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811.
by setr 6y ago
In the middle east I noticed a baffling-to-me usage of whatsapp: people were simply exchanging voice messages back and forth instead of calling. [0] Presumably for exactly the reason you've stated. [0] I later tried it myself with a fr
812.
by setr 6y ago
> "What % of the population will die of this disease?" stays the same That doesn’t sound right — you can’t know the population death rate definitely without knowing the infection rate; If no one gets the disease in your sample
813.
by setr 6y ago
> but a lot of people act like it negates the advantage of working in a safer language entirely. I think the underlying assumption is more along the lines of: the easy cases are made easier, and the hard cases are made impossible — or ra
814.
by setr 6y ago
Computer Science has nothing to do with computers, or science. It is generally a mistake to read the name of something as defining that thing — it has almost certainly shifted meaning since it’s origin, especially if someone is arguing abou
815.
by setr 6y ago
> Part of living in a society is accepting that there are rules that are inconvenient, and still complying with them. Another part of living in a society is accepting that rules are blunt and broadly applied, and should not be complied w
816.
by setr 6y ago
Assets are taxed. If your money is 100% illiquid, you’ve done something dumb. You prepare to liquify to settle your taxes yearly — if the taxes are higher, you liquify further; the equation isn’t changing. That is, the format of your money
817.
by setr 6y ago
In terms of extracted cash? Given that the top 1% now-famously have more funds than the bottom 90%, taxing the wealthiest will definitely make more of a difference. The number of poor people doesn't matter -- only how much large their
818.
by setr 6y ago
The problem I think is the inversion of control — django owns your code; you’re just a citizen within its confines. You’re typically hooking into the framework’s runtime, and thus everything you do is mediated by the framework — great when
819.
by setr 6y ago
He could have also mentioned that floor(cap-height + x-height + descender) also equals 32, but isn’t the answer either. And probably a few other arbitrary arithmetic combinations would work as well. But it seems it me it’d be much more effi
820.
by setr 6y ago
That’s an absurd take... the article’s first paragraph is quite clear he’s going to tell you exactly where that 32 ran off to, and despite your random arithmetic that happens to find the number with no double-checking whether it works on an
821.
by setr 6y ago
It’s not just difficult to understand, the em height / character shape described by the article are total nonsense — they have zero relationship to the font itself, and no relationship between one font’s eg height and another. Which ul
822.
by setr 6y ago
Unrelated but wow that’s a nice flourish character ꧁ TEXT ꧂
823.
by setr 6y ago
The links try to parse out the text and show that, with an additional link to the original article (seems like most links fail to parse however) A successful Example http://68k.news/article.php?loc=US&a=https:/&#x2F
824.
by setr 6y ago
The goal of news media is not to provide a useful information stream, but to gather repeat views (follow the money). The news barons of the past foolishly conflated the two, or at least assumed the first was optimal at producing the second.
825.
by setr 6y ago
If you assume "brain wiring", then you're basically making the case that everything is relative, and there's really no way to improve things beyond the state they're in. Programming can never get any better, and lan
826.
by setr 6y ago
halting problem doesn't say you can't prove a program halts; it says you can't write a program to prove every program halts (or doesn't), because you can construct pathological programs to intentionally foil it. you ca
827.
by setr 6y ago
SQLite already has different operating modes, right? e.g. WAL is turned on and stays on, I think; It seems like you could at least make type-checking an opt-in mode
828.
by setr 6y ago
well, he doesn't like one particular group of people linking to it :-)
829.
by setr 6y ago
The trouble generally is that JS is used despite the content being static, or independent of client behavior/usage. That is, JS can be used to do everything but it is not optimal, or even near optimal (or even remotely close to) for
830.
by setr 6y ago
If that were there case, it seems a bit dangerous/wrong for a reporter to be trying to pinpoint a complainer like this, if the reporter/target is not comfortable enough to put the name in directly. The only outcomes are nothing, o
831.
by setr 6y ago
It's beyond ridiculous -- there's no reason not to keep cascading that reasoning into everything. Any business that serviced backpage is a sex-traffic supporter; Any business that serviced a business that serviced to backpage is a
832.
by setr 6y ago
> One particularly vocal tenant, a non-Hispanic white woman with short blond hair who appeared to be in her fifties, claimed that smoke from the tires was killing nearby trees and that traffic from the gathering would make it impossible
833.
by setr 6y ago
Shouldn’t OR operations in an otherwise sargable[0] query just constitute merging two sargable queries? I don’t see why OR should affect the property [0] new term for me, and wow do I not like it
834.
by setr 6y ago
I mean, it wasn’t that much chaos, for most people. If you’re in the middle of a riot, sure, but otherwise? Trump’s election was dramatic but it was hardly show stopping.
835.
by setr 6y ago
They’re really not that different — a language is essentially a library, but at a lower level of the stack (the hierarchy being OS > language > framework > library > application) From that perspective, it makes about as much sen
836.
by setr 6y ago
The post refers to an existing team -- "we" used for everything -- so he's presumably convinced other people to work on it as well. Unless they're all on the same page (because why not?), there must be something compelli
837.
by setr 6y ago
This article is weird — it seems to be making the claim that any damage to an animal, intentional or not, related to the filming or not, should void the label — which is to me wholly unreasonable. A lack of sufficient precaution I’d agree
838.
by setr 6y ago
Right to repair doesn’t mean that everything must be repairable; it means that manufacturers can’t block you from installing a replacement part (eg by requiring a key from CORP) That is, if you could have repaired it, YOU could have repaire
839.
by setr 6y ago
The problem is not that they suddenly hit this performance drop and solved it in some reasonable timeframe, or it was some rare occurrence affecting .01% of users The problem is that it’s existed for 6 years, affected anyone and everyone, a
840.
by setr 6y ago
Rust chooses to panic, I believe, but you could always have applied the same Error strategy — it’d just be really annoying. The stdlib also provides a bunch of methods to pick-your-strategy for overflow behavior, but you need to use them in

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