justincredible

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by justincredible 4mo ago
While partitioning these cultural attitudes and artifacts by decades is a useful heuristic, I often feel like the actual cutoff point is around mid-decade. The late '80s feels closer the the early '90s than it does the early &#x27
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by justincredible 2y ago
Would it take too long or is it just that the margin is too small?
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by justincredible 2y ago
The article isn't very clear but assuming it's a 16-bit numerator and 8-bit denominator, then MSN's answer to [0] lays it out (although for higher bit sizes). If the denominator was 16-bit, then the top-rated answer (by caf)
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by justincredible 2y ago
Huh? He's saying that caloric restriction does work, but many people only achieve that by temporarily restricting their food options. The idea that dieting is a temporary change to your food habits is why most "diets" eventua
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by justincredible 3y ago
My layman understanding would be that you're not gaining anything other than a more abstract model. If you want performance, the code is going to boil down to the equivalent linear algebra + quaternion operations.
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by justincredible 3y ago
Another situation where the intuition breaks is that a repo can have branches without a common base (i.e., disconnected graph). Definitely unusual, but sometimes I want to move a folder between repos while preserving the commit history of t
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by justincredible 3y ago
I've usually heard this phrased as the signature implies only one possibly function, but that is in a very abstract sense. This phrasing is more intuitive as it's saying the signature constrains what the function could possibly do
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by justincredible 3y ago
I agree that they shouldn't have re-edited the movie based on Carrie Fisher's death IRL, but that scene is a masterclass in bad writing. Rian's intention was to demonstrate some semblance of humanity remained within Kylo. But
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by justincredible 3y ago
TIL .pl is for Poland. The misuse of .io is probably more common.
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by justincredible 3y ago
Rust compilation is strict but not cruel. The suggested fixes associated with compilation errors are very friendly to beginners (one notable exception is errors around lifetimes). Your concerns regarding "feature creep" are reason
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by justincredible 4y ago
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by justincredible 4y ago
It solves the problem of the child getting the wrong answer until they have to read a real mechanical clock.
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by justincredible 6y ago
The orbit is closer and farther at different times of the year, but that is not the reason for the change of seasons.
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by justincredible 6y ago
> Even numbers end with even digit True (in even bases). > Since 30 is even so must be 0 This is essentially the converse of the previously statement. Fortunately, the statement is based off an equivalence so it is also True.
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by justincredible 6y ago
Idempotent means feeding the output back in as the input will result in the same output. It might require purity, but is conceptually distinct. For example, boolean negation is a pure function as it depends only its input and has no side-ef
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by justincredible 7y ago
The confusion might be due to everyone using concurrency to mean concurrency and/or parallelism.
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by justincredible 7y ago
I believe it was God who included it, Moses just wrote it down.
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by justincredible 7y ago
The request is unreasonable, but is the second question not valid?
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by justincredible 7y ago
To be precise, the "bomb" was being obfuscated by the password, not the password per se.
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by justincredible 7y ago
Most of the answers to that last question are inane and unproductive. The first answer is funny though: https://www.quora.com/What-is-1+1
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by justincredible 7y ago
Didn't the investigation end when the report was released?
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by justincredible 7y ago
Did you mean < 5 years?
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by justincredible 7y ago
You can disable all location services. The incorrect impression is that a user has complete granular control over the use of location services.
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by justincredible 7y ago
Secure but inconvenient has an immediate and visible downside, whereas insecure convenience has delayed and nebulous downsides. Convenience will always win when appealing to the lowest common denominator, but maybe we can have both.