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by shiandow 8mo ago
Oh no! Seriously though, having a basic income that is not basic was bound to give issues.
122.
by shiandow 9mo ago
I don't think it's too bad orthogonality wise, though it is a bit weird to introduce infix notation. It would almost make more sense to write ((. sum numbers) (1 2 3))
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by shiandow 9mo ago
Technically $ means something slightly different, it is more somilar to putting parentheses around the right half of the expression. For function composition it uses the same '.' .
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by shiandow 9mo ago
> Are you sure “readily willing to concede” is worth absolutely anything as a user or consumer? The company can't have it both ways. Either they have to admit the ai "support" is bollocks, or they are culpable. Either way
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by shiandow 9mo ago
This looks like a pretty weak correlation in a study that doesn't control for any other variables. Which is not nothing but concluding anything about causality is a stretch.
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by shiandow 9mo ago
I don't get it, it keeps showing me completely random articles.
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by shiandow 9mo ago
Having stable core revenue teams and disposable experimental teams seems like an excellent way to ensure the experienced developers will leave as soon as they can, and that any new knowledge leaves the company as soon as possible. So in the
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by shiandow 9mo ago
I have no trust in a solution that mostly benefits the proposer. By all means let people curate and use safe lists of software, but let's not pretend that making the life harder for the few registries containing solely open source and
129.
by shiandow 9mo ago
I appreciate the convenience of having the original text on hand, as opppsed to having to download it of Dropbox of all places. But if you're going to quote the whole thing it seems easier to just say so rather than quoting it bit by
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by shiandow 9mo ago
If airflow is a layer of abstraction something is wrong. Yes it is an additional layer, but if your orchestration starts concerning itself with what it is doing then something is wrong. It is not a layer on top of other logic, it is a si
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by shiandow 9mo ago
I'm not sure if this exponent is actually enhancing contrast or just fixing the gamma.
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by shiandow 9mo ago
Last time I tried I could find a photo ID just with a basic image search. It is an unavoidable consequence of teaching people that scanning an ID is not utterly insane. Ironically there was no way to report the image anonymously to the serv
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by shiandow 10mo ago
It all boils down to the fact that mean and variance give a good approximation of a probability distribution. In the same way that things typically converge to the average they converge even more strongly to a normal distribution. So estima
134.
by shiandow 10mo ago
The insane thing to do would be to implement a variant of loeb so it works regardless of order.
135.
by shiandow 10mo ago
If we're doing hot takes then I propose the following guideline taken from mathematics. Only comments should explain what, variable names should only hint The first example is perfectly fine, nobody has the time to derive or read a v
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by shiandow 10mo ago
This looks very readable. The one example I didn't like is the expanded one where it expanded all but 1 of the elements. I feel like that should be an all or norhing thing, but there's bound to be edge cases.
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by shiandow 10mo ago
It's a very crude method, with modern codecs I would be very surprised if you didn't get a better image just encoding the chroma at a lower bitrate.
138.
by shiandow 10mo ago
You think that's bad? Imagine finding out that all video still encodes colour at half resolution simply because that is how analog tv worked.
139.
by shiandow 10mo ago
This ratio allows for a relatively simple 2x2 repeating pattern. That makes interpolating the values immensely simpler. Also you don't want the red and blue to be too far apart, reconstructing the colour signal is difficult enough as i
140.
by shiandow 10mo ago
You can just use this algorithm but ignore everything after the first k elements. The algorithm still works if you don't store anything beyond the first k elements but just pretend they are there.
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by shiandow 10mo ago
Huh I didn't know the backwards version was more common, it seems odd. You could also call the last version the online version, as it will ensure the partial list is random at any point in time (and can be used for inputs with indeterm
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by shiandow 10mo ago
It's interesting. You begin by describing the circumstances and then conclude the problem must be fixed by changing individual behaviour.
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by shiandow 10mo ago
The best way I have of knowing code is correct on all levels is convincing myself I would write it the same way. Thr only way to be 100% sure is writing it myself. If I know some one reasonable managed to write the code I can usually take
144.
by shiandow 11mo ago
If that truly is an issue then Android is a fundamentally broken OS. How many different models of PCs get released? How hard is it to patch any of their OSs?
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by shiandow 11mo ago
And everything aimed at developers assumes you're using Unix.
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by shiandow 11mo ago
It's not exactly a new type of failure. It's roughly equivalent to Riccardian rent, or pecuniary externalities for the general term. Though I suppose this is a speculative variant, which could be worse somehow.
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by shiandow 11mo ago
Well there's no law against it. Okay I suppose the axiom of choice is somewhat necessary to make it make sense. But only because otherwise such an indexed object may fail to exist. Anyway arbitrary indexes are useful, you often end up
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by shiandow 11mo ago
It is. But understandably the people who need to push back on what is still magic may get a bit tired.
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by shiandow 11mo ago
That's a bit like the 'nobody was fired for choosing Oracle' argument, but it does make sense. Still a bit weird to pretend we now have cyber weather that takes our webpages down.
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by shiandow 11mo ago
Careful, that's dangerously close to concluding that money, businesses(, ownership) are just tools we made for our own benefit. Which is of course socialism.

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