yossi_peti

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by yossi_peti 2mo ago
The alternative being closing the doors on the person's arm and likely injuring them to avoid a minor incovenience?
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by yossi_peti 6mo ago
The precondition on the link you shared has -1 <= x && x <= 1, so 99 is way outside of that range. But even so, testing for x=1, which is supposed to be inside that range, 0.5 doesn't seem tolerably close to 0.4142.
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by yossi_peti 7mo ago
I'm guessing their issue isn't about the vowel, it's about the number mismatch between the singular article "an" and the plural noun phrase "frequently asked questions".
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by yossi_peti 7mo ago
It can change sometimes, but not very reliably. For example try this: "I’m not sure our professional values are currently aligned, but I wish you the best in your future endeavors." It translates to "I don't like how you
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by yossi_peti 7mo ago
Example 1 is a declaration in Go. Example 3 is a declaration in Python.
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by yossi_peti 9mo ago
I guess the reasoning assumes that you have multiple eggs in your basket. A 95% chance of failure is bad if you're pinning the whole business on it, but if you have a variety of 5% chance deals, then it can make sense to pursue them, w
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by yossi_peti 11mo ago
> Most twelve month olds struggle to support their head I don't know about the other claims, but this one is false. It would be somewhat concerning if a 6-month-old struggled to support their head.
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by yossi_peti 1y ago
Which one do you have in mind? For each of those three constraints mentioned, I can think of a reason why it's not like the other two, but there's not one in particular that seems to stick out especially.
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by yossi_peti 1y ago
Their example "understanding and translating vertical Chinese spring couplets to English" has a lot of mistakes in it. I'm guessing the person writing the blog post to show off that example doesn't actually know Chinese.
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by yossi_peti 2y ago
How is the gameplay related to the information? The connection seems pretty contrived to me.
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by yossi_peti 2y ago
Why isn't SendGrid on the list? It seems to have a similar pricing level
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by yossi_peti 2y ago
If people want to live in rural areas, that's fine by me. They don't particularly contribute to the problems with car-centric infrastructure in the US. The main complaints are how most cities in the US are designed in ways that ar
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by yossi_peti 2y ago
It looks like all of the templates are basically listing steps or showing a list of facts. Most of my favorite infographics involve some sort of graph or chart that visualizes data, for example https://xkcd.com/radiation&#x2
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by yossi_peti 3y ago
> As a photographer, I care about robustness of the visual output. Which means, as a designer, designing for the worst possible image and taking numerical metrics with a grain of salt. I think it's kind of silly how the author pooh-
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by yossi_peti 3y ago
Since it's 5 minutes I'm wondering if it's just "that's how the web works by default". I remember a while ago I was doing a long-running calculation on an POST request and was trying to debug why the connection
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by yossi_peti 3y ago
What's wrong with that? If America was for some reason invaded by Chinese infantry, I would certainly prefer that the soldiers were properly trained to avoid civilian casualties.
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by yossi_peti 3y ago
And Google Cloud Platform
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by yossi_peti 3y ago
Theoretically, if you choose the first two points at random, then you have a 50-50 chance of guessing right on the third guess (the two circles from the first two guesses have at most two intersecting points) and should always get the corre
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by yossi_peti 7y ago
It makes sense that more developed countries would have lower optimism. If the previous generation already had a decent quality-of-life, there's less reason to assume that the next generation will have it even better. Developing countr
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by yossi_peti 8y ago
> You need tens of millions before I could call you huge That seems like an absurd standard to me. The three largest employers in the world (by number of employees) are 1. The U.S. Department of Defense, 2. The People's Liberation A
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by yossi_peti 14y ago
I think the parsing method in this article was borrowed from Crockford's TDOP article, except it parses a simpler language than Javascript.
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by yossi_peti 14y ago
There is a slight snag that arguments to a function are eagerly evaluated. A built-in if function would be more useful as a special form.
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by yossi_peti 14y ago
I'm not sure I'd be so quick to say it's not turing complete--the language includes building functions (not first-class functions though), but it might be possible that they can be used to emulate conditionals and branching. Anyway, I'm pre