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by tps5 10y ago
This is funny. I work on linux or mac os and a couple months ago I was trying to show an intern on windows how to use curl to make HTTP requests from the command line. Having no PS experience, I opened up PS and tried curl, saw that it was
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by tps5 10y ago
I would stay away from the term sociopath because whether or not someone is a sociopath depends entirely on their feelings. And it's quite clearly impossible to know the emotions of another person and whether they experienced guilt&#x
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by tps5 10y ago
I never paid much attention to the details of the Madoff case but I think people on the internet throw out the "sociopath" label way too freely. Not much is gained from that label, in my opinion. And I certainly wouldn't app
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by tps5 10y ago
I didn't get through the article so apologies if I missed the point. I've run into a fair bit of this stuff recently: people who encourage me to "think positively" or "remind yourself how awesome you are." I th
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by tps5 10y ago
I've never been able to figure out who Ariana Huffington is or why I should care what she thinks.
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by tps5 10y ago
I was frustrated reading the article to which this one is responding. Nice to read a categorical rebuttal.
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by tps5 10y ago
I found Dijkstra's letters appalling. Writing - utterly without shame - that his negative response to Backus' paper was disingenuous and served a "political" purpose is utterly despicable to me. I don't know how yo
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by tps5 10y ago
I agree that there's a lot of AI hype and I suspect that we won't see all that much come out of it. At the same time, there's a bit of a cop-out that goes on when we privilege our own cognitive processes over those of an AI j
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by tps5 10y ago
He's saying that life is better in concrete ways. Life expectency is higher. Medicine is more available. Wages are higher. Quality of life is higher. Less crime. More security. Those are concrete things. Can we measure them perfectly?
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by tps5 10y ago
Every number in JavaScript is a floating point number of type, you guessed it, "number."
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by tps5 10y ago
Interesting. I went through a bootcamp recently. We started with sinatra (a slimmed down ruby application framework), then went into rails, and lastly used node+express. If we had only done rails, I'd probably have little idea how it