jholman

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by jholman 2y ago
I have very few issues with Firefox. The two that I suspect are: 1) Google-owned sites seem to just chew CPU on Firefox. In particular I'm thinking of GMail and Youtube, both of which I'm a heavy user of, and also Maps. But n
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by jholman 2y ago
If you don't care about performance, we can make that code a lot shorter. float Q_rsqrt(float number) { return 1 / sqrt(number); } The "fast inverse square root" is absolutely 100% all about performance. Fo
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by jholman 2y ago
> a bit dramatic. there has to be an adjustment of teaching/assessing, but nothing that would "ruin" anyone's life. If you don't have the power to just change your mind about what the entire curriculum and/o
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by jholman 2y ago
If you're already using Firefox, all you have to do is click the Reader Mode button, at the right edge of your URL bar. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-view-clu...
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by jholman 2y ago
Yikes, that's a grim story. Yeah, the injury stats are way higher than death. I just couldn't find a fast way to disambiguate serious injuries from not-so-serious-but-we-still-care injuries from the sort of bite that really jus
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by jholman 2y ago
Yes, I agree with you, and poorly-fed dogs might do things that a privileged pet might never consider. And, a fortiori, packs of poorly-fed dogs. But the comment I was responding to was from a commenter whose bio says they're in Phili
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by jholman 2y ago
> The amount of children killed or injured by poorly restrained dogs is very high. This claim is interesting, if true. Can you back it up? I spent 15 minutes on research, and my preliminary findings, using US statistics (I'm not
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by jholman 2y ago
My sense is that dogs prioritize pack/family togetherness ahead of freedom. They don't value all other people (and to a dog, "people" means dogs, humans, and sometimes other species), but also they do not only value the
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by jholman 2y ago
Maybe you know something particular about metabolic treatments. But if this is just a structural argument from more or less first principles, I think it's structurally weak. There's no reason to assume that your body's tole
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by jholman 2y ago
This might help? https://youtu.be/WdtK9Sj8ADw?list=PLoTU9_iCGa6go3vsnxlNn1wZS...
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by jholman 2y ago
I used to have a coworker, a senior dev of decades of experience, who insisted that MacOS was a real Linux, "just like BSD". Sigh. Of course, this belief probably had no downsides or negative consequences, other than hurting my b
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by jholman 2y ago
It'd be more apt to write "fomented divisions", rather than "fermented divisions".
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by jholman 2y ago
> Generally there needs to be some sort of intent. Often yes, but often not. Criminal negligence is a thing. That's a standard of mens rea that's lower than intent, or foreknowlege, or recklessness. And it's particularly
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by jholman 2y ago
I vouched your comment, because I think you're precisely making the relevant point in the first two paragraphs. However, I think you're wrong, at least in part, in your third paragraph. I mean, I think the word "mostly"
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by jholman 2y ago
I'm confused. You're complaining about the use of the word "charity"? Background: You make an argument that at least some people should consider putting contributions to society ahead of "making yet another few hun
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by jholman 2y ago
> Do not touch unless you understand how the license works and want to do so anyway. Which is the license that you think it's safe to touch when you don't understand how it works ?
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by jholman 2y ago
I think it's a common need. I'll add that I think in this case, an important part of the use-case is a credible commitment to anonymizing the answers.
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by jholman 3y ago
A warrior does not trifle with secret messages! Have you no honour?
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by jholman 3y ago
I used to do approximately this, from maybe the mid-90s to 2015-ish, but finally that keyboard died (RIP dear friend) and I find that it doesn't work properly on any keyboard I've found since. Not quite the side of my palm, but th
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by jholman 3y ago
Characterizing the US's current commitments in Ukraine and Israel as 1.5 fronts is baffling. Neither of those constitutes even a tiny fraction of the American capability to wage war. Yes, there are some commitments in the Eastern Med,
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by jholman 3y ago
"Worse Is Better", as a description of a set of engineering values embodied by C, is from 1989. I'm taking your word for it that UB was invented for C standardization (I have no knowledge of that history, and your claim seems
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by jholman 3y ago
Seems to me that CE covers sections 1, 2, 3, 7, and a bit of 5, and CS covers 4, 5, and 6. A traditional CS education should teach 3, even though doing 3 is absolutely not the job of CS grads.
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by jholman 3y ago
You're making a category error, I think. This books/course doesn't cover physics. It doesn't even cover signal stuff, like stuff about how fast the voltage levels stabilize, or even voltages at all. It's not &quot
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by jholman 3y ago
There are at least two obvious alternatives to (fully) deepcloning. First, many "everything must be immutable" libraries provide data structures that give operations that feel like mutations (but actually are not), and many of tho
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by jholman 3y ago
How is this better than deepcopying? Deserializing requires paying all the same costs as deepcopying, both in terms of compute time and in terms of memory usage, but it also incurs the extra costs of parsing. I'm not saying that there
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by jholman 3y ago
And null. I know that typeof(null) says 'object', but it's lying. When I say "it's lying", I mean that according to the spec, null is of type null. Also it has absolutely nothing in common with objects excep
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by jholman 3y ago
What the parent posts are trying to hint to you is that the default logging behaviour of the console is the live-look model, which is almost never what you wanted with logging. (Though it does have other uses.) To avoid the live-look, you
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by jholman 3y ago
My apologies.
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by jholman 3y ago
GP> ChatGPT recommended to start from linear algebra, then calculus, followed by probability and statistics. Phase 2 would be Fundamentals of ML. Phase 3 - Deep Learning and NN. And so on. Parent> If you want to learn to BUILD AI, Cha
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by jholman 3y ago
Wait, your argument is "this suspension by Apple couldn't be due to Apple catching them laundering money" because "this isn't money laundering" because "if someone laundered money this way, they would get

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