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by tpoacher 4y ago
I have a similar adage that says, the notion that evil triumphs when good men do nothing is inaccurate. It's more like "1 evil person will triumph unless 1000 good men do something."
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by tpoacher 4y ago
Not sure how to feel about this article. It's not just presentation of boring facts; it vividly goes out of its way to ensure you feel it in your guts just how much this person deserves your hate. It feels like a superbly written chara
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by tpoacher 4y ago
Q: What's the Difference Between [Subjective Definition 1], [Subjective Definition 2], and [Subjective Definition 3]? A: They are different subjective definitions. This should have been the whole article.
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by tpoacher 4y ago
Gotta love a paper which cites Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give you Up". Properly, for that matter.
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by tpoacher 4y ago
I don't know if an update of N=1 will alter your posterior or not, but I have an uncle (not a particularly religious man himself) who had a 'dream' while undergoing risky surgery, that he had 'left', but saw his gra
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by tpoacher 4y ago
Conclusion: Github is overrun by hipsters.
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by tpoacher 4y ago
I won't lie, I lol'ed at the Roomba bit :D
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by tpoacher 4y ago
> But then I can't use sizeof() if I pass that buffer into a function via a pointer. Obviously, this isn't necessarily an improvement, but in theory you could do this: size_t getlength( int m, char (*p) [m] ) { return sizeo
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by tpoacher 4y ago
If there's a "hipster" notion here it's not that of choosing C as rebellion against Rust, but that choosing C constitutes a rebellion against Rust and only Rust, as if it's the only systems programming language wo
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by tpoacher 4y ago
He didn't say "write your own library". He said "use" one (your own if you prefer). Or are you going to suggest there are no good string handling libraries for C?
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by tpoacher 4y ago
Is this similar to spotify's Luigi? https://luigi.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ I've used Luigi in a project before; I wasn't too crazy with the class-based syntax at first, but once you get used to it,
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by tpoacher 4y ago
Worse, if someone does knock on your door, it's a safe bet you're about to be scammed.
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by tpoacher 4y ago
Nice article, and this is obviously a very specific nitpick from a single point in the article, but ... > ls --full-time | cut -d' ' -f6,7 # WRONG > If two “fields” have different lengths, ls will add spaces to the name of
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by tpoacher 4y ago
When an AI "outperforms" the "ground truth", it is by definition "worse", not "better". And if your ground truth is problematic, then this is generally a problem of specification and quality control,
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by tpoacher 4y ago
Thanks! Will read more carefully, but at a glance it sounds suspiciously similar to effect sketches and feature sketches from M. Feathers' book on working with legacy code, rather than a design methodology method per se. (is that the c
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by tpoacher 4y ago
You still need a topic though. It's one thing to advise people what to avoid, and a completely different thing to give ideas what they could talk about to break the ice instead. Otherwise it's like: "So, do you like coffee?&q
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by tpoacher 4y ago
> Every method lives in a class, every class lives in a package, every package lives in a module. And yet, we don't require you to explicitly declare a package or a module. The current way we treat class declarations is the inconsis
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by tpoacher 4y ago
Yes; as I said, wasn't disagreeing per se, just clarifying important context more than anything. > I completely disagree with it; almost none of the time is the p-value what you should be ranking things on. Not necessarily true; peo
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by tpoacher 4y ago
Java has had a nice focus on "decluttering" improvements lately; I think it's a nice focus to have (if done carefully), as 'verbosity' has always been one of the supposed pain points of java. I would welcome this JE
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by tpoacher 4y ago
> The article is all about why "0.05" might be a bad value to choose. No. It's more about why choosing a value to serve as the default choice is a bad idea in the first place. The specific value chosen as the default itsel
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by tpoacher 4y ago
My 2¢ is that this will probably do more to confuse than to enlighten students. Getting your "first" program off the ground quickly is good, but only if it doesn't cripple your understanding of what's going on for months
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by tpoacher 4y ago
Thanks for this, looking forward to read it! I would also recommend in turn the paper by Greenland et al (2016) called "Statistical tests, P values, confidence intervals, and power: a guide to misinterpretations.". It's a gre
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by tpoacher 4y ago
That's because what was described above isnt the overton window. It's a quote by Noam Chomsky. The actual definition of the Overton window exactly predicts what you both describe. See wikipedia for a better description.
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by tpoacher 4y ago
This system is only in play of course until universities realise they could not pay anything, and ask profs to live off tips from students after lectures.
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by tpoacher 4y ago
The problem isn't that the two types exist. The problem is that each type thinks they are the solution, and the other type is the problem.
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by tpoacher 4y ago
My 2¢ on the tidyverse is that it is a bit misleading to call it "a collection of packages". I think it would be more accurate to call it a "framework". Though I suppose "opinionated collection of packages" is
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by tpoacher 4y ago
The key word here is "potentially". It is absolutely true that funding of this kind could "potentially" lead to control or coercion.
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by tpoacher 4y ago
Next step: using SHELL=julia in your makefiles. (/s)
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by tpoacher 4y ago
For me the worst part is how "let me check that email again for context" becomes a 2-minute exercise in 2FA juggling, at the end of which I've already forgotten what I opened my email for and need a coffee break just to calm
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by tpoacher 4y ago
Some great answers here (I find AmericanOP's the best). Not a complete answer from me (and not formally diagnosed, but I strongly relate to everything mentioned here), but here is a list I have called "Things that help with work&q

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