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by extempore 6y ago
Is there still no visual indicator that the wearer is in transparency mode? I am frequently in situations where I'm out in public and something warrants saying, where one or both of us are wearing airpods. Transparency mode would be wo
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by extempore 6y ago
He wasn’t being sarcastic.
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by extempore 6y ago
None of those things is murder, which is unlawful killing, usually premeditated. Maybe there is a society which doesn’t hold murder to be wrong, but I’ve never heard of it, and it’s hard to see how it could last.
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by extempore 6y ago
FYI there’s a search mode called verbatim, and it’s not the same as putting the individual words in quotes. It’s hidden under the search tools menu. In my experience the results it provides always contain the search terms.
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by extempore 7y ago
Patch Me If You Can
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by extempore 7y ago
Whenever you're called on to make up your mind, and you're hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is simply by spinning a penny. No - not so that chance shall decide the affair, while you&
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by extempore 7y ago
That seems decidedly unsafe to say, but even if you’re right, the second paragraph doesn’t follow from the first. “Everyone generalizes from one example! At least, I do.”
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by extempore 7y ago
You are reading a great deal into an innocuous comment.
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by extempore 7y ago
Did you read the memo as it was written, replete with links to supporting research? Or did you only read the maliciously leaked version which had stripped out all the links?
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by extempore 7y ago
Stereotype threat is a product of publication bias. It doesn’t replicate. https://replicationindex.com/2017/04/07/hidden-figures-repli...
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by extempore 7y ago
The phrase “black art” in the paper refers to a technical challenge which only experts can tame, via methods which aren’t widely known. It has zero to do with ‘black arts” in the sense of witchcraft. The blog post drifts between these meani
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by extempore 7y ago
See also the video game with the unbeatable giant in Ender’s Game.
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by extempore 7y ago
It says that, but it’s wrong. California has no statute of limitations on murder. This was recently demonstrated in dramatic fashion when the golden state killer was arrested for murders committed 30 years prior.
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by extempore 7y ago
It’s interesting how smoothly this logic can move between “your country”, “your religion”, “your ethnicity”, “your ideology”. I am not making a case for or against any of these. But if pragmatic arguments for group punishment hold currency
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by extempore 7y ago
I have a feeling you mean that they ignore known unknowns. Everyone ignores unknown knowns, because they are unknown.
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by extempore 7y ago
Consider that you were far more likely downvoted because you show no awareness that increasingly onerous penalties are ineffective deterrents when people don’t expect to get caught. If pickpockets can work the crowds at a pickpocket hanging
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by extempore 7y ago
Needlessly obnoxious retort, as gp is exactly right. There is no a priori reason to zero in on road design as a major contributory factor given the huge range of possibilities. One can easily apply profound selection bias in a complex probl
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by extempore 7y ago
That’s Brook’s law: “Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later,”
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by extempore 7y ago
That’s Hofstadter’s law: “It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.”
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by extempore 7y ago
Nor with a certain super cool language of the future https://github.com/unisonweb/unison
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by extempore 7y ago
This was very upsetting when it happened. The same version of unison was incompatible with itself if they had been built with different but consecutively released versions of the ocaml compiler. I feel like using compiler versions like 4.01
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by extempore 7y ago
Of course they do. Not sure why it’s something to brag about or not to brag about though, it’s an implementation detail. Scala for instance uses custom classes for each size set up to a certain threshold.
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by extempore 7y ago
Intentional programming is not tied to graphical representation even if that’s how it looked in a prototype. It’s more about separating program structure from detail, trying to better deliver on Dijkstra’s comment about a semantic layer at
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by extempore 7y ago
I highly recommend ice cold showers to anyone looking to explore this direction. They’re easily available, don’t take very long, and produce immediate benefits.
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by extempore 8y ago
Since apparently nobody else wants to tell you: your very high levels of passive-aggressiveness and silent grudge nurturing lead me to estimate it around 70% likely that you are the problem. How do you think he would describe you, if given
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by extempore 9y ago
A couple years ago I worked out how to use these simultaneously. I always meant to publish this but I've sat on it all that time. Here you go: https://gist.github.com/paulp/91d657489b617dbb7de6db8b7c4fe4... If you
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by extempore 9y ago
It is not a criticism as much as it is a fact, no less true than ever. The JVM is designed to run Java. Other languages also compile to Java bytecode, and Sun and Oracle have made some helpful changes. But the VM is OVERWHELMINGLY designed
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by extempore 9y ago
Refusing to negotiate with terrorists isn’t a strategy designed to produce the best outcome in isolation. It’s to avoid providing incentives for more terrorism, despite the consequences viewed in isolation. So “outcomes are worse if you don
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by extempore 9y ago
"If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole." On a site like this most replies will take you at face value and try to comfort you. Alternative take
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by extempore 10y ago
I missed a couple which didn't mention go: - Rob Pike is like Henry Ford, except when people said “faster horses” he said “that is the best idea I’ve ever heard.” - Rob Pike is the Antonin Scalia of programming language design - an Ori

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