chrisjharris

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by chrisjharris 8mo ago
He's writing from a certain time, place, and culture, in reference to the teas that were available to him at that time. I'm not sure what you're arguing - that black tea didn't subjectively make him feel wiser, braver or
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by chrisjharris 1y ago
I've climbed routes in ichinokura a few times. It is impressive, and some of them are quite poorly protected. But 800 climbers seems like an exceedingly high number, and that report seems quite vague and unsubstantiated, even if it doe
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by chrisjharris 1y ago
This is a creepy station, green filters notwithstanding. The article repeats this statement that I've seen elsewhere and always found pretty questionable - that 800 people have died on Tanigawa. I've no idea where this data comes
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by chrisjharris 1y ago
I've been wondering about this for some time. My initial assumption was that would be that LLMs will ultimately be the death of typed languages, because type systems are there to help programmers not make obvious mistakes, and near-per
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by chrisjharris 2y ago
How should they be funded, for you to consider them impartial?
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by chrisjharris 2y ago
I agree. If Helix had a client/server model like Kakoune, I'd move to it right away.
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by chrisjharris 2y ago
I agree. I think that these fancy visuals are not the right way to appeal to the target user base. I just want to read some text.
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by chrisjharris 2y ago
I think that this does fill a niche. You can still compile to bash outside of this austere environment, and run the scripts within it. And python isn't very ergonomic for running external shell commands (or, say accessing environment v
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by chrisjharris 2y ago
The people directly managing the investment are unlikely to also be holding REITs, so your assumption is valid. I think it's basically that: - The people who care about company profit are the asset managers, who will tend to implement
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by chrisjharris 3y ago
I'm using a System76 Lemur pro. I've had it more than two years and I only have good things to say about it, some of which are: - The battery life started off as spectacular and is still not bad, I get about 5 hours out of it for
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by chrisjharris 3y ago
I think this is exactly right. Function names actually fulfil the role of documentation really well. I personally tend to make them long and quite verbose, like `def start_the_car_and_accelerate`
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by chrisjharris 3y ago
I'm sure that somebody has thought this through more fully than myself, but the impression I have is that for software, the benevolent dictator model works best. Python and Javascript occupy adjacent places in the programming language
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by chrisjharris 4y ago
These are still pretty rare, and there's always a member of staff present, usually at the counter right next to the self-checkout till.
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by chrisjharris 4y ago
I also am quite neurotic about version control, updates etc and if you're prepared to climb up a fairly steep learning curve, I'd recommend Nix/NixOS. It's a much more robust and comprehensive solution than Docker. Docke
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by chrisjharris 4y ago
Most of the time with configuration files, you want to be able to do at least basic validation on the config without having to run the whole piece of software. Python has no native typing, so there's nothing to stop the user from creat
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by chrisjharris 4y ago
I thought the birth rate was very low? Did I get that wrong?
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by chrisjharris 4y ago
Dhall is in some ways actually harder (at least, stricter) than Haskell, I think. The fact that there's guaranteed completion means the code has to have complete integrity. If you've defined a union type, then anytime you define a
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by chrisjharris 4y ago
Not if it works as planned, no.
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by chrisjharris 4y ago
It is assumed that the wages you earn are a proxy for your productivity. This may sound dubious on the individual level but on the aggregate level it is not, an economy can only distribute in wages and other returns what it has earned from
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by chrisjharris 4y ago
You could see the shift to a four-day week as increasing aggregate demand while decreasing aggregate supply. Prima facie it might seem like fewer hours worked = lower total output = lower GDP, but the macro-economy is a complex system with
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by chrisjharris 5y ago
It's... it's not at all short.
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by chrisjharris 5y ago
I partly agree but this can too easily become an argument in favour of the lowest common denominator. I can hardly imagine a language that's easier to learn than Python, and for that reason a) lots of people already know it, and b) tho
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by chrisjharris 5y ago
Well, those providing credit ratings (the rating agencies) were not the same as those selling the debt (investment banks). But more than that I think it's unwise to be so certain about intent - how do you know they were deliberately ge
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by chrisjharris 5y ago
I don't disagree with the general sentiment that the GFC was a total disaster, and I'd certainly not argue against the idea that a system had developed that had poor incentives, with sometimes greedy and unethical people working i
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by chrisjharris 5y ago
I can see that you mean well but I really cannot agree with this statement.
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by chrisjharris 5y ago
I find this fascinating, if a bit incomprehensible, but what might an intended use case be?
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by chrisjharris 5y ago
I was thinking the same. There is some cool new stuff in this space (ie Kakoune), which probably is actually somewhat more ergonomic to use than vim/neovim. And maybe this is slightly faster than vim, although vim isn't exactly th
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by chrisjharris 5y ago
Bit different for medical studies, though, isn't it?
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by chrisjharris 5y ago
How would you know? Do you not feel guilt yourself?
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by chrisjharris 5y ago
The more time I live outside my homeland, the more I agree with the idea of pointing to George Washington to understand modern American society. I don't mean America in particular, but if you want to know why different cultures think d

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