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by topaz0 4y ago
Without sarcasm?
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by topaz0 4y ago
I agree with you. I think the complaints come down to "don't give people more confusing ways to write conditionals". And I agree with the complainers that it is easy to write conditionals in a confusing way, and that there ar
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by topaz0 4y ago
(To prevent further confusion, I think you have a unit typo -- the final result should be 8100 kiB or 7.9 MiB)
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by topaz0 4y ago
The web browsers are not that bad per se, but the websites they are trying to run are a different story.
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by topaz0 4y ago
Perhaps in the hypothetical scenario that I had the hardware I wouldn't care. But I don't have the hardware, and I do care. Separately, I'd think you'd want to weigh the memory usage against the utility of the features i
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by topaz0 4y ago
Not all comments need to be about contributing to the discourse. Jonstewart is not trying to rebut an argument or to make a different argument. All they are doing is giving some background on the organization that might be relevant to their
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by topaz0 4y ago
Now do the tidal forces
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by topaz0 4y ago
If it's going to be a logical fallacy there has to be a logical argument, which there is not here. So I'm at a loss. Maybe you're referring to poisoning the well, which the wikipedia page refers to as an "informal fallac
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by topaz0 4y ago
Even academic articles call it that, e.g.: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24911982/ from 2007 The first paragraph of the introduction, in case you don't have access: > Since medical research first established
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by topaz0 4y ago
Indeed -- I tend to think of preheating a teflon pan as dangerous by default.
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by topaz0 4y ago
> The most common form of ad hominem is "A makes a claim x, B asserts that A holds a property that is unwelcome, and hence B concludes that argument x is wrong". Note here that B did not claim that argument x was wrong. You&#x
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by topaz0 4y ago
Agreed, and worth pointing out that the op did not even claim that the argument was wrong -- just that there might be reason to look for bias in it.
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by topaz0 4y ago
Conflicts of interest are definitely important context for me. You can jam that into the definition of ad hominem, I guess, but this isn't really a debate, so I don't see how it's relevant. Maybe if they'd said "thi
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by topaz0 4y ago
I for one appreciated this warning. The first thing I thought when I saw the header was "I wonder if this is a right wing think tank". So I am happy to have that question answered.
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by topaz0 4y ago
What is "agony sort"?
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by topaz0 4y ago
I haven't tried them. I read this profile and decided I never will: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/always-pan-our-pl...
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by topaz0 4y ago
"A war on all fats" is a pretty good summary of a lot of popular nutritional messaging in the '90s though. Low fat or fat free was a big selling point on lots of food packaging, even when it didn't make sense. Magazine a
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by topaz0 4y ago
I have a fantastic antique dutch enameled cast iron omelette pan. It is amazing.
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by topaz0 4y ago
Yes. i.e. 400-500F is much more likely to be harmful to health than 300F. This is why teflon pans are not a good choice for things like searing meat, where you really want the surface to be very hot. Of course, you can still do plenty of co
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by topaz0 4y ago
I had exactly the same reaction. I wonder what happened. Thanks for sleuthing.
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by topaz0 4y ago
I don't know. How many?
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by topaz0 4y ago
To be honest I did understand what was wrong from the error message on first read, despite not knowing ruby (but probably aided by experience in other languages with similar patterns). I think what the distant grandparent was noticing is va
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by topaz0 4y ago
What makes you think that? The article says that one of the coauthors used to be a world champion, which suggests to me that there is some kind of competitive organized league.
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by topaz0 4y ago
Why can't giving an informative error message be part of "can act like"?
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by topaz0 4y ago
Looking around it seems estimates vary by a fair bit, and the one you cite is on the high end. Other estimates are in the low hundreds, which is a very attainable number of reuses. But it does seem my memory was unrealistically low. Also an
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by topaz0 4y ago
I'm also not a ruby person but I'd think it would not be too hard to say "method 'name=' does not exist. Value objects do not provide setter methods by default." Or similar. It would almost be better if it didn
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by topaz0 4y ago
This is the reason nobody ever does any of the work they're paid to do. Easier not to, right?
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by topaz0 4y ago
OP is maybe talking about a plastic tote, but what really matters is how many times you can reuse it. I don't know about cardboard, but iirc for the plastic vs. canvas bag comparison I believe the break-even is on the order of 20 uses
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by topaz0 4y ago
You'd find plenty of unfriendly inequalities just like yours if you made the exponent decimal. e.g 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 != 1. The fundamental issue remains, which is that some rationals don't have exact representations i
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by topaz0 4y ago
Note that "CubeStat" is likely a typo for "CubeSat", even though it does appear in the headline of the real article. "CubeStat" doesn't appear in the body of the article, and it is not a familiar term to m

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