chrisoverzero

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by chrisoverzero 6mo ago
> “X has lasted a long time so it will last more” is so obviously wrong. Smarter people than you and I have thought about this problem and come to the opposite conclusion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
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by chrisoverzero 8mo ago
"I made my max bid $500.00, but I'd have paid $500.01!" "I made my max bid $500.01, but I'd have paid $500.02!" "I made my max bid $500.02, but I'd have paid $500.03!" …where does this process en
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by chrisoverzero 9mo ago
Mhm! Exactly! In the system those other languages use, once you see the variable’s declaration: User activeUser …you’ll always know that `activeUser` contains a User value – something that might have an `Id` property. And the conve
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by chrisoverzero 9mo ago
Sure! Let’s say I want to enforce that a variable only ever holds an integer. Rather than put the conventional prefix and the name together, like this: var intValue = 3; …I separate the conventional prefix with a space: int v
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by chrisoverzero 9mo ago
Not all phrases’ meanings are derivable from the literal definitions of the words that make them up.
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by chrisoverzero 9mo ago
> […] it shouldn't take long at all for people to learn the highly consistent naming conventions that tip you off to what type of data is being handled. I’ve used languages with an approach like this. The difference in what I’ve use
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by chrisoverzero 9mo ago
No, we don’t mind. Go ahead.
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by chrisoverzero 1y ago
> Luckily, since type constraints are part of the signature of the method and there is no ambiguity, I am allowed to make this overload. This isn’t the case. It’s allowed because the question-mark syntax means two different things in val
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by chrisoverzero 1y ago
What makes that "most likely," other than that you thought of it?
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by chrisoverzero 1y ago
> How does one put a dollar value on a $10-30 GPT-4 pro subscription? I’d estimate it at somewhere in the region of $10–$30, personally.
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by chrisoverzero 1y ago
> - Translate feature doesn’t have a copy button Sure it does. It’s labeled “Copy Translation”. It’s the first button under the translation for un-editable text. > - Multitasking (apps should shut down after some time spent idle, inst
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by chrisoverzero 1y ago
Is the answer (ROT13 for spoilers): V vzntvar gung vg pbhyq abg or orpnhfr Frg erdhverf gur rkgen fngvfsnpgvba bs Rd, evtug? After looking it up: Nu, lrf, ohg Beq. Vagrerfgvat ubj gung vzcyrzragngvba qrgnvy yrnxf. Even later: Unat ba, gurer
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by chrisoverzero 1y ago
> What precedent are we setting by explicitly making "murder someone" a viable path to making progress on your personal political agenda? If this is what you are worried about, America is pretty far behind the leading edge: ht
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by chrisoverzero 1y ago
You’re responding to a comment containing a method call `thing.makeThingDoerForTest(1, 2, 3)` and saying “That's the trick - it is not test only code.” Can you square those for me? I don’t get it.
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by chrisoverzero 2y ago
Where are you from that you consider all of these groups to have the same pronunciation?
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by chrisoverzero 2y ago
> First of all, please do not ignore this email, this is not a scam attempt nor am I trying to sell anything, I am just alerting and looking for help closing down a security issue […] This seems like a good hint.
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by chrisoverzero 2y ago
Did you look into where the Executive Director and the Head of Finance & Funding live? (Cardiff, Wales and Oxford, England, respectively.)
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by chrisoverzero 2y ago
> if you don’t have an explicit type hint in a variable declaration, even readers that are using an IDE have to do TWO jump-to-definition actions to read the source of the variable type. This isn’t necessarily the case. “Go to Definition
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by chrisoverzero 2y ago
I want superiority de-coupled from technical expertise in the minds of the people who have the latter. Taking his personal struggles out of kernel development and onto Hacker News was the escalation – pointing out his hypocrisy is only tryi
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by chrisoverzero 2y ago
> No, they had the option of having a real conversation in private about what we could do to improve the overall situation. Abusing others individually in public, but expecting a quiet word on the side about “the overall situation” when
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by chrisoverzero 2y ago
Sure, but at the time that Apple made the decision, they had $0.0 trillion in billings and sales.
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by chrisoverzero 2y ago
But if you’re constantly pinging the container (as suggested above), it will never scale to zero.
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by chrisoverzero 2y ago
You clicked on a video from Real Engineering titled “How Nebula Works” hoping to get answers to legal and financial questions? I think videos with titles like “How Internal Combustion Engines Work” would also deliberately dodge legal and
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by chrisoverzero 2y ago
> The BSL doesn't make it closed source […] Yes, that’s right! > But BSL doesn't disqualify software from being open source. No, that’s wrong: https://spdx.org/licenses/BUSL-1.1.html > The Business S
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by chrisoverzero 2y ago
> […] changed from liberal to conservative for the first time in its existence. Not at all: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lochner_era
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by chrisoverzero 2y ago
It wasn’t a driver.
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by chrisoverzero 2y ago
I find it even more bonkers than that, even. Let's "frictionless vacuum" the problem: I live in a home in which all we eat is breakfast cereal. We need one spoon and one bowl per meal per person. But we own 25 bowls and 40 sp
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by chrisoverzero 2y ago
> Some of them are just plain bizaree too eg swipe up, right, up to get your apps. What on Earth are you referring to?
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by chrisoverzero 2y ago
見える only means “look” in the “to seem” or “to appear” sense. Often in English, we have multiple words for sensory experiences to indicate how much focus is put into the action. “Seeing” a picture is less focused than “looking at” a picture.
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by chrisoverzero 2y ago
> […] rather than collaborate with the creators. How do you propose AWS “collaborate” with Elastic or Redis Labs under the terms of the SSPL? Also, who do you believe the creators of Redis are?

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