tillytal

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   by tillytal 10y ago

   Count me as reeeeally leery of ascribing harm to an amorphous "cultural impact". Not that I think it's sensible or right that a child might not be allowed to walk around the block, but that in general, as with any other thing
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   by tillytal 10y ago

   I used to play a game as a toddler where I would climb up on the highest chair, push myself backwards off the table with a huge crash, then set the chair back up and do it all again. I'm pretty sure the only way to keep me safe in that
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   by tillytal 10y ago

   The research actually looks kind of cool, but this headline and the whole framing of the issue sounds like it was written by an alien. Uh, why ? We judge everything on the basis of perception, not reality. That's just... how this wo
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   by tillytal 10y ago

   Surely the main point is that O(n) + O(n) = O(2n) = O(n) = O(n + 1) = O(n) + O(1) and the constant factors left out of O() often dominate execution time. Cache performance is just one example of a constant factor, right?
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   by tillytal 10y ago

   Why would you select against `; drop database prod;?