adbachman

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by adbachman 15d ago
Still zero on the felony bench. Is this weakness in their training regimen the impact of operating under regulatory frameworks for too long?
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by adbachman 1mo ago
I ran into this in a Ruby on Rails test suite a few years ago and wrote up my findings here: https://gist.github.com/abachman/f97806e1c0fe8e4e1849e5f8412... tl;dr - ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone used absolute seconds c
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by adbachman 5mo ago
they include a LÖVE demo in their documentation: https://dev.fennel-lang.org/wiki/CookbookPong
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by adbachman 1y ago
Immediate full screen fake virus scanner ad on Android. What's up, OP?
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by adbachman 1y ago
I had the same thought, "oh damn, I haven't heard about 'the c10k problem' in ages" :D (it was "solved", right?) Given the author, his history in the field, and the project, though, I'm confident the
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by adbachman 2y ago
Hopelessness is their tool, not ours.
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by adbachman 2y ago
No joke, I actually hit this condition in a test suite and ended up stumbling across the October 1582 date in a Ruby library. It wasn't until I searched "October 10 1582" on the Web that I learned the significance. https:
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by adbachman 2y ago
The concern is always leverage and conflict of interest. Is there something about you that you would do anything to keep covered up? Are you susceptible to outside influence? Can anyone, in any country, compel you to act counter to the inte
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by adbachman 2y ago
what are/were Reddit's top two or three cached structures / things? guessing post bodies and link previews feels too easy. comment threads? post listings? was there a lot of nesting? it sounds like you're describing a wh
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by adbachman 2y ago
Absolutely! If it means you are unable to make any decisions or reach any conclusions which do not align with your -ism, then you're in a dead end.
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by adbachman 2y ago
No. Federal employees take an oath to defend the Constitution, not the current executive. Civil service in the US has been neutral politically and merit based for the last 140 years. It stands directly opposed to the "spoils system&quo
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by adbachman 2y ago
"Chatham House Rules" is not a problem that needs solving. I've only seen it used as a courtesy extended by peers to each other out of mutual respect. "We will have conversations and share information and we agree we can
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by adbachman 2y ago
Maybe it was before your time, but Diablo was absolutely huge in its day. Like, "top 10 for the 1990s" huge. Created (or at least established or set the benchmark for) the action RPG genre, spawned clones and imitators, and has mu
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by adbachman 2y ago
the only moves available are: 1. Split an integer into two smaller integers. 2. Combine (add) two integers into a larger one. Both suggest that negative numbers are not possible.
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by adbachman 2y ago
In my top five, too. I have two copies right now, the second is a first edition I found at a free bookstore. I've given one other away, will probably send another with a kid when they move out. It's the dryness, for me. She evokes
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by adbachman 3y ago
This is the important question. We evaluated several horizontally scalable DBs and Cockroach was by far the slowest for our access patterns.
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by adbachman 3y ago
I like the, "if you slice, your sister gets to pick first" energy.
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by adbachman 3y ago
This is 100% accurate to my experience working as a software developer for the US federal government. Important humanitarian mission (I worked in the asylum and refugee org) filled with true believers, dedicated civil servants with a heart
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by adbachman 3y ago
I use this setup. My notes folder is a git repo, I have a private repo on GitHub as backup. Then two moving parts. a backup.sh script, which boils down to: `cd ${obfolder}; git add .; git commit -m "auto backup $(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)&qu
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by adbachman 3y ago
We can each have our very own Dixie Flatline construct.
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by adbachman 3y ago
> the ?? would help a little bit that's the only point of the operator. given: a = 0; b = 42; then `a or b` and `a ?? b` give two different answers, but take the same number of characters to write. > just explicitly check for nil
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by adbachman 3y ago
that's interesting. my example data did include the edge case that caught me out in part two, but didn't include it in a way that broke my first pass at a solution. funny piece is it didn't click until i submitted a wrong ans
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by adbachman 3y ago
link to the Cory Doctorow story, "The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away", for anyone else who's interested: https://www.tor.com/2008/08/06/weak-and-strange/ I also h
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by adbachman 3y ago
the missing context from the previous comment is that Tao used GitHub Copilot to help with learning Lean. He's been writing about it as he goes, most recently: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/111271244206606941
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by adbachman 3y ago
There's a thin line between by-the-books malicious compliance "throw away all the keys" and "intentionally destroyed company property". You'd sure want "please delete all our information from your personal
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by adbachman 3y ago
you heard them, a literal potato from the ground. even a big old russet only has, what, like 32 bites?
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by adbachman 3y ago
Same for my kid picking up info for the beginning of their first year at Univ of Maryland. Millions of students coming online, textbooks are digital now, SSO all the things. Perfect storm.
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by adbachman 3y ago
ha, yeah, that reads as an argument fragment. I didn't express my whole thought. It's the sort of statement that might get someone called out as being somewhere negative on some political spectrum, but I read it here as academic.
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by adbachman 3y ago
That line was my favorite. It's challenging to be a public figure, present yourself on contemporary social media, and not be pressured (implicitly or explicitly) to speak up on everything. Though I don't read this as being about p
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by adbachman 3y ago
> How exactly does present-day affirmative action recompense the victims of racist policies from half a century ago? Near the top of this thread one specific "how" was discussed. Legacy admissions are affirmative action which o

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