SerpentJoe

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by SerpentJoe 3mo ago
I would agree, but there are still some interactions that require doing the same thing repeatedly in order to make progress (eating rice balls, eavesdropping).
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by SerpentJoe 10mo ago
This is some drawback. "I have access to the same bad alternatives as everyone else."
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by SerpentJoe 1y ago
I wonder if that was ever popular, considering the deoptimization effects of try/catch, and given that block scope can also be managed by renaming variables.
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by SerpentJoe 1y ago
Social media has already homogenized our thoughts so much. So many facts and perspectives are presented that it's impossible to construct our own opinions on it all without taking inspiration from others, and the upvote button provides
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by SerpentJoe 2y ago
In music, a refrain is a passage that we return to rather than continuing to progress the song. When we hear refrain as a verb, the metaphor tends to focus on the "abstaining from something else" aspect, but here she's focusi
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by SerpentJoe 2y ago
There are at least two reasonable readings of "anger is eliminated", with one being true if anger is reduced at all, and both being true if anger is reduced to zero.
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by SerpentJoe 2y ago
I think mainstream views would deserve attention if they're directly answering these criticisms. If such point by point responses exist, and if they're compelling, then that's what we should be talking about right now.
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by SerpentJoe 2y ago
Without getting into what it means to "trust" Woit or anyone else, whether we're talking about specialists or domain outsiders like myself: if experts disagree, it's up to them to explain why. I can't guess why thei
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by SerpentJoe 3y ago
I could point out several that are doing that very thing right now.
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by SerpentJoe 3y ago
He's shown us his character as a leader so many times at this point. When he called Vern Unsworth "pedo guy", I didn't know how to square it with my image of him, so I mostly forgot about it. Took a while to realize it&#
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by SerpentJoe 3y ago
It's true, the article doesn't make that claim. We think of primes as being mysterious and out of reach, and we're conditioned to think "mathematical / computational breakthrough" when we read the words "p
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by SerpentJoe 5y ago
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by SerpentJoe 9y ago
A refinement would be that the company should focus on acquiring the developers who will provide the most marginal benefit. For an organization that values diversity but that currently has a non-diverse team, this could tip the scales towar
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by SerpentJoe 9y ago
I could breed a human baby for meat, and it, too, would exist to fulfill its purpose by dying. There are two major differences: 1) You probably place value on the baby's life and its ability to suffer, whereas that seems not to be the
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by SerpentJoe 9y ago
That's fair, but on the other hand, none of those other waves of automation have empowered machines to do knowledge work, the last refuge of human productivity. That's the barrel our generation is staring down.
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by SerpentJoe 9y ago
And waste their youth in prison.
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by SerpentJoe 9y ago
If we assume that governments and businesses start giving a shit then many forms of magic are possible.
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by SerpentJoe 9y ago
As an implementation detail that's true out of necessity, but the simple English explanation of the mechanic would be "they are rewarding you for having an amiibo", not for having an NFC code. You wouldn't say "the
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by SerpentJoe 9y ago
Whatever economic system may be in place, it will be possible to profit by making better decisions in that context, but that doesn't prove the superiority of that system, and it doesn't make it "terrifying" to wonder whe
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by SerpentJoe 9y ago
Nobody is rebuilding anything on this planet, not considering how deep we need to drill/mine at this point to get anything good, and the example will not be useful to anyone who arrives here from elsewhere.
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by SerpentJoe 10y ago
Many services have this issue, that perfection is the minimum requirement. I don't understand why, given this, we don't just go to a thumbs up / thumbs down rating system. We have one option that means "fine" and fo
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by SerpentJoe 10y ago
> Isn't it already in the browser's cache in that state anyway? Like disk cache as in Cache-Control? In most cases you wouldn't cache the HTML itself, but in cases where you do then your use case should already work as sta
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by SerpentJoe 10y ago
Possibly because they won't be doing it, or at least not going so far as to unconstitutionally refuse to hold hearings on Supreme Court replacements.
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by SerpentJoe 10y ago
Bart becomes chief justice of the Supreme Court in the episode "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie".
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by SerpentJoe 10y ago
The advantage OP was referring to was that you could force a type warning at all, as opposed to PHP, JS etc where typed arrays don't exist (notwithstanding Uint32Array and such).
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Chaining Is Not the Answer (Pipelines Are)(medium.com)
4 points by SerpentJoe 10y ago|0 comments
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by SerpentJoe 10y ago
As you indicated, almost none of what was once called ES7 made it into the final spec: http://www.2ality.com/2016/01/ecmascript-2016.html At least exponentiation is slightly cool. Hasta la ES8 siempre I guess.
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by SerpentJoe 10y ago
I would argue that automatically adding methods to a user-created object isn't optimal either.
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by SerpentJoe 11y ago
I wonder which features are slow. I'm assuming generators and by extension the for-of syntax, which is otherwise a thing of beauty. I imagine proxies are somewhere between slow and horrifyingly slow. I have noticed that none of the fea
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by SerpentJoe 11y ago
Your codebase is very modular and wonderful but for other projects, large files (100kb+) are not uncommon. For those projects, "clean up your code before using my product" is not an acceptable answer.

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