taeric

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by taeric 1y ago
I confess I found the graphs GraphViz made for me in https://taeric.github.io/many_sums.html oddly pretty. :D
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by taeric 1y ago
I would go further. The fundamental problem is the idea that there is a fundamentally correct representation of something. This actually goes further than even the visualization of the graph. Symbolic representations have the same trap.
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by taeric 1y ago
Apologies, but this just reads like a low effort critique of big things. To be clear, they should get criticism. They should be held liable for any damage they cause. But that they remain the biggest cloud offering out there isn't som
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by taeric 1y ago
I didn't realize AWS got a pass?
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by taeric 1y ago
I meant only that there is no styling that can fix it. Some transactions will flat out fail partially done and have to be kicked to a reconciliation process to fix. I grant that for things that are purely informational, this is not necessa
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by taeric 1y ago
I should find it more amusing than I do that I largely still fall for stuff like the permanent record idea. I definitely fell for it, though.
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by taeric 1y ago
Totally fair. As I said up thread, I am comfortable saying I am imagining bad examples here. Would be interested in reading good examples. Though I couldn't find any of the bad ideas I had in my mind, I also didn't find any goo
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by taeric 1y ago
I confess I would expect a lot of those would be linear programming more than sat? Mixed integer would not surprise me.
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by taeric 1y ago
Makes sense.
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by taeric 1y ago
Makes perfect sense.
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by taeric 1y ago
I'm fine with the idea that they won't share specifically that they fired someone for a specific reason. The surprising part, to me, is that they can't share if it was company's decision to end the relationship. My und
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by taeric 1y ago
I'm curious if you have examples of problems you don't think they are good at solving? Agreed that they are not a panacea of solving problems, but if you are able to somewhat naturally reduce your problem to a SAT statement, they
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by taeric 1y ago
They won't confirm if the termination was the choice of the employee or the company? Doesn't that have implications for unemployment benefits?
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by taeric 1y ago
I confess this surprises me. I didn't think they had to give specific details, but I thought they had to at least confirm whose decision it was for the termination.
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by taeric 1y ago
Most all will answer whether or not it was "with cause" if someone calls them up, though? Specifically because they have to if the caller is about unemployment, no?
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by taeric 1y ago
I'd go a little further, though? Transactions have to be able to fail at the very last step. That could just be the "commit" stage. Everything up to that point could have been perfectly fine, but at commit it fails. More,
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by taeric 1y ago
Right, I think a better way of stating my main assertion here is that you have to be able to partially work in a transaction. If your "shell" pretends that you can always complete the full transaction, either successfully or with
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by taeric 1y ago
I have not seen too many (any?) times where the monad trick is done in such a way that they don't combine everything in a single context wrapper and talk about the "abnormal" case where things don't complete during execu
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by taeric 1y ago
My idea here is that, in many domains, you will have operations that are somewhat definitionally in the imperative camp. OpenTransaction being the easy example. Can you implement it using functional code? Yes. Just make sure you wind up
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by taeric 1y ago
Right, I was just using that as "at the extreme" and how it largely exists to allow you to put a functional feel on top of the imperative below it. I'm sympathetic to the idea, as you can see it in most instruction manuals th
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by taeric 1y ago
I am curious on this. My reading was largely that this seemed to be a side effect of the format message, and not something that is in your control?
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by taeric 1y ago
Right, but even in those, you typically have the more imperative operations as the lower levels, no? Especially when you have things where the life cycle of what you are starting is longer than the life cycle of the code that you use to do
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by taeric 1y ago
This works right up to the point where you try to make the code to support opening transactions functional. :D Some things are flat out imperative in nature. Open/close/acquire/release all come to mind. Yes, the RAI patter
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by taeric 1y ago
Do you know this for fact? My gut is that most performers will know of the performers they watched for inspiration. Just like athletes. But few will know the history of their field. I will agree that the "greats" seem to tend t
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by taeric 1y ago
My gut is your main complaint is largely the modern web ecosystem? Games can run circles around that application, as obvious inspiration. But high end architectural tools are probably more of what you have in mind. The easy example I used
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by taeric 1y ago
This is just "old person yelling at cloud" territory, though? People often don't know the actors, singers, authors, inventors, whatever from the last few generations. They know the current generation and maybe some original
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by taeric 1y ago
If you are getting 10k steps a day in, I'm assuming that is already 3-400 calories right there? I should be clear. It isn't that I don't think 500 is enough to make a difference. I legit didn't know if it was a lot of
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by taeric 1y ago
Largely agreed. It doesn't take a lot of looking through these threads, though, to find people basically saying everyone in the past merely coped with trauma. Some going so far as to basically assert that the only reason people drank
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by taeric 1y ago
Agreed. I was trying to emphasize the difficulty in starting, is all. And further agreed that you don't have to push to uncomfortably hard. I would emphasize that it is almost certainly some level of discomfort for everyone, though.
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by taeric 1y ago
Stress of mother and substance abuse is very different from things like "cord wrapped around you." Similarly, some people have the cord literally cut off circulation and such. That is different, as well. Thanks for the link!

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