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by vgel 4y ago
It isn't not-PR just because you wrote it. It's PR because it's disseminating information to the public for the purpose of image management. The information is that the company thought it could grow more during the pandemic b
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by vgel 4y ago
I think another way to phrase what the author is trying to say is that EA is too "comfortable" for people who, for the world to really get better, might need to give something up. There's a great Scott Alexander (who may be a
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by vgel 4y ago
Since the article didn't specify and I had to go to the original paper: the "aerosol" substance is sulfur dioxide
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by vgel 4y ago
> I kind of wonder if repatriation only matters when the artifact came from non western countries to western ones. No. There's also been a lot of noise over the Elgin Marbles (stolen from Greece, mentioned in the article). The Koh-i
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by vgel 4y ago
Sent, thank you. I also made sure to mention the "consumer harm" (keyword) of forcing consumers to engage with Adobe's predatory pricing model ("annual subscription billed monthly" bs)
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by vgel 4y ago
Some people have argued that indexed access is a wart, but it would be quite heavyweight to always have to unwrap an option when accessing a known-good index: let foo = [0_u8, 1, 2]; foo[0].unwrap(); // really? Inst
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by vgel 4y ago
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3479042 popped up on HN a few years ago and explains the idea well.
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by vgel 4y ago
The TTS apis are really fun. They allow pitch control, too: "twin=75 kill=75 twin=115 kill=115 lit=130 till=130 star=110 how=100 i=100 won=90 dur=90 what=85 you=80=2 are=70".split(" ").map(s=>{u=new SpeechSynthe
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by vgel 4y ago
An engineer is messaging with his boss on Slack after hours. The boss says "My brother is in the hospital and needs money for his surgery!" The engineer asks "What are you gonna do?" and the boss responds "Well, he
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by vgel 4y ago
Cool, thanks. Will check it out.
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by vgel 4y ago
I don't have a strong knowledge of Japanese (year in college as part of linguistics degree, wife speaks it), so it's possible I'm mistaken about the nature of it grammatically. But my point isn't to make some Sapir-Whorf
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by vgel 4y ago
Eh, you're right if you treat it as just clipping "morphological". But it doesn't sound like it to most people, they think "English and Japanese are in the same category of lacking a future tense" in some non-e
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by vgel 4y ago
Do you have any pointers to things worth reading? I've always sworn if I started a tech company one of the first 10 employees would be a librarian because it needs to be someone's job to organize the information, and you're
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by vgel 4y ago
This is my syntax bias for sure, and you're not wrong it is a debate for some reason, but I find it very silly. An inflectional rule or an auxiliary word can assign a `TENSE fut` feature, just like an inflectional ending or an adposi
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by vgel 4y ago
I haven't read his Decline series yet, but The Queen's Latin is very good, I highly recommend it.
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by vgel 4y ago
380 devices / minute would imply Signal is adding 547,200 users / day, or 199,728,000 users / year. That seems way too high. Granted some could be multiple devices per user, but still...
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by vgel 4y ago
It can happen either way I think. The reverse is framing Amazon but overlaying an evil credit card input invisibly on top of Amazon's.
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by vgel 4y ago
Oh, you could re-use the same test key if you start at the higher depth, of course.
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by vgel 4y ago
Don't you need (up to) `N cut depths - 1` keys per pin? E.g. if there are 4 possible cut depths for a pin, and your key has depth 3 on pin 1, you need to (potentially) test depths 1, 2, and 4 -- and if none of them work, your key share
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by vgel 4y ago
That matches my experience working with component libraries. Great to throw something together that looks like Bootstrap or MaterialUI, horrible when you have a designer on staff who wants the site to look like something :-) How've you
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by vgel 4y ago
Are you shifting to another component library or rolling your own?
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by vgel 4y ago
Not GP, but I also still run a 6S(+). I recently replaced the battery using an iFixIt kit, which fixed my main complaint with it. It still runs dog-slow, especially on modern websites, which is both bad and good in that if I keep the Reddit
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by vgel 4y ago
> In Straw Man Arguments Aikin and Casey introduce a wealth of concepts for getting to grips with the dark art of the straw man. Indeed, they propose a further notion: a fascinating inversion called the “iron man”, where one responds to
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by vgel 4y ago
Great article! A lot of times articles like this fail to include realistic examples, which this one had a lot of. I've beaten this drum here before[1], but Dialectical Behavior Therapy, an evidence-based therapy program, has a framewor
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by vgel 4y ago
I got a reply asking why this is, which either got deleted or isn't showing up for some reason. The reason is, before nesting, you know based on context whether something is a selector or a declaration. Top level / inside a media
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by vgel 4y ago
It requires unbounded lookahead in the parser.
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by vgel 4y ago
If you're already using Clang (and thus LLVM & its platform constraints), I wonder if the best way would be to link in a tiny Rust / Zig `.o` using `include_bytes!` / `@embedFile`...
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by vgel 4y ago
2 reasons, I think: 1, I believe Twitter downranks link tweets in the algorithmic feed. If your following is on Twitter, you need to meet them where they are, but you can't meet them with a link. I've seen some people work around
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by vgel 4y ago
Yeah, there's definitely positives to the algorithmic / personalized approach. He mentions it in the thread, even: they were feeling pressure because there was only one homepage with ~15 slots, and getting on it was a big deal, bu
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by vgel 4y ago
I think there's something special about websites where everyone gets the same thing. Like how Wordle was so popular, or Hacker News -- I often mention to my wife some article from here, and she already read it so we have an interesting

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