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by wnoise 3y ago
This strongly reminds me of a scene from season 3 of The Wire. A bunch of gang leaders are making plans together -- by way of a meeting trying to be run by Robert's Rules of Order. A subordinate is taking notes -- have to have minute
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by wnoise 3y ago
> Knowing that something is definitely a breaking change because an API was removed or modified in an incompatible way will still save you time. Iff it's a part of the API you use directly or indirectly. Sometimes you're only
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by wnoise 3y ago
I had thought that the argument was that bundling was more using Windows (near monopoly) to prop up IE usage, rather than vice-versa. If in 2001 (with no smartphones), IE only runs on Windows, it's kind of hard to have IE have a _high
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by wnoise 3y ago
Qualified immunity only applies to civil suits.
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by wnoise 3y ago
It is explicitly trying to optimize for measuring/inculcating military performance.
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by wnoise 3y ago
Well, latitude, or longitude at the equator .
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by wnoise 3y ago
That's over three times too big though.
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by wnoise 3y ago
That suggests making the top level (document as a whole?) have an implicit dir="auto". Alternately, the default dir="auto" is overridden by any parent with an explicit dir="..." setting.
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by wnoise 3y ago
In addition to lexicographic, lexigraphic is a word, which would sound quite similar in most dialects.
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by wnoise 3y ago
Why isn't this the default?
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by wnoise 3y ago
"Just trust me bro" is not a convincing argument. What are those issues, and why is 702 needed, rather than other approaches?
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by wnoise 3y ago
> FISA 702 is key in the ability of the FBI to collect intelligence on those who seek to harm the United States. [citation needed]
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by wnoise 3y ago
The spammers were actually spammers though.
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by wnoise 3y ago
Because the variance (or any other measure of spread) is a useful explanatory variable that is ignored and left on the floor. Switching from mean to median, while more "robust" doesn't actually capture something new, just so
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by wnoise 3y ago
> police by consent It's a lovely idea, but Peelian principles are currently only paid lip-service. People are trying to drag it back to something approaching that, but it's not the current actual situation, particularly in Lo
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by wnoise 3y ago
You could have said "sex-segregated" instead of "women-only" and not drag in the definitional arguments. Or, at least less so.
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by wnoise 3y ago
Which means they get all the downsides, and none of the upsides...
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by wnoise 3y ago
It's not assuming a surveillance mechanism, it's _describing_ one. Individual police keeping their eyes open _is_ a surveillance mechanism. Admittedly, just about the most banal one possible, but the anti-social behavior it&#x27
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by wnoise 3y ago
> The police aren't the government Not in the ridiculous "party controlling parliament" sense, no. But they are absolutely the enforcement arm of the state, which is more on point.
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by wnoise 3y ago
I do. I want my hardware to do exactly what it gets told to do, and nothing else. A pity that that's basically impossible these days.
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by wnoise 3y ago
Heat pumps can work both ways.
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by wnoise 3y ago
Allies spy on each other all the time. * https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2013/10/28/241384089/... * https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d9bp8/us-spies-allies-
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by wnoise 3y ago
Just because spying is useful for someone doesn't make it not spying.
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by wnoise 3y ago
True, but they don't recover themselves automatically.
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by wnoise 3y ago
> I'm not sure why this is the default behavior, Um. You said the answer earlier: > because the parser treats the literal as a double BigFloats aren't built in to the syntax of the language (and probably should't be, s
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by wnoise 3y ago
No, it's really not. An index variable has very little details to it -- there's nothing to communicate. Auxiliary functions are complex behavior that should be reflected in the name.
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by wnoise 3y ago
You're not doing what the parent definition promises though -- if you were you'd leave out the parent definition and the where, and just write the go definition with the true name. Go is instead doing something similar to the pare
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by wnoise 3y ago
Yes. Where is often lovely -- I want to delegate details, and not think about them yet, but keep that delegation scoped to the function that needs the relevant details. But calling auxiliary functions "go" is almost always bad na
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by wnoise 4y ago
It's true nothing forces or forbids this, but some languages/toolings/communities/ecosystems encourage that more than others though.
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by wnoise 4y ago
Is it put into RAM? That really is the creation of a record.

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