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by sqeaky 2y ago
How many CPUs have you owned? Compare this to Rolling a die in a tabletop game. How often do you roll a natural one or snake eyes? On a 20-sided die a natural one only comes up 5% of the time. I don't think I'm quite at having own
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by sqeaky 2y ago
Careful to not get sucked into a binary trap. Most (but not all) problems exist on a gradient you can often be "right enough", "fast enough", and as uncomfortable as it seems we can be "correct enough" or even
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by sqeaky 2y ago
Of course they can, and with an infinitely powerful machine it would be cheap to check.
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by sqeaky 2y ago
This is the exact formulation of the argument before computers beat humans at chess, or drew pictures, or represented color correctly, or... Self driving cars will be solved. There is at least one general purpose computer that can solve it
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by sqeaky 2y ago
This isn't advice.
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by sqeaky 2y ago
Reflection is a form of intelligence. Being able to acknowledge you were once wrong is not a skill everyone has (and being technically correct is a super important part of being smart at least in tech). I hope you see how smart you are and
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by sqeaky 2y ago
If we used such a machine to to enumerate Pi what would happen? Is it proven that Pi infinitely long? If so that would be a countable infinite because it is digits of precision, right? Could we write algorithms that search all the digits of
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by sqeaky 2y ago
Such a machine would be fun I would make a programming language where you couldn't write code, only detailed specifications and tests. In a VM Every possible permutation of bytes/opcodes/instructions/whatevers would be t
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by sqeaky 2y ago
I am not sure if such is decidable or not, but your conjecture is decidedly against the spirit of the post. :p
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by sqeaky 2y ago
Depends on context. If someone just needs the emotional energy to get back into the fight then a compliment is often what is needed. If someone is about to do something imminently that you see a correctable fault with and they don't th
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by sqeaky 2y ago
> Please stop giving advice. This is advice.
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by sqeaky 2y ago
Advice does work, just not every time. If we ignore all the successes of some action then of course that action looks like it doomed to fail.
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by sqeaky 2y ago
Yet everyone here is giving advice?
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by sqeaky 2y ago
I want to see the math for creating an electron gun that can blast phospors on a screen a foot away that is 70 inches wide and flat. That big space in most CRTs let the math be simple for how the electron gun emitted electrons. If the gun h
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by sqeaky 2y ago
Weren't the largest wide scale retail CRTs around 36~40 inches?
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by sqeaky 2y ago
I am fairly that all, or at least so many as to destroy trust, extended warranties are scams.
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by sqeaky 2y ago
"authorized repair people" What is shit concept. As tech becomes more varied repairs will become more of a project instead of a process. I mean repairs will be more expensive and less likely to succeed (I think this will be offset
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by sqeaky 2y ago
I am fully convinced that you are not arguing in good faith. Finding a few counterexamples on a gradient doesn't mean the gradient doesn't exist. Finding a few counterexamples means that strikes don't always work, but they ce
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by sqeaky 2y ago
> What resources? They are poor. They don't have resources to pool. If they had such resources they wouldn't be poor. This is binary thinking where a gradient is required. Poor is a spectrum. Someone with a car and a house and
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by sqeaky 2y ago
I don't believe randomdata is arguing in good faith.
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by sqeaky 2y ago
This is ridiculous and completely the political factors and personal financial stakes of the justices involved. Chevron deference was in place for decades and congress steadily created more agencies and passed laws to restrict or add powers
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by sqeaky 2y ago
But isn't the overturning of Chevron itself an example of the Court ignoring the authorizations of Congress? Congress delegated the authority to agencies to make regulations.
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by sqeaky 2y ago
I believe I got it from the book Ruby under the microscope. Which looked at what is now a really old version of Ruby, and if they changed it to make a API more consistent that's probably good.
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by sqeaky 2y ago
My time in the Ruby Community taught me about test driven development and a reliance on process that produced functioning and robust software. Things like continuous integration and careful specification through tests were promoted. If anyt
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by sqeaky 2y ago
Maybe he just doesn't like chunks in his bacon.
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by sqeaky 2y ago
Underneath the hood that's a C string, and the four points to the null terminator, so it's indexable. And that's why you get an empty string if you point exactly one past the end. That's why if you put five or more in fo
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by sqeaky 2y ago
I agree it isn't entirely obvious at first glance why slice behaves the way it does, there is a pattern. If the first number in the range is a valid index into the string then you'll get something back, and if it isn't you ca
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by sqeaky 2y ago
> That’s no particular reason to hide that kind of work. Wow, that is incredibly hard to respond to without casting aspersions. You claim there is no reason to hide a fundamentally unpopular and sometimes illegal thing? This is the kind
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by sqeaky 2y ago
officially*
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by sqeaky 2y ago
Consider the airline union strikes a while back. They leveraged the threat of striking in fits and spurts. They would strike for a day here or a hour there. Extremely disruptive to the business. The airlines had upper managers covering for

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