strangeattractr

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by strangeattractr 5y ago
Thank you for this comment, you shed some light on something I considered too opaque to dig into and made it clear why this would be useful.
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I enjoyed reading it, as someone who writes a lot of go but hasn't done any profiling of code.
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by strangeattractr 5y ago
Honestly, the lack of enums annoys me far more than the generics ever do. Mainly because we have interfaces.
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by strangeattractr 5y ago
The vue code for this is pretty terse anyway to be honest. A single variable in data, a call to setInterval in the created hook and a few lines of html with template formatting. It's extremely clear what's going on too.
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by strangeattractr 5y ago
As a counterpoint, I've found The Economist is quite good on my own domestic politics when it does cover it - albeit rarely. To me this quote underlines the importance of reading news from varied sources rather than not reading it at a
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by strangeattractr 5y ago
I usually find it's the opposite to be honest. Most people that I know that have a good understanding of how the technology works are far more sanguine about what it can and cannot do. Whereas those friends and acquaintances who unders
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by strangeattractr 5y ago
This is a commonly suggested solution that fundamentally misunderstands the problem. Most of these people aren't believing falsehoods because they don't have access to better information. It's because they don't trust th
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by strangeattractr 5y ago
This is a pretty poor criticism of the normal distribution, for one it doesn't contain a single mention of variance or standard deviation which is as important as the mean. Modelling something with a normal distribution does not say th
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by strangeattractr 5y ago
Subtitles can be a massive help if they're accurate when watching sped up. YouTube autogen ones are often distractingly wrong though
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Would never speed up something I was watching for enjoyment. I was slightly puzzled when I saw Netflix enable speeding up video, I suppose someone out there must have wanted it.
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by strangeattractr 5y ago
Have you tried watching things at 2x speed? I watch anything educational at 2x stopping to replay (often several times) anything I don't understand, watching at normal speed. I end up powering through the bits I understand and focusing
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People don't base this opinion on a single article but on the coverage of the situation holistically as it evolves. Most of the 'bombshell' revelations in this trial have been available on the internet since the week of the s
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by strangeattractr 5y ago
4chan's influence is not good but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. In fact it's so influential that a lot of the garbage on there bleeds into the real world e.g. Pizzagate, QAnon, the OK symbol means 'white power
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by strangeattractr 5y ago
The prosecutor has a tough job. He's trying to prove murder in one of the most obvious and well documented cases of self-defence in history. There is so much video evidence that shows a reasonable person would fear for their lives in t
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by strangeattractr 5y ago
I can't believe what a cliche you are. You make grand claims of right wing extremist threats from people gripped by misinformation. Post a handful of tweets and Wapo articles as evidence then trumpet myths about people being beaten to
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by strangeattractr 5y ago
You have my sincerest sympathies, I can see the onslaught of corporate media coverage and social media engagement has exhausted you to the point where you aren't even able to muster a scintilla of scepticism anymore. Nobody was beaten
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by strangeattractr 5y ago
This sounds like an absolutely hysterical reaction to someone pointing out the effects of watching CNN who have been pursuing a narrative intended to make people scared. As evidenced by polling in September that showed that Democrats signif
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by strangeattractr 5y ago
Maybe try thinking about it for a moment instead of resorting to the boring heuristic of assuming Americans are dumb zealots treasuring rights because they are brainwashed. People like you need to stop saying things like "I understand
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by strangeattractr 5y ago
‘Trust the science’ is something generally said by people trying to get others to abide by their demands. In my experience there’s usually nothing scientific behind what they’re requesting. I see it said constantly where I live when people
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by strangeattractr 5y ago
I work in financial services we have set time off and managers are punished in their performance reviews when employees don't take their time off because it accrues as a liability and means that salary costs are 1/13th higher than
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by strangeattractr 5y ago
I live in Victoria. We have certainly given up all of our freedom. Our Premier has suspended parliament and now rules by decree. Citing fabled 'health advice', which is never made public nor provided when queried, to justify anyth
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by strangeattractr 5y ago
Nice work - this is really impressive.
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Honestly, Argentina has tried almost every style of economic management and failed. As I said they were investment led growth miracles, but I think that people who dismiss the importance of exports to these countries are extremely misguided
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by strangeattractr 5y ago
Investment led growth miracles that occurred in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and China have almost nothing to do with innovation. These nations all suffered from excess labour and insufficient capital. They relied on protecting domestic indus
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by strangeattractr 5y ago
So if we submit to having all our content scanned by them they'll even give us E2EE on iCloud? I guess they really do care about our privacy.
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They made a list of 'Anti-Muslim extremists' and included both a victim of extremism and a former islamic extremist on it. Because their views which are informed by first hand experience are different from those held by the SPLC.
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Yes I just looked, they do have 'mostly true' and they didn't use it. Honestly, if that first one doesn't make you roll your eyes I don't know what to say. Would a reasonable person consider a person who was a membe
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Everything is a bandaid when you're policing what people say. Manual moderation is unlikely to solve the issue to people's liking either, it doesn't on here or anywhere else I see it done. Moderation on social media isn'
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> He can be voted out at any time. Western democracies don't even have democratic recall outside of the neutered impeachment process. Seems a very odd thing to complain about 'neutered impeachment processes' in Western dem
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by strangeattractr 5y ago
Is it possible you don't like living in Australia and that may be making you a bit myopic? You are talking about Australian's cavalier attitude towards debt and issues with housing affordability in the two most expensive cities in

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