meese712

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by meese712 3y ago
Think the biggest slow down is from it running all the test suites in isolation in separate contexts (think that's the right word). I got frustrated with how slow our frontend tests were one day like 4 years ago and wrote a hacky jest
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by meese712 3y ago
Here's a fun fact, most fonts have a font program written in a font specific instruction set that requires a virtual machine to run. There is no escaping the VMs!
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by meese712 3y ago
If they have the ability to detect wine usage wouldn't they have the ability to conditionally disable telemetry for wine though?
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by meese712 3y ago
What is a knight? Did they mean horsey?
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by meese712 4y ago
This is not trivia. For better or for worse truthy evaluation is a fundamental part of the language which is what this code snippet appears to be primarily testing.
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by meese712 4y ago
Don't see how you could consider the question they posed to be trivia for someone who knows javascript? Abuse of truthy evaluation is very rampant. All the JS codebases I've worked on are filled with `if (!myArray.length)` and etc
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by meese712 4y ago
I was getting at the article giving the impression this somehow cured the disease vs a BMT just slowing progression. I know the whole transplant thing sucks. I've had two transplants, thank you for being on the list :).
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by meese712 4y ago
Definitely true GVHD sucks. The article gave me the impression that they were saying it was somehow superior at stopping the disease because it said this "stem cell transplants, have sometimes been used to slow the disorder's prog
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by meese712 4y ago
I'm confused how this would reduce disease progression compared to a much cheaper allo bone marrow transplant then if they are only modifying hematopoietic stem cells since a BMT is just doing the exact same thing except with someone e
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by meese712 4y ago
Tho it should be a crime if the signs don't rhyme
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by meese712 4y ago
I checked, looks like they'd probably fly into China right now (maybe Hong Kong) if released from Taiwan
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by meese712 4y ago
"Sorry I missed your comment of many months ago. I no longer build software; I now make furniture out of wood. The hours are long, the pay sucks, and there's always the opportunity to remove my finger with a table saw, but nobody
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by meese712 4y ago
Yahoo is somehow the ninth most visited website. I guess people still use their (well Microsoft's) search.
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by meese712 4y ago
Could be worse, could be Google Chat
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by meese712 4y ago
irr? The library we use uses doubles https://github.com/eric-malachias/irr . We also use doubles for the amortization table and doubles for everything.
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by meese712 4y ago
Oh hey I work in mortgage! We use plain old doubles for everything and there's some rounds in there and occasionally an exotic round to the nearest 1/8th. Everything ends up matching fine where it needs to.
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by meese712 4y ago
> I find that the problem is solved before writing a single line of code. If that happens, then the actual part of writing becomes dull and mechanical - the problem has already been solved. I can relate to this so much sometimes. Right n