winstonewert

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by winstonewert 5y ago
This interesting me because it shows that they had experience really early on in Java development that checked exceptions caused pain, and rather than realize that something was wrong with the design they started swallowing and ignore error
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by winstonewert 5y ago
No, but the supreme court might if it served their interests.
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by winstonewert 5y ago
I don't understand what your point is. Sure, people of abuse shared property, tragedy of the commons and all. What does that have to do with the fence?
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by winstonewert 5y ago
Except that's a totally different scenario, where the different parties have different interests and thus don't agree on whether to keep the fence, not one where we don't know why the fence exists.
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by winstonewert 5y ago
Does anybody actually think we shouldn't change anything if we can't figure out what the original reason after a good faith effort? That just seems like a straw man that simply isn't what Chesteron's fence is about.
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by winstonewert 5y ago
well, it seems to me that its quite likely that speed varies across the process, so the more recent updates are probably a more useful default, so if your first part of the process is slower/faster this won't permanently mess up t
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by winstonewert 5y ago
Well, obviously it works for them and they like it, I just don't understand why. I'll agree with having the styling information with the HTML. But there are lots of ways of doing that such as svelte-style components, CSS-in-JS, or
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by winstonewert 5y ago
For me, the situation is: I gave tailwind a try. I hated it. I spent a lot of effort of ripping every last tailwind class out of my project. And yet, a lot of people swear by it and think its great. This really confuses me, and I'd kin
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by winstonewert 5y ago
But that just means you have to manage both the text (what React/SolidJS are already doing) and a canvas, which means your twice the work for no good reason.
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by winstonewert 5y ago
I'd guess that getting fuel to an island would be much more expensive negating the benefits. (I understand that this was not a serious suggestion anyways).
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by winstonewert 5y ago
So you advocated falsifying science in order to combat science denial?
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by winstonewert 5y ago
I get it. But what exactly do you want to happen here? In terms of your analogy, do you want more expensive cars that less people have? Software developers could spend more time optimizing their code. But that means that are spending less t
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by winstonewert 5y ago
Where can I read more about this?
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by winstonewert 5y ago
That depends. What happens to the industry power? Does it go back to individuals or does it accrue to the government?
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by winstonewert 5y ago
So that sounds like the way invalid floating point operations give NaN, and then the NaN propagates everywhere. I've always found this super annoying because its often hard to figure out where the NaN comes from. Does your solution dif
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by winstonewert 5y ago
refactoring no code (because it was removed) is certainly faster.
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by winstonewert 5y ago
Personally, I don't consider a single success story data, I consider it an anecdote. But to reiterate my last point, I was expressing scepticism of taxpayer subsidized muni-broadband turning out to benefit everyone. If its cash-flow po
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by winstonewert 5y ago
Can you point me in the direction of data about how muni-broadband has turned out? But my skepticism was a bit narrower than muni-broadband in general. In particular, I am skeptical of scenario where we have taxpayers paying higher taxes to
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by winstonewert 5y ago
I think it would be pretty hard to ensure that: 1) The prices offered by the muni-broadband aren't too low driving out all competition 2) The prices offered by the muni-broadband are low enough to force competitors to offer the best pr
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by winstonewert 5y ago
I think I can articulate the argument: In order to ensure the best outcome for consumers, we want customers to have a variety of competing options for broadband service. That way they can select the option which gives them the best cost&#x2
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by winstonewert 5y ago
Obviously, when I say OO thinks X, I mean that people working within the paradigm think that. Given that you've decided to pretend that I meant something stupid instead, you aren't a person worth talking to.
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by winstonewert 5y ago
> Architecture has nothing to do with seminar-peddlers' "paradigms". No, these paradigms all have ideas about how software should be organized. OO thinks you should organize everything into interacting objects. Functional
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by winstonewert 5y ago
> A mature programmer mixes elements freely with no thought to "orientation". Seriously, you advocate freely mixing radically different architectural approaches? Well... I don't want to share a codebase with you.
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by winstonewert 5y ago
I have to disagree with the sentiment you express here. Your metaphor is bit confused. You are comparing individuals tools to methodologies. For example, object oriented programming is a methodology which involves the use of a variety of th
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by winstonewert 5y ago
What strikes me is Asia. If I'm reading this right they have relatively low official Covid deaths, but off the charts excess deaths. What's up with that?
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by winstonewert 5y ago
No. Only if you had a perfect classifier. The only way to have 100% recall is to have absolutely no false negatives. In practice, the only way to have no false negatives is to have no negatives at all.
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by winstonewert 5y ago
This approach only works for syntax level changes, it wouldn't have helped the problematic changes in Python 2 -> 3.
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by winstonewert 5y ago
I'm hoping to accomplish pointing out the silliness of the post I originally responded to, which asserted that there was no reason to think it would be unfair competition.
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by winstonewert 5y ago
It's not a requirement. Or at least: we commonly accept many such services provided by municipalities. What is a requirement is acknowledging the unequal footing.
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by winstonewert 5y ago
Not the point I was making. If a city provides any service: water, sewer, broadband, from property taxes, its going to be really really hard for any company to compete with that. So you can make the case for municipal broadband, but don&#x2

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