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by acomar 1y ago
it's experimenting with a feature that was added to Haskell but just never caught on. it's theoretically very powerful but it's far enough from idiomatic Haskell that it sees basically zero usage in the wild as the cost for u
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by acomar 2y ago
there is actually something rather special about the questions mathematicians focus on but the jargon and technical detail get in the way. ultimately, the reason prime numbers are so fascinating is because they turn up in weird places, with
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by acomar 2y ago
I've found the opposite. every time I attempt to subvert the borrow checker, I eventually discover that I'm attempting to write a bug.
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by acomar 3y ago
most of the optimizations discussed are actually kind of obvious if you know how chess notation works in the first place. like the reason the starting move "Nf3" makes any sense is because only 1 knight of all 4 on the board can p
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by acomar 3y ago
you've misunderstood my point -- I'm saying manufacturer claims need to be verified. 10x doesn't mean all that much to begin with and, moreover, fan static pressure claims from manufacturers get verified by virtually no one.
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by acomar 3y ago
he was extremely insightful and developed new math so effortlessly. if he'd survived, a lot of math would have advanced more quickly than it did.
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by acomar 3y ago
it also doesn't help that the fix for the increased difficulty in implementing AsyncIterator for devs (assuming the approach advocated for in the OP winds up being the one selected by the language team) relies on the as yet (?) unstabi
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by acomar 3y ago
such claims without tests to validate are kind of useless. they're just taking the company at their word.
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by acomar 3y ago
> Further analysis with mass spectrometry also found serotonin, a much more strictly controlled substance, in 26 percent of the tested supplements. According to the authors, the presence of unlabeled but significant quantities of seroton
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by acomar 3y ago
I mean, lots of animals use tools, including chimps. those tools aren't nearly as sophisticated, so it depends on how you define tool use, but the point still stands. this is all besides the point.
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by acomar 3y ago
thanks, I appreciate this
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by acomar 3y ago
> "We haven't yet found a specific neural structure for recognizing faces" is far from evidence that no such structure exists. proving a negative is, famously, quite hard. an unsolved problem, even. facial recognition has
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by acomar 3y ago
except no such neural structure has ever been found. humans have been using tools for longer than we've been human -- without solid evidence that this tool is interpreted as a social actor, based on real neuroscience, this kind of cl
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by acomar 3y ago
metaphors, you see, are always literal
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by acomar 3y ago
> How do we know it's automatic without knowing the quality of each request? what purpose does the filter serve if it allows virtually all requests through? your response amounts to "trust the FBI, they don't need oversigh
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by acomar 3y ago
this was exactly what the free software advocates have been saying would happen (has happened) without protections to make sure modifications got contributed back to free software projects.
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by acomar 3y ago
might be FODMAP sensitivity.
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by acomar 3y ago
this worked for me for a while but in the last year, I've started getting episodes even though I've taught myself to sleep on my side, breathe through my mouth, keep my airway open by tilting my chin away from my chest, etc.. thes
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by acomar 4y ago
from what I've read, they're a standard practice in traditional finance/risk management circles? it's what makes the whole situation with SVB so much more mind-bending. this isn't some new technology that's nev
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by acomar 4y ago
the bank was already experiencing a slow run as startup funding dried up. SVB got hit by interest rates twice - once because the value of their assets fell and a second time because the money spigot into tech turned off and a huge influx of
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by acomar 4y ago
you're aware that barrels of oil are sold in USD and this status is what maintains the American position as the world's reserve currency, right? you're also aware of the wars, coups, and sanctions that have been used over the
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by acomar 4y ago
I mean if you set the bar beneath the floor, yeah, sure. but my bar is "not a scam" so hell no. why the hell would I touch tether or any other stable coin following six whole years of reporting on how much of a scam stable coins a
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by acomar 4y ago
a lot of the African nations moving closer to China come to mind
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by acomar 4y ago
those have very low limits - 10k per tax identifier
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by acomar 4y ago
in CA, unpaid wages pierce the corporate veil and damages are owed. so there will definitely be lawsuits, including class action.
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by acomar 4y ago
no but expect the US to start invading weaker countries that depeg from the dollar. the US is, at present, the world's reserve currency. that status is what creates the petrodollar. as countries move towards Russia or China, that hegem
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by acomar 4y ago
if you think tether is well run, I have a bridge to sell you
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by acomar 4y ago
the economists at the fed think the only possible cause for inflation is demand pressure, forgetting the historical supply crunches that have led to inflation. wages are up and unemployment is down because production is still reeling from c
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by acomar 4y ago
if profits don't go up, shareholders get mad and the stock price tumbles. this is just capitalism.
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by acomar 4y ago
people make grammatical mistakes often enough when typing that you kind of need to parse sentences in the way that makes the most sense. this sometimes means parsing correct grammar as a mistake because the fixed version makes perfect sense

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