brlewis

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by brlewis 13d ago
It's exceedingly charitable of you to try to infer a good reason for what they're proposing. I say "exceedingly" because in their proposal they had the opportunity to present a good reason, and they chose not to use that
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by brlewis 1mo ago
>This effect would disappear almost completely if they instead of estimating their rank they estimated their score In the article, in the section "The effect is in the noise", just before the graphs, it says they estimated thei
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by brlewis 1mo ago
The key claim: "Random data actually mimics the effect really well." This makes some sense. If people are asked to guess a number between 1 and 6 and then roll a die, the people who roll low are more likely to overestimate and the
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by brlewis 1mo ago
Have you tried putting those explanations into your repo?
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by brlewis 2mo ago
Yes, that is interesting. It sounds like he was aware of the theoretical possibility of a book being regurgitated verbatim. Do you know if he was aware it had been done? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49000742 If he w
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by brlewis 2mo ago
Making reasoning easy to scrutinize: https://gitlab.com/brlewis/solve-debate
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by brlewis 3mo ago
The article gives anecdotal evidence that combining personal stories with advice in a book is more effective than delivering distilled information.
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by brlewis 3mo ago
I thought the explanation for podcasts was people who drive to and from work, and don't care for current radio shows.
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by brlewis 2y ago
Accept-Language headers aren't used in a particularly good way by browsers and servers. If used better, they would be a particularly good solution. The idea you mentioned of browsers allowing the header to be set on a per-site basis wo
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by brlewis 2y ago
My hunch is that Accept-Language became the best way to determine a user's language about the time it became common to bring a laptop while traveling. People use arguments today against Accept-Language that have been wrong for decades.
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by brlewis 2y ago
I think your information about lack of notifications is outdated. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/...
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by brlewis 2y ago
I once insisted with an optometrist that they only take my insurance number and not my SSN. They contacted my insurance and the insurance sent them my SSN. I can't avoid medical insurance having my SSN because of tax reporting requirem
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by brlewis 2y ago
That's distinguishing the String class from primitive string. I don't think that would still work with another `extends String` the same shape as Hash. For example: https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/?#code&#
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by brlewis 2y ago
This seems like a great idea, nicely implemented. Minor bug report: the pronunciation button pronounced Spanish "adaptar" as "ajaptar".
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by brlewis 2y ago
Deep sleep is not improved by consistent sleep/wake times, and adjustments to noise/temperature/light conditions? If not, which sleep phases are? (I don't have an answer to the overlap question; I'm squarely in Hard
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by brlewis 2y ago
From the article, In fact, the lawsuits claim that RealPage shares "peer lists" with clients that tell them exactly who else is providing data to the company within a specific distance of their property. This sounds like reassur
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by brlewis 2y ago
See my answer "what's cool about deno" https://gitlab.com/brlewis/brlewis-aoc/-/blob/main/README.md...
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by brlewis 2y ago
Don't give up on your network. For applying cold, have you tuned your resume for Applicant Tracking Systems? I am starting a new job in April with a company that contacted me via LinkedIn in December.
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by brlewis 3y ago
Isn't that assuming that Orange's legal costs would have been the same whether or not they settled?
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by brlewis 3y ago
>It is also bizarre that someone could take BSD code, make trivial modifications, and now such cannot be sent upstream or used under the original license. No it is not bizarre. That is precisely how the BSD license is intended to work. I
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by brlewis 3y ago
> especially blind players Isn't accessibility for a web-based MUD just a matter of adding `aria-live="polite"` as an attribute to the incoming text? Five years ago I did this on https://evolvingstory.juliablewi
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by brlewis 3y ago
That's missing the point. The article isn't about an advantage for large production projects.
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by brlewis 3y ago
This article would have worked a lot better without the second paragraph. The writer's simple pleasure of typing "go run ..." should not be predicated on believing that deno doesn't exist.
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by brlewis 3y ago
>functions are global so you now need to name them uniquely to avoid collisions I hear this here, and elsewhere I hear that PHP has evolved into a decent language. Both can't be true.
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by brlewis 3y ago
The survey methodology is biased toward old technologies, from the era where you sent HTTP headers that advertised the stack you were using. Modern stacks often hide that info. (It's also biased toward techs used in blogs, since when i
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by brlewis 3y ago
It's possible that most commenters here are right, that the writer just has inferior reasoning capabilities compared to us, and that there's no way any of us could possibly fall for such a scam. But I think it's more likely t
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by brlewis 3y ago
I definitely include linters, not just style formatters. > It happens even in fairly rigid languages like Java, I can't imagine what you'd end up with Lisp. I imagine it would be about the same, with human factors dominating. I
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by brlewis 3y ago
I didn't end up with ))))))))) in Scheme because it was easy to create smaller functions. I do see rust ending with } } } In TypeScript I'll often find myself ending blocks of code with }); } }
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by brlewis 3y ago
With Rust do you close all your } manually? Do you have an example of Rust code where the equivalent Lisp code would be harder to parse, assuming equal familiarity with both languages?
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by brlewis 3y ago
In companies, most languages have some kind of system to enforce style guidelines and restrict which dependencies can be used. Companies already restrict the flexibility of the languages they are already using. So flexibility is not the rea

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