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by strbean 5y ago
I'm pretty sure everyone complaining about the price of the war would be perfectly comfortable substituting the phrase "wasted money" with the phrase "wasted productive capacity and physical resources". I don't
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by strbean 5y ago
When dealing with addiction, more thinking often ends in better rationalizations for addictive behavior. For that reason, I'm not sure "Thought-Terminating" is inherently a bad thing. Anecdotally, I've seen tons of peopl
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by strbean 5y ago
Spelling quibble: Lyme Disease, not Lyme's Disease. It is named after Lyme, Connecticut.
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by strbean 5y ago
I don't see why an ECS would be incompatible with a DOM tree. As for the gorilla-banana problem, I would think all objects in a scene would be under the root, with the exception of pieces that make up a thing and rarely separate (wheel
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by strbean 5y ago
Is there any point to such speculation? Just as much as that is true, so too could the AI succeed in similar scenarios where humans would fail. The same question could be asked about two humans being contrasted against each other, and just
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by strbean 5y ago
When I heard "NoSQL", I thought we were getting an alternative query language for working with relational data, not throwing away the entire concept of RBMS's.
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by strbean 5y ago
I think the more appropriate question is: Was this corruption intended to benefit specific players, or just general sabotage of our government institutions?
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by strbean 5y ago
Wondering the same thing!
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by strbean 5y ago
That is super cool!
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by strbean 5y ago
I never considered that there would be viruses that infect Archaea. That sounds incredibly cool! Any fun tidbits about them you'd like to share?
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by strbean 5y ago
You can think of interface{} like Object in Java. Interfaces in go are simply saying "this thing satifies these properties". interface{} is an interface that anything can satisfy.
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by strbean 5y ago
This is a gish gallop. It won't happen, and if it does, it won't work, and if it does, it won't work well enough, and if it does, nobody will want it, and if they do, it will be too expensive. Somehow the rest of the develope
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by strbean 5y ago
> What about the tax on owning business items in LA? Does that sound fair? From other comments, it sounds like this only applies to items exceeding some large dollar value. I'm all for increasing the tax base, especially with Prop 1
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by strbean 5y ago
Agreed, the only surprising thing is that this isn't a Medium post and (from glancing at the comments but not the article) it isn't glaringly wrong.
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by strbean 5y ago
In at least one elevator I rode in as a kid, pressing every button resulted in everything being de-selected.
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by strbean 5y ago
Reviewing them all, it seems the only remotely valid points where "LA permit approval is slow" and "California agriculture uses a lot of water"...
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by strbean 5y ago
> And then there's the hundred billion dollar high speed train to nowhere that isn't even a high speed train and (if I remember correctly) might not even have ten miles of track built. The planned max speed for CAHSR is 220 mph
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by strbean 5y ago
This might be silly, but I kind of wish Date-with-Timezone types existed. It would be nice to be able to take a date and ask "Is does timestamp X fall within date Y", where Y is a calendar day in a particular place.
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by strbean 5y ago
> I also write Haskell for enjoyment Pretty sure there is an entry in DSM-IV for that :)
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by strbean 5y ago
HN posts/karma are probably going to come up in his next performance review!
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by strbean 5y ago
Clearly the answer to this issue in the office is to obfuscate by regularly going to the bathroom for 45 minutes to sit on your phone.
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by strbean 5y ago
Assuming a finite universe, I'll just use 100% of the possible memory for my program. Now you can't run my program and count the steps.
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by strbean 5y ago
TEDx ended up as a way for cranks and snake oil salesmen to launder their ideas through a façade of reputability with the TED name, because most people don't realize that anyone can organize / speak at a TEDx event with no overs
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by strbean 5y ago
Fair enough. I haven't seen any of the 10%, but I'm sure they're out there. As an alternative to saying "go find info", how's this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KDiecphUk8 ? I just gave it
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by strbean 5y ago
I replied with some questions about the safety of this, as I had some concerns when reading it. Aside from the issue I mentioned in reply, the only real caveat would be "know the basics of working with electronics without shorting thin
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by strbean 5y ago
I was under the impression that mixing and matching cells (by model or by age/number of charge cycles used) can be sketchy. For example, if you have a very heavily used battery in series with new battery, everything may look okay exter
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by strbean 5y ago
If iMessage is supported on Android, that means that Apple users can to communicate with ex-Apple users without messages getting randomly black-holed. How else is Apple supposed to punish those who leave their ecosystem?
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by strbean 5y ago
Seems like both Radon and Repl.it are based in California. If that is correct, then non-compete agreements are only enforceable for founders/partners in a business.
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by strbean 6y ago
Sounds like it makes sense, but nope. Currently winter is "normal time", and wasn't changed when DST was created. DST just pushes the day later in summer. If you woke up at sunrise on the winter equinox, that means you woke u
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by strbean 6y ago
My favorite timezone absurdity is timezones with an offset > 12 hours.

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