skohan

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by skohan 5y ago
The more code I've written, the less I care about code quality. I think the things I could point to in my coding practice which would make the code I write now better than the code I wrote 10 years ago would be: - I minimize interdepen
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by skohan 5y ago
I agree that there is some value to purely theoretical work, but I think this is over-valued in CS. For instance, in the first year of physics instruction at university, problems are often stated in the form of: "In a frictionless e
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by skohan 5y ago
I tend to think you should be able to go back and fourth between mental models. Like obviously when you're thinking through how to set up business logic, you should not be thinking in terms of registers and memory layouts. But when yo
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by skohan 5y ago
I disagree that you'll be a worse computer scientist. Computer science doesn't happen in Plato's heaven, it happens in real processors and memory. I tend to think focusing on abstractions is almost always the wrong approach.
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by skohan 5y ago
Deaths per pop statistics are often distorted for tiny countries since a few extra deaths can pull the stat by a lot.
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by skohan 5y ago
What's the source of all the lead pollution in central Africa?
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by skohan 5y ago
I agree that everyone shouldn't need to know every implementation detail, but I'd argue there should be more emphasis on the low-level details in CS education. Programming is often approached from a purely abstract point of view
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by skohan 5y ago
I can't tell if you're joking, but I hope you are. Having to pay more to access the same products is not a net loss to the consumer?
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by skohan 5y ago
In which way? As far as I can see, the size of M&A activity is only increasing
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by skohan 5y ago
The UK sees a strategic interest in ARM
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by skohan 5y ago
I think having a handful of corporations owning everything makes all of those issues worse
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by skohan 5y ago
Yes consumers are losing here. In the near future, you will have to own at least two almost identical gaming devices to play all the relevant AAA games. That's basically a $500 tax being applied to gaming enthusiasts to get the same
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by skohan 5y ago
Yes exactly - it should meet the current standard for anti-trust action that it hurts consumers. It's quite sad that this is not enforced at all anymore apparently.
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by skohan 5y ago
Do you really expect them to continue this practice if they own a dominant share of exclusive new games? With Minecraft they did the opposite: they made bedrock a windows exclusive, and required going through the MS storefront to access it
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by skohan 5y ago
I honestly think behind climate change, the current state of anti-trust enforcement is one of the biggest issues facing Americans right now. It's disappointing that it's not even expected for anti-trust action to happen anymore.
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by skohan 5y ago
Yeah exactly, MS will only play nice as long as they have to. If they own most of the popular AAA titles, you'd better believe everyone is going to have to use their launcher, with DRM which doesn't work on Proton, and log in t
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by skohan 5y ago
They will be MS exclusive. It's fine if you're a windows gamer, but this is bad news for anyone who plays games on Playstation, Linux/Steam/Proton, or Nintendo platforms. It also really should be the target of anti-
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by skohan 5y ago
What’s interesting to me is that this result shares something with the relativistic theory of gravity: That is, that gravity is a side-effect of the fact that time moves more slowly closer to centers of mass, which causes the velocity vecto
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by skohan 5y ago
Surely a global shortage of a certain very specific good is different than a local shortage of everyday consumer goods. I hope you are right that this is not a serious issue. I can only say that I ran into this, as well as being unable to
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by skohan 5y ago
Yes exactly, this is what I'm talking about: > None of what you suggest will be signed into law. > Republican state legislatures are removing all of the barriers that caused their "Green Bay Sweep" plan to fail on 1&#x2
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by skohan 5y ago
A robust democracy would not be so vulnerable that one of the candidates' actual private emails being made public would not swing the election. We live in an adversarial world, and America will always have enemies. If we are so fragil
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by skohan 5y ago
Why is the US suffering supply chain issues, and issues of scarcity, which are not present in other developed countries like Germany?
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by skohan 5y ago
I found this article[0] which quotes her saying: > If the election had been on October 27, I would be your president In reference to WikiLeaks making her private emails available. I will grant you this is not exactly the same as claiming
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by skohan 5y ago
Again I just don't think any of this is particularly relevant. Trump didn't get elected by colluding with Russia. Trump got elected because he articulated a salient message which resonated with many Americans. If you think Hilla
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by skohan 5y ago
The question I always ask myself when this topic comes up is, Trump and Russia colluded to do what? I want to be clear that, if Trump's campaign in any way worked with a foreign power for the purpose of furthering it's electoral
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by skohan 5y ago
> So yes, there was smoke and it was coming from a fire. There was collusion, and there was obstruction. It's been proven and documented. There may have been some Russian involvement in the 2016 election, but the effort has always b
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by skohan 5y ago
You could also probably argue that the power structure set up in a dictatorship exacerbates these tendencies. Absolute power would naturally push you toward a narcissistic view on the world, because, well, you always would be the most im
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by skohan 5y ago
I'm sorry but you are missing the point. You could argue we haven't had a proper transition of power in several administrations. In Bush v. Gore we had (perhaps reasonable) concerns about the validity of the result thanks to the
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by skohan 5y ago
I'm an American expat who's been living in Germany for the better part of a decade. I've often confronted an unfairly pessimistic, doom and gloom attitude from German people regarding the US, and I've always pushed back
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by skohan 5y ago
I think airlines engage in plenty of customer-hostile policies. I would argue that offering a clearly labled non-refundable option at a discount is not one of them.

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