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by zachrose 9y ago
But how can it be tireless and exhausting at the same time?
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by zachrose 9y ago
Interesting to think of this as a highly inefficient welfare system for the electoral college.
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by zachrose 9y ago
This sounds like a step in a good direction. IMHO diff-based code review creates distorted incentives. Moving large pieces of code around feels harder to review, and adding an extra line or two feels easier to review. In the long term, this
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The Great Gizmo (1963) [pdf](classes.dma.ucla.edu)
1 points by zachrose 9y ago|0 comments
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by zachrose 9y ago
1) Make up a unique password on the spot. 2) Log in and forget it. 3) Reset password. Works every time.
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by zachrose 9y ago
Naming things means understanding the problem. Preventing off by one errors means being fluent in the technical minutiae at the same time. So you could read this essay as just an expanded version of the saying.
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by zachrose 9y ago
From what I remember this was before the invention of unit tests, when the closest thing was inline checks and exceptions.
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by zachrose 9y ago
Still though, having a correctly spelled version and and incorrectly spelled version sounds better than just the latter.
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by zachrose 9y ago
Yours is a consistent and reasoned approach to making art. But a lot of what makes modern and contemporary art exciting (for me, anyways) is an ongoing flirtation with what's authentic or made of "real" materials, and what it
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by zachrose 9y ago
Or why can't this problem be solved with HTTP caching headers and a browser that Does the Right Thing?
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by zachrose 9y ago
Is there some inverse of the firefly's sync protocol that if they all followed would turn a synchronized swarm back into a chaotic one?
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by zachrose 9y ago
Gain an extra 2mm or so by just resting the pink piece on top?
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by zachrose 9y ago
I read it as "self-driving executive," which should be most car company CEOs.
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by zachrose 9y ago
Long-form NYT stuff is generally in the NYT Sunday Magazine (and its online equivalent).
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by zachrose 9y ago
There's this one xkcd: https://xkcd.com/504/ But no, to my knowledge this legal argument has not been made in court. (Here's a Motherboard article about the possibility: https://motherboard.vice.co
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Antarctica is starting to turn green(washingtonpost.com)
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by zachrose 9y ago
Three answers: 1) Just keep going. Experiencing the pain of less-than-ideal tests is pretty much the best way to learn. It also frees you from outdated dogma about testing. 2) Maybe try testing at different levels? I got into testing by lea
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by zachrose 9y ago
If the 2nd Amendment is for A) self-defense without the government, or B) eventual resistance against the government itself, then surely it should be interpreted to protect strong encryption.
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by zachrose 9y ago
Similar for me. When I had near zero programming experience I picked out a boutique PHP CMS to build a relatively fancy blog. The CMS author was up on IRC for hours helping me shoehorn my rediculous project into his CMS and patiently explai
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by zachrose 9y ago
Q: Why don't you just go by Charles instead of Chuck? A: No way, why should I change? I'm the one who's a badass.
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by zachrose 9y ago
Ha, I have the vague sense that that's a joke but I'm not exactly sure what it means?
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by zachrose 10y ago
Yeah, the 25 TFLOPS thing is so weird. Is this just to ultimately force a trade off between simulation fidelity and cycle time for analyzing new designs? Can you not run multiple simulations on separate 25 TFLOPS clusters? Also, how would r
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by zachrose 10y ago
This explanation comes up in every thread about the F-35. While it has good explanatory power, it doesn't explain why the US couldn't have a non-dysfunctional procurement process that actually delivered effective planes.
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by zachrose 10y ago
The stress and intonation examples are what puts this on the far side of the uncanny valley. I've not heard computer speech like this, where the voice seems understand the idea underneath the words.
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by zachrose 10y ago
Links to such tutorials would be greatly appreciated!
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by zachrose 10y ago
> I don't really see a need to glorify this in the local news. He's just a man who can buy time to proselytize very cheaply. To me, the fact that he exists is a signal that our existing social safety nets are insufficient to se
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by zachrose 10y ago
I suppose asking about the applicant's past experience isn't the kind of thing that "scales" in some organizations, because then you've gone from a double blind experimental procedure to a freewheeling conversation
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Pg_tmp(1) Run tests on an isolated, temporary PostgreSQL database(ephemeralpg.org)
3 points by zachrose 10y ago|0 comments
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by zachrose 10y ago
Sanjay Gupta? Al Roker? I really have no idea.
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North Korea’s Missile Launches Were Failing Too Often(nytimes.com)
138 points by zachrose 10y ago|95 comments

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