taeric

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by taeric 7mo ago
Wow. This made me laugh far harder than I would have thought it would. Just wow.
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by taeric 8mo ago
On those points, I never intended a disagreement. My only point was that in some cases it can be easier to reason with the structured steps that go to each other. Specifically, it was far easier than I expected when I started playing with
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by taeric 8mo ago
I am not talking about the implementations in assembly, I'm talking about the way he lists them in prose. I can accept that he lists them the way he does because of familiarity to a style of assembly, but that doesn't change the f
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by taeric 8mo ago
I said that that was a fair claim. My only point on loops is you can already get some hairy explosions with "easy" to understand loops. Since those are effectively backwards jumps already. That said, I disagree with your idea th
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by taeric 8mo ago
Fair that it can create some. But just allowing of nested loops already creates some of these. And, I know folks have tried to disallow loops, but that feels extreme. Again, I would point to many of Knuth's descriptions as already al
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by taeric 8mo ago
I'm not clear that jumping backwards is that tough to reason with. Notably, Knuth's algorithms do that quite commonly, right? I do think they need to be somewhat constrained to not jump to places that need new things initialized.
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by taeric 8mo ago
I haven't used it much at all, to be clear. I just found it surprisingly fun the last few times I played with it. The specific thing it made a lot easier was implementing algorithms the way that Knuth writes them down. Which is very
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by taeric 8mo ago
It is literally a platform's responsibility to make sure they are being used responsibly, as well? Imagine a gun range that was well aware that their grounds were being used in nefarious ways. We'd shut it down. A hospital that
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by taeric 8mo ago
Delimited continuations always bounced off of me. In theory, they should be a lot like coroutines? I think, in practice, I just never really internalized all that goes into managing the current "environment" for a piece of code
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by taeric 8mo ago
I confess I like Common Lisp's TAGBODY far more than I feel like I should. Having constrained GOTO semantics to a short section of the codebase is surprisingly useful.
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by taeric 8mo ago
Is it common to say how tall models are? I just checked a few sites, but not seeing it.
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by taeric 8mo ago
I think this was what I was told the first time. The advantage of taking a picture with my phone's camera is it kind of made it obvious just how much brighter the screen was then the paper. Which, fair that it may be obvious to others
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by taeric 8mo ago
I find it somewhat pleasant, but by far the best thing I did to help my eye strain was greatly lower the brightness. Basically, I was told to make it so that my phone's camera could see something on the screen and my desk at the same
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by taeric 8mo ago
Holy crap, you couldn't make a story that is a more direct echo of the plot point in Wonderful Life if you tried.
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by taeric 8mo ago
Just got into a somewhat amusing argument over this article. Folks are convinced that this is wrong and that the only thing leading to higher costs is lack of building.
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by taeric 8mo ago
Comparing to Walmart, though, I would expect higher growth. Would you not?
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by taeric 8mo ago
I am not so sure this is an accurate analysis? Notably, a major thing that kept it so that retail made no money, was the massive expense of expanding the retail operations. That is, expanding retail footprint is a massive cost. And you h
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by taeric 8mo ago
I really hate that we allowed "debt" to become a synonym for "liability." This isn't a case where you have specific code/capital you have borrowed and need to pay for its use or give it back. This is flat out
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by taeric 8mo ago
The difference here will almost certainly come down to how you release your work? For product based teams that have a very specific place to plant the tag of what was released, development branches reflect their ability to know exactly wha
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by taeric 8mo ago
I had assumed the ridiculous pivot to protein was more a capitulation to the current admin. If it really is a reaction to Ozempic and peers, that feels far better? I also confess I think the larger drinks and growing size of meals is the m
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by taeric 8mo ago
"Grievance culture," I believe, is the term you are looking for. Most of the power in that came from classes of victims being untouchable. Some of that was the decorum of not wanting to punch down. Some was the reasonable ask th
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by taeric 8mo ago
I could have sworn that the same thing happened with back pain, in the past?
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99% of adults over 40 have shoulder "abnormalities" on an MRI, study finds(arstechnica.com)
3 points by taeric 8mo ago|2 comments
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by taeric 8mo ago
I don't think I can beat the drum of "they are liars" heavily enough. It remains frustrating to see so much accidental carrying of water for them as people look for a hint of legitimacy.
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by taeric 8mo ago
The sibling point that talks about the goal of the tax hits the idea you are talking about, I think. And this is what I meant saying you can show they can impact the soda companies. But regardless of any downstream effects of the tax exis
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by taeric 8mo ago
It is baffling to me, as it is no different than thinking that "sugar taxes" are taxes that soda companies pay. There is even a straight forward analysis that shows it does impact the soda companies rather heavily. But it is obj
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by taeric 8mo ago
Alas, I think it is far more likely that there is no secret to any of this. Different strokes will arrive at the same place for a lot of people. All the more true for things that are even remotely creative in nature. Not to say that routi
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by taeric 8mo ago
I'm assuming this is talking about the revised numbers for 2025? And if that revised so heavily downward, hard to imagine the latest numbers are somehow more stable?
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by taeric 8mo ago
Kudos on you for acknowledging that your behavior changed! It is depressing how many people online are convinced that the emergency braking systems are too aggressive. The best is the cohort that insist these systems will be what causes a
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by taeric 8mo ago
Ish. Polling is very YIMBY. So long as it is exactly what I want in my back yard. With a lot more leeway granted to what should be allowed in someone else's back yard.

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