HCIdivision17

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by HCIdivision17 9y ago
Binary operations will do it, like in `True or foo()`, but there's no real lazy evaluation machinery for parameters to a function. (Yet? I bet someone's working on it... at least I haven't tried any packages like lazypy for i
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by HCIdivision17 9y ago
I thought, "gosh, that seems at least marginally useless; why wouldn't that short circuit?" and then just tried it. I tried a few variations, and about the only use I can think of is to signal as a side effect for when the di
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by HCIdivision17 9y ago
What impact does this sort of compromise cause? In context, it seems to be a poorly architected loopback to make an appliance gizmo work. So on the face of it, it sorta seems a bit harmless (well, as much as any internet appliance is harmle
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by HCIdivision17 9y ago
To be sure - and in fact people seem to debate the idea that the same bridge would even be built at all these days. It was apparently quite the political undertaking.
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by HCIdivision17 9y ago
I didn't have an intuition for this, so I took a shot in the dark as a baseline. Wolfram Alpha suggests that the Golden Gate bridge was about $350M in modern money, and given length and height, I'd say they're pretty comparab
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by HCIdivision17 9y ago
It's the barrier point that we can't haul it out of the ground as fast as demand requires. It's sort of like how people were concerned we were going to hit peak food: we very well could, but we need a lot more people to hit t
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by HCIdivision17 9y ago
There are other methods, I think. At least one guy I back does it based on a per-comic basis. Granted, the comics are big and usually go longer than a month, but it's pretty good, I think. Takes some of the 'gotta-deliver-constant
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by HCIdivision17 9y ago
And it's a shame, because there really isn't a reason not to do both. After all, we are spending millions on both . I really love the story about Norman Borlaug [0], because it shows how these great advances can be from enormou
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by HCIdivision17 9y ago
I maintain positivity because it's not vaporware, just in feature hell. There's no silver bullet for that, just metric crap-tonnes of lead bullets, as they say. And expectations are everything. I had endless hours of fun with Priv
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by HCIdivision17 9y ago
I guess I just don't see the stretch goals as bonus wins. They caused the whole game to be rethought and redesigned. They're integral to what the game is expected to be and have driven the ambition to make the game better. And aga
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by HCIdivision17 9y ago
I think if we're going to be fair, it's more accurate to say it's totally, unequivocally overdue. Large chucks are flat out late. But! That is fine. We can forgive a late game if it's good, and it looks to be awesome
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
I think it's facinating that we are likely moving to cars with limited speed (driverless controls), and that we have tried banning booze. At least banning alchohol as a constitutional ammendment was rather ineffective and led to some w
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
I had never looked it up, and it seems the CDC (unsurprisingly) is involved in applying these laws. https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/aboutlawsregulationsquarantin... From that site, it seems that isolation and quarantine
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
I think this is sorta on the nose, but I would rephrase it as "Do we have a right to not be subjected to medical procedures?" And the answer to that seems to be fairly strongly in the affirmative. I imagine we will be approaching
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
I don't think it's a dangerous precedent, in the sense that precedent happened a long, long time ago. These sorts of diseases are horrific, and quarantine is usually applied with extreme predjudice. Quarantine is no joke, and is a
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
Awesome. Note that this isn't merely a fine, but also comes with the stipulation that they "prominently disclose and obtain affirmative express consent for its data collection and sharing practices, and prohibits misrepresentation
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
I'll second that, except I liked the first interface. It was horrific to get used to, especially as there were basically no docs and I had no idea how to do this 3D stuff, but once I got used to "one hand on keyboard and one hand
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
I'm not sure, but I think pg314 is making reference to the hand crank that could be used to power the laptop. I don't think it was initially included in the design (I may be wrong on that). I also heard rumor it wasn't a smas
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
Don't underestimate the power of a simple(r) solution. A cheap and reliable solution, readily accesible, is powerful when access to so many luxuries we would consider basic necessities don't exist. These scientists have done a l
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
Thanks a lot for the summary. It's so hard to look at simple things and see how difficult it is to make them a product, and even harder to see the edge cases that prevent it from being used in healthcare. I really like that there'
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
Those expensive medical machines require a lot of infrastructure to operate properly. You could get a machine there, but you likely couldn't provide it clean and reliable power without additional equipment and technicians to maintain i
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
The phrase "believes this is just a byproduct of neural activity" taken at face value is just a strange thing to say. I feel like the author is playing a trick on me, and feels like when Feynman cracked the joke about a French cur
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
See, I can't use the OSX interface. It makes me feel like a complete imbecile and I consistently do the wrong or useless thing. It's why I can't say good or bad things about Macs - haven't successfully used one since 200
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
I think you got my feelings upsidedown. Like, I am of the strict opinion that you can't solve these issues via standardization. It's not reasonable, and does miss the point of automation. I also don't like daylight savings ti
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
Monitors are a sort of special arena of contention among our types, but I gotta recommend the Dell Ultrasharp U2415 24 inch model. Native 1920x1200 at a DPI I feel comfortable with. The trick here is that it has the DisplayPort inputs and
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
Oh I know. That's the normal counter argument, and the answer is simply that sometimes I have to work off-site, sometimes in places with questionable power. And thus more battery is better, and a 10 pound brick is probably going to dev
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
I have long held that there aren't any good solutions to the date/time issue (like naming things and cache invalidation :), other than just find some way to hitch to UTC, but you've shown me a case that just... wow. I can&#x2
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
i7 - I conceded disk space in exchange for more ram and the higher end cpu. It works great, since I have tons of external drive space. It won't be the best for someone who has intense disk usage needs (like running multiple VMs at once
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
I had no idea there was that sort of requirement - I guess I had just assumed it was systemized. It sounds fascinating - are there ever conflicts that need to be resolved?
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by HCIdivision17 10y ago
Because my Surface Pro 4 can run 3 1920x1200 monitors just fine (I'm partial to a -|- setup (dontjudgeme)). The dock really makes it, no question. My monitors stands stay bolted to the desk and everything's cabled together, but I&

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