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by ucarion 9y ago
The Unicode CLDR has a whole database of formatted strings for each locale, for more or less the reason you describe. Formatting dates or big numbers (12345 -> 12.3k) is impossible to achieve without a generic formatting language. Plural
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It might be worth linking to the talk that discusses html5ever's use of macros? I'm having trouble finding it.
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To suggest that humanity needs a global state seems to beg the question of all of politics: how do you get people to get along and transition peacefully to new states? The threat of Napoleon got the Holy Roman Empire to globulate into its m
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Is there any credence to the claim that Zillow's "zestimates" are frequently inaccurate? If not, then I don't see any legitimacy behind this movement. Edit: I ask because the populist-y invective on this site raises red
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That's a neat idea! But I think it might be a bit overwhelming and confusing. It would help with getting the bigger picture. Every 4d object would end up being a clear 3d cross-section where it intersects with our 3d world, plus a clou
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by ucarion 9y ago
Answering my own question: a person who works at Stripe is a "Stripe", not a "Striper".
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As usual, another beautiful Stripe product page. Fantastic job! The product looks pretty awesome too. In case any Stripe-people are lurking here, the scrolling on the example query modals (the ones you get from clicking on e.g. "How ma
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I'm confused about this too. The Martian (at least the book) has good science throughout. But in Gravity , the space shrapnel is moving much faster than the ISS, yet has the same orbit as it. I don't think that's possible,
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"I found a bug and you won't consider it unless I phrase it as example code? Screw you, I won't report it then!" This seems like a reasonable thing to think and say. A better alternative to the article's suggestion
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I can't speak for Godel's original proof since I haven't seen it before, but I certainly found Computability and Logic [1] to be pretty approachable. It's the textbook used for UC Berkeley's "Intermediate Log
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The method `from_str` is from the FromStr trait. [1] The `parse` function only works on types that implement FromStr. It's "special" in that it's the conventional way to do things, but the compiler does not treat FromStr
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If you've never used Webpack, don't use create-react-app. The configuration it generates is almost impenetrable if you're not already familiar with Webpack.
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It's not "anti-Super Natural" per se , but he is against a separately-existing entity. Why Ulysse Carion yesterday is the same person as Ulysse Carion today is much like why France yesterday is the same country as France t
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I'm not trying to use Parfit to bash religion -- I just chose this particular example. For the average person, souls are more interesting than Mere Addition or mixing your brain with Greta Garbo's. The fact that many have been goa
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If you speak to Christians who believe in souls (not philosophers or Jewish theologians, who have boundless capacities for mental contortions), they'll agree that teleportation/copying is problematic to the idea of souls. Who goes
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I hate most philosophy, but I read Parfit's technical Reasons and Persons and genuinely enjoyed it. Did you ever think teleporters could be the basis for an argument against souls? Parfit thought so. Plus, his writing is optimized fo
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Ah, thanks for catching that subtle-but-important mistake. :)
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Though I knew how to use them, I didn't understand how Rust closures could work until I read these articles: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/closures.html https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/trait-o
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That article is an April Fool's joke: https://en.chessbase.com/post/the-chebase-april-fool-s-prank
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Online ads also track you, and are often executed in poor taste. It's as though most of the posters had a camera and bright flashing lights.
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In case someone reading this can fix it, there's a typo: > App install banners make it easy for users to add your app to their home screen with a single click, and is an indication to the user that the app their adding, meets an imp
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This moratorium will only last a week. I think our discourse will survive. Though political discussion is essential, I think you'd agree it has downsides when there's too much of it or when everyone considers it high-stakes. The w
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It's not just political correctness. The socially optimal future is one in which anyone, regardless of race and gender, can become a software engineer. Someday, we're going to put in effort to move from our current world to this b
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It seems doubtful that income inequality is inherently bad, but perhaps it's strongly correlated with things that are inherently bad (i.e. suffering, if you ask me). Consider a society A, and then society A+ which is identical except
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> How do you know? My impression is that most taxi drivers are very busy adapting. But I don't know either. To be clear: I don't know either. I'm an outsider to this industry. I'm just offering arguments. > Let&#x2
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You identify most of the difficulty of this scenario: 1. Taxis are a dying industry, but taxi drivers are not adapting. 2. As a result, taxi drivers are suffering. Their livelihoods, which have brought food to their families' tables fo
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The article describes interpersonal Prisoner's Dilemmas, where if every person optimizes for themselves, the final result will be worse for each and every person (than if they had all shown restraint). As the article points out, this
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It's an open question in philosophy (what isn't?), but isn't happiness our ultimate aim, or at least a very important component of the ultimate aim? It's pretty easy to try to bias yourself toward happiness, but still ha
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If you're gonna use React Router and Redux, you should also check out react-router-redux: https://github.com/reactjs/react-router-redux
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Derek Parfit (a philosopher), in "Reasons and Persons", considers many of the cases you hint at, as well as few more tricky ones (such as progressively replacing your brain cells with someone else's, or splitting someone&#x27

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