strangeattractr

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by strangeattractr 6y ago
I actually don't have very much respect for Glenn Greenwald. Whilst I largely agree with his views on free speech, he has repeatedly shown himself to be a petty and narcissistic man who seems to be unable to have a healthy disagreement
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by strangeattractr 6y ago
Can't help but feel these codes of conduct are unnecessary. I get the problem they're supposed to solve, setting ground rules for a community expected to broach various cultural boundaries, but I don't actually think they fun
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by strangeattractr 6y ago
I think it's the leap from - 'I'm not a fan of the approach' to 'this is a poor textbook'. Just because they don't like the approach doesn't mean it won't be effective for other learners. Some pe
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by strangeattractr 6y ago
Only on here could people say that the engineering challenges Google faces in delivering search are 'solved problems' that could be easily mimicked. I get that people don't like the surveillance tech business model, I don&#x2
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by strangeattractr 6y ago
I agree the excel is great for cleansing or processing small/medium sized data sets. It's great for comparing two or more data sets too. The thing that makes it great for these things is visual editing, and the ease of setting up
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by strangeattractr 6y ago
50/50 of a voter turnout around 50%. If half the country doesn't bother voting I doubt this is alienating them.
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by strangeattractr 6y ago
Nobody cares about your problems, nobody cares if you learn a new language or not. The thread is about reflections on using rust - if you don't want to learn/use it fine, but being irritated that others are is just strange.
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by strangeattractr 6y ago
I'm concerned that you don't seem to believe America is in a recession at present.
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by strangeattractr 6y ago
> constant spaghetti of JS/Go. I've written a lot of Go and there are plenty of faults but I'm curious why you consider it 'constant spaghetti' apparently in the same class as JS.
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by strangeattractr 6y ago
Can attest to this. Some of the things I've seen excel spreadsheets contorted to do horrify me. I once got spreadsheet dumped on me to debug because it wasn't working. A colleague used the spreadsheet to 'generate' inter
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by strangeattractr 6y ago
The most salient point of the paper was the inflection point of 90% for sharply lower growth. It was and still is used by proponents of fiscal austerity to argue against fiscal stimulus.
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by strangeattractr 6y ago
> Industry/capitalism/profit-seeking by definition makes it incredibly difficult to do things where there isn't a large expected monetary return. But profitability is a poor proxy for whether a thing is useful to do or not