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by tpoacher 3y ago
except ad free youtube still has ads (in the form of sponsored content). and your data on youtube is still mined to serve you more ads elsewhere. this isnt about ads. it's just another tactic for forcing users to log in.
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by tpoacher 3y ago
I don't think it's too big to fail at all. Ask yourself this: "If youtube stopped existing tomorrow, what would I do?" Chances are your first thought was something along the lines of "Hm, well I'd probably just
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by tpoacher 3y ago
I dont think anyone's claiming this isn't shameful; they're just saying it works. And when real people are faced with a broken system which penalises honesty and rewards cheating, many will choose pragmatically rather than
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by tpoacher 3y ago
The article seems to imply that lots of p-hacking took place before they found a "positive" result worth reporting. Not sure how to feel about that. Also, why on earth would one talk about mortality "from cancer" and not
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by tpoacher 3y ago
The first price comparison website that manages to include these bullshit charges effectively will make a lot of money. (part of which will no doubt be spent on made-up lawsuits by the businesses involved)
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by tpoacher 3y ago
Do yourself a favour and watch "Meetings Bloody Meetings" by John Cleese (I recommend the original one from the 70ies that can be found on the internet archive, not the remake on youtube, also by John Cleese). It's a funny 3
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by tpoacher 3y ago
So, type 2 diabetes impacts your ability to eat certain foods?
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by tpoacher 3y ago
"A witty quote proves nothing" ~Voltaire
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by tpoacher 3y ago
Even better question: For people who multiplatform, how does youtube compare to other platforms, and how does monetization differ on those platforms?
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by tpoacher 3y ago
The two are not mutually exclusive dangers. If anything, they are mutually reinforcing. The Faro Plague in Horizon Zero Dawn was indeed brought on by Ted Faro's shortsightedness, but the same shortsightedness would not have caused Zero
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by tpoacher 3y ago
Oddly enough, it may also have the reverse effect. If the academic crowd stops relying on corporations and promote truly open/scalable tools, then this can start a virtuous cycle that promotes truly open solutions. Having said that, I
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by tpoacher 3y ago
This should be # Confirm that x.shape == y.shape assert x.shape == y.shape, f"{x.shape} != {y.shape}" ## x.shape was not y.shape /s
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by tpoacher 3y ago
Some languages (e.g. D), have contract blocks built into the language, which are even better. (or, well, different).
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by tpoacher 3y ago
> Unit tests will often just mirror the behavior of the code. This is not useful. Then they are characterisation tests, not unit tests. Which may or may not act at the unit level. As for whether characterization tests are useful; they&#x
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by tpoacher 3y ago
I really, really want to learn pyret. It looks like an awesome language. I can't remember the last time I got so excited about a language. I get the feeling it's not that used or popular outside of a pedagogical context though, wh
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by tpoacher 3y ago
This is doubly interesting, since the whole point of auto in the nested scenario is precisely to prevent the default "externness" of the declaration. But, if the definition itself cannot appear in the enclosing block scope in the
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by tpoacher 3y ago
That is an oddly specific analogy ...
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by tpoacher 3y ago
Interesting, I hadn't realised... So in standard c, all function prototypes and definitions must always appear at toplevel?
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by tpoacher 3y ago
Ah right, gotcha. Actually I think `i` and `j` would be fine, since the whole point is that [:alpha:] will expand to any of the characters contained in that range before it has a chance to be interpreted as the intended character class (and
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by tpoacher 3y ago
> The auto feature is only enabled in C2X mode. In older modes, auto is a redundant storage class specifier which can only be used at block scope. Is it redundant? I'm no c expert, but I remember several very specific cases where au
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by tpoacher 3y ago
I can't remember the exact quote right now, but what you say echoes that quote that goes something like: If you make a tool that has such a low barrier to entry that it makes it easy enough for unskilled people to use it and inevitably
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by tpoacher 3y ago
All great comments, thank you! I feel the need to reply, even though there isn't a real need to, but here goes: 1. True; but in this case we're talking about bash specifically, so I prefer to use cleaner syntax whenever this is av
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by tpoacher 3y ago
Shouldn't "metabunk" be about debunking the debunks? Not the best choice of name :)
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by tpoacher 4y ago
I apologise I upset you. It was not my intention. My intent was to get you to consider that maybe there's more to bash than you may think (based on what you were saying about it), because I think it's a very rewarding journey. The
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by tpoacher 4y ago
True, but I consider this very hacky, error-prone, and unnecessary when a clear, bespoke test flag exists. Also, if you prefer the "[ ... ]" syntax for testing, then you can use `-v` directly anyway (since that is equivalent to th
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by tpoacher 4y ago
> You're incorrect. I know bash and the syntax is not user friendly for me. We're not disagreeing then. I specifically said I also felt bash felt cryptic back when I thought I "knew" it, but didn't really know
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by tpoacher 4y ago
Yes, but the definitions tend not to be consistent. The best operational definition I got to was, it's ML when it involves a "machine" (possibly defined in software) that tries to 'optimise' some objective on behalf
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by tpoacher 4y ago
You say this about exactness, but my experience with much of science and ML in particular is the opposite. People still haven't decided what the difference between AI and ML is, for instance, but somehow still insist to treat the two a
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by tpoacher 4y ago
Regarding conditional expressions: I found something neat recently. The coreutils version of `test` doesn't have this, and when you use `test`, typically what you're using is the coreutils one. But if you use `builtin test` to for
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by tpoacher 4y ago
It shouldn't. "Bible" etymologically derives from "book", and its meaning denotes an authoritative book, or "the" book on a topic. While it is true that the "Christian Bible" has customarily been

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