t even get the chance to be confused by the technobabble
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by setr 5y ago
MAL was actually my source for thinking on this subject. In combination with the book Otaku: Database Animals[0] (anime fans catalogue the hell out of things, and this extends to tracking their anime and ratings) I realized you should be ab
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by setr 5y ago
That’s my point. The algorithm goal is not to find what I’d like, but rather what I’d put up with. They only need to find what I’d like every so often, to keep me on the platform. It’s correct from Netflix’s perspective, but not from mine.
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The problem is data entry for the recommendation algorithm is insufficient incentive to constantly use it (thereby providing “truthful”, or highly-correlated, user ratings). The ratings themselves must be directly beneficial to the user, so
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I don’t think that’s correct. 1-5 stars is sufficient. The problem is that you need reason to continuously update the values as your preferences update over time (what was once a 5-star is now a 4-star, because that last movie I saw was
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IMO the recommendations are no good because they fundamentally take the wrong approach — rather than ask the user what they like, they try to guess what you like based on usage (which really doesn't correlate well — I watch a lot of ga
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> if I as an audio engineer create a mix where you can't legibly hear dialogue you'd walk out of the theater in anger. Tenet? No one I know in the US could watch that film, but my international friends liked it, presumably beca
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I recall reading that the primary purpose of the COBOL ALTER statement was actually for punch cards — you could fix a function by printing out the new function + alter statement, add it to the top of the card stack, and feed it through agai
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by setr 5y ago
> 1. Is it really the case? I don't expect developers to build something they cannot sell The main scenario I can imagine is if builders are operating psychotically, due to external incentives (corruption, poorly incentivized regula
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If you don’t login, it seems to be guaranteed you’ll initially get a “page couldn’t load error” on browser or app, until refreshing (sometimes multiple times). At this point I’m assuming it’s intentional, since it occurs over multiple devic
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I don’t see the difficulty here — with SQLite, you’d just store the set of links as an adjacency list; for the major job of linking things, you don’t even need to traverse the graph — you only need to know 1-level of relationships to genera
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but this was true anyways -- the lower your skill, the more competition you have. At the lowest skill levels, you better damn well have a contingency plan, because any slight downward shift in market demand is sword coming straight for your
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You’d pay the cost of parsing every time, but otherwise I’d expect SelectorAll to directly depend on getElementBy.. as relevant
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>I wouldn't ever program a web app in SQL My point is that ECS isn't writing SQL -- it's storing data/state in SQL [components], but operating [systems] with whatever normal programming language, in a stateless enviro
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Shouldn’t the JVM already be doing this, as part of dead code analysis during the compile step? I believe tree shaking in JavaScript also only handles static analysis — eg imports and function calls. I imagine though usage of something like
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The way I view it is that you look at components like a database -- a bunch of tables that don't really tell you much about the business logic; the main thing they do is offer data coherence. And like a webserver, the business logic ha

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