dllthomas

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by dllthomas 5d ago
Neat, but I'm pretty happy with my disintegrated development environment.
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by dllthomas 26d ago
Yours is a response to someone providing clarifying information, something I often find helpful on HN.
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by dllthomas 4mo ago
Sometimes I sing under lights that are purple. Sometimes I'm shirtless and I tilt my head.
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by dllthomas 4mo ago
> [Performance cost] is (de facto) required for dynamically typed languages, but not for statically typed ones where the newtype constructor/deconstructor can be elided at compile time. For a single value, it should reliably be free
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by dllthomas 5mo ago
Nitpicking, but this has bugged me for a while and I'm taking this opportunity to vent: "Enslaved people were counted as three-fifths of a person, not as full citizens." They were not counted as three fifths of a person in a
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by dllthomas 6mo ago
I think I'd say that the batch file is not itself autonomous but the system as a whole is autonomous (if limited) but I'm not prepared to argue that's the correct definition.
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by dllthomas 6mo ago
If you learned that a piece of the brain where meaningful computation takes place was stateless, would that cause you to question whether the human mind was "highly autonomous"?
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by dllthomas 8mo ago
You can avoid specifying agency in the active with some sort of placeholder. Hopefully, maybe, that placeholder is going to be more noticable than the omission of agency in the passive... but it seems more useful to simply ask directly whet
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by dllthomas 9mo ago
Importantly, specifying reasoning can have communicative value while falling very far short of formal verification. Personally, I also try to include a cross reference to the things that could allow "this" to happen were they to
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by dllthomas 9mo ago
Wildly, the Polish word "nagle" (pronounced differently) means "suddenly" or "all at once", which is just astonishingly apropos for what I'm almost certain is pure coincidence.
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by dllthomas 9mo ago
> so it's no surprise that we're not Boltzmann Brains I think I agree you've excluded them from the definition, but I don't see why that has an impact on likelihood.
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by dllthomas 9mo ago
> IDEs don't make you dependent on constant Internet connectivity, charge a monthly subscription, Sometimes they do! But not in general, yes.
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by dllthomas 9mo ago
I think there are both of those.
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by dllthomas 10mo ago
My understanding is that you are correct that "rizz" comes from "charisma", and when used as an adjective it's pretty well used the same (although there may be shades of difference I'm simply missing), but nota
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by dllthomas 11mo ago
In this case, the measure itself is temporary. That's in the text of what we voted on. For it to not be temporary, we'll need to vote on it again. Also, it only affects Federal congressional districts, not State Senate or State As
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by dllthomas 11mo ago
> Where is the DEI for men in the female dominated STEM subjects? Is that rhetorical? Have you looked, or just assumed their absence? My cursory search seems to indicate that there are some, although I don't have bandwidth to invest
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by dllthomas 11mo ago
For some monads the "wrap" gets awfully metaphorical (for State it's a function that produces the value and updated state, for Const there is no value, etc) but I don't think that's actually a problem, just a thing
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by dllthomas 1y ago
> Politicians shouldn’t be allowed to accept campaign donations from foreign governments. How can they claim to put America first if they are beholden to a foreign nation? My understanding is that that's already the law, and AIPAC c
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by dllthomas 1y ago
Typically named after things that corrupt, control, mislead the person trying to use them?
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by dllthomas 1y ago
I mean, it was named for fictional spying orbs that could break people's minds based on the will of a powerful individual with access to the system. Maybe that's not them telling on themselves, but I am not surprised that some
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by dllthomas 1y ago
I think we have that question regardless.
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by dllthomas 1y ago
Not ideal, between sound from the washing itself plus whatever else is going on in the house, and I'd rather not add noise that others have to deal with. That said, it's certainly in the mix as competing with other potential solu
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by dllthomas 1y ago
Then, too. I cannot compete with Mrs Roberts.
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by dllthomas 1y ago
Typing speed is very much a bottleneck when I'm washing dishes, at least.
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by dllthomas 1y ago
I was joking, although it was a gesture at a real thing. I don't know how much they don't care about success, versus caring but being deeply confused about how to reach it, versus in some sense "caring" but prioritizing
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by dllthomas 1y ago
How can you say they don't care about success? When they got bad numbers they immediately fired the person responsible.
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by dllthomas 1y ago
I'm not looking for attributed meeting notes, so much as making it harder for a passing child to inject content.
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by dllthomas 1y ago
Thanks, that, yeah. I've looked occasionally but it's been a bit. Necessary feature in a house with a 9yo. I've been thinking about taking a swing at solving my problem without solving the general problem.
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by dllthomas 1y ago
Can it tell voices apart?
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by dllthomas 1y ago
I ran into a question a while ago that I couldn't find a good answer to, and while it's not exactly on topic this seems like a good place to ask it. I was working in a detail rich context, where there were a lot of items, about wh

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