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by tynpeddler 5y ago
This isn't the only bug/bad practice that the git-copilot page shows off. Here's the memoization for js suggestion on the main page: const memoize = fn => { const cache = {}; return (...args) => { con
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by tynpeddler 5y ago
> But I don't buy that copypaste programming is benign. Copypaste programming doesn't have to be benign in order to be better than the likely alternatives. The people who blind copy/paste are likely not producing high qua
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by tynpeddler 5y ago
The linked article is out of date and cites "War is Boring" which is notoriously anti f35. Here's something a bit more recent. The english translation is at the botom: https://nettsteder.regjeringen.no/kampfl
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by tynpeddler 5y ago
That article only covers homicide, which is a relatively rare crime. There are many other types of crimes that can warrant a police response and arrest such as property crime, assault, robbery, etc. In addition, the link provided only cover
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by tynpeddler 6y ago
With my cloth mask, I pull it up under my glasses, and let me glasses hold the seal. Just make sure your mask is big enough to still cover your face after you pull it up this high.
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by tynpeddler 6y ago
That's why actions must be evaluated on a case by case basis. This time, I support Facebook, but for other actions I make no judgement until I see the facts of the case. That is always the challenge of free, democratic societies. Ever
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by tynpeddler 6y ago
A securities fraud lawsuit against a company because the work environment is toxic reminds me of the movie Unforgiven. For those unaware, the movie starts with a cowboy disfiguring a prostitute with a knife because she laughed at him. Aft
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by tynpeddler 6y ago
In a vacuum maybe, but one of the major challenges in any large technical organization is architectural alignment between different work streams. Meaning, that whatever you're doing for project A also has to be compatible for whatever
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by tynpeddler 6y ago
> Broadcast media outlets are not monopolies either, and they can't wantonly censor election speech like this by law. You should clarify your argument here. News media can "censor" election speech by simply not covering
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by tynpeddler 6y ago
I wonder if we would be having the same conversation if google had charged publishers to add them to the google news product. Even charging $5 a year seems like it could have completely turned this whole situation on its head. For one it w
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by tynpeddler 6y ago
If someone wants to make a charge against Google, then by all means do it. But the people making the charge have a responsibility to communicate their position clearly. Complaining that the the wider population is not following along with
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by tynpeddler 6y ago
It's astonishing the number of people in this thread that don't understand the basis of Epic's lawsuit. There's way to much of "Epic broke the ToS, therefore everything Apple decides to do in retaliation is justifi
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by tynpeddler 6y ago
There are a lot of good points in this article, but few of them really seem to cut to the core of the problem. For the record, here's the high level of their proposals: > abolish qualified immunity (page 18), bust the police unions
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by tynpeddler 6y ago
Do the electronic exchanges mentioned in this paper include adds sold on Facebook and product recommendations from Amazon? It's hard to believe that Facebook's add space is that much smaller than Alphabet, and if Facebook is not
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by tynpeddler 6y ago
We shut down the entire world and it killed over 100,000 in the US alone in 3 months. There's no suspicious conspiracy surrounding Covid19, it really is a very infectious and capable of killing a lot more than it already has.
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by tynpeddler 6y ago
Drivers set their own rates via a reverse dutch auction. Uber offers a short term contract at a certain rate. If no contractor accepts that rate, Uber increases the contract rate until someone accepts.
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by tynpeddler 6y ago
> e.g. Google is a monopoly if you consider online advertising as the market, but if you stretch the market to all advertising (including print, radio, TV and billboards), Google might not be considered one. Only a very narrow definition
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by tynpeddler 6y ago
Protein "structure" is a slippery concept. In situ measurements, molecular dynamics simulations and basic common sense pretty conclusively show that most proteins actually have a number of conformations they access during normal
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by tynpeddler 6y ago
Qualified immunity only applies in civil cases. The reason criminal charges are rarely brought in police abuse cases is because of the massive conflict of interest in having the police investigate themselves and be prosecuted by an AG who
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by tynpeddler 6y ago
I always emphasize to my family that we shut down the whole country, the outbreak was relatively well contained to a few areas, and it has still almost certainly already killed more than 100,000 people and may well kill over 200,000. Given
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by tynpeddler 6y ago
This was eerie to read. I've made some of the exact same points, word for word to others. It would be fascinating to do a survey/quiz for developers to see who's tempted to write tiny custom frameworks, and who knows better
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by tynpeddler 6y ago
Funny story. I wonder why Bromkonvention didn't raise the price of bromine to just under what Dow was selling at? That way it wouldn't be economical for Dow to buy it and ship it back to Europe.
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by tynpeddler 6y ago
Not to mention that server side rendering increases cpu load on your servers. Of course that may be a feature if you're a customer who's tired of slowly loading webapps.
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by tynpeddler 6y ago
Homology studies. A DNA strand 17 bp long is pretty distinct. If a strand that long or longer was found, we would gain a lot of information about the evolutionary history of dinosaurs that we could never get from fossils. However, the art
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by tynpeddler 6y ago
Aside from Bloomberg's scummy behavior, this story highlights the eternal dilemma of journalism. To write good stories, you need access to the subjects. But if the stories make the subjects look bad, you lose access. Coupled with the
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by tynpeddler 7y ago
We used Angular 1. Took about 2 years, but it was just me for about half that time and we were all learning js and the web ecosystem. The new system had been prototyped a few years earlier using java swing. That really helped nail down th
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by tynpeddler 7y ago
At one of my previous jobs, I was responsible for designing and building a webapp to replace a high speed data entry system that had been written in cobol that was used to input large legal documents (several thousand lines of data in some
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by tynpeddler 7y ago
In addition to all the other issues that people have brought up, the most important thing to remember is that the airline business is extremely cyclical. They know that there are always bad times around the bend. Their total lack of prepa
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by tynpeddler 7y ago
The societal cost of covid19 vs social distancing depends on the time scale. Three to six months? Covid19 is almost certainly worse. Nine to twelve months? Fifteen months? Two years? Strict social distancing will be much much worse at
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by tynpeddler 7y ago
I don't find that argument very convincing. I don't know if Balrog's have wings, but I do know they fall off high stuff a lot. His analysis of the line, "it was LIKE a great shadow, in the middle of which was a dark for

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