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by svieira 5y ago
Counterpoint: I've reviewed multi-thousand line PRs (with dozens of commits) ... those took me days of 8 hour review, with multiple issues found. (To be fair, when I first skimmed it, it looked great to me, but a deeper dive found lot
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by svieira 5y ago
Absolutely. But there are very few (no?) "experts on expertise". Which is what you need to be in order to make decisions about _which_ experts to trust in a field where there is plurality / majority consensus on some issue
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Lewis came _after_ the East India Trading Company ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company ) - he's talking about corporations that resemble the fever dreams of _Neuromancer_ and _Snow Crash_, not the (rel
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There are several languages that are working on solving the composable effects problem that I am aware of: * Pony - capabilities based language inspired by `E`. Effects are like Rust's (provided by the language, not extensible by end
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Yes, Google can still recognize "you" for some variation of "you". Anecdote - the other day my wife searched for an address on her phone while on WiFi. I searched for that same address just one minute later on a differ
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by svieira 5y ago
The problem with this is the same problem that CSV has to solve though - there's no escape character specified in ASCII so you can't have a unit that contains any of these 4 characters or else you'll break the parser.
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Traveling the Software Underground(careers.appian.com)
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by svieira 5y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification Juries can _and may_ nullify a law with their verdict (but only for the case in question)
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Also like the story: > A fellow got backstage after the violin maestro's performance. "That was amazing", he gushed! I would give half my life to be able to play as well as you do! The violinist looked at him and nodded. &
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by svieira 5y ago
Such as a gaming website that hosts arbitrary JS games written to fit within a particular size limit? Code sample web IDEs that are designed to teach people how to code quickly? An iframed rich text editor? An embedded reporting widget that
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Yes, and I used to use it as my daily driver. But I switched to Firefox a year ago to make sure I wasn't ignoring the minority experience. Yes, we have CI (700+ machine hours for runs-on-master integration tests). No, we don't hav
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by svieira 5y ago
Testing base, stable (from my perspective) infrastructure? Should I have tests that validate that JPGs still render? How about when used as a CSS background image? Does Chrome test the register reads assembly code produced by the C++ compil
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by svieira 5y ago
I read chromestatus every week or so and the intended landing date for this change caught me off guard.
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> Let's just be honest about what we're asking for here - we want companies to consider the needs of marginalized groups, for its own sake because it's the right thing to do. Precisely! "Right is right, even if nobody
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by svieira 5y ago
This is the plot of _The Congress_: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congress_(2013_film)
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It's not that "multiple pasts can exist", it's that "multiple pasts _would be sufficient to explain_ the effect that is being observed now". E. g. "The apple hit Newton on the head" could be explained
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by svieira 5y ago
FoundationDB was re-released as open source a couple of years ago. https://www.foundationdb.org/
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And from here, it is a very small step (practically speaking) to The sixty of A Pebble in the Sky https://archive.org/details/pebbleinsky00asim/ https://archive.org/details/podcast_dimen
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by svieira 5y ago
> Especially in JavaScript, regexes blow in comparison to languages with named matching groups and all that Good news (well, probably). JavaScript (ECMAScript 2018+) now supports named matching groups. https://developer.mozill
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by svieira 5y ago
I don't think it's actually valid - the examples just aren't base64-encoding in order to make it possible to read them easily. Edit: Yeah, you at least need to change the `"` to `'` in the inline SVG before it will
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by svieira 5y ago
MOKEY-COKE! MOKEY-COKE! MOKEY-COKE! (If you've never read Venus, Inc. it's even better than Manna and it's more on-point; and it was written in the 1950s!) https://smile.amazon.com/Venus-Inc-Space-Mercha
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by svieira 5y ago
Doesn't include the seapig approach! Using the grading framework here, it's probably a C. Looks good, lots of flexibility for the component consumer. Bad TS support, plus the same problems as cloneElement. But I think it's a
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by svieira 5y ago
Looks like the `true` and `false` _bindings_ in Go are mutable and can be re-assigned. The same thing was possible in Python 2, IIRC: False, True = True, False # Have fun debugging!
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by svieira 5y ago
I don't know, this one fits the franchise more: def should_terminate(Person): """Check whether a Person should be terminated""" try: return True except Exception a
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Isn't that why laws should go after the seller and the purchaser not the product (especially in humans-are-the-product situations like this)?
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Which you can't do because the rates are established in law and the only people who are allowed to do the job are people with a certificate that is only provided by the union. Regulatory capture happens with unions as well as with bos
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"Pleasure is never settled. Indeed, pleasure itself suggests a process, a fluidity, a striving. Pleasure once attained, whether bodily or intellectual, tends not to last. It is pleasing to kick your opponent’s ass at chess; it is pleas
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> That truth can be expressed numerically I don't think this is what is held by those-who-do-science-and-philosophy-at-large (though it may be a generally accepted hand-wave, I don't know). See, for example Category Theory for
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Meta-metascience has been studied _extensively_ by previous generations, where what this generation calls "science" was called "natural philosophy" and interesting discourse and study was had on such things as: * The stu
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> It’s important to be aware of it, to realize that there are limits to what we can do with AI. It’s great for computation and arithmetic, and it saves huge amounts of labor. It seems to me that it lacks humility, lacks imagination, and

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