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by skj 12y ago
I think it's important to think of these features in terms of their smallest possible descriptions. One mistake with Java, I think, is that "inheritance" is how you do both polymorphism and composition (I know you can do eith
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by skj 12y ago
> I'm concerned that Rust is starting out at the cruft level it took C++ 20 years to achieve. That is the core reason why there are no generics in Go. Not because the Go team thinks they're a terrible idea, but because they thi
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by skj 12y ago
> It's odd that all of the very smart people of the world feel AI is a threat to humanity. Only if you define one of the conditions for being a "very smart person" to be feeling that AI is a threat to humanity.
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by skj 12y ago
Less so in France!
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by skj 12y ago
Any system that classifies people who have knowledge of the system will be gamed. eg the endless battle between Google search quality and SEO hackers.
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by skj 12y ago
Generally satellite ISPs are dial-up for upload and use the satellite link only for download.
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by skj 12y ago
So, we're lucky it wasn't destroyed already, so we might as well break it now?
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by skj 12y ago
In fact, that's the default grouping. Otherwise, it'd be open-data structures.
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by skj 12y ago
> But nobody likes That Guy. So stop. I think you are confused about who is being 'that guy'.
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by skj 12y ago
Is that bad? The ease of getting a vaccine needs to be enough such that it's not a burden to do so. Once that's achieved, 23% effective is actually quite a good benefit, given that those 23% also fail to infect others and improve
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by skj 12y ago
While the factoid is appreciated, I don't think it's fair to call it a fallacy: 'the mercury' is a common metaphor for temperature these days, whether the element mercury is involved in the process or not.
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by skj 12y ago
That is very difficult to google for.
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by skj 12y ago
> Are you implying that groping isn't worth a criminal charge? I hope not. GP is implying, as was quite clear in the comment, that it isn't worth an international manhunt.
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by skj 12y ago
Exactly correct. It was more or less, "Given this model, my assumptions are correct!", completely missing the point that the model was the assumption itself.
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by skj 12y ago
I don't think it's the fact that docker-the-company is working on these problems, but rather the fact that they're tying everything together very closely, making it hard to use one thing they're working on without the ot
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by skj 12y ago
> That's pretty far outside the mainstream -- lots of jurisdictions have laws about the humane slaughter of animals. The vast majority of people don't care at all. But the people who do care care a lot , and make a lot of rack
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by skj 12y ago
Given that at the end of the process they're both dead, the amount of pain felt ends up being irrelevant. What matters is the amount of empathy we feel with the creature. With dogs, we often think of them as our friends and companions.
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by skj 12y ago
Dogs do have more rights than other animals. If you take a dog to the zoo and feed it to a lion, you're going to have a problem. If you take a mouse to the zoo, and feed it to a snake, no problem. Cows have no rights because they'
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by skj 12y ago
> and doesn't rebuild dependencies on file updates. Or at all. 'go generate' does not build go source, unless your comment is "//go:generate go build" which would be, to say the least, pretty weird.
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by skj 12y ago
If I visit a page hoping for information, and there is a video with no text or other supporting context, I will close the tab immediately. If there is a video and something to read, I will make sure the video is not playing and then read
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by skj 12y ago
"Logic" is not what you're using here. People thought the earth was flat for, well, a long time. Things that are false can last quite a while.
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by skj 12y ago
No, cannon. Like, really solid and made out of explosion-resistant iron.
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by skj 12y ago
Right, I expect many will choose a severance package instead.
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by skj 12y ago
I don't believe anyone is getting fired, though it's true that a mandatory relocation will mean a lot of people choose to leave the company.
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by skj 12y ago
Its UI can appear clunky in some ways, but once you get the hang of its nuances code review is very clear and easy to manage.
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by skj 12y ago
I would never trust a 4th grade English teacher for any advice on grammar or spelling.
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by skj 12y ago
Wasn't me.
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by skj 12y ago
Not if you remember your tin-foil hat.
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by skj 12y ago
Some probabilities approach zero faster than the universe can approach heat death.
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by skj 12y ago
You'll never see an accurate ratio, because revealing it would reveal the number of machines in Google data centers (considered a trade secret).

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