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by lowdownfork 3y ago
She's saying it's a bad book, and she did not enjoy reading it. What it talks about could be considered misuse of language or lack of skill. Most people telling a story will try to make it more interesting. They choose words that
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by lowdownfork 3y ago
As far as I can tell, you're only missing two things: 1. It's five "Unicode scalars," that's the name for the top-level logical unit. The term "code points" technically refers to a lower-level concept, on
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by lowdownfork 3y ago
This article has no "hint claim" that China is the sole lender. In fact, there's no such thing as "the front of the line" when you're the sole lender. It's an article about Chinese lenders rejecting and s
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by lowdownfork 3y ago
"Scrum shortens planning horizons by limiting batch-sizes to two week sprints. . . Still, because Scrum is a push-based system, it still requires you to do some form of estimation . . . This demand for estimations leads to unproductive
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by lowdownfork 3y ago
I recently did an OAuth integration with an API that documented its OAuth endpoints like all its other endpoints: including a mention of OAuth in the description but giving explanations and examples with curl, just like it would if there we
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by lowdownfork 3y ago
See, for me this is an example of how the hyper-empirical, sciencify-everything mindset is great for getting at truth but less great at giving advice. The default, intuitive approach is to write a whole bunch of code and then test it. When
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by lowdownfork 4y ago
I don't know about the article's theorizing, but it inspired me to have a conversation I enjoyed with ChatGPT, where I focused on telling it not to discuss polar bears. (It helpfully changed the page title to "No Polar Bears
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by lowdownfork 5y ago
Those sound like non-arbitrary restrictions to make everything actually be stable and legit.
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by lowdownfork 5y ago
Might as well link to the reference. I thought it was funny. < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6tterd%C3%A4mmerung >
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by lowdownfork 5y ago
So far, I've only read the abstract, but I see two problems with this approach. One is that they are looking specifically at open source projects, which, as other comments have pointed out, can technically meet their definition of a &q
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The origin of SARS-CoV-2, revisited(sciencebasedmedicine.org)
11 points by lowdownfork 5y ago|3 comments
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by lowdownfork 6y ago
It's new and bad that unknown authors can face massive backlash while they're still unknown. You can sell twenty copies of your first book and get twenty million calls for a boycott in response, if someone photographs a page and