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by tgb 6y ago
Part of the 'hello' problem is to get around the lack of context about what the other person is doing - particularly about who else might see their screen at that time. I still prefer just asking the question but that was the reas
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by tgb 6y ago
That sketch predates Monty Python formation - it was part of "How to Irritate People."
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by tgb 6y ago
I don't get it. We have powerlines on every street yet NIMBYs complained about a single cell-tower being built in my hometown. Whether something is an 'eyesore' or not seems totally arbitrary. And in my view, this one has a r
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by tgb 6y ago
The author does say the following: > I'd rather be as library independent as possible, ideally with my SDL being my only cross-platform dependency to worry about.
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by tgb 6y ago
Wait, really? I just had to double-check my one JS project for bugs and either I used to know this gotcha or I got lucky. My sort()-ing needed to handle NaNs carefully so I was already using custom comparators.
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by tgb 6y ago
I've enjoyed Ring Fit Adventure but it has some downsides I've noticed. Just so you have another fitness-game-user's perspective: - Gamification does sometimes interfere with the workouts and/or workout enjoyability. The
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by tgb 6y ago
Club Penguin released in 2005 and I recall playing Mancala games at least as early as 2000 on PC. Are you sure Club Penguin was actually a cause?
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by tgb 6y ago
I agree, don't think it works out. Consider a 3x3...x3 puzzle (with N dimensions). There are 2^N corners but 3^N pieces so the corner-to-piece ratio decreases exponentially in N. However, what does "corner" mean in an N dimen
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by tgb 6y ago
On top of that, I got tested last month and it took 6 days to get the results, 7 from day of scheduling the appointment. Doesn't matter how many tests we perform if they're rendered nearly-useless by being out-of-date by the time
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by tgb 6y ago
Pandas does give indexes and columns named entries, so this is less of an issue there, and everything has only 2 dimensions. In numpy it's a real problem. xarray is a library trying to fix that, though I haven't tried it yet. [1]
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by tgb 6y ago
I see what it's doing but I don't really see what the benefit is. Maybe a comparison to what previously had to be done would help me? Would you have to make the 'daily' table in a separate step and then UPDATE using that
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by tgb 6y ago
I'm only passingly familiar with SQL, can anyone explain?
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by tgb 6y ago
What's the alternative for content like this?
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by tgb 6y ago
This is an example of why I think you are placing the burden of detail too high. The discussion was about the case for why something needed to be done, not specifically what. Yet a lack-of-sufficiently-detailed-solution let's you shu
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by tgb 6y ago
The most common proposals I've seen are to break Google into multiple companies, particularly with search being separate. This seems adequately specific. (Though obviously different from the public-utility plan in this article.) Is tha
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by tgb 6y ago
The comparison holds up if the claim, as stickfigure made, was that the relevant factor is whether or not there is a legally-enforced monopoly. US vs Microsoft shows that the factors you cite aren't necessary either.
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by tgb 6y ago
You've misread me if you thought I said specifics aren't important. Rather, that it's possible to advocate for "someone needs to figure out the specifics" without yourself knowing the specifics.
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by tgb 6y ago
So, to be clear, are you saying that someone should make such a proposal or are you saying that advocating for this change requires there to be a proposal? Because I'd be in favor of the former but I think the latter disrupts convers
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by tgb 6y ago
I don't see the relevance here. Google knows that both sense of "monopoly" can and have been regulated by the government since Standard Oil was broken up. Hence the threat of regulation did not stop Google from investing in i
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by tgb 6y ago
Hasn't this already happened with Bell and Bell Labs? Why didn't the breakup of Bell stop Google from investing in innovation?
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by tgb 6y ago
Don't you think you're putting an unreasonably high burden on people? I can argue that I think the lawmakers representing me and other citizens need to figure out the details without myself having figured out the details. I can po
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by tgb 6y ago
And the worst part is that the symptoms are very similar to dehydration, so it's easy to keep drinking water to try to fix it!
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by tgb 6y ago
Thanks, this is the best example I've seen.
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by tgb 6y ago
It's true, non-Mac laptop keyboards are almost invariably awful layouts, often entirely lacking some useful keys.
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by tgb 6y ago
Windows key doesn't do any of the cursor move commands and 'ctrl' consistently does the "move in a bigger block than without ctrl" thing. Shift consistently adds selection to that. There's different choices tha
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by tgb 6y ago
If the devs are reading this, I found a bug: if you use the wikipedia bang and search, say: "!w knot theory" the actual search page it brings up is for "knottheory" without the space.
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by tgb 6y ago
Not sure how different this is from Windows. Use home/end for start of line or ctrl+page up/page down to go to start of document. Ctrl+left/right moves by words. Holding shift selects while doing any of these. Ctrl+backspace&
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by tgb 6y ago
So is this like what Ubuntu's Unity did years ago, making all an app's menus searchable? Seemed like the smartest new feature at the time, though I never really got a chance to use it. And I don't have a mac to test this on a
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by tgb 6y ago
I've possibly figured it out. If you scroll quickly and while the inertia carries the scrolling onwards hit ctrl+w to close the tab, it'll resize the next tab that gains focus. Presumably that's because ctrl is held down and
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by tgb 6y ago
Surely then the blame should go one step further back: .csv and tab-separated are poor file formats for *omics data and excel (and pandas, etc.) have no choice but to guess data types and metadata. Unfortunately I'm just not sure there

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