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by alexhill 3y ago
More than the header image I reckon. I’m still not at the point where I jump to “AI” when encountering writing like this and spend way too long waiting for the facts and research to show up.
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Facebook suspension after account compromise – no recourse?
3 points by alexhill 4y ago|1 comments
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by alexhill 4y ago
> They don't even know how to ask the right questions to get to what they want to know. You're right. If the questions were being asked of someone who was genuinely motivated to answer them, this wouldn't be an obstacle. T
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by alexhill 8y ago
I love it. Something I always wish for with linters is an easy way to run them only for the lines changed in a particular diff, to allow a codebase to gradually converge on consistency without breaking git blame by reformatting everything.
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by alexhill 10y ago
It would be available day and night and not as susceptible to weather fluctuations.
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by alexhill 10y ago
This video is great. It's made me really interested in the new camera, and the relative lack of actual information presented about it, in contrast to what's presented in that video, is frustrating. Are there more details available
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by alexhill 11y ago
AFAIK there isn't a widely-used, solid JS compressor written in Python, so you're adding a dependency either way. You either need a Java runtime for the Closure Compiler, or you need Node to run uglify or similar.
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by alexhill 11y ago
> that journal peer review is non-existent This isn't about peer review, because the paper was knowingly submitted only to journals known not to conduct peer review. Quoting from the article: > We needed to get our study publishe
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by alexhill 11y ago
There are certainly solutions to deal with it by designing for leaks as an expected maintenance problem, though preventing them would obviously be preferable. There are numerous operating molten salt reactors around the world, so I guess it
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by alexhill 11y ago
96% of fissile material converted to non-fissile material, and that energy is then converted to electricity at normal steam turbine efficiency, 30% or something. This as opposed to less than 1% for Gen III reactors. Edit: I posted that fuel
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by alexhill 11y ago
I don't think the author would disagree with much of your post. I did not understand the point to be that wine critics are frauds – it's that they're playing a game that someone lacking the "deeper understanding and appr
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by alexhill 11y ago
Interesting. > The assertion that the world must be internally consistent is quintessential rationalism, not materialism or empiricism at all. Science's core value is empiricism, NOT rationalism. I don't assert that the world m
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by alexhill 11y ago
> most self-proclaimed materialists, if asked to describe their beliefs, will describe them inline with the classic Newtonian or Cartesian formulation of matter. I suspect many self-proclaimed materialists might do that, but more likely
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by alexhill 11y ago
I'm not the parent but I'll stop considering myself a "materialist" then. I'm not wedded to the term. What should I call myself? A physicalist? I'll try to describe the position that I (and I think most of the
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by alexhill 11y ago
Can you articulate what you mean by Python 3's "accountant-like seriousness"? Is there more to it than print-as-a-function? I code in both every day and just don't see what the fuss is about. To me, they're barely d
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by alexhill 11y ago
I agree with the spirit of your post, but using the right HTTP verbs can have real, actual consequences because of how some caches and clients behave. You're more likely to accidentally send multiple requests or get stale data when you
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by alexhill 11y ago
Text-search ranking is customisable[0] and results vary wildly based on the ranking behaviours selected and the weights assigned to different labels. It takes a bit of fine tuning and with the wrong parameters for your data set, you can def
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by alexhill 11y ago
If you want to preprocess your document, or aggregate different parts of it with different labels and weights, it can be helpful to store it in a separate column. Of course you can always just index your preprocessing/aggregating funct
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by alexhill 11y ago
Yeah, this error is made consistently throughout the article and the author should fix it. It serves to inflate the project's performance by as much as two-thirds, and some people will see this as intentionally misleading and write you
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by alexhill 11y ago
I expect that's why the current convention was adopted, and another reason I'm happy to do it that way. I don't ever actually format my code like my example - but if I'd learned Python from first principles in a cave, I
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by alexhill 11y ago
My understanding was that he wrote an effective program and wasn't allowed to use it for homework and tests.
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by alexhill 11y ago
Colour schemes aren't part of the text itself. However, if your IDE could automatically display your code formatted as you like while keeping the underlying text file aligned with some convention, and make that not a nightmare while
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by alexhill 11y ago
This is just speculation, but since as you rightly point out the space is optional in many programming languages, I suspect the existence of the no-space convention simply reflects that a majority of programmers, over the last however many
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by alexhill 11y ago
I think it's slightly easier for both humans and computers to parse a function call when there's no space. I find your question interesting - why SHOULD programming language syntax match English syntax? Programming languages borro
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by alexhill 11y ago
Not built-in, but there are plenty of third-party JSON fields around. However, the author of contrib.postgres opened this PR yesterday, so you can certainly expect them in the next release: https://github.com/django/dja
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by alexhill 11y ago
Basically yes. hstore and json have entirely separate interfaces in Postgres, but the storage properties of hstore are a subset of json as you say. json/jsonb is generally more powerful, and will supplant hstore in a lot of new project
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by alexhill 11y ago
Likewise, Django has had third-party hstore and jsonb fields for ages, but I take your point. SQLAlchemy is beautiful. The Django ORM has taken great strides lately. Another big improvement in 1.8 is the expansion of database expressions –
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by alexhill 11y ago
Check this out: https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/581068613542649856
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by alexhill 11y ago
Slack is a web service written in PHP, so I'd say elchief's assumption is reasonable.
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by alexhill 11y ago
The point of a universal income is that everybody gets it, employed or not. It's not an unemployment benefit. The garbage man brings in 3100.

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