DavidWoof

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by DavidWoof 23d ago
That's not true. As with all game theory payouts, it's not saying that a Nash equilibrium is inevitable, it's saying that to avoid it you need incentives outside the game, it's saying that the incentives of the game its
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by DavidWoof 3mo ago
Under what circumstances a passenger needs to identity themselves differs significantly from state to state. Also, neither Brendlin v. CA or AR v. Johnson talk about identification requirements, so I'm not sure what you're thinki
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by DavidWoof 4mo ago
I loved Connections so much as a kid, but I'm so tired of this clip. There's so many better clips from this show. So he nailed a 13 second countdown. Who cares? Newscasters do this at every commercial break. Sports announcers do
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by DavidWoof 8mo ago
It's very common the US as well, but primarily in education circles. I honestly have no idea what percent of the general public would recognize it immediately (hard to know for anything, really).
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by DavidWoof 10mo ago
> My understanding was that it was the tenant rights movement that killed SROs and boarding houses by making it practically impossible to keep them orderly It depends on the time frame you're talking about. Long-term SROs like boar
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by DavidWoof 11mo ago
I have Sisyphus as my wallpaper. When people ask about it I say he's the patron saint of software development.
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by DavidWoof 11mo ago
In OP's defense, "becoming suspicious" doesn't mean it's always wrong. I would definitely suggest an explaining comment if someone is using DISTINCT in a multi-column query.
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by DavidWoof 11mo ago
Snopes has this as mixed because Stalin may or may not have expressed this sentiment at some point, but it seems impossibly unlikely to me that this pun works in Russian as it does in English.
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by DavidWoof 1y ago
It's hard to talk in the abstract because obviously people can abuse any type of code feature, but I generally find chaining array methods, and equivalents like c# linq, much easier to read and understand than their looping equivalents
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by DavidWoof 1y ago
> “nobody reads intermediate commit messages one by one on a PR” I clean my history so that intermediate commits make sense. Nobody reads these messages in a pull request, but when I run git blame on a bug six months later I want the co
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by DavidWoof 1y ago
JoelOnSoftware had a great piece back in the day where he mentioned that while he consciously knew what a short sale on an option was, in practice he had to stop and think about how to calculate it, while his financial friends just knew t
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by DavidWoof 1y ago
One of the aphorisms I repeat a lot is that in this age where everybody programs a little, including analysts, devops, QA, researchers, etc., the thing that separates all of them from actual software developers is that developers know that
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by DavidWoof 1y ago
That's absolutely not what the article is about. Did you even read it? People don't really have that debate anymore outside of twitter casuals, and it's dismissed with a wave almost immediately in this article, which then
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by DavidWoof 1y ago
Give me an AI chatbot over someone with poor English skills reading a script any day of the week. My problem probably isn't unique, it's probably something fairly obvious that was vague in the instructions. Now, the important t
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by DavidWoof 1y ago
I think the "sendOnce" question is fine. Software development is just different than other professions, and you get a lot of candidates who talk a good show but can't actually program at all . For a decent dev, this isn&#x
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by DavidWoof 2y ago
I've always established the team rule that most PRs must be reviewed within a day. At the very least, devs should be reviewing any open PRs before they leave or when they first get in. Obviously, there's going to be exceptions f
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by DavidWoof 2y ago
In the midst of the perennial "woe the kids today" rant, it's worth considering that this generation is the first generation in the 300,000 year history of homo sapiens sapiens to widely utilize reading and writing as a prima
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by DavidWoof 2y ago
You're greatly overestimating how much an oral tradition leads to fixed wording. This is a pretty well-studied field at this point in time, and non-poetry oral traditions just don't generate the kind of long word-for-word ident
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by DavidWoof 2y ago
No, macOS will just put quotes in the name. I just saved file from vscode as "testfile.sql", including the quotes, and wound up with a file named "testfile.sql".s.
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by DavidWoof 2y ago
One of my biggest pet peeves about modern development is just how many people don't know jack about git even though they use it every day. It really annoys me when I see a pull request with 20 random commits (with messages like "
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by DavidWoof 2y ago
I don't think this point is about configuring your editor/environment as much as just knowing it. There's certain features that come up all the time: find file, find class, go to implementation, find references, rename var,
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by DavidWoof 3y ago
If you follow through to the study, they displayed products on a screen to people in an MRI scanner, and asked them to evaluate the offers they were seeing. Unsurprisingly, after about 40 minutes their minds start to wander. Because in som
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by DavidWoof 3y ago
> Commissioned by the American Recyclable Plastic Bag Alliance AKA the lobbying group for plastic bag manufacturers, a group whose entire purpose is opposing plastic bag bans, quoted by the WSJ editorial board. This is about as bad a sou
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by DavidWoof 3y ago
Did anyone notice that the author talks about scams and cons, but when it actually comes to a list of examples the majority are actually about plagiarism? Which... I largely don't care about. I understand why it's super importa
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by DavidWoof 3y ago
> I also wasn't aware that "unit" referred to an isolated test It never did. "Unit test" in programming has always had the meaning it does now: it's a test of a unit of code. But "unit test" was
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by DavidWoof 3y ago
> Car crash -> automobile accident --- a softening It's not. Accident is actually the older term. Cars have had accidents since their inception. Using the "crash" sound to refer to the accident itself didn't ca
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by DavidWoof 3y ago
This statement appears in the section on naming intervals. Does "Greensleeves" start with a minor third or an augmented second? Strictly speaking, you can't actually know the name of the interval until you see the written
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by DavidWoof 3y ago
> We cannot identify the interval between two notes just by listening He's being (purposely?)confusing here, but in context what he's saying is that you can't determine the names of intervals just by listening: i.e., you
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by DavidWoof 3y ago
I feel like you're missing something basic. The professor classifies this as a "cheating site", and his entire article assumes this classification, but the site portrays itself as a study aid. If we skip the editorializing
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by DavidWoof 4y ago
Are you considering penitence to be a subset of rehabilitation? There's a reason they're called penitentiaries, after all. Also, this is a nit but deterrence is usually considered to be about both the incarcerated individual and

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