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by setr 6y ago
>Old people dying? They had NONE, because people did not live that long. That one's not actually true[0] -- life expectancy is an average, driven by high child mortality. If you beat age 12, your expected lifespan shot up, and age 6
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by setr 6y ago
I had switched after learning that CHECK constraints were parsed, but ignored -- I've yet to be as offended by a program that at that instant Apparently supported now but what the hell; I don't think they even threw a warning abou
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by setr 6y ago
That's an absurd take on it... MDN owes this guy nothing, and this guy owes MDN nothing. But attribution, and the volunteer labor, are not part of any financial transaction, so the question of who formally owes who what is entirely irr
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by setr 6y ago
Because the formalization is "fake" -- it's still just as poorly defined and arbitrary as it was before (as social convention), and just as poorly defensible as it was before. It just gives power to the accuser to say "P
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by setr 6y ago
It does in the sense of intent -- if they built the tool for the express purpose of avoiding copyright restriction, they would do more than hide it in a random unit test or code comment. Putting it in the README itself would be a far strong
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by setr 6y ago
AIUI this was never the case; it was in a unit test.
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by setr 6y ago
It sounds like you're just trying to do similarity search? In which case, I imagine the key terms you want to be looking for are Information Retrieval and Recommendation Algorithms The most basic thing I'd imagine (assuming text d
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by setr 6y ago
I usually see it, but inverted: "we offer a 4% discount for cash payments" signs But usually only in small individual shops
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by setr 6y ago
It is my understanding that the only functional difference between a database, and a blockchain, is the elimination of a trusted third party who would have to administer the database (and could, maliciously, alter that DB) AFAICT, this is n
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by setr 6y ago
The problem I think is the extreme cargo-culting that exists with any popular technology -- half the arguments against the current flavor of the month really just begin with "no, this is not sent from god, and there do exist tradeoffs&
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by setr 6y ago
Its fairly common in fashion brands that the cheaper you get, the bigger the logo. Eg ralph lauren drops from massive, to small top left logo, to tiny, to entirely gone, on their polos as you scale the price range. The usual explanation is
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by setr 6y ago
Perhaps not coincidentally the same can be said of chemical warfare -- not so great in large scale war, but fairly effective against poor, untrained militia and enforcing order through fear on civilian populations
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by setr 6y ago
If you want a space opera with more realistic setups/politics/internal logic, Legend of the Galactic Heroes is top tier stuff
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by setr 6y ago
I've seen quite a few of these, but only in the context of video game equipment/leveling optimization sheets...
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by setr 6y ago
More problematic tbh is that excel doesn't really let you configure it for your setting: ideally you should be able to set it up with defaults suitable for genetic scientists, and then spread that configuration throughout the group. Or
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by setr 6y ago
I see the issue as more pretentious than anything else -- I know how to spell correctly, I have fucking spellcheck just like you do, but I don't give enough of a damn to go back through and right click every dumb typo and issue; especi
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by setr 6y ago
6 months..! Give me a few days and I'll have forgetton anything I didn't touch at least 3 times :-)
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by setr 6y ago
I would imagine for a $1000 item, it wouldn't be unreasonable to have a designer try to find a way to be more rugged and still not ugly -- see for example, IBM thinkpads, though they are perhaps the other extreme
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by setr 6y ago
I've also noticed the food prices are marked up by $1-2 on uber eats, even if doing pickup; Im not sure if its uber or the restaurant doing it, but I've verified the markup exists on multiple shops
980.
by setr 6y ago
One major difference is your involvement in creating the process: for drugs, you have clear intent to produce it. For the dog example, where you haven't encouraged the reproduction, by intending nothing at all , you've violated t
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by setr 6y ago
Isn't 3 already basically no opinion
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by setr 6y ago
I don't understand;you're suggesting it would be more efficient to pickup/dropoff at random points in the city? That would just decrease the stop-to-passenger effeciency in favor of passenger-to-walktime, but the optimization
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by setr 6y ago
Well, the complaint is mostly surface-level; I'm not sure if there's anything really stopping obe from treating tex as an engine/compile-target, and entirely changing the language that way Afaik other *tex systems do it in th
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by setr 6y ago
And everyone else was pretty much examples of "what not to do", though the characters themselves rarely learned the lesson
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by setr 6y ago
So this is just... plotting with zoom levels and aggregations? It seems to me the only novelty is to attach zoom to the scrollwheel, which I suppose is less common in BI visualizations (often a button instead)
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by setr 6y ago
Run it three times however is not part of such bugginess though. It means that they're randomly encountering different executions/run-states on what should be the same config/setup, each time you run it. And they have no idea
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by setr 6y ago
The concept is useful, the implementation is not. You really just want better ergonomics for enums, and encode the many ways NULL is meant to mean that way
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by setr 6y ago
Ah! Ok, that makes sense.
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by setr 6y ago
No, I'm still not understanding. Here's my thinking: Scenario #1: If the tuples are the same shape (type, size), it's fine [ (string, int, date) (string, int, date) (string, int, date) ] tran
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by setr 6y ago
My bigger concern regarding NULLs is that its a ternary logic shoved into a binary logic system, and it all invisibly becomes nonsense when your dataset has NULLs in it, and you don't explicitly address it WHERE col1 > col2 is wrong

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