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by tmerr 5y ago
I see no reason not to combine willpower with psychology tricks. I think of it as playing a game between my rational brain vs limbic system. Yes, my rational brain might be ahead for a while, but limbic system is always there to find me in
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by tmerr 5y ago
Not a mathematician but every use of the term algebra I have seen has some way related back to what I learned in grade school about sets of real numbers, operations, properties, and how to solve equations. It's the same thing with line
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by tmerr 5y ago
The policy is here https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9891785?hl=en Article is about a year old
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by tmerr 6y ago
You weren't kidding. The page has barely been tweaked since 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080701171554/http://java.com/e...
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by tmerr 6y ago
Yes, this was absent from the analysis. Bitcoins security derives from computer power which is currently paid by combination of fees and inflation (mining). We have yet to see what happens to the prices and security when mining dries out. I
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by tmerr 6y ago
Incidentally I tried to buy a Sceptre TV. It may have been the one mentioned in the article. It arrived with a shattered screen, and I'm not surprised given the flimsy build quality. You're better off buying a smart TV and not usi
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by tmerr 6y ago
Because it threatens Google's PR.
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by tmerr 6y ago
This became apparent to me once I learned a Turing machine can compute anything λ calculus can and vice versa. Is this also also a conclusion you can reach by thinking about computer hardware? Would love to hear more about the thought proce
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by tmerr 6y ago
Mechanical keyboards seem like a example of creating a need through advertising instead of filling an existing need[0]. It worked well enough that I bought a $100+ mechanical thinking I was missing out. In a way you do get what you pay for
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by tmerr 6y ago
No problems. There are enough dimensions involved in what makes a language good that Im pretty sure I could rationalize why any language is better than another, measured along only one of them. Robustness. Speed. Simplicity. Easiness. Conci
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by tmerr 6y ago
Thanks! I learned something new.:) https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/rust-by-example/error/iter_... This is easy to miss if you are mainly reading reference docs. I probably read the getting started guide at a
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by tmerr 6y ago
I see. Then in part the comparison is showing off exception handling, not FP. Rust is a good example of functional lang without exceptions (panics aside). In Rust there are many cases where I could use FP but opt not to because it can make
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by tmerr 6y ago
If IsReady, ConvertToX, and GetColor can return errors then this isn't that far off. But then you're not making an apples to apples comparison. You would have to extend your functional example so that it also handles errors. Unles
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by tmerr 6y ago
Complicated languages come with an explosion in number of ways to do things. Rust is great but I waste a lot of cycles thinking about how to structure the code instead of the actual problem. What is cleaner here using a loop or a higher ord
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by tmerr 6y ago
I am surprised people think this could affect the servers? If they scrape 300k prices from 25k pages a day, and the crawl runs every hour from 15-22 UTC, then that means the 25k is spread across 3.5k pages per crawl. Even if the crawl is ag
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by tmerr 7y ago
I think that is the joke
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by tmerr 7y ago
Another way to view it is that like electric vehicles cloud gaming is not a question of if, but when. OnLive was released when most internet connections were still crummy, and before HD capable computers were embedded in TVs, smartphones an
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by tmerr 7y ago
This post makes a good point about taking another person's idea of happiness too literally. The same could be said for other words describing internal experiences, like "consciousness". Where I lose the author is where he imp
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by tmerr 7y ago
I thought YNAB was nice when I used it. However not everyone feels comfortable entering bank credentials on a third party website. Also, not everyone wants to spend their time maintaining a stateful database. In my view historical transacti
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by tmerr 7y ago
I might be corrupted by programming because it doesn't bother me when I hear a vacuously true claim like "All flying horses are three-legged". My mental model corresponds to Python's definition of "all":
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by tmerr 7y ago
Knowing the max someone was willing to pay could help an actor set their prices optimally where there is no competition. Where there is competition, setting price to the max someone is willing to pay could drop overall profits since a compe
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by tmerr 7y ago
This is an apples to orange comparison. Time complexities are with respect to some computational model. When not specified one typically assumes it's with respect to a deterministic turing machine or something a lot like it. Te model y
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by tmerr 7y ago
Dry answer: In practice, you try to not mutate values you receive unless you know you own them. Usually it's clear from the type signature. If ints are sent over the channel, or structs each containing an int and string, you know you c
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by tmerr 7y ago
Apples and oranges, though still an important lesson: many optimizations happen at the level of interactions between services. C++ is more micro-optimizable than Go, but it doesn't matter when the low hanging fruit has nothing to do wi
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by tmerr 8y ago
While I wouldn't say my thought is strictly verbal, I often form understanding by letting my verbal stream of consciousness ruminate. I starts off as a technical almost schizophrenic rambling. Over time, as my stream of consciousness p
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by tmerr 8y ago
Not cool in my book regardless of legality. Rebranding it to tabnine-vim alone is confusing, since none of the legwork for vim support belongs to TabNine. At the very least the original copyright notice should be left intact in the README (
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by tmerr 8y ago
This is most likely a WiX configuration issue. The HTML source for https://www.catbartlett.com.au/ contains <meta name="robots" content="noindex"/> Maybe try https://support.
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by tmerr 8y ago
>Look back at this again if golang adds generics and other features that will change how code in it is written. Absolutely. I was surprised by the number of proposed changes in Go 2, especially regarding error handling. Curious whether o
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by tmerr 8y ago
Eh? I can't speak for all of Google but I like me some Go. It has a culture of minimalism both in language and code, which makes it easy to pick up and read others' work. I wouldn't recommend it for all problems, but it'
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by tmerr 8y ago
Thanks for the clarification. The approach makes sense. I am actually impressed by the lack of NIH syndrome, it is rare to see open source software integrated so effectively. That is a +1 for protocol standardization

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